Guest Preacher this Sunday
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Help welcome Jeremy Rose as our guest preacher this Sunday
Jeremy Rose will be visiting his parents, Frank and Louise Rose, this weekend and kindly offered to preach at Sunrise Chapel. He lives in St Paul, MN where he is a member of the Virginia Street Church (Swedenborgian) as well as a musician for their services and also an occasional lay preacher. His day job is on the teaching staff at the University of Minnesota. With a Ph.D. in Communication Studies, decades of teaching experience, and a special interest in communicating the
message of the New Church, he co-authored a book about preaching with his father. His talk this Sunday will be about the balance between self-compulsion and accountability to others.
Next Weekend: Booths at The Tucson Festival of Books
At this year's Tucson Festival of Books next weekend on March 14-15, once again the Arizona Spiritual Growth Foundation (ChooseJoyNow.org) and Frank Rose will be in side-by-side booths. See below for details.
Small Groups: New groups beginning
After the Tucson Festival of Books (which is next weekend, March 14-15), we will start a new round of spiritual growth groups! See below for more details.
Our next Fundraiser for Sunrise Chapel
We are continuing to plan for the upcoming event on Saturday, March 28 - SUNRISE MARKETPLACE. Thank you to Linda and Margo for focusing our energy toward an achievable goal. See below for more details.
Lots coming up for March and April! See below for details
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With love and respect and prayers for many blessings,
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Meet and Greet Michelle Chapin from the Grand Human Project
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Pic: Home page of GrandHumanProject.org
Friday, March 13 at 6:30 pm at Sunrise Chapel
The New "Grand Human Project" is about community building
Even if you feel plugged into a spiritual community, you might have a friend, a cousin, a family member who would just love to learn about this new way of connecting online.
So, help welcome Michelle Chapin Friday, March 13 at 6:30 at Sunrise Chapel. She will lead a discussion about community-building in connection with this new online platform.
Michelle is one of the team members from our Central Office of Outreach in Bryn Athyn, PA. She has been helping develop this new online resource to gather people who are interested in spiritual growth, community, and service. She will also be helping at the ChooseJoyNow.org booth at the Tucson Festival of Books.
Meet & greet Michelle this Friday, March 13 at Sunrise Chapel at 6:30 pm. Be prepared to be impressed with this new online platform, and consider becoming one of the early adopters and promoters of this important offering!
Nathan
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Booths at the Tucson Festival of Books
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Photo: Booths from March 2019
Two booths side-by-side
At this year's Tucson Festival of Books next weekend on March 14-15, once again the Arizona Spiritual Growth Foundation (ChooseJoyNow.org) and Frank Rose will be in side-by-side booths. Here are this year's booth numbers and banner titles. These booths will be on the south side of the UofA mall in the 200s section.
BOOTH #264 Banner title: ChooseJoyNow.org
BOOTH #265 Banner title: Frank and Owen Rose
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Welcome Jonathan Rose, co-host of offTheLeftEye
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offTheLeftEye is a YouTube channel devoted to spreading the teachings of Swedenborg
Come to Sunrise Chapel on Saturday, March 21 from 3-5 pm to welcome the co-host of this popular YouTube educational show, Jonathan Rose, as well as Tim Bilger from the staff. They will share some stories of the development and impact of this production, and Jonathan will also give an update on the progress of the New Century Edition of the translations of Swedenborg's works, of which he
is the series editor.
But most of all, this event is designed to bring people together who want to meet others who are interested in the show and in studying Swedenborg.
This event is being promoted widely, with guests coming from Tucson, Phoenix, Boulder CO, and Silver City, NM.
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PLANNING THIS FUNDRAISER FOR SATURDAY MARCH 28
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You can support and participate in this event:
PATIO SALE & CRAFT SALE OPTIONS:
Please contact Linda Waddell 575-740-0140 if you want to reserve a space to sell your stuff (and keep your proceeds) during this event.
Or, if you prefer, donate your stuff to the church for the patio sale.
"Rent a table" inside for $15 each table
"Rent a table" outside for $10 each table
"Rent a vehicle space" to sell from your car "trunk" for $5 each vehicle
Table set-up will be Friday, March 27.
WANTED: ITEMS FOR THE PATIO SALE AND SILENT AUCTION!
Are you doing some spring cleaning, and do you have "stuff" you want to get rid of? Consider donating good, clean items to our patio sale! Bring them to the church on Thursday afternoon March 26 or Friday March 27.
Or be creative and round up an item or think of a service to provide for our silent auction. Please give the details of any silent auctions to Bill Smith or Nathan Gladish ASAP in order to create the bid sheets.
Consider going to a local business to invite the manager to donate an item, even a gift card! See Bill Smith or Nathan Gladish for a copy of a letter with details about the event and information about our tax-exempt status.
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Photo: Newly revised card deck cover
AWESOME NEW GROUPS ABOUT TO START
At the upcoming Tucson Festival of Books, we will be promoting new spiritual growth groups to all our booth visitors. But before the new groups begin, we will have several one-time, introductory sessions so people can try it out before signing up.
SEVERAL ONE-TIME, INTRODUCTORY SMALL GROUP SESSIONS:
Wednesday, March 18 at 1 pm at Sunrise Chapel and online, led by Nathan Gladish
Wednesday, March 18 at 6:30 pm at Sunrise Chapel, led by Frank Rose
NEW SMALL GROUP SERIES:
Starting Wednesday March 25 at 6:30 pm, Frank Rose and Judith Keane will lead an 8-week Wednesday evening group in the church Vestry. The theme for this group will be Forgiveness.
Starting Wednesday March 25 at 1 pm, I will lead a mid-week Wednesday afternoon group in the church Vestry (off the lobby of the Chapel) including the option to join online. The theme for this group will be the first 12 tasks in the original book, The Joy of Spiritual Growth.
Starting Sunday, March 29 at 9:15 am, Kelly Woofenden will lead a Sunday morning group in the church Library using the newly revised card deck of 52 Tasks for Spiritual Growth.
~Nathan
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THIS WEEK'S ACTIVITIES AT SUNRISE CHAPEL
11 am Worship Service - Nathan Gladish, preaching
12 noon Luncheon
12:45 pm Sunrise Chapel Board Meeting
MONDAY 3/9/2020
11 am Tai Chi class - Friendship Hall
TUESDAY 3/10/2020
6:30 pm Bereavement Support Group in the Chapel
WEDNESDAY 3/11/2020
9:30 am worship team meeting
7 pm Women's Group (in homes)
FRIDAY 3/13/2020
4:30 pm Teen Time with the Pastor at the church
6:30 pm Meet & Greet with Michelle Chapin to discuss the new Grand Human Project and building community among people interested in Swedenborg
9:30 am - 5:30 pm Booth at the Tucson Festival of Books
SUNDAY 3/15/2020
9:30 am - 5:30 pm Booth at the Tucson Festival of Books
10 am Music rehearsal
11 am Worship Service - Nathan Gladish, preaching
12 noon Luncheon
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Our church calendar is busy!
Mar. 8 (Sun) - Jeremy Rose, guest speaker
+ Board meeting after lunch
Mar. 13 (Fri eve) - Guest presentation at the Chapel by Michelle Chapin about the new “Grand Human Project”
Mar. 14-15 - Booth at the Tucson Festival of Books for ChooseJoyNow.org
Mar. 21 (Sat afternoon from 3-5) - offTheLeftEye gathering at the Chapel featuring Jonathan Rose
Mar. 28 (Sat from 7 am - 4 pm) - Sunrise Marketplace Fundraiser
COMING SOON IN APRIL:
Apr. 5 (Sun) - Palm Sunday
Apr. 10 (Fri) - Good Friday
Apr. 12 (Sun) - Easter
Apr. 19 (Sun) - Board Meeting
May. 17 (Sun) - Annual Congregational Meeting
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Readings for this Sunday's 11 am
Worship Service
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From the Bible
Exodus 20:18-24 (NIV)
When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance and said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die.”
Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.”
The people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites this: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven: Do not make any gods to be alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold.
“‘Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.”
Matthew 23:1-4,25-26 (NIV)
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.”
From the Teachings of the New Church through Emanuel Swedenborg
Divine Providence §136(3)
What is inside us resists compulsion from the outside so definitely that it turns the other way. This is because our inner nature wants to be in freedom and loves its freedom. Freedom is a matter of our love or our life; so when something free feels that it is being controlled, it withdraws into itself, so to speak, and turns in the opposite direction. It looks at the compulsion as an enemy. The love that is the substance of our life is irritated, which makes us think that we are not in control
of ourselves and that we are therefore not living our own life.
The reason our inner nature is like this is found in the law of the Lord’s divine providence that says we should act in freedom and in accord with reason.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATIONS!
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Want to donate with a credit card or electronically? Our treasurer, Bill Smith, can now swipe credit cards in the church office, or you can go to the Donate page on sunrisechapel.org or go directly to the church's PayPal account . You don't need a PayPal account to use a credit card of your choice.
Thank you for supporting Sunrise Chapel!
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Livestream and Archive Videos of our 11 am
Worship Services
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If you subscribe to our YouTube channel, you can get an alert when we go live on Sunday morning. If you bookmark the link in your favorite browser, you can also easily view any available archived service anytime. Comments or questions? Contact me anytime. ~ Nathan
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