Stone Soup Worship for 4/29 4 p.m.

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STONE SOUP Celebrates Earth Day

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from http://www.pcusa.org/media/uploads/environment/pdf/earthday_final2012.pdf

Earth Day

Stone Soup & Saluda Community Land Trust (SCLT) 

Stone Soup meet from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Saluda Elementary School playground this Sunday 4/22/12.

We are participating with the Saluda Community Land Trust to celebrate Earth Day. The theme for this year is "Life of Abundance--Energy and Ethics". We’ll meet at 2 to explore the new trail and the Land Trust park beside the school property. It is a very small park and quite nice nonetheless. Afterwards we’ll have some games that will be suited for children but open to all ages. Also bring soccer balls, Frisbees, bat/ball & glove or whatever other games or sports you want to get going. If the field is too wet we’ll continue hiking around town. If it is raining, we’ll meet at the Wesley Cottage at the Church. As SCLT activities wind down, we’ll have a worship service that deals with Earth Day themes (celebrating our Creator, and our responsibility to God’s creation). And to top it all off, we’ll end with strawberry shortcake. (no meal since we’re ending so early, unless of course there is a popular uprising for more food and then we’ll just see what happens…)

If anyone wants to help with games please let me know.

If anyone want to help with the worship service part either in planning or reading, please let me know.

Here are some Earth Day Worship Resources:

from the Presbyterians http://gamc.pcusa.org/ministries/environment/earth-day-sunday/

from the United Methodists http://www.gbod.org/site/pp.aspx?override=yes&sdate=20120422&edate=20120422&special=Earth%20Day&c=nhLRJ2PMKsG&b=3784683

This Sunday at 4 p.m. Stone Soup will continue the worship laboratory. Our focus scripture will be John 4:1-42. This is Jesus' encounter with the woman at the well where he talks about the living water and worshiping in spirit and in truth. So bring your ideas or experiences about worship settings, structures or components that have been most helpful to you. Design a worship service or experience that you would like to try. Or bring in an ancient worship practice that we all could try. Remember, as a worship laboratory we do real worship but we are open to the possibility of trying new things and old things, making mistakes, and all the while experiencing hints of the Divine Presence of God. We're to be challenged, finding ourselves in strange settings or encounters, so that the mysterious, the unspeakable can break through our lives of sameness. Hopefully the Sacred will ooze forth from the mundane and shatter the profane shell covering so much of our lives revealing the Divine Presence everywhere. In John, ...The woman said to him, ‘Sir, I see that you are a prophet. ²⁰Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.’ ²¹Jesus said to her, ...‘Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. Then Jesus goes on to say ²³But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him.
That is what we seek. Come on out and join us. We need to hear what you have to say.
Bring a friend and/or a stranger.
Dinner will be Breakfast casseroles (that we froze from Easter morning) and salad. It is all taken care of so just come!
Peace,
Rob
Here's a pic from our sunrise service last week.

Stone Soup Update for Sunday 4/1/12.
Last week we studied The Practice of Saying "No": Sabbath.
This week we'll be studying the Practice of Pronouncing Blessings: Benedictions (Ch. 12 Altars in the World). Since Sunday is Palm Sunday, look at Mark 11:1-11 for the blessings pronouced by the crowd: Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
Dinner is Meaty Bean Night. Kanda is bringing the main dish, Verlie-potato salad everyone else a vegetable dish, salad or dessert.
The Stone Soup group will serve the community breakfast after the Easter Sunrise Service April 8 7:30 a.m.
We're also working on  the Welcome Table- providing a weekly meal for the community...
See you Sunday at 4, bring a friend (or an enemy).
Peace,
Rob
...I'm in black and white tonight 'cause I was feeling retro?

Here's the info for Stone Soup on Sunday 3/25/2012.
See you at 4 p.m. at the Wesley Cottage at Saluda UMC.
Peace,
...Breakfast for dinner!

Here are some pictures from our night working with Verlie Murphy on encaustic art...

Getting ready for 3/18 and reviewing 3/11

Instead of sending everyone an email, I decided to do a video blog this week. I just had too much to share for an email. What follows is my video blog message and then below are the links to what I talk about.

These are the links to the videos or webpages I mentioned in the video.
Peace,
Rob


Here's Verlie's website: http://www.verliemurphy.com

Here's the YouTube clip of Alvin Ailey's "Fix Me Jesus".

And here's the music video that some guy made using the song "Rocky Ground" from Bruce Springsteen's new album "Wrecking Ball".

1 Corinthians 9:19-23

 For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) so that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law) so that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, so that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I might by any means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.