[ggc-urantialist] Re: Golden Gate Circle (SF Bay Area) Weekend Bulletin 3/30/13
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- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:12:36 -0400 (EDT)
GOLDEN GATE CIRCLE
WEEKEND BULLETIN:
March 30, 2013
Taylor Mt., Sonoma County (A. Tusler)
Reminders of Upcoming Local and U.S. Events
Golden Gate Circle Community Planning Meeting, Saturday, April 13 Time
TBD:
At Dennis Baker’s house: 500 Poplar Ave. #304, Millbrae, CA 94030
(right across from San Francisco airport)
For more info: contact Dennis Baker, C.P.M., 415-309-0362 Cell
_dennisbaker2@comcast.net_ (mailto:dennisbaker2@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Claudia Ayers, GGC President, writes, “I'll get an agenda going shortly...
but mainly: officer elections... for which I want to run for Croatian
Translation Coordinator... and get that, specific, job done.”
There will be an election of a new Society President! Please come out and
vote ... or serve!
Summer Study Session, Northbrook, Il, July 10 - 14
Summer Study Sessions, sponsored by the Fellowship Education Committee,
Techny Towers in Northbrook, Illinois, just north of Chicago, on July 10 –
14. Click here to register: http://www.regonline.com/Fellowship_SSS_13
The Education Committee is looking for workshop leaders. Please ask
members of your group to consider submitting a proposal for such a
presentation
on this year’s theme of “Our Gift to God the Father: Service to the Supreme.
” The theme focuses our partnership with God the Father, a relationship
that is made possible because of the fragment of God within, furthered
realized through service, and facilitated under the auspices of the emerging
Supreme Being. Proposals for workshops should be emailed to Nick Stefero:
_nstefero@cox.net_ (mip://00d01678/nstefero@xxxxxxx) .
Sincerely, David Kulieke, Chair, Education Committee of the Urantia Book
Fellowship
A new event at this year’s Seminars will be a Study Group Conclave. It
will meet during workshop times on Saturday morning, July 13. This first
Study Group Conclave will be an open meeting beginning with comments from
three Fellowship committee chairpersons: Lara Amyx of Membership, Andrea
Barnes
of Outreach, and David Kulieke of Education. They will briefly discuss how
their committees can help to support and expand study groups, always
mindful of the desire of the study group for such assistance. The floor will
be
open to ideas. The committees hope that suggestions will become an ongoing
activity.
Please contact: _david.kulieke@gmail.com_ (mailto:david.kulieke@xxxxxxxxx)
with questions or suggestions.
Introducing The Study Buddy Program
Remember when you first discovered The Urantia Book? Do you remember how
so many things became suddenly clear? How so much of history suddenly made
sense? How so many mysteries suddenly had plausible explanations? And did
your relationship with God change to a "nearer than breathing, closer than
hands and feet" loving companionship? What a transformational experience to
learn that we live in a friendly Universe, and there is nothing to
fear...ever...from our loving Father.
Was it sometimes difficult reading The Urantia Book alone in wide-eyed
wonder, filled with hope and joy? Do you treasure the experience of meeting
"new Urantia Book readers" partly because you get to share in those early
moments of amazement and profound enthusiasm?
There are opportunities for you! The Fellowship's Outreach and
International Fellowship Committee along with our staff want to offer mentors
to new
readers, to invite more people into the circles of our fellowship. We are
launching the Study Buddy Program because we believe that every Urantia
Book reader should have someone to talk to, ask questions of, or share
insights with, if they are so inclined.
We are creating a list of long time Urantia students who are willing to
pair with newer students one-to-one. Study Buddies can meet at a local fast
food place, coffee shop, or library, or just over the phone. We need
permission to help one Urantia reader to contact another so we ask, are you
interested in meeting with and mentoring a new Urantia Book reader
occasionally?
If you are interested in being or having a Study Buddy to meet with, it's
easy; just fill out this form online,
_http://www.urantiabook.org/study/find-study-buddy_
(http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001P2lto7LROFJzl9WlUIntsfstPGzOeOBAoq-o84X6EoQr6TVyNvfzQd5aA8iNAMGRcpAh
5UxXbp3AJr-jgc4F4qTryky8QohBScjAZ0TDpGsWPdwp8dGGOrDl4jOAVBjT3BymOZOBxzlkUTSU
2gnggQ==) and we'll do the rest.
Visit the Fellowship Archive and Read Meredith Sprunger
In reformatting documents for the new website David Kantor came across
this document from Meredith Sprunger. He discusses what constitutes the
religion of Jesus and at the end provides an outline of basic concepts around
which outreachers can construct their own illustrations of the points.
http://www.urantiabook.org/archive/mjs_archive/living-religion-of-jesus.htm
Cheers! David
~ “A man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?” ~
(from Andrea Del Sarto, by Robert Browning)
Discourse on the Water of Life
“On the last day, the great day of the feast, as the procession from the
pool of Siloam passed through the temple courts, and just after the water
and the wine had been poured down upon the altar by the priests, Jesus,
standing among the pilgrims, said: “If any man and woman thirst, let him and
her
come to me and drink. From the Father above I bring to this world the
water of life. He or she who believes me shall be filled with the spirit which
this water represents, for even the Scriptures have said, ‘Out of him shall
flow rivers of living waters.’ When the Son of Man has finished his work
on earth, there shall be poured out upon all flesh the living Spirit of
Truth. Those who receive this spirit shall never know spiritual thirst.”
(The Urantia Book; Paper 162, Section 6, Pg. 1795, Courtesy Elder E.
Andy, Facebook)
A Life of Service – Gordon Cosby
http://www.inwardoutward.org/
At 4:15 Wednesday morning, March 20, Gordon Cosby went home into the arms
of Jesus. At 94 years of age, he died in hospice at Christ House, a medical
living community for the homeless, and one of the myriad of ministries
formed by the Church of the Savior in Washington, D.C., the church Gordon and
Mary Cosby founded in 1950.
The Church of the Saviour, an ecumenical Christian church envisioned by
Gordon and Mary Cosby in the early 1940's, was incorporated in 1947 in
Washington, D.C., when they and seven others became its first members. From the
beginning, church members sought to embody Christ in intentional and
sacrificial ways, welcoming radical diversity and calling all to be ministers
through the generous sacrifice of time, energy and resources.
Interpreting the call to discipleship as the integration of two journeys
in community--an inward journey to grow in love of God, self and others and
an outward journey to help mend some part of creation--the church became
the catalyst for numerous helping ministries primarily in Adams Morgan, a
neighborhood two miles north of the White House.
While American churches were divided between those who stressed evangelism
and those who focused on social action, the Church of the Savior spoke of “
the inward and outward journey” of deepening our lives in Jesus and then
letting him take us out into the world on one creative mission after
another.
(from Sojourners, Jim Wallis and the church’s web site)
From the Mailbag …
Cristina Seaborn sent in this interesting link:
http://biblicaltimes.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/update-pushing-back-the-date-o
f-the-earliest-human-settlements/
Gobekli Tepe (Nat. Geograpic)
Update: Pushing Back The Date of the Earliest Human Settlements
10/21/2012
Essay authored by Cherokee Shaman Chase Kyla Hunter [a pen name ] on
3.7.2012 with updated additional historical material on 10.20.2012.
Excerpt: “I have believed all my life that the Urantia Book was given to
humankind in an attempt to correct the many tragic errors of the past
regarding human record-keeping and the actual age of human civilization. When
the
_Royal Library of Alexandria was burned to the ground in the first century
A.D. _ (http://www.bede.org.uk/library.htm) all records of the most ancient
human settlements in the world, which originated in ancient Mesopotamia,
going back nearly 500,000 years, disappeared for all time. This unprecedented
tragedy in human record-keeping altered humanity’s understanding of their
own deep history, and changed humanity’s future forever.
“A sentient species can have no possible idea of where they are going if
they forget or erase the records of where they have already been. But that
is exactly what has happened in human history repeatedly in the past 500,000
years _as periodic re-occurring cataclysms erased entire civilizations_
(http://allnibiru247.net/) , inducing trauma and species-wide amnesia into
the stream of human history, and altering our understanding of our own far
distant past. The Urantia Book was given to humankind for many reasons, and
just one of them involves restoring the most ancient records of the history
of human settlements, racial origins and migrations, civilizations and the
history and evolution of human religion. It was intended that the Urantia
Papers would be studied and cross-referenced with traditional Christian
theology in order to enlighten and uplift human understanding of both the
ancient origins of humankind, and the evolution of human religion itself.
Thanks for tuning in and reading our news. And please -- Stay tuned!
Dave Holt, Communications Chair for GGC
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