The Joy of Spiritual Growth series
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Getting Out of Prison
Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah would bring good news to the poor, heal broken hearts, free captives and release prisoners from darkness (Isaiah 61:1). This Sunday, we will explore how we can get light in our darkness and experience greater freedom.
(In our current series on Spiritual Growth Tasks, this task is not in our card deck nor in one of the books, though we plan to include it in an upcoming deck.)
Guest Preacher - Frank Rose
This Sunday, March 31, Nathan & Elise will be out of town. Frank Rose graciously accepted my invitation to lead the service. He will continue the series of Spiritual Growth topics with a task called "Getting Out of Prison."
Help with Building Rentals, including an incentive
Sunrise Chapel is a wonderful place for meetings and special activities of many kinds. We really want to serve the community, and we can offer various spaces for less cost than most commercial places. Recently, one of our groups that has been using our Friendship Hall every Tuesday night for many years had to downsize and consolidate their classes at a different facility. This is a big loss of income for Sunrise Chapel.
If you know any group or individual who is looking for a venue to hold classes, meetings, or special occasions, please refer them to Sunrise Chapel.
As an incentive, by Board approval, a referral fee will be offered to anyone for whom a referral turns into a booking! Talk to me or any Board member.
April 14 — Palm Sunday
April 19 — Good Friday evening service
April 21 — Easter Sunday
7 am Early outdoor service
11 am Festival service
+ Egg Hunt
Noon Easter Luncheon
April 28 — David Lindrooth, guest preacher
May 5 — Cinco de Mayo Neighborhood celebration here at Sunrise Chapel (see below)
Remembering Carmela
Our friend Carmela Barker entered the spiritual world this past Tuesday, March 26. She was active in Sunrise Chapel for many years, and many Sunrise Chapel members have fond memories of her in small groups and in the kitchen. Recently she had been in a care facility. She turned 93 last month. Years ago she had made arrangements for a niche and a plaque in our Memorial Garden on which is engraved “Wherever you go, I’ll be there.”
No memorial service is being planned by her family, but in her wishes, she invited anyone to honor her life with a donation to Sunrise Chapel.
Blessings to our dear Carmela!
With love and respect,
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THIS WEEK'S ACTIVITIES AT SUNRISE CHAPEL
No Teen Talk Small Group today (resumes next Friday)
11 am Worship - Frank Rose, guest preacher
12 noon AZ Mt Camp LUNCHEON
MONDAY 4/1/2018
11 am Tai Chi class (Basic)
6:30 pm Bereavement Support Group
Pastor returns tonight
WEDNESDAY 4/3/2019
9:30 am Worship Team mtg
1 pm afternoon Spiritual Growth Group, led by Nathan Gladish
6:30 pm evening Spiritual Growth Group, led by Frank Rose
11 am Tai Chi (Yang 24)
7 pm Women's Group - Contact Elise Gladish for details
4:45 pm Teen Talk Small Group
SUNDAY 4/7/2019
11 am Worship - Task 22 Turn a Blind Eye
12 noon LUNCHEON
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Sunday Series featuring Spiritual Growth Tasks:
The topics of the coming Sunday messages will be based the "Card Deck" of 52 Spiritual Growth Tasks:
Sunday, Feb. 24 - Stair Climb (card deck task #13)
Sunday, Mar. 3 - Self Observation (card deck task #33)
Sunday, Mar. 17 - Non-Identification (card deck task #3)
Sunday, Mar. 24 - Golden Rule (card deck task #5)
Sunday, Mar. 31 - Getting Out of Prison (new task)
Sunday, Apr. 7 - Turn a Blind Eye (card deck task #22)
Weekly Small Groups featuring Spiritual Growth Tasks:
Wednesday afternoons 1:00 to 2:00 pm in the Chapel, led by Nathan Gladish
Wednesday evenings 6:30 to 8 pm in the Chapel, led by Frank Rose, co-leader Judith Keane.
Thursday evenings 7:00 to 8:30 pm Women's Group in homes, led by Elise Gladish and other women.
You can also find the tasks and supporting information about them on www.choosejoynow.org
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Sunrise Chapel Hosts a Cinco de Mayo Neighborhood Celebration
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Help us welcome our neighbors to a very special event at Sunrise Chapel!
Sunday, May 5 starting at noon
12 Noon – Mexican Luncheon (semi-catered)
1 pm – Mariachi Alma Mexicana Quartet
PLUS
Children’s Ballet Folklorica Dance Group
Local Arts & Crafts
Piñata
Raffles
This will be a community-oriented FUN-raiser as well as a fundraiser.
Food will be semi-catered. The mariachi band has already been booked. Cover charge will be reasonably priced. We will need volunteers! Please talk with Gail Benton and Claudia Osmus for ways to get involved.
Thank you to Gail Benton for helping us help others while we also make progress on our church's financial challenges!
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Readings for this
Sunday's Church Service
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Psalm 142:7
Set me free from my prison, that I may praise your name. Then the righteous will gather about me because of your goodness to me.
Matthew 25:34-36
Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.”
Secrets of Heaven §5096
People who succumb to falsity and especially to evil are said to be prisoners and in prison, not because they are actually chained but because they do not have freedom. Anyone who lacks freedom is inwardly imprisoned. After all, people who have proved a false idea to themselves no longer have any freedom to choose or accept the truth. Those who have proved it repeatedly do not even have the freedom to see truth, let alone acknowledge and believe it. They are convinced that falsity is true, and
truth, false. Conviction by its very nature removes all freedom of thinking otherwise and therefore keeps one’s very thoughts fettered in a kind of prison.
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Your church home for partnering with the Lord and each other in the practice of cultivating spiritual growth and choosing heavenly joy www.sunrisechapel.org nathan@sunrisechapel.org Office 520-298-1245 |
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