[ggc-urantialist] Re: Golden Gate Circle (SF Bay Area) Weekend Bulletin 4/7/13
- From: Bohohwymus@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 16:08:15 -0400 (EDT)
GOLDEN GATE CIRCLE
WEEKEND BULLETIN:
April 7, 2013
Golden Gate Park Happy 143rd Birthday
Reminders of Upcoming Local and U.S. Events
Golden Gate Circle Community Planning Meeting, Saturday, April 13, Time
4:00 pm:
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!
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
Jim Wallis Returns to the Bay Area, Thurs. 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 thinks so. What better time
to undertake this urgent task than after the presidential election dust
settles? “The common good is about so much more than partisan politics,”
Wallis writes. “It grows out of our personal and family lives, our vocational
callings, the mission and witness of our congregations, the moral power of
social movements, and the independent integrity of prophetic religious
leadership in our public life.”
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 editor in chief of
Sojourners magazine. He 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
UB Resource Updated …
The classic "Selected Excerpts" brochure has been reformatted by Paula and
published on the web for downloading and printing. It is at
http://ubfellowship.org/outreach/ubexcerpts-v2.pdf
Print and distribute a lot of them! (Courtesy of David Kantor)
St. Francis (Giotto)
Crisis at The Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions (CPWR)
The council notified its followers that it is faced with a single
financial challenge that will determine whether they can continue to exist.
They
need to raise $150,000 by April 15 in order to carry on the work of convening
people for peace, justice and interfaith understanding.
Why are we in this position? Just months before the Barcelona Parliament
in 2004, 191 people were killed and nearly 2000 injured in Madrid train
station bombings. The attendance of the 2004 Parliament suffered, and CPWR was
faced with a last minute need for a substantial loan to produce the event.
A life-changing Barcelona Parliament carried on, bringing people together
to overcome fear through interfaith action.
For many years, details of the loan were contested until a Spanish court
judgment of $276,600 slowly came to the US Courts. On March 21, the US
Court upheld the judgment against the Parliament. They were initially advised
that they had at least three months, but court papers served last week gave
them only until April 15, 2013.
In anticipation of a judgment, and to preserve and protect the rich
history of the Parliament, CPWR had already raised $126,000. They are seeking
further donations if you can help, so they can continue to convene the next
Parliament event in Latin America, encourage local interfaith events, and
celebrate their 120-year history. For more information, visit them at:
_www.parliamentofreligions.causevox.com_
(http://parliamentofreligions.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=15d4f7de1064a5171ce87bc0e&id=6f055b9ed9&e=8fffa
39140) - or - _www.parliamentofreligions.org_
(http://parliamentofreligions.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=15d4f7de1064a5171ce87bc0e&id=3dbd2dd5cf&e
=8fffa39140)
CPWR is a 501c.3 non-for-profit organization
“If you were to ask me why I dwell among green mountains,
I should laugh silently; my soul is serene.
The peach blossom follows the moving water;
There is another heaven and earth beyond the world of men.”
—
Li Po, “Conversation in the Mountains”, as translated in Robert Payne’s
The White Pony: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry
Thanks for tuning in and reading our News and please stay tuned! Dave
Holt, Communications Chair for GGC
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