[ggc-urantialist] Re: Golden Gate Circle (SF Bay Area) Weekend Bulletin 4/14/13
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GOLDEN GATE CIRCLE
WEEKEND BULLETIN:
April 14, 2013
Sonoma Coast, Gualala
(*Please Note: this is the final bulletin under the editorial guidance of
Dave Holt, next one will be completed under a different editor* See message
at bottom.)
Reminders of Upcoming U.S., and International Events
YaYA Regeneration Conference
A Youth and Young Adult Conference, Gloucester, MA. Thurs, Apr 18-Sun, Apr
21, 2013
Register from: http://urantianow.com/yaya-regeneration-conference/
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
The United Urantia Family Festival (TUUFF-2013)
to celebrate Jesus/ Michael’s birthday at Yosemite, August 20-24, 2013!
This venue promises to be very special since we will all gather together
at noon on August 21 at the famed “Grizzly Giant” in Mariposa Grove,
believed to be an angelic place on Urantia. Our theme: Celebrating Jesus’
Family,
in the Presence of Angels!
The United Urantia Family Festival 2013 will be a true Jesusonian
family-bonding memorable experience for all the ones who will be present.
The 2013 Vancouver Island Urantia Friends Campout
Campout at Miracle Beach! August 5 - 9, 2013. Miracle Beach Provincial
Campground is located on the east coast of Vancouver Island. This is a
beautiful space and the ocean here is spectacular! For further information
contact _nebadon373@hotmail.com_ (mailto:nebadon373@xxxxxxxxxxx) .
Registration fee is $60.00 per person. Please send an email to register
and you can mail your checks to:
Debbie Bartman
144 Tait Rd
Nanaimo, BC. CANADA
V9X1C3
Jim Wallis Returns to the Bay Area, Thursday May 2, 7:30 PM
ON GOD’S SIDE: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn't Learned About
Serving the Common Good
Can the common good be reclaimed? Jim Wallis looks at the best big ideas
from both conservative and liberal thought: personal responsibility and
social responsibility, respectively, both of which are essential to common
good. “Don’t go right, don’t go left, go deeper,” Wallis says in “Inspiring
the Common Good.”
Jim Wallis is president and CEO of Sojourners and teaches at Georgetown
University.
First Congregational Church of Berkeley (2345 Channing Way at Dana; enter
via courtyard on Dana), Tickets $12 ($7 students) in advance only, Brown
Paper Tickets online or 800-838-3006; $15 at the door
Pipeline of Light Report
March 31, 2013
In the first quarter of 2013, Pipeline of Light volunteers placed one
hundred and fifty-eight copies of The Urantia Book into eleven countries. Your
donations to the Pipeline helped us deliver books to readers and study
groups in Nigeria, Mexico, Kenya, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Chile, Pakistan, the
United States, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Ecuador.
Current efforts bring our Pipeline all-time totals to three thousand,
eight hundred and sixty-two books placed into seventy-five countries around
the
world. We deeply appreciate the contributions of our volunteers and our
donors. If you would like to contribute to this work, donations can be made
online at:
http://urantiabook.org/urantia-book-store/contributions
or by mail to: The Urantia Book Fellowship, PO Box 6631, Broomfield, CO
80021
Thank you so much for your support! Michelle Klimesh, Pipeline
Coordinator
West Sonoma Co.
The Youth and Young Adult Committee New Video
YaYA Committee has created a video introduction of the Urantia Book. If
you haven't seen this on YouTube yet, it’s well worth the 5 minutes it takes
to watch it. This is something I would like to see our society support!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DQJIrO2wm4M
(Courtesy, Michelle Klimesh)
The First Urantian Shrine in the Holy Land (by David Kantor, excerpted
from the Rocky Mt. Society of the Fellowship Update)
"Throughout these eventful days [following his baptism] Jesus lived in an
ancient rock cavern, a shelter in the side of the hills near a village
sometime called Beit Adis. He drank from the small spring which came from the
side of the hill near this rock shelter." [136:4.14]
For many years there was a cave near the Jordanian village of Beit Adis
(locals pronounce it "Bait Eddys") known as the Olive Press cave--inside was
an ancient olive press. The cave was a local landmark, used to shelter farm
animals in inclement weather.
In 2006 J.J. Benitez showed up to visit the region and near-by Pella. When
he saw the cave he told the locals he had a vision that this was a cave
Jesus had stayed in during the forty days following his baptism.
The first thing to happen was that someone stole the olive press. Word had
gotten out that it had been used by Jesus to make holy olive oil.
The cave is on the property of the local mosque. The Imam at the mosque
and two other local men formed the Jordanian equivalent of a 501(c)3 called
"The Friends of Jesus' Cave Association." They were able to prevail upon the
Jordanian Ministry of Tourism to do something about protecting the cave.
Apparently J.J. Benitez had told them they should prepare for an influx of
tourists who would be interested in seeing the cave.
The Ministry of Tourism provided funds for the construction of a stone
covering for the opening complete with a metal gate. They also provided an
olive press to put inside as a replacement for the one which had been stolen.
In 2013, seven years later, I showed up--the first tourist in seven years.
Staying in a small village nearby for a week word soon got out that I was
making videos of caves in the region and the director of "The Friends of
Jesus' Cave Association" contacted me.
I had a great meeting with their three member board (see photo above). I
gave them a copy of JANR and showed them sections about Pella and the
comment about Beit Adis. They were amazed that their obscure village--and the
cave J.J. Benitez claimed to have seen in a vision--was mentioned in a text
originally published in 1955. They also voiced great interest in having a
story about Jesus with so much detail.
So the first Urantian shrine in the Holy Land is in a Muslim country on
the grounds of a Mosque managed by a group of devout Muslims. The Imam told
me that his people love Jesus but just don't think much of Christianity.
These gentlemen asked me to extend a warm greeting to Urantia Book readers
around the world along with an invitation to visit the Jesus cave.
I interviewed these guys and will have the video available at some point
in the future, probably for the IC'14 film festival.
Do I think this is the cave Jesus stayed in? The surrounding limestone
hills are full of caves and springs. I found a couple that I think are a
better fit to the text of The Urantia Book. Watch for the Joshua ben Joseph
production, "Re-Imagining Jesus," still in post-production.
David Kantor
Dear Readers:
Thanks for reading and enjoying our News. As of our GGC Business
meeting last weekend, I have resigned my position as Communications Officer
and I
am moving on to serve with other organizations in my "literary" poets
world. I have enjoyed begin the GGC Bulletin editor since 2006! May we meet
again on the road of life.
Best Wishes to all,
Dave Holt
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