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9 APRIL 2025

We highly recommend the play "The Just" being performed at Shadow Rock. It is relevant for today and it is a great way to support the arts in our community. It is a win-win.

Also, put on your calendar an opportunity to hear about a SR member's journey of healing on April 27th during our worship service. Read about this and more in this week's edition of Rock the Week.

B3 Theater Performs Again At Shadow Rock

Art and life find inspiration in each other. The play "The Just" is relevant to the questions people of conscience are asking themselves today. Come and see! Information about tickets and show times are below.

The play is based on the true story of a group of Russian Socialist-Revolutionaries who assassinated the Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich in 1905, and explores the moral issues associated with resistance to a government characterized by tyranny and authoritarism. In the play, all but one (Stepan) of the "Justes" are based upon historical people, described in Memoirs of a Terrorist by Boris Savinkov.

Performance days and times!



• Thu. April 10th 2025, 7:00 pm
• Fri. April 11th 2025, 7:00 pm
• Sat. April 12th 2025, 2:00 pm
• Sat. April 12th 2025, 7:00 pm
• Sun. April 13th 2025, 2:00 pm

No matter who you are or where you are on life's journey,

you are welcome here!

This Sunday at Shadow Rock

9:00 am

• Childcare is in the Blue Room
• Spiritual Play is meeting in the Lime Room
• Sunday School for ages 9 and up in the Green Room
• Adult Spiritual Formation and Kindlings in the Multipurpose Room. We continue our exploration of Shadow Rock Theology.
• Hospitality Cart with coffee and cookies in the Multipurpose Room

10:15 am

• Worship in the Sanctuary (childcare is offered in the Blue Room of the Education Bldg 10 - 11:30 am)

11:15 am

• Our Sermon Reboot experience will be after worship.



The Gift of A Book Is Coming Your Way!

This inspiring book presents powerful principles, tools, and practices for transforming self-limiting patterns of thought and behaviors and for staying in the present, even in the midst of very difficult feelings. Drawing from individual counseling sessions and utilizing practical exercises, Dr. Moss demonstrates how awareness and presence can be applied to support change in yourself and others, thereby creating a solid bridge between knowing and doing.

Inside-Out Healing will help you:

• Become more available and fully connected with yourself and others

• Build a solid foundation for healing in all areas of your life

• Be better able to handle difficult situations with more elegance and ease

• Improve both personal and professional relationships

• Expand your capacity for genuine empathy and compassion

• Experience more richness, gratitude, and fulfillment in your life and relationships

Are you ready for a shift of consciousness that liberates your mind and heart?

Skip Pearson wants to give you a free book on April 27th.

Skip Pearson grew up in rural Minnesota. He was a lawyer in private practice for 12 years and a part-time public defender as well. He became a trial court judge and worked in that capacity for 22 years. He served on the Minnesota Supreme Court Racial Bias Task Force and was one of the people essential in developing a Domestic Violence Specialty Court that became a model for other counties throughout our nation. Judge Pearson sought a better way for the judicial system to respond better to the devastating harm caused by domestic violence.

Late in his career he found Richard Moss's book, Inside-Out Healing. What he read resonated with him and he applied the principles of the book to his life. This has made such a positive change in his life he is compelled to share it with you. He will give us the message April 27th.

You heard about being in the NOW, but what does that really mean?

(hint: it's not about being narcissistic)

What are the benefits of being in the NOW?

How does a person get to the NOW?

What are the two basic mistakes people make that keep them from the NOW?

Is there really a practical, straightforward, understandable method to overcome these mistakes that help people to return to the NOW?

Skip has asked and answered these questions for himself. Come and hear how we can address these questions April 27th at 10:15 AM

ROCKER'S READ

SHADOW ROCKERS RECOMMEND BOOKS

We are starting a new feature for Rock the Week. From time to time, we stumble across a book we want to share with our friends. Through our newsletter you can do that.

Send a picture of the book cover

A link where the book can be viewed or purchased

A short summary

What the book means to you

Judy offers our first submission. Contact Pastor Ken if you want to share a book you love or just finished reading, and you think others would benefit as you did.

How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith by Mariann Edgar Budde. 

Episcopal Bishop Budde’s kind remarks at the inaugural church service in Washington DC to the new US President, pleading with him to show mercy to the many people filled with fear right now, compelled me to read her book. I found it so uplifting. She reminds us that as we face the many challenges that confront us daily, whether they’re about a change in the presidency, a transition in our church family, or personal financial or family matters, being brave is not a singular occurrence. It’s a journey we can choose to undertake every day. I loved her examples of pivotal moments from her own life, as well as from the wisdom of some of my favorite sources. She draws from the Bible as well as from Joseph Campbell and his study of the Hero’s Journey, Rachel Naomi Remen and her stories that heal, Dr Martin Luther King and the work of the Civil Rights movement, and even stories from Harry Potter. As we enter this time of discernment in our search for a new pastor, this book is an especially timely source of inspiration to trust each other and be brave. 

I’m happy to loan you my copy of the book, or you can also order directly from the publisher here if like me, you’re looking for alternatives to Amazon. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705987/how-we-learn-to-be-brave-by-mariann-edgar-budde/

Judy Schwiebert

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SPIRITUAL PLAY HAPPENINGS!

For our first Sunday back, we had 18 children!!

YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT OUR SPIRITUAL PLAY PROGRAM?

Details in the brochure. Ask for one in the church office.

WHAT IS NEXT FOR OUR SPIRITUAL PLAY KIDS?

Here is a Loving Kindness Meditation from our Spiritual Play kids. You close your eyes and think of someone and say the following words: