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1 March 2023

Our Lenten Journey

Wednesday Connections begins this evening at 7:00 pm on Zoom. Our focus is belonging and connection, beginning with a short Lenten devotion. Bring your gratitude and your concerns to this time of centering and prayer.

Later in March (around the midpoint of Lent), there will be a Prayer Retreat. You're invited to join on Thursday, March 16: 10:00 am in person in the Narthex OR 7:00 pm on Zoom. Reach out to Karen for more information or to register.

Happy Golden Anniversary, Shadow Rock!

If you were ever a part of Shadow Rock in any way—through the church or the preschool or the performing arts or the music program or the summer workshops…

You are invited to:

Reunion of Friends Sunday ~ Still Rockin’ On

Sunday, April 30 at 10:15 am

There will be time for mingling, videos, food, and connection after the service. Hope you can join us!

Some of us made lifelong friends here. All of us took the affirmations of life we learned here out into our communities. We’ve all been touched in some way. Plan to come.

Also, please consider filling out this form and returning it for us to share at the event.

Preschool 2023-2024 Registration Coming Soon

Registration season at our preschool is an exciting time! Current families and church families can register for next year beginning at 7:30 am on March 7 (on the Procare app for current families; church families can email Liz for how to register early). For new families, registration begins at 7:30 am on March 8.

Shadow Rock Preschool is a demonstration of our core values in the world, and we are grateful for families, children, and teachers.

Love Seed at North Mountain Brewing

We meet again at North Mountain Brewery this coming Sunday, March 5 at 4:00 pm for a gathering of our Love Seed fellowship to discuss the third affirmation of the Phoenix Affirmations regarding progressive Christianity. New participants and new thinking are always welcome.

The third affirmation is:

Loving God includes celebrating the God whose Spirit pervades and whose glory is reflected in all of God’s Creation, including the earth and its ecosystems, the sacred and secular, the Christian and non-Christian, the human and non-human.

As Christians, we seek to act as righteous stewards of the earth and its ecosystems. We celebrate the reflections of the Creator’s glory in both the sacred and secular, human and non-human, Christian and non-Christian.

We affirm that the Path of Jesus is found where Christ’s followers act as caring stewards of the earth, and where the presence of the living Christ is celebrated wherever Christ’s spirit manifests itself, transcending all preconceived human categories.

We confess that we have stepped away from this Path when we have ignored our role as stewards of the earth, or have interpreted Scripture in a way that fails to account for the sacredness of the earth or the integrity of its ecosystems. We have further moved away whenever we have claimed that the glorification and praise of God is limited only to that which is consciously and overtly Christian.

You do not need the book to participate but if you can purchase it here.

If you have questions, contact Pastor Ken.