Advent series begins soon
Beginning Sunday, Dec. 7, Trinity Lutheran Adult Forum will offer a three-week Advent series entitled “Emmanuel: Experiencing God With Us.”
The sessions will include thought-provoking presentations, time for personal reflection and small-group sharing. The series will be facilitated by Christine Hall, a spiritual director and retreat leader who is a member of the local Quaker meeting.
Adult forum is at 9:30 am. This Sunday’s focus will be: ‘Emmanuel’ in scriptural context.
Gratitude is the topic at Unity
Rev. Christina Lee’s talk on Sunday Nov. 30 is entitled “Today, Choose Gratitude.”
It is about finding and accepting the blessings within the bigger challenges of life. Today the media and financial facts are presenting a lot of bad news. Unity’s spiritual practices can help turn around such negatives.
Lee (<a href="http://www.revchristina.com"click here) is a Unity minister who has given talks in more than 40 churches nationwide. Her popular meditation CD “Union with the One” has brought hundreds of people peace of mind. She is delighted to be returning to Unity of Whidbey this Thanksgiving weekend.
Services will start at 10 a.m. at Bayview Hall and all are welcome.
UUCWI regards a perfect world
The sixth Unitarian Universalist principle affirms the goal of a world community with peace, liberty and justice for all. Is that possible? What are we contributing toward attaining this goal?
Toyan Copeland, a member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Whidbey Island will be the speaker for the Sunday service.
All are welcome. Values-based children’s religious exploration classes and childcare will be provided. The service is at 10 a.m. at 20103 Highway 525, just north of Freeland. Click here for more information.
Sermon looks at influences
“There is no evil in Spirit, because God is Spirit.” (Science and Health)
Understanding that Spirit is One, God, and God is all, frees you from the fear of all evil. “Meet every adverse circumstance as its master.” (Science and Health)
On Sunday, the Christian Science service will examine the mental influences that try to deny the allness of God with the notion that something apart from God’s love and compassion can exist.
The service is 10:30 a.m. at 2411 E. Highway 525.
Former pastor delivers message
Ron Wedeking will deliver tomorrow’s sermon at South Whidbey Community Church from the book of Hebrews.
Wedeking is a former pastor, with academic degrees from Northwest University and Regent College.
Preceding the morning worship will be a combined Adult Fellowship class at 9 a.m. in which Part Two of Lee Strobel’s DVD, “The Case for Faith” will be shown and discussed. The DVD deals with Christianity’s two most often-asked questions: “Why is Jesus the only way and other religions are not?” and “Why does God allow pain and injustice to exist in a world he created?”
SWCC offers a wide variety of gifted and educated speakers at Sunday morning worship services. Both the church and all its speakers adhere to the National Association of Evangelicals Statement of Faith.
Each worship service begins at 10 a.m., and is preceded at 9 a.m. by two adult learning forums: one a discussion of the Book of Romans, led by Stan Walker; the other a study of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, led by Jim Craft. Midweek Bible studies continue in the Gospel of Luke, at 7 p.m. Wednesdays, led by Art Angst at the home of Rick and Dinah Zapata.
All SWCC sermons are recorded. Copies on CD-R, or e-mailed in Windows audio attachments, may be obtained by calling 221-8365.
South Whidbey Community Church is open to everyone and gathers for worship each Sunday at the Deer Lagoon Grange, 5142 Bayview Road, Langley.
