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Get Rooted and Grow at GSP!
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We believe that the process of growing spiritually in the Christian tradition is a lifelong journey of learning and experience in community—for all ages and all generations. Therefore, beginning with this issue, and to facilitate calendar planning for you and your family, the spiritual formation e-newsletter will now provide a listing of all spiritual formation activities offered to the GSP community and beyond—for all ages. We welcome and encourage everyone to participate in the wide range of opportunities. Get rooted and grow at GSP!
Amy Cormode
Children, Youth & Family Ministry
Catherine Penn Williams
Adult Spiritual Formation Team
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New Year's Eve Chant Sing
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Chants for Peace: New Year's Eve at Grace St Paul's
Saturday, December 31 from 7:00-8:30 pm
in the Sanctuary
Join us for a Grace St Paul's tradition to chant for peace on New Year's Eve! We gather to sing the simple chants composed by the late Kristopher Lindquist, played for us by GSP pianist Jane Click. It's a lovely, meditative way to begin the evening's festivities and start the New Year!
All are welcome. Bring your family or a friend—or several!
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Advent Series:
Wearing God: Exploring New Metaphors for the Holy One
3 Sundays, Dec 4, 11 & 18 at 9:00 am
in the Bloom Room
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There are hundreds of metaphors for God, but the church only uses a few familiar images: creator, judge, savior, father. In Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God (2016), Lauren F. Winner explores the notion of God as clothing, and reflects on how we are “clothed with Christ” or how “God fits us like a garment.”
Read more here.
It is not necessary to have read the book in order to participate fully in the class discussion. Each session is designed to stand alone.
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Advent Programs for
Children,
Youth & Families (& Everyone Else!)
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Gathering as the People of God:
Rooted in Advent
Saturday, Dec 3 from 5:00-7:00 pm am
in the Education Center
Join us for a fun evening as we prepare for Advent! Share a potluck dinner, hear stories about Advent, and create wreaths and calendars to celebrate Advent traditions at home. All ages are welcome!
Questions? Contact Amy Cormode here.
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Celebrating Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra!
Sunday, Dec 4 at 10:00 am
Join us for a special celebration of the life of Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra. Children are encouraged to leave their shoes outside the door of the church where they will be filled with treats as a reminder of the generosity of this saint.
Questions? Contact Amy Cormode here.
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Opportunity to Give, Opportunity to Serve: Dog & Cat Food Drive
Sunday, Dec 11 at 11:45 am in McBride Hall
Bring a bag of dog or cat food to church and stay after the 10:00 service to help the Animals & Spirituality Ministry bag it into ziplock bags in McBride Hall. The food will be given to guests of Joseph's Pantry to feed their pets.
Questions? Contact Amy Cormode here.
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Las Posadas Festival Celebration
Saturday, Dec 17 from 5:00-8:00 pm, meet outside McBride Hall
Las Posadas commemorates the journey that Joseph and Mary made from Nazareth to Bethlehem in search of a safe refuge where Mary could give birth to Jesus. Join us to journey around our neighborhood looking for a safe refuge, singing traditional songs along the way, and ending up at a potluck celebration. All ages are welcome to participate!
Questions? Contact Amy Cormode here.
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Film & Fellowship Returns for the Winter!
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Winter Film Series: Building Bridges
3rd Friday of each month at 7:00 pm
in the Bloom Room
After a year of seemingly endless political division and “us versus them” conversations, Film & Fellowship returns for the winter to focus on people and stories that bridge cultures. Eric Carr and Kitt Leonard will host this winter trilogy with three powerful, but hopeful, films that speak to the challenges of being an outsider while celebrating those who build bridges between disparate cultures. Also, for the winter, the potlucks resume at 6:30 pm, with a theme of cultural foods!
Friday, December 16 at 7:00 pm in the Bloom Room
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2015) is a lush documentary that powerfully shows how the universal language of music crosses even the most extreme boundaries to bring people together. The film also highlights the importance of music in preserving dying or persecuted cultures.
See the entire Film & Fellowship Winter Series here.
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EfM Revisited
Thursday, Dec 8 from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm in the Bloom Room
This small group meets monthly for a variety of activities during the fall, winter and spring. All persons who have participated in
Education for Ministry
, for any length of time and in any location, are welcome to attend!
In December, w
e will discuss the first half of
Eager To Love
by Richard Rohr. Please bring a sack lunch or snack.
For more information, contact Karen Kelly at 520-429-3637.
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GSP Readers Group:
H is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
Friday, Dec 9 at 9:30 am
in the
Bloom Room
Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human learn what it means to be fully alive. H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.
All are welcome. No registration necessary. For more information, please contact the church office at 327-6857.
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Understanding Scripture @ GSP
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For Everyone: Coffee, Bagels
and Bible Stuff
Every Thursday from 7:30-8:30 am in McBride Hall
Join a diverse group in a discussion of the 1 Timothy. In our second year many are attending their first bible study and are enjoying the attempt to put the weekly readings into historical prospective while finding current application.
All materials are provided. Drop-ins are welcome, and we start and end on time.
Facilitated by Bill Moore, GSP Junior Warden.
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Bible Women
2 Fridays, December 2 & 16 from 10:30-11:30 am in the Weeks Room
What do the voices of women in scripture have to say to us about our own lives, regardless of our gender? This class studies the Bible through the words of women in the Old and New Testaments. The focus is on actual scripture and its contexts; an optional text, Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter by Lindsay Hardin Freeman is available through Amazon.
The group meets twice a month on the 1st and 3rd Friday. No registration is necessary and participants are welcome to join the group at any time.
For more information contact Vicki Stefani, 520-743-3978 or here.
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Weekly Small Groups @ GSP
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Sharing Our Spiritual Journeys
Every Monday from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm in the Bloom Room
NOTE: No meeting on Mon, Dec 26
Each week, in this small discussion group, we focus on a different intersection between spirituality, religion, and culture. We view short videos (10-15 min) by scholars and authors such as Richard Rohr, Marcus Borg, Diana Butler Bass, Christina Cleveland and other innovative church thinkers. The conversation is always a surprise and takes us where the Spirit guides.
Each session stands alone and all are welcome. No registration is necessary.
Co-facilitated by Brian Arthur, Jim Franks and Catherine Penn Williams..
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Saturday Java Jive:
Coffee & Conversation
Every Saturday from 8:30-11:00 am
at Epic Cafe
(745 N 4th Ave, at University Blvd)
Want to meet and get to know folks in a relaxed and friendly environment? All are welcome to join this long-running motley crew that meets every Saturday morning for coffee and conversation. We never know who will show up, the topic is always up for grabs, and hilarity often ensues.
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