The Center for Spirit, Wisdom and the Arts

announces the opening of

The Church of the Black Madonna with a workshop

Our Lady, the Black Madonna

Saturday, December 13, 2014, 9 am-3 pm

Our Lady of Guadalupe is the North American expression of the Black Madonna. S/he is addressing us now in our ecologic crisis as we experience global warming, tsunamis hurricanes etc. S/he also calls us in our dreams, visions, prayers, religious studies, creative work, intuitions etc. Spiritual journeys often begin in the dark and this Advent workshop encourages us to enter the Holy darkness as our own hero/ines journey. The labyrinth is an ancient symbol of the inner spiritual journey. We ask that you bring a pail of sand, rocks, bark, twigs or anything from nature and

we will create a labyrinth. The story of Our Lady will guide this day of writing, artwork, and sharing. S/he is beckoning and calling us as we open the Church of the Black Madonna at the new Center for Spirit,Wisdom and the Arts.

Dear Our Lady,You who are the

Black Madonna, Our Holy Mother,

We pray that the divine child

within us will be brought to healthy

birth.We give thanksgiving and

awe to you who leaves no child out, no creature unloved and cared for. Guide us to restore our natural mother instinct that as a human species we will protect and reimagine a new "EcologicCivilization." Amen.(www.Whitehead2015.com,www. pandopopulus.com.)

Vegetarian salad bar lunch included.

13014 Calle De Las Rosas, San Diego, CA 92129

God loves you and there is nothing you can do about it!

Please contact Rev. Bonnie with any questions, and to reserve your place. [email protected] or (858) 248-5123.

A New Home Church that Honors all Wisdom Traditions

Weekly Dream Group, Centering Prayer, Worship,Workshops, Dances and Pot Luck Dinners,Counseling and Spiritual Direction

Religion means to bind together.The wisdom of the world religions are needed urgently.This new home church binds us together to heal and transform ourselves and our Sacred Earth. The teachings of ecology are the teachings of the wisdom

traditions.What we do effects everyone and everything, for We are One.

This Advent workshop on Our Lady, the Black Madonna is on Saturday December 13th one day after her feast day.

Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Center and minister of the churches, Rev. Bonnie also provides individual spiritual direction, pastoral counseling and is available for teaching and preaching, weddings, memorial services, rituals of healing and social justice work. She offers a dream group and Center Prayer weekly.

Dr. Walt Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Center is the Director of Counseling Services. Together they offer workshops, classes, support groups and host Twelve Step meetings,

and a "Monthly Drug Free Dance for People of All Ages."

Rev. Bonnie was ordained in 1999 and has served both Unitarian Universalist and United Church of Christ Churches. She has a M.Div. from Claremont School of Theology, a M.F. A. in theater from the American Conservatory Theater, a B.A. in Visual Art from U.C.S.D. and a certificate as a dream worker, from the Marin Institute for Projective DreamWork.

Dr.Walter Rutherford, a Marriage and Family Therapist, has over 30 years experience, is a recognized PTSDexpert, and works with addictions and relationships. He has studied and taught Tibetan Buddhism as a transpersonal psychologist.

Rev.BonnieTarwater

(858)248-5123revtarwater@yahoo.com www.RevBonnieTarwater.com

Skype bonnie.tarwater

Dr.WalterD.Rutherford www.drwaltr.com walterrutherford44@gmail.com

Bonnie and Walt ask you to invite your freinds and have them on our maiing list. Upcoming:

"Dog and Hello Kitty Chapel" and an Animal Blessing, on January 4, 2015 and on February 7, 2015 a couples enrichment workshop,

"Intimate Relationships as Spiritual Practice" for LGBT and all sexual orientations.

Please also join us at the "Ecological Civilization" confernece at Pomona College, June 4-7, 2015. "To see the world with ecological relations at its core means never to see it in the same way again." John B. Cobb Jr.

www.pandopopulus.com,www.whitehead2015.com