by nadine j. smet-weiss
spiritual director
the dream is
beloved
community
we are called
to imagine it
and live into it
not to achieve it
for the dream
is not a
to do item
on some checklist
somewhere
the dream is
a way of being
with each other
in the world
the dream is
realized in our
living of it
may it be so
Join us on Monday 2/5 @ 7:00pm via zoom for our Contemplative Companions. This month we offer the time and space to attend to our hearts. For further information or to receive the zoom link, contact Nadine at njw1258@hotmail.com
Weekly News for the week of:
January 28, 2024
This Sunday:
Reframing Aging
January 28, 2024 at 10:30 am Lauren Fritz
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Do you like to decorate and throw parties? We need your help with the 2024 Service Auction on Saturday, April 13th.
The Service Auction is an important fundraising event for the church. Frank Wilder has volunteered to be in charge of the service auction tech: donations, the auction catalog, the auction … read more.
Save the date for the following events:
Saturday, April 13: Annual Service Auction
Friday April 26th -Saturday April 27th: Group Camping at French Creek
Sunday, August 25: Church Picnic in the Park
Feb 2-Mar 3, 2024
Small reception Feb 2 from 6-8pm. No admission cost and light food provided by The Doubletree hotel.
Queremos Justicia: How We Shut Down Berks
SCHMIDT GALLERY
Presented by GoggleWorks
For eight years the Shut Down Berks Coalition fought to close the Pennsylvania immigrant prison for families, … read more.
Please join us on February 4th, to hear Rastabla Hebron, a wonderful, dynamic speaker, share about the life and journey of Harriet Tubman. Rastabla is a trainer and guide, coming to us from The Harriet Tubman Museum in Cape May, New Jersey. He will lead … read more.
Family Promise of Berks County has teamed up with CommunityAide Partnership- they give quarterly payments for donations collected to Family Promise. If you donate items be sure to give the Family Promise number 50183. FP will get a certain amount of money per pound donated … read more.
Have you met Borris yet? He’s been hanging out at your church since our fall Movie Night. Each week he talks with Erin, our Sunday morning assistant and sexton. Each week he tells her a new place that he would like to observe us from. …Getting a good vantage point can be hard for us humans sometimes. Finding that vantage point is so important when we are working to make the world a better place. This mantra “Pause. Breathe. Win the moment,” is adapted from Charles Oteyza..
Your 8th Principle Team is recommending this read for all who are curious and concerned about the
deleterious effects of microaggressions. You can find this book at the link below.
Subtle Acts of Exclusion, First or Second
(expanded) Edition: How to Understand, Identify,
and Stop Microaggressions
by Tiffany Jana (Author), Michael Baran (Author)
Reviews
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