Kamper Park This Sunday May 4th

Don't forget that we are meeting this Sunday at 11:00 am to grill out in the park.  This is a time for us to hang out and hopefully meet & feed some folks that may not be plugged in to a community right now.  We will see you this Sunday.  If you would like to bring some food, just visit this link to see what people are already being brought and to sign up for what you might like to bring.  See You There!!

Abraham Heschel quotes from this week's talk

“Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which is regarded as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.  To us a single act of injustice - cheating in business, exploitation of the poor- is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.  To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world."

"Their breathless impatience with injustice may strike us as hysteria.  We ourselves witness continually acts of injustice, manifestations of hypocrisy, falsehood, outrage, misery, but we rarely grow indignant or overly excited.  To the prophet even a minor injustice assumes cosmic proportions.” 

“…if such deep sensitivity to evil is to be called hysterical, what name should be given to the abysmal indifference to evil which the prophet bewails?”

“Reading the words of the prophets is a strain on the emotions. Wrenching one’s conscience from the state of suspended animation”

Quote regarding last week's talk

As we started navigating the "Sermon on the Plain" in Luke 6 we began wrestling with the difficult blessings and Woes that Jesus laid out in 6:20-26. (You can catch the podcast on our podcast page if you haven't listened in yet)

As an addendum to the conversation I wanted to pass on this quote that I neglected to include Sunday Night.

"God has a preferential love of the poor not because they are necessarily better than others, morally or religiously, but simply because they are poor and living in an inhuman situation that is contrary to God's will. The ultimate basis for the privileged position of the poor is not in the poor themselves but in God, in the gratuitousness and universality of God's agapeic love"

-Gustavo Gutierrez

Diaper Fellowship!

We will be having a diaper fellowship for the Evans family and the Hampton family. So please bring out a pack of diapers to give to them to help them get ready for their new editions. We will start eating and hanging out before the meeting on Sunday night - grab some diapers and come on out!

Coming up on the Calendar

Here is what is coming up the next couple of weeks. We hope you will join us this week and next week for our Easter events. Hopefully we will see you there!

Sun. 3/16 - Bruce Case will teach at our weekly meeting

Thurs. 3/20 – Living Last Supper @ 7pm

Fri. 3/21 – Joint Good Friday Service with Ekklesia & Court Street Methodist @ 7pm

Sun. 3/23 – Easter Service (5:30) followed by community potluck meal in the Court Street Fellowship Hall

Don't Forget to Spring Forward!

Don't forget to set your clock forward this Saturday Night!

God in the Unexpected

We had the opportunity to hear Colbey talk to us about the encounter between the Samaritan woman at the well and Jesus in John 4.  One of the things she pointed out was the unexpected nature of finding God at that particular time and place.  Often we have certain place we expect to find God, when in fact we actually more often encounter God in unexpected places.

So let's here from you this week.  What are some unexpected places you have been seeing God recently?