How to Talk Like an Angel |
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Learning the Language of Angels We're born with brains wired for communication, but it takes time to learn to talk. Think of the parent who encourages a child to "use words" to explain what is going on emotionally. I know from some experience how hard it is to speak a new
language: Spanish, and French especially. What about learning how to speak "Angel"? I have some interesting guidelines to share with you this Sunday!
Update on Lissette Gonzales It's been just 12 days since Lissette Gonzales, the wife our our music leader, Pablo, had a serious and scary bicycle accident in Sabino
Canyon. She is gradually recuperating, but it will be a long, involved process. She broke her collar bone, got badly bruised and scraped up, and she has various dental complications as a result of the fall. Very fortunately, her mother is able to come up from Santiago, Chile to help. Thank you to everyone who generously contributed to Pablo's family this past Sunday. Being here on a special educational visa from their home
country of Chile, and not having health insurance, their financial situation is going to be challenging. How can we help? Pray for her full and thorough recovery and the whole family's well being Offer groceries Donate financially Who to contact? Feel free to call me
or any of the following: Rachael Casto, Lauren Allen, Christine Morey, Cheri Reynolds. Or speak directly with Pablo or Lissette. If you need contact information, just ask me or Elise. You can give our treasurer cash or a check (made out to Sunrise Chapel with a memo for Pablo's family), or you can donate to Sunrise Chapel online with Pay Pal. Bill Smith will then process it and
send it to Pablo.
Memorial Garden Planting and Irrigation Project I'm relieved to say that last Wednesday was planting day! A lot was accomplished, and things are taking shape. Several new trees were planted,
existing trees were pruned, irrigation lines were laid, some protective fencing was installed. We will be getting trellises for the three vines soon. The vision for this area is a little more clear, and there is still a bunch more to be done. Thank you for your patience and support!
NOTICE: Annual
Church Meeting - Sunday, June 10 at 12:15 pm Per our By-laws, we will hold our annual business meeting after church, during our luncheon, on Sunday, June 10. As usual, I will attempt to keep the meeting relevant, useful, informative, and brief (less than an hour). This is the meeting when we normally have elections for Officers and Trustees. We also hear a financial report and a Pastor's
report. Hopefully we will also have a guest presenter from our headquarters in Bryn Athyn, PA, but I'll tell you more about that soon. This is one of several announcements you will get from me and from our Secretary, Linda Waddell.
Thinking of you all with love and
respect,
Nathan
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UPCOMING ACTIVITIES AT SUNRISE CHAPEL
11 am WORSHIP SERVICE 12 noon LUNCHEON After lunch: Board
Meeting
MONDAY 5/21/2018 11 am Tai Chi Basics Friendship
Hall 6:30 pm Bereavement Support
Group WEDNESDAY 5/23/2018 9:30 am Worship Team meeting
11 am Tai Chi Yang 24 Friendship Hall 4 pm Private Memorial Service
and Reception afterwards 7 pm Women's Group: Contact Elise Gladish for
location 11 am Worship 12 noon LUNCHEON
Arizona Mountain Camp July 13-22,
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MORE ABOUT THE ELKS YOUTH CAMP - OUR NEW LOCATION! Here is a peek into the dining room and kitchen area of the Elks Youth
Camp. It is spacious and equipped. Linda Waddell has volunteered to coordinate the meal planning and cooking, and she will enlist campers' help. There is seating indoors and outdoors on a covered patio. There are also outdoor propane grills on the patio for our use. For sleeping, there are 8 cabins, a
bath/shower house and a dining room/kitchen building. There is also an area for tents if you prefer a more rustic environment.
Being a youth camp, there is playground equipment suitable for children.
Workman's Creek trickles past the campground on the other side of the dirt road. The camp is in a pine woods surrounded by the Tonto National Forest at an elevation of 5,600 feet. When I visited recently, the temperature on the road near Roosevelt Lake in the valley below was about 102, but the temperature at the camp was 87. A few observations: The camp is about 150 miles from Sunrise Chapel, about 45 miles north of Globe. Workman's Creek is part of the watershed that empties into the Salt River and forms Roosevelt Lake. To road that ascends from the Salt River in the valley to the campground reminds me of going up Mt. Lemmon before there were any guardrails. Beautiful vistas. The final mile to the camp is on lightly maintained dirt road. Very remote.
Map: From Sunrise Chapel, the drive to camp is at least 3 hours and 15 minutes depending on the condition of the roads. Here is a link to a page of maps. http://www.elks4kids.org/campmap.html Elks Lodge information: http://www.elks4kids.org/camp.html You Tube
video: https://youtu.be/LSRQUgVCMhc We have reserved the camp from Friday, July 13 through Sunday, July 22.
Anyone is invited to be part of the planning team. Linda Waddell has offered to organize meal planning and preparation. Christine Morey has offered to be the Camp Director. The next step is to work on a registration form. Stay tuned!!
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Special Financial
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Once again, THANK YOU to everyone who gives to the general operating fund! Your generosity helps keep Sunrise Chapel serving. And as we approach the end of our fiscal year on June 30, please consider giving what you can to help meet our budget goals. Every donation to the general operating
fund is needed and useful.
Thank you, also, to a few people who have contributed to our two matching opportunities.
If you have been waiting and wondering how this will play out, I encourage you to contribute in the next couple of weeks! Our deadline is June 30.
Between now and June 30, extra donations to two funds will be MATCHED. Your contributions will be DOUBLED! 1. Recently, the Asplundh Foundation awarded us a grant for special projects to enhance our programs and facilities. Part of the agreement is for Sunrise Chapel to raise $1,500 in local contributions. In turn, the Foundation will award us $9,250! So
far we have received $863.00, so now we just have $637.00 left to raise. Any amount helps! 2. The Endowment Fund is a new initiative to provide income in perpetuity to sustain the uses of Sunrise Chapel. Since it was launched in December 2017, we have
already accumulated $4,000! Additional local contributions up to $1,000 will be matched until June 30 by a remote donor, bringing the overall total to $6,000. Please consider donating to this important cause. So far we have received $495.00, so now we just need $505.00 to get the match! Even small donations help towards our goal. These are exciting additions to our financial future! If you contribute, just include a memo to our Treasurer, Bill Smith specifying your preference. To donate online through our PayPal feature click on the Donate
button above, or go to http://sunrisechapel.org/donate/ To donate by check, the mailing address is Sunrise Chapel, 8421 E Wrightstown Rd., Tucson, AZ 85715. |
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Readings for this
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An Angel Talks with Zechariah
Luke 1:8-17
Once when Zechariah’s
division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God, he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense. And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshipers were praying outside.
Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear. But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid,
Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John. He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth, for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born. He will bring back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God. And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of
Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
You might be Talking with an Angel Right
Now
Hebrews 13:1-2
Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.
Thinking Spiritually
New Jerusalem 39 (New Century Edition)
When our inner level is in heaven’s light and our outer level is in this world’s light, we think in ways that are both spiritual and earthly, but our spiritual thinking flows
into our earthly thinking, and that is where we perceive it.
However, when our inner level is caught up in this world’s light along with our outer level, we think materialistically rather than spiritually. That is, we base our thinking on the kinds of things we find in this physical world, all of which are composed of matter. To think spiritually is to think about actual things as they really are, seeing truths in the light of truth and perceiving what is good because we love it. It is seeing
the qualities of things and perceiving their emotional impact apart from their material characteristics. In contrast, thinking materialistically is thinking, seeing, and perceiving things as inseparable from matter and as in matter, and therefore relatively crudely and dimly.
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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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