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A summer that’s renewing, relevant and based in relationship…

If your family is like ours, you’re starting to dream of summer plans. The spring sunlight invites us to grab our calendar and quickly fill it with plans and ideas for grand adventures.

But is our church family’s calendar looking the same way? Are we looking for opportunities to participate in our church’s life with the same excitement and enthusiasm?

This summer, I invite you to focus not only on schedules and ‘busy’-ness, but also on renewal, relationships and being relevant. Many of us find these opportunties through communal worship in our faith community. How can you help provide worship at Tuality Community of Christ that is renewing and relevant and provides blessings to you and others this summer?

Are you good at planning and organizing, creating a welcoming and sacred space, putting words to Jesus’ message of mission, performing the sacraments, praying, singing, listening, being…all of these (and more) are talents and unique offerings which are crucial to our worship together. It is through our worship that we come into our identity and calling as a Community of Christ….

‘Community of Christ,’ your name, given as a divine blessing, is your identity and calling.
If you will discern and embrace its full meaning, you will not only discover your future,
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Do not be afraid to go where it beckons you to go. Doctrine and Covenants 163:1

Please consider where God is calling you to serve through worship at Tuality Community of Christ this summer. As a group, we have commited to a volunteer based schedule, so your stepping forward to provide ministry is crucial to our ability to provide a spiritual home. See 2015 Worship Calendar to volunteer.

Blessings,
co-Pastor Roberta
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Reaching and Lifting Hearts Through Song- by Carla Nilsen

Have you ever had your teenager rush to the piano to open your hymnal and excitedly show their friends a new hymn?  Well, with this new, wonderful new hymnal, that has happened at my house.  More than once, Ryan has enthusiastically showed more than one of his friends his new favorite hymn lyrics.  It’s Community of Christ Sings number #340, “We are Children of Creation”.  His favorite line is

“We are children of creation, star flung bits of living fire, creatures with imagination, framed with passion and desire…”

As you can imagine, this gives my mamma heart joy!  I too love the new hymnal and many of the hymns in it!

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Last fall, during a Hymn Sing service, we all chose songs from the new hymnal that were meaningful to us.  Many of us chose our favorite hymns that we’ve loved for a long time, some chose new songs that we’ve come to love, and some chose songs that they don’t know yet, but they like the lyrics and would love to learn.   So here is that list that TCC made.  Use it to enhance your devotional time-read the lyrics, or use some of these songs if you are planning a worship service for TCC.  If you ever need help teaching a new hymn, please let me know.  I love helping us sing from our new hymnal.

Favorite Hymns

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Guided By the Spirit- Lyle Anderson

Read Lyle Anderson’s reflection on his experience planning and presiding for worship at Tuality Community of Christ:

‘Early on in my graduate theology and ministry studies I was blessed by the opportunity to have as an adviser a professor and Presbyterian minister who hailed from Brazil, the Rev. Dr. Gláucia Vasconcelos Wilkey. She was fond of saying “Out of duty we do things well. Out of Love, we do things beautifully.” She helped me become more sensitive to the “little things,” helped me to try and live the liturgy when I plan and preside, and to do so out of love and thus “beautifully”, even when I stumble and fumble…
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I hope that others who were present [during the worship experience] were able to engage in sacramental encounter with the Holy and the sacred gathered community as I was, and be blessed, filled, renewed and empowered for mission though our time together and went forth open to be Guided by the Spirit in all places where they find themselves and live out their discipleship.’ -excerpt from Lyle’s Full Blog Post

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Advent Greetings from Tuality Community of Christ

During this advent season, Tuality Community of Christ congregation joined together in the telling of the sacred story.  Through our fellowship and worship this advent season, we focused on telling the sacred story with themes of Joy, Hope, Love and Peace.  Our song, prayer and storytelling during our time together were examples of these themes.  As a prelude to worship each Sunday during this Advent, a ‘greeting card video’ was presented.  The links to those videos are below*.  May you find Joy, Hope, Love and Peace as you dwell in the visions and sounds of the coming of Christmas. *To enjoy the video in sequence: When you link to the video, set the ‘autoplay’ stopwatch icon in the right hand corner to 4 seconds

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God’s Beautiful and Familiar Music- Reflections on TCC’s Hymn Sing by Roberta LaHue Brown and Carla Nilsen

Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the church’s unveiling of our new hymnal: Community of Christ Sings.  In celebration of that anniversary, we gathered together for worship.  Erik and Carla Nilsen led us in a variation on the traditional ‘song and testimony’ service, a style of worship very familiar to our faith tradition.  For the testimony sharing portion of the service, Erik guided the congregation in a time of introspection and guided reflection.  Asking the congregation to leaf through our ‘new’ hymnal, he asked us to find a hymn that spoke particularly to us or carried with it a memory or testimony of God in our lives.

As I leafed through the hymnal, looking for a hymn that might spark a testimony, I found myself remembering the first time I ever leafed through a hymnal.  It was just before I was baptized during the summer that I was eight years old.  I was sitting at a family church camp, being asked by my mom to help plan my baptismal service by selecting my favorite hymns.  These hymns would be sung by those participating with me, through their singing, as I stepped into the waters of baptism.

There were three hymns that I chose that day, each of them with special meaning to me then, and now.  As I sat in church yesterday, and remembered that first action as a member, the participation of planning a worship and sacrament, I wondered if that first action influenced my passions in the life of my congregation today.  As a member of our congregation’s pastorate team, I am the community’s worship facilitator.  In this role, I often find myself leafing through the hymnal, planning and presiding for worships.  During this time of devotion I am listening and discerning for God’s voice to speak to me from those hymnal pages, guiding me to decision and action, and watching and participating in God’s unveiling story through our time together in worship.  God’s voice always resounds through those familiar and new tunes and guides this Community of Christ to passion and action.

As I leafed through our new blue-covered hymnal on Sunday, I reflected on our congregation’s and church’s life and how many changes there have been over the decades.  Our hymnal is so symbolic of our story.  The book binding on the hymnal has changed over the years, some songs are sung through the decades without change or variation, other songs have lost favor and become obsolete, yet new ones are written and sung for the first time,.  With these changes, the spirit of the hymnal is still the same.  The music continues to enliven us and our awareness of God’s presence and call to mission.  I think of how these same things are true with our church.  The times and the context of our church’s story is also changing.  Our understanding of God’s message takes a different shape, yet the message and the ‘familiar tune’ are the same.  As we move forward in the world and life of our church, I hope we continue to find new and different ways to bring forth God’s message.  I pray that the tune not only be heard by our own hearts, but also by the hearts of others, so that all may hear God’s beautiful and familiar music.    By Roberta LaHue Brown

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Why Church? – by Roberta LaHue Brown

In my years of attending church, I have had many wonderful relationships.  Some have been friends, some have been mentors, some teachers, others family, some all of these things in one.  I met my husband in church.  My children attend church with me and are learning about and praising God right beside me.  But my biggest reason for going to church is that attending devotes time to my relationship with God and the others I encounter.  Being intentional keeps me focused on the purpose of all this.  Intentional means ‘done with purpose.’  Forming ‘intentional relationships’ is one of the reasons I go to church. I go to church to remind myself to look at Him, to thank Him, to praise Him, to let Him embrace and heal me, to make me whole.   It is through finding this wholeness that I am able to extend that amazing love to others.  Others who are seeking wholeness extend amazing love to me.  And in spreading and receiving that cultivated love in our relationships, something amazing happens.   A moment that takes your breath away.  Makes your heart skip a beat.  That instant might be filled with joy, it  might be filled with sorrow.  Sometimes the miraculous juncture is so fleeting that you aern’t even sure in hindsight if it actually happened.   Many times we are exposed to these touchstone moments and blessings through our interactions in intentional relationships that are formed by living in Christian Community.

Today, August 13th,  is one of those touchstone days for me as I bid ‘adios’ to Emily and Andrew (TCC’s former co-pastors).  These dear friends of mine are embarking on the international portion of their Peace Corps adventure.  In all reality, they are probably frantically gathering their bags from the hotel room in DC right now so that they can catch a flight from there to Nicargua. They’ll be spending the next 2 years immersed in a new culture and in new relationships.  In this day, and in this moment, I am filled with joy and sadness, tears and smiles, thoughts of past and future…and I am feeling blessed to have such wonderful people in my life.   And because I simply can’t put into adequate words what I’m feeling as we say farewell, I decided to let Emily do the talking.   Sometimes things are best said by another and we just need to listen.    I’m posting Emily’s blog entitled ‘Blessed to be a Blessing‘ here.  Emily posted this testimony on her and Andrew’s Peace Corps Blog (www.maywesuggest.com) the Sunday that we said our official congregational goodbye last month.

So, Emily and Andrew, as you leave this ‘land that you love,’ my prayer is that you will love the new land that you are in and it will love you back, and that through this adventure you continue to be intentional and let your blessings flow on.
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Thank you for your love, light, kindness, wisdom and friendship.  I (and all of us at Tuality Community of Christ) will miss you.  God be with you until we meet again.

Blessings, Roberta

co-pastor Tuality Community of Christ

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Announcements and News Moved

In response to some feedback on the blog, specifically it’s mission and purpose, the TCC Announcements and Mission Center News Briefs are being moved to the “Events” section of our TCC Website.  This is to help the flow and layout of the website, but also to help keep the blog focused around our collective voices.  So speak up!  Share your thoughts. The Presence of these components in (super P force) acts marvelously, to ease down the hurdle of ordering viagra erectile dysfunction. Do no drink more:- Sipping excess alcohol is also not advised when using this drug as it can cause some severe side-effect. female viagra canada Men reaching the age of 40 and 70 shall have experienced side effects viagra impotence condition to some degree. As men with erection problems looks for help as a distinct option for generic cialis viagra or different medications.  Share your ideas.  Share the mission of Community of Christ here together.

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Welcome Tuality Blog Community

Welcome to the Tuality Community of Christ Blog!

As Community of Christ represents people from different backgrounds, cultures, and of different age groups, let’s start with a quick explanation of what a blog is.  “Blog” comes from the words “web log” and is often a journal-like collection of individual opinions, links to other sites, and or musings of life that is updated on a regular basis.  A blog can have one main writer or many writers who contribute to its content.

This blog is dedicated to the members and friends of Tuality Community of Christ, both near and far.  There will be many voices that bring this space to life, and you are invited to participate in loving discussion through the comments section as well.  It is our hope that this space bring us all a little closer together, even if we are physically far apart.

Whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, may this space be a place you can come to connect to the message of love, joy, hope, and peace.

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