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May 13, 2015

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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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

March 16, 2014March 26, 2014

Why Church? – Anonymous Responses

WHY CHURCH?

Anonymous Responses from March 16, 2014 Worship Service

Reorient personal perspectives
Closer relationships with other members
Gain scriptural knowledge in context of “community”
Experience God’s presence

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To keep one focused on God & blessings
To give one hope
To relate with people there
To feel wanted and loved (acceptance)
To broaden outlook on the world
To bring our cares and needs and share them
To help where we can at church and in our communities
To enjoy being with others
To remember what I think is my purpose for being here

Helps me get through the week
Look forward to see everyone and connect and share with them

Emotional and physical support for life’s issues

To be involved with people and learn about God and Jesus’ teachings.
We need to belong with people who believe like we do
I believe in what our community of Christ is teaching.

To learn of Christ and his teachings
To fellowship with other members
To serve in ways to help others
For my own spirit and happiness

It’s what I know
If I didn’t come to church, then I would not communicate with adults outside of work. This is my family.

Because I believe in Jesus Christ and the mission of the church and want to support it.
Connecting with others in worship allows a sharing of ideas and a support network of love.
Hearing the morning message, singing hymns, attending Sunday school class, etc. provides spiritual inspiration and insight.
Attending church provides a corporate connection and avenues to provide service to the community.
Church lifts me up with a positive and happy message that carries me through the week.

I believe in the savior Jesus Christ. I trust that his message and mission are the truth. I want to develop my spiritual understanding of His love. I come to be uplifted by His message through His influence in the lives of others as expressed when we worship together.

Jesus came for sinners, to save them. I come to be saved.

I must believe in Jesus and the things that he did because I want to have my second life, in heaven. I must believe that the Father raised Jesus from the dead as well.

Hmmm….Church or Shamrock Run in downtown Portland? No question – church! It’s a chance to be with my spiritual family, my tribe, my community, to recharge the spiritual battery that gets drained by dealing with issues in the real world and having to endure the insignificant stresses of those who lack awareness of a sense of beyond (where life is about more than what they think is important about work).

– Why Church? by Various participants during the March 16 worship

March 9, 2014March 26, 2014

“The Path Reflections” – by Rob Garwig

Psalm 122: 1 says in part, I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!” The first Sunday in Lent at TCC was just that kind of a glad time for me.

I walked many miles on The Path which formed our worship experience. The Path is a direct set of meditations to help worshippers meet and experience the Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer. The six stations on the Path include The Grove which used imagery of a doorway for reflection on where God is leading; The Return of the Prodigal offered personal space to recall times of being lost and found; The Cup of Life invited us to gather around a table set with different cups which suggested various states of fullness and emptiness; Ikebana illustrated an example of balance and gave invitation to find the same; The Pool splashed with refreshment and observations about Jesus’ living waters; and The Sanctuary which invited us to enter and share about the places(s) where we have felt God’s presence.

Highlights of traveling The Path included for me:

As in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, being filled with wonder at the courage, joy, and faith expressed in the stories told in the circle of travelers;

Saying nothing and being, at times, alone with my thoughts;

Singing new and cool songs of along the Path;
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Feeling the splash of refreshing water and being uplifted by the connections other’s made with the fountain;

Loving the lone daffodil in the Ikebana display and receiving an invitation from that yellow flower balance in life the small field offered.

The breadth of Lenten discipline and renewal is encompassed in Frost’s quiet but arduous couplet, “And miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.” Walking the Path reminded me of the HOly Spirit’s accompaniment of our difficult and happy journey. I was so glad to take The Path today.

March 9, 2014 Weekly Theme Reflection by Rob Garwig

February 16, 2014February 19, 2014

“Be Reconciled” – by Roberta Brown

Today’s theme (or as Erik reminded us not today’s theme but Christianity’s theme) was Be Reconciled. During the worship, we were lead through the spiritual practice of Lecito Divina, and feasted on the words of one of our new hymns: The Weight of Past and Fruitless Guilt (Community of Christ Sings Hymn #214). The practice lead me to engage in a much deeper way with the hymn than I would have had we simply sung through it once. As Erik lead us through the four portions of the Lectica Devina, (Reading, Meditation, Prayer and Contemplation), I was drawn to ponder the words ‘Lift Up’ and ‘Buoyant’ from the hymn text. As Tore Nilsen spoke about how to live in redemptive community, and Erik explained about the symbolism of eternity through circles, I was ‘lifted up.’

Today I was reminded that God lifts us up to a higher place, where we can see our brother’s and sister’s faces. That through our experience of growing in relationship with each other, we are able to know God’s redeeming and reconciling grace that makes us whole. In our wholeness we are brought into balance and able to embrace and recognize our own forgiving and reconciling hearts. As a reconciling community we are able to move forward in Christ’s mission in the world.

I have faith that God will continue to lift us up, and help us draw the circle ever wider.

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– February 16, 2014 Weekly Theme Reflection by Roberta Brown

January 26, 2014February 3, 2014

“Follow Christ” – by Doug Brown

Today’s worship really brought the spirit of connecting the old and the new. The use of the song “The Old, Old Path” first as part of the scripture really gave me the opportunity to reflect on the words of the song. The old version also caused me to feel the spirit that has been tied to that song since my baptism. We also had a wonderful message which talked about people who were at one time lost and then finding Christ. Now they are leading others to Christ. It made me think about how I should ask others to follow Christ more often as you never know whom may need that invitation.

We finished with “The Old, Old Path” – the new version. Although this version was “new” to everyone we were able to see the beauty in the newness and it reminds me of the new life that Christ brings to each one of us.
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