Agape' MCC News & Updates
February 02, 2021
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View our 01/31/21 "Love Project" experience by clicking on the image below:
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How we do church looks very different right now. We would love for you to join us Sunday mornings keeping our community's hearts connected.
This week we welcome our guest speaker Skye Newkirk. Skye is a longtime family member of Agape' MCC and will be exploring
"The Art of Resilience".
A definition:
Resilience - a: tending recover or adjust easily to misfortune or change
b: to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something
bad happens or difficult conditions.
Join us on Facebook Live for our Sunday Morning Worship.
February 07, 2021 @ 10:30AM
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Spirit Cafe'
Our you feeling a little disconnected from our Agape' community or from community in general? COVID certainly has interfered with our social lives and has made staying connected much more challenging. If the answer is yes, we have a solution for you!
Join us for our
gathering this Wednesday. We will see where the conversation leads us!
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Let's Zoom!
Click here to register in advance for our Wednesday Zoom Meet Up
Enter the meeting ID: 816-8960-6902
(You only need to register once and you will be set for all the Wednesday Zoom Sessions)
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Sacred Saturdays
Saturday, February 6th @ 7:00 PM
on the Agape' Labyrinth.
This is a time for:
- setting intentions for the season
- letting go of things that no longer serve you
- discovering inner peace
- quiet reflection
- finding light in the dark places
- simply being
If you would like, you may bring a piece of paper to put in the fire with intentions and/or things to let go of written on it to offer up. This meeting will have an organic feel with little verbal communication. You are encouraged to come with an open heart and mind.
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Sanctuary Online
Tuesdays
8pm EST/ (UTC-5) / 7pm CST
How the Great Religions Began
Sanctuary's Zoom Room
In this two-part series, Ken Martin will share from his lifetime of study about the Great Religions of the World. On February 2nd, Ken will focus on how they began. On February 9th, he will cover the beliefs of the Great Religions. What are their important similarities and differences? Are differing beliefs the root of conflicts between them? Join us in Sanctuary's Zoom Room.
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There seems to be a cry from the universe for us to S L O W D O W N.
The shift to slow down has been a long time coming. An intentional, slow paced life allows gratitude to flow to the surface.
--Slow down
--Live Intentionally
--Be grateful
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Gladys Bentley, Performer
August 12, 1907 - January 18, 1960
Gladys Bentley was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance. She was an immensely talented gender-bending icon of the 1920s and 1930s Harlem.
Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House in New York in the 1920s, as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer. She headlined in the early 1930s at Harlem's Ubangi Club, where she was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens. She dressed in men's clothes (including a signature tuxedo and top hat), played piano, and sang her own raunchy lyrics to popular tunes of the day. An open lesbian, Bentley belted out feminist anthems with raunchy lyrics to popular tunes of the day with a deep growling voice while flirting with women in the crowds at her shows prompting them to sing lyrics at her in return.
Aside from her musical talent and success, Bentley is a significant and inspiring figure for the LGBT community and African Americans, and she was a prominent figure during the Harlem Renaissance. She was revolutionary in her masculinity: "Differing from the traditional male impersonator, or drag king, in the popular theater, Gladys Bentley did not try to 'pass' as a man, nor did she playfully try to deceive her audience into believing she was biologically male. Instead, she exerted a 'black female masculinity' that troubled the distinctions between black and white and masculine and feminine". She was frequently harassed for wearing men's clothing. Bentley was openly lesbian early in her career, but during the McCarthy Era, sadly underwent hormone “gay conversion” type treatment to attempt to be heterosexual out of fear of blacklisting or worse.
Initially believed to be ill with the Asian Flu, Bentley died of pneumonia unexpectedly, at her home in Los Angeles on January 18, 1960 the age of 52.
To read the Glady Bentley's full story, please click here.
Reference: Wikipedia
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Call to Prayer
God of the Second Chance, you knew who I was born to be and created me in your image.
In these unprecedented times where it is all the more difficult to see the hope among the fear
The challenge of putting our faith to the test
The challenge of sharing our resources
The lessons of opening our giving spirits
The lessons of gratitude we are learning
The lessons of the importance of relationships
Help us with the spirit of discernment and guidance
Thanks for hope that still reigns
Thanks for allowing us to love who we want to
Thanks for your light that still guides us
And renewed faith that continues to strengthen us.
Amen
PRAYER SUBMITTED BY:
RICHARD NORMAN (he, his)
is a member of the Commission of Pathways of Healing and Reconciliation and serves on the Council at Goodhope MCC, in Cape Town, South Africa, where he has been a member since 1998. “Attending Goodhope MCC has opened up my world and I see God's all-inclusive love.”
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A Message from Your Board of Directors |
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Dear Agape' Community,
You are loved unconditionally. You are prayed for by name. You are in our thoughts and hearts every moment of every day.
We are sending each of you lots of love...
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Namaste!
Rev. David, Cassy, Leigh, Lisa D., Ward, Melisa, EJ, and Amy
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02/16 - Tru Edwards
02/18 - Kevin Harkins
02/23 - Lynne Fratt
02/27 - Julie Korek
02/27 - Paxton Roberts
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