Passionate Prayers and Music to God and Cosmos New Years alcohol free celebration!

2017

Dear Friends,

Please join us for our annual, New Year's Eve Sunday December 31, non alcoholic celebration, 5 pm worship, 6-9 pm, dream circle and dream sharing, guided mediation and dream incubation, fire ritual with silent mediation and walking of the candle lit Snake Labyrinth. A brilliant musician musician from the Netherlands, Tijs Groen will serenade us for dancing under the starry night. We will stay warm with vegetarian chili and hot apple cider and you are welcome to bring finger foods.

Matthew Fox the modern theologian shares a recent dream he had that a voice told him there was only one thing the human race has to do in this time of global crisis. Live as if all life is sacred!

Our worship and celebration will focus on the sacredness of all life as we commune with God in the joy of being together, worshiping, dream sharing, enjoying music, dancing, rituals and dream incubation, outside under the stars. We will celebrate the grandeur of the cosmos, in prayer, thanksgiving and love! Our dream circle will honor our own dreams. Matthew Foxes dream, as well as ancient dreams such as Joseph's dream in the Gospel of Matthew, when he was instructed that the danger of Herod killing babies was over and that he and his family were safe to go back home safely to Israel. God invites us to come home to being in commune with him/her this next year.

The Gospel of Matthew 2: 19-21 "When Herod died, an angel of God suddenly appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, 20 “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.” 21 Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and went to the land of Israel."

Dear God/dess,

We give thanks for all life is sacred and we are in awe and wonder at the beauty and magnificence of all of creation. You Gracious God who, "are the dwelling place within us, the empowerment around us, and the celebration among us, now and forever." We give thanks and praise! Amen

Please join us for worship every Sunday night at 5 pm at our home church, Church for Our Common Home, with a new Healing Prayer Service every third Sunday of the month, and for many counseling services provided by Our Common Home Counseling Center. Please check our web sites , churchforourcommonhome.com

and ourcommonhomecounselingcenter.com.

Church for Our Common Home will have a table at the Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast All People's Breakfast, January 15, 2018 downtown San Diego.

We have two tickets left, $50 a piece. Call if you are interested.

Dream Groups and individual sessions for dream honoring.

Call Bonnie for more info.(858) 248-5123

Dream sharing is an ancient spiritual practice whose time has come back. Dream circle offered the first and third Sunday before church from 3-5 pm.

Call to confirm for sessions may need to change time.

We are not sure when we will be having dance classes for we are building a safe dance floor area. Please stay tuned.

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Lectio Divina and

Centering Prayer a sacred study of scriptures and a Christian meditation practiced and taught weekly on Wednesday mornings 10-11 am

No experience needed.

We will continue to study the Gnostic text in 2018

The Gospel of the Beloved Companion.

Taize first Sunday of every month January 7. Taize is a form of worship with silence, scripture readings and chanting.

Our Common Home a church and counseling center's new mission statement.

Our Common Home provides religious and psychological services to awaken to the moral and ecologic crisis as an invitation for spiritual growth and creating loving community with all of creation, caring for our common home, Mother Earth.

Healing and Prayer Service

third Sunday of every month at 5 pm

January 21, 2018.

Jesus was a healer and the Christian tradition of prayer and hands on healing has too often been left out of some churches in recent times. We will begin conversation and explore, not a supernatural God or a God who is omnipotent, but rather the God who is omnipresent and who wants out healing and wholeness.

Prayer Mother/Father God who is within us, we celebrate your many names. Your wisdom come, your will be done, unfolding from the depths within us. Each day you give us all that we need. You remind us of our limits and we let go. You support us in our power and we act with courage. For you are the dwelling place within us, the empowerment around us, and the celebration among us, now and forever. Amen

by Sister Miriam Therese Winters

Church for Our Common Home | Rev. Bonnie Tarwater | (858) 248-5123

13014 Calle De Las Rosas, San Diego CA 92129 revtarwater@yahoo.com www.churchforourcommonhome.com

www.ourcommonhomecounselingcenter.com

www.revbonnietarwater.com

Dogs

Welcome at home

Worship

and

all are welcome to visit the

Dog Chapel