Announcements, March 1, 2018

Walker Community United Methodist Church

Our mission is to nurture spirituality, build caring community & work courageously for peace with justice and mercy.

Please especially note: No one has signed up for treats. If you are bringing treats containing  chocolate, whether homemade or bought, please be aware of our Peace with Justice commitment to boycott 95% of the chocolate sold (all major brand names, most bakery items) because it is literally produced by child slaves. Please use Fair Trade certified chocolate and cocoa in your baking.

Walker Events & Other Public Events at Walker

  • All meetings and events listed are at Walker Church unless noted otherwise
  • See our website Calendar walkerchurch.org for happenings further into the future.
  • For more information please contact the Walker office office@walkerchurch.org

Walker Men’s Brunch: Sat, Mar. 3, 9:30 – 11:30 am at the home of Don Browne. Contact Paul McHugh FFI.

Really Really Free Market: Sat, Mar. 3, 2:00 to 4:00 pm. Everything here is FREE: offer what you’d like to give and take what you would like to receive. Food, music, and conversation are as welcome as objects. If you bring things, please be prepared to take back anything that you have brought that nobody needs or has taken. FFI email reallyreallyfreemarketmpls@gmail.com.

 Sunday Celebration

March 4, 2018

March Forth – Songs of Freedom

Greetings by Jan DeNoble and Greg Garman

Communal Singing led by David West and Alice Brown

Communal Reading:  Our mission is to nurture spirituality, build caring community & work courageously for peace with justice and mercy.

Opening by Alice Brown / Sound Healing

Lao Tzu #66 followed by 5 minutes of silence

#11

Thirty spokes share the wheel’s hub;
It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore profit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there.

Translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English

Welcome, Announcements & Offering 

Poetry by David West

Reading from Mark 10:17-31 by Jesse Watkins

17 As Jesus was starting out on his way to Jerusalem, a man came running up to him, knelt down, and asked, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

18 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked. “Only God is truly good. 19 But to answer your question, you know the commandments: ‘You must not murder. You must not commit adultery. You must not steal. You must not testify falsely. You must not cheat anyone. Honor your father and mother.’[a]”

20 “Teacher,” the man replied, “I’ve obeyed all these commandments since I was young.”

21 Looking at the man, Jesus felt genuine love for him. “There is still one thing you haven’t done,” he told him. “Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

22 At this the man’s face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many possessions.

23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God!” 24 This amazed them. But Jesus said again, “Dear children, it is very hard[b] to enter the Kingdom of God. 25 In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!”

Sermon by Lulu Philips

Special Performance by The Fireroast Mountain Boys

Circle with Joys & Concerns & sharing of bread & juice brought by ?

Hospitality Time Thanks for set-up by the Hospitality Committee Treats by ?

Community Meal & Food Giveaway:  Tue, Mar. 6, Doors open & food giveaway at 5 pm.  Meal served 5:30 to 6:45.  Free, everyone welcome.  Volunteers are needed, please sign up!

Emigration Forum: Wed, Mar 7, 5:30 to 7:00 pm. With CM Alondra Cano.

Cabin Fever Sing-along: Fri, Mar. 9, 7 to 9 pm around the fireplace. We’ll go around the circle.  You can play or sing a song, request a song (and we’ll play it if anybody knows it), or pass.  Listeners welcome, too.  We should be able to go around the circle several times.  Bring your instruments and any snacks or beverages you might want. FFI Janet Skidmore

Gender Equity in Christianity: Sat, Mar 10, 3:30-5:00 pm. In the conference room. Open to all who are interested. Follow-up to Nancy and Sally’s Sunday service discussion a month ago. FFI: Nancy Gehrenbeck-Miller

Dance for Women:  Sat, Mar.10, 7-10:30 pm. All women are invited; DJ-ed by Kelly Shay.  $7 at the door for this event.  FFI Nancy Vezner or Susan Zeni

Community Meal & Food Giveaway:  Tue, Mar. 13, Doors open & food giveaway at 5 pm.  Meal served 5:30 to 6:45.  Free, everyone welcome.  Volunteers are needed, please sign up!  Followed by Walker Singers rehearsal, 7:00 to 8:00 pm.

Anne Tiller’s Birthday Dance: Sat, Mar. 24. More information will be available closer to the date.

Walker Women’s Weekend Retreat – Save the Dates: From evening of Fri, Apr 6 to morning of Sun, Apr 8, at Lulu’s home in Chisago City. FFI Lulu Philips

 

Events Elsewhere

None this week.

 

Walker Community United Methodist Church

3104 16th Avenue South, Mpls MN 55407

Office Hours: Monday-Friday 10 am to 2 pm.

Phone: 612-722-6612.

Office e-mail: office@walkerchurch.org 

Website: www.walkerchurch.org

Facebook Page:  Walker Community United Methodist Church

Facebook Group:  Walker Church Arts & Performance

Facebook Group:  Walker Community UMC Peace with Justice

Pastor Walter Lockhart 651-646-3693

Children’s Ed Coordinator:  Olivia Peterson

Bookkeeper:  Carrie Feldman

Communications: Deb Ramage

 

 

Ongoing Walker & Walkerite Groups

Sunday Celebration & Children’s Sunday school:  Sundays 10:30 am

Chalice Circle:  Sundays 9 to 10 am in the Meditation Room. We listen to music, meditate, read a passage on spiritual growth, and discuss our thoughts and feelings using the circle method. All are welcome! Come once or many times!

Coffee Gathering: Mondays 10 to noon at Lake Street Coffee, 3223 E Lake St.  FFI Pastor Walter Lockhart

Community Meal & Food Giveaway:  Tuesdays, Doors open & food giveaway at 5 pm.  Meal served 5:30 to 6:45.  Free, everyone welcome.

Walker Singers: Tuesdays 7 to 8 pm led by Jim McCreary

Initiates: 3rd Sunday of each month 8:30 to 10:15 am in the conference room. FFI Lou Tofte or Howard Kranz

Men’s Potluck Brunch: one Saturday of each month at someone’s home.

Women’s Potluck Brunch: 4th Saturday of each month at someone’s home. FFI Nancy Larsen

Open Flow Forum:  1st Thursday of each month 7 to 9 pm.  A group of artists with disabilities FFI Tara Innmon or Kip Shane

Health & Wellness Services at Walker by Walkerites

Alice Browne’s Music Therapy & Sound Healing:  By appointment.  Contact Alice

Sarah Dagg Massage Therapist:  Two days each month between 9 am to 5 pm by appointment. Contact Sarah

Other on-going groups meeting at Walker that are open to all

East Lake LOL AA:  A mixed, open AA group that meets every Wednesday 6:30 to 7:30 pm

Rosen Movement:  Wednesdays 9 am to 10 am for simple movement with music.  Open to all, come any week, cost:  $5 to $10.  FFI Phyllis Wiener

Aware Dance:  Wednesdays 7:15 to 9:15 pm Free style movement with music.  Cost $10-15  FFI Facebook Aware Dance & Movement

Hoop Twin Cities:  Thursdays 6:30 to 8:30 pm Free hoola hooping for all ages  FFI

Queer Birth Project:  2nd Saturday of each month 10 to noon.  LGBTQ new parent support group

Bluegrass Jam:  Last Monday of each month 7 to 10 pm.  Free, come to jam or listen.  FFI Roy Vanderwerf

Neurodiversity Group:  2nd Thursday of each month 7 to 9 pm led by Paul Johnson. Free emotional support for adults on the autism spectrum and their family & friends.

Northern Mississippi Prisoner Support Group:  3rd Thursday of each month 6 to 8 pm.  Write letters to build and sustain relationships with prisoners in Minnesota and beyond. Open to all. FFI Bailey Riley

Stop Line 3 Climate Justice Group:  Tuesdays 7 to 9 pm in the conference room.  FFI Al Sherwood