Category Archives: Adult Ed
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Third Thursday from Racial Justice Working Group (Jan 22)
Posted on January 19, 2022 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial JusticeJanuary 20, 2022 Jerry Mechling Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John reported that Christ’s essential guidance is not only to put God (not gods) at the center of everything, but to turn awareness into action by loving your neighbor as yourself. This was and remains a revolutionary call. Thoughts for the FCC Winchester as we […]
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Lenten “Re-Awaken” Small Group Series
Posted on January 18, 2022 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Small Groupsliving into part of the church’s strategic plan calling for small groups, community, and faith building We would like to invite you this Lent to come together in small groups to enrich and deepen our relationships with one another and with God. Plans are taking shape for a series of (mostly) Tuesday evening meetings during […]
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Second Wednesday Bible Study
Posted on January 10, 2022 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Small GroupsWednesday Jan 12, 2022 7 – 8:30 pm on Zoom Second Wednesday Bible Study will meet on January 12, via the Zoom link below. The group seeks to understand what God desires of us through scripture. We are focused on faith and doing our best to find 21st century parallels to 1st century texts. This month we will […]
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Join Us for Worship This Sunday in the Sanctuary or Online at 10 am (Dec. 12, 2021)
Posted on December 9, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Outreach, WorshipIt’s the 3rd Sunday of Advent, and this week during worship we welcome early music and chant specialist, Justina Golden, to help illuminate a meditation on the O Antiphons, an ancient Christian Advent singing and prayer practice that prepares us for the coming of Christ. Justina will sing each of the 7 O Antiphons in the original Gregorian Chant, […]
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Second Wednesday Bible Study
Posted on December 3, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Ministries/Task Force News, Small GroupsWednesday, Dec 8 from 7 pm to 8:30 pm on Zoom On Wednesday, December 8, the Second Wednesday Bible Study group will gather via Zoom. We will be reading Luke 1:26-56 – a passage referred to as the Annunciation when the angel Gabriel tells Mary that she will be carrying the ‘Son of the most […]
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Advent Study – The O Antiphons!
Posted on November 17, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Community, Ministries/Task Force News, Small Groups, WorshipTuesday Evenings of Advent at 7pm in Ripley Chapel Beginning Tuesday, November 30 We are meeting in Ripley Chapel on Tuesday evening to consider the O Antiphons, the ancient Christian practice of intoning titles for Christ as a way of stoking our desire for his coming. This Tuesday we’ll be considering O Adonai and O […]
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Third Thursday from the Racial Justice Working Group (October 2021)
Posted on October 21, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial JusticeI’ve been hearing the terms de-centering and re-centering a lot in the anti-racism webinars, books, presentations, you-tubes and trainings I’ve been attending and reading. Essentially, it refers to putting someone new in the center of a narrative and letting them tell the story. It yields a whole new perspective. So, for this Third Thursday article, […]
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Photos for All Hallow’s Eve
Posted on October 20, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Health and Wellness, Latest News, Worship, YouthOctober 31st is a Sunday this year and in honor of All Saints Day we would like to have a point in our worship service where we show images on our sanctuary monitors of loved ones who have died but who we hold close to our hearts. Would you please either send in your photos to […]
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Ruth Group
Posted on July 13, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Small GroupsRuth Group is a book group open to all women of the church. Please consider joining us on the third Sundays of the month at 7 PM throughout the program year. We next meet September 19th when we will be discussing The Overstory by Richard Powers. It’s a long book so we thought we’d give […]
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SUMMER READ: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Posted on June 10, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Racial Justice, Small GroupsIsabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. She examines different caste systems around the […]
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