Sunday Worship Service October 2 @ 11 AM
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Walking the Path of Life We are each - and all of us - on a path of eternal life. Every path and each person's experience of it is unique. And yet, with our invitation, the Lord can help us find the path that suits us best and
then lead us along the way. As Jesus said, "I am the way." This Sunday come explore this a bit, and also help us dedicate our new labyrinth!
Lots of activities to get involved in at Sunrise Chapel!
- Tomorrow - Saturday, October 1 - is Labyrinth Installation Day (see below). Not only will we be constructing, but we will also
have a little inauguration. Then on Sunday, October 2, our service will focus on "The Path of Life" and include a time for anyone/everyone to learn more about the labyrinth and its use in relation to prayer and spiritual growth.
- Also tomorrow - Saturday, Oct. 1 - WEEDING HOUR! 8:30-9:30 AM. The ground is damp, the temperature is mild, the perfect conditions for socializing while weeding! Bring a hula hoe if you have one.
- SPRUCING UP THE CHAPEL - We are making progress in plans for sprucing up the chapel, the foyer and the adjacent meeting room (vestry). Painting in the chapel is continuing, carpeting has been selected, and porcelain tile for the foyer has been chosen. The week of October 17 is
scheduled for carpet removal and installation. If you have any questions or would like to help, please talk with Elise Gladish who is the overall leader of this project.
- Frank Rose and Judith Keane are continuing to hold a Spiritual
Growth Group on Wednesday nights at 7 pm (see below). Each week is a different topic, so if you are interested, you can drop in and check it out.
- The New Church Foundations Class is going well. (This is the "101 level" course on the teachings and history of our church - globally and locally - see below). It's a great group of spiritual explorers and we are having very interesting conversations about important theological topics. This session
is now closed to new participants. However, if you have taken the course before and missed a session or two, then you are most welcome to drop in for a refresher or "make up" any sessions you missed.
If you are interested in taking this course on a different schedule, talk to me.
THANK YOU! I am tickled to see many people taking interest in a variety of activities, and taking on tasks to support upcoming events. It's an honor to be part of this community, and I look forward to every opportunity for us to work together to help Sunrise Chapel thrive.
With love and respect, Nathan
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Labyrinth Installation Day -
Tomorrow - October 1 at 10 am
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"You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy." (Psalms)
What is a Labyrinth?
"A labyrinth is a prayer in motion, a moving meditation. It's not a maze, where you
have to figure out which way to go. It's a path that leads you in to the center and back out again. While walking, one can pray a sentence of scripture, or simply call the Lord to mind, or celebrate a joy, or share a concern as you move through the space."
Thank you, Tryn for sharing this simple explanation. We are excited to be adding this feature to our grounds, on the East side of the Chapel
under a canopy of trees. Check it out!!
INSTALLATION DAY! Saturday, October 1st beginning at 10 AM will be the labyrinth installation. We welcome ANYONE / EVERYONE to participate! We invite
participants to bring a stone of your own as a way of contributing your spirit and energy to the space. Any size and shape up to the size of a grapefruit. We want this labyrinth to be a community project to create a place of peace and mindfulness for all to enjoy.
DEDICATION DAY!
Sunday, October 2nd as part of the 11 AM worship service. As mentioned above, this worship service will focus on the ideas from the Word about walking the path of eternal life. At the end of the service, everyone who wants to in invited to gather at the labyrinth for a brief, informal dedication.
If you have any ideas or want to be part of this project,
talk to the local leaders - Kelly Woofenden and Elise Gladish - or just show up!
If you are interested in this, YOU are already part of the team!!
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New Church Foundations Class
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Mondays at 6:30 in the Children's Chapel
This 7-week series of classes / small groups highlights the main teachings of our church, and helps give insight into what the New Church movement and the global organization is all
about. Open to anyone whether you are a recent newcomer or long-time member who wants a refresher.
This session is now closed to new participants. However, if you took the course before, you are free to join us, or if you want to "make up" a couple of meetings you missed in a previous session, you are welcome to drop in.
If you can't attend this series or you prefer a daytime meeting, let me know, and we will coordinate something to suit your needs.
Nathan
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Spiritual Growth Group Wednesdays at 7 pm
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Would you like to reduce negativity in your life? A Spiritual Growth Program is forming in the Tucson Community and will meet every Wednesday in September and October.
Started Wednesday, September 7, for 8 weeks and
ending on October 26
At Sunrise Chapel 8421 E Wrightstown Road, Tucson, AZ 85715
7:00 – 8:30 pm
No Cost
Come and practice the tasks of living a more spiritual life. Share your struggles and successes with other people on becoming a more positive person.
Led by Frank Rose and Judith Keane
Frank has a lifetime of experience leading
people in the Spiritual Growth process. He has authored several books and, along with others in the field of spiritual growth, has detailed more than 100 tasks that can be put into practice to improve your life. Judith has been studying Spiritual Growth with Frank, and others, and can see the difference in her personal life.
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UPCOMING CHURCH ACTIVITIES:
SATURDAY
10/1/2016
8:30 am Weeding Hour - anyone welcome!
10 am Labyrinth Installation/construction Day
SUNDAY 10/2/2016
9:30 am Choir rehearsal for "The Path of Life"
10 am Music rehearsal 11 am Worship Service - Nathan Gladish, Preaching: "On the Path of Life"
plus Labyrinth Dedication
12 pm Luncheon
MONDAY 10/3/2016
10:15 am Seated Tai Chi
11 am Tai Chi for Health
12:15 pm Weekly "Go for it" Meeting in Children's
Chapel
6:30 pm Foundations Class #3 in Children's Chapel
TUESDAY 10/4/2016
6:30 pm Bereaveme
nt Support Group
WEDNESDAY 10/5/2016
9:30 am Weekly Sermon Writing Team - all invited
7 pm Spiritual Growth Group #5 - Frank Rose and Judith Keane
THURSDAY
10/6/2016
11 am Tai Chi Class for Beginners - Friendship Hall 7 pm Women's Group - Contact Elise Gladish, Betsy Gladish or Kelly Woofenden for topic and location 4:30 PM Private Wedding and Reception in the Chapel and Friendship Hall
10 AM Music rehearsal
11 am
Worship Service - David Lindrooth, Guest Preaching
12:00 pm Luncheon
Guest Preacher Sunday, Oct. 9 - David Lindrooth
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Thank you, in advance, to our Regional Pastor, David Lindrooth, for traveling to his old stomping ground here in Tucson next weekend - October 8-9.
He will conduct the (private) wedding on Saturday and
preach on Sunday. Elise and I will be out of town at a different wedding.
David welcomes any opportunities to get together with Sunrise Chapel members and friends - informally or in a group. Just connect with him directly David.Lindrooth@newchurch.org
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Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration!
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This coming March 24-26, 2017 will be the 30th anniversary month of the dedication of Sunrise Chapel!! Let's celebrate!
And we now have a head organizer/cheer leader! Thank you Betsy Gladish for volunteering! We have now had
four energetic brainstorming meetings to talk about making this a very special community-oriented, welcoming weekend of activities. Betsy is looking forward to helping us pool our energies and talents to make this a fun and meaningful occasion.
Lock it onto your calendars for Friday March 24-Sunday March
26, 2017. We will have special guests from near and far, and various activities to honor the past and look forward with renewed energy!
Want a piece of this action?? The next planning meeting will be Sunday, Oct. 23 at 12:30
Contact Betsy Gladish with your ideas, thought, and questions.
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Readings for this Sunday's
Service
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Regarding Walking the Path of Life
Secrets of Heaven 519
Walk is a figure of speech for living, in such phrases as walk in the law, walk in the statutes, and walk in truth. At its most basic level, walking has to do with a path, and a path relates to truth and consequently to faith, or to the doctrine concerning faith.
What walking symbolizes in the Word can be
established to some extent from the following passages. In Micah:
He has pointed out to you, friend, what is good; and what is Jehovah requiring of you but to carry out judgment and the love of mercy and to be humble walking with your God? (Micah 6:8)
Walking with God here symbolizes living — living by the things “pointed out.”
In David:
You rescued my feet from tripping, to walk before God in the light of the living. (Psalms 56:13)
Walking before God
means walking in religious truth — the “light of the living.”
Divine Providence 60
The angelic heaven is one of the things we need to know about. Every religious person thinks about it and wants to go there. Heaven, though, is granted only to people who know the path to it and follow that path. We can know the path to heaven to some extent simply by considering what the people who
make up heaven are like, realizing that no one can become an angel or get to heaven unless he or she arrives bringing along some angelic quality from the world. Inherent in that angelic quality is a knowing of the path from having walked it and a walking in the path from the knowing of it.
There really are paths in the spiritual world, paths that lead to each community of
heaven and to each community
of hell. We all see our own paths, spontaneously, it
seems. We see them because the paths there are for the loves of each individual. Love opens the paths and leads us to our kindred spirits.
"Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it." |
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Helping people experience heavenly joy through spiritual growth
www.sunrisechapel.org
nathan@sunrisechapel.org Office 520-298-1245
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