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CHELSEA COMMUNITY CHURCH
- our 42st year -
independent * lay-led * non-denominational
for those of all faiths and of uncertain faith
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Sunday Worship Notes
Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016
Third Sunday of Advent
Worship Service, 12:00 p.m.
Meeting at St. Peter's Chelsea
346 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011
Speaker: Priscilla Lopez
Lay Leader: Wayne Kammerer
Music Director: Jeff Cubeta
Special Music: Tenor
Ernie Pruneda,
"O Holy Night"
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Greetings!
Our speaker,
Priscilla Lopez
(Universal), is a contract coach and mentor at Exodus Transitional Community. A Native American from Montana, she came to New York in 2001. She graduated from York College in Queens and completed nearly two years in a master's program in clinical social work at New York University before being incarcerated. She was released from prison in February 2016.
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t the conclusion of the service, there is a brief, open communion service around the altar offered to all, using grape juice and gluten-free bread (to be extra inclusive). Anyone interested is welcome!
As usual after the service, we meet for coffee/tea, juice, refreshments, and conversation in the rectory to the West of the church.
We look forward to seeing you
! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
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THE READING GROUP
The reading group will meet this Sunday, December 11, to discuss Chapters 9-11 of John Shelby Spong's book Biblical Literacy - A Gentile Heresy. The Reading Group will NOT meet on December 18, 25, January 1, but will resume thereafter. If you have any questions about the book - or would like a copy of a chart with the dates we'll be meeting, chapters we'll be reading, and other background information -
please email:
Join us at 10:30 a.m. in the
Rectory Whelan Room.
All are welcome!
We'll help you catch up with what
we've done so far.
If you have any general questions, email us at
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NEXT SUNDAY
DEC. 18
Speaker
Thomas Southern
(Presbyterian)
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COMING Dec. 18th
6:00 p.m
Candlelight
Carol Service!
VISIT
Find us, "friend/like" us, follow us, contribute with us on
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No scripture has been announced for this week.
An independent, non-denominational, lay-led Christian congregation, Chelsea Community Church is not a building but a people. We offer a supportive environment for people of all faiths and of uncertain faith:
TO ENABLE each individual to define personal religious beliefs,
TO WORSHIP in prayer, music, reading and interpretation of scripture,
TO NURTURE each other in spiritual growth, while respecting and accepting a diversity of beliefs,
TO SHARE with and support each other in the daily and extraordinary events of our lives,
TO help those in need both inside and outside our congregation,
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O WELCOME anyone to worship with
us and become part of our extended Christian family.
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Michael Victor Ruggiero, talented arborist and CCC friend, decorates the church
for the 2015 Christmas season the the Candlelight Carol Service. This year's Candlelight Carol Service is December 18, 6 p.m.
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November 2016
Our 41st Anniversary
Founded 1975
Thank you to all our members and friends!
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