Dwelling in the Word:
Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m.

Join us in our Google Meets Gathering as we look at one of the Readings for the Upcoming Sunday.  We will consider some historical context as we wonder about the connections to our lives, the world and what the Spirit might be nudging us toward in the Word.​
Men of Faith:   Is now meeting via Zoom.  Contact the office or Gary Cumley for information.
Currently meeting Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. Next Book to discuss: Everything Belongs by Richard Rohrt

REframe: A gathering to re-frame our understandings about God, church, and our everyday lives.  What does faith have to do with how we live? How is being a Christian relevant to my everyday world? This is a Zoom Gathering that can also be seen on our Facebook Live Page.  Click REframe
            
  • Breakfast Club: For Seniors and held the first Tuesday of the month:  Is on hold due to the Coronavirus Stay at Home​​​​ 
  • ​​Women's Book Club: Is on hold due to the Coronavirus Stay at Home order.  Watch this space for when it will begin again. 
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 Sundays Study: Allegiance to Empire: Join us after Sunday Gathering
Questions from 1/24:
  • What has caused economic disparities in America?
  • Why are neighborhoods still segregated?
  • What are the factors of low representation among leadership, i.e.
  • Why are 65 percent of people in government leadership white males and not representative of the United States population?
  • Why do women and minorities make lower wages when working the same jobs as white males?
  • Why were 120,000 Asian-Americans (62 percent being citizens) put into internment camps in the U.S. during World War II even when we are supposedly fighting to release Jews from internment camps?
  • Since 1776, why has the United States been able to maintain peace for only 21 years out of 220?
            1 White males make up 31% of the U.S. populations but hold 65% of elected office. Data by the Reflective Democracy Campaign (http://wholeads.us), but also many other sources
  • Why do many Americans insist on calling the U.S. a “Christian nation” when there is no evidence in the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Federalist Papers or the Constitution of any particularly Christian beliefs?
Questions from 1/31
1. How might the church engage in prophetic practices of truth telling? What untruths about the history of America’s “white entitlement” culture need to be unraveled from the church?
2. How can the church and community help work through public attitudes and policies?
3. How do practices of hospitality, generosity, and forgiveness provide alternative ways to act out in the world?
4. How does Sabbath contribute in “breaking the vicious cycle of production and consumption”?
5. Brueggemann talks about how many German Christians chose a “cheap grace” in order to not choose between gospel and nationalism. How does the Christian church often choose between the gospel and nationalism or between the gospel and military consumerism?