Dear Friends,
Please enjoy the video above of doctors and nurses in Iran under unimaginable stress and surrounded by suffering DANCING to celebrate life and all that is HOLY and all that endures from suffering. They are a beautiful expression of THE HUMAN and HOLY SPIRIT! Please join us tomorrow for Easter Worship and DANCING! These woman in the photo above with the "Honk if You Want Us To Dance" sign live near us and they did dance for us, all 6 feet apart!
There is a change at Zoom and now we need to use a password and it is 9999999999, or 10, 9's. The ID number is 3025719458. There are several ways you can join worship on Zoom or by phone. If you need technical help please call or text Martha Garcia (619) 322-1376. We will begin worship promptly at 5 pm, have a check in and talk together about the service or to process thoughts and feelings after the worship at 6 pm.
Each week the order of worship will be posted on the church website before worship and I recommend you print it out in order to follow and sing along. Also, parts of the worship will be posted on the chat window of the Zoom worship. For the common good, please mute your own microphone in the lower left hand corner of the screen unless you are talking, in order to avoid the loud feedback. Unfortunately there is a lag in time so we can sing together but only on mute. Please send your prayer requests before worship and your prayer requests will be honored through out the week.
GET READY TO DANCE ON ZOOM AT CHURCH FOR OUR COMMON HOME and soon at the Mary Magdalene Cafe after worship every Sunday!
The doctors and nurses around the planet are inspired heroes and heroines and like Jesus and Mary Magdalene they are NOT leaving people alone in their suffering and death! This Easter may we take the inspiration of doctors and nurses and dedicate ourselves to lives of COURAGE and SERVICE and COMMUNITY and JOY! I won't leave you alone! Call if you are sick, scared or dying and when we pray we are together regardless of how may miles separate us. Please contact me if you want to pray on the phone and or if you have prayer requests.
There is a tradition that tells a story that Mary Magdalene follows Jesus not only to the scene of the crucifixion and to the tomb but today on Holy Saturday she follows him into hell. Last Sunday I challenged the rugged individualist ideas that many of us have projected onto Jesus. Jesus was NOT betrayed by everyone and he was NOT alone during his suffering and death. His Mother and Mary Magdalene and other woman were there with him the whole time. God was with him always also and God is with us during these difficult times. As we prepare for Easter and the Resurrection may we get out our dancing shoes! We need not think we are alone but we have to have the counter cultural commitment to live in community and intimate relationships. We have one another. May we all be dance partners to one another like Mary Magdalene and Jesus were to one another. May we be anointed in their love. and may we never forget to sing and dance like our lives depend on it, because they do.
As soon as it is safe we will resume church and counseling and DANCING in person, 15435 Strong Road, Dallas, Oregon 97338, less than a 30 minute drive from Salem, Oregon. Until then we will meet on the internet or phone and be united in our hearts and in prayer!
Zoom Church, Dream Group ? Lectio Divina/Centering Prayer
Church for Our Common Home, a church and counseling center, has added more Zoom programs to provide support during this time of global crisis and isolation. Join us for Zoom worship, weekly Sunday 5 pm PST. During collective crisis dreams often become very powerful and meaningful. Come honor your dreams in our weekly Dream Group, Wednesday
7-8:30 pm. Weekly Lectio Divina and Centering Prayer Group on Zoom, Tuesday 10-11 am.
Sending love,
Rev. Bonnie Tarwater Minister Church for Our Common Home Co-President of UUSCM https://www.uuscm.org/ Affiliated Community Minister First UU Church of SD
Below photo of a our wonderful new neighbors who have asked us to have their 11 sheep including 6 baby lambs live here for awhile and eat our grass.
