Intentional Community - Thin Places Worship

Soul Cafe has many opportunities to you to come and learn and take home refreshing insight on different aspects of spiritual philosophies. Join us for Thin Places Worship! Contact Perry Cole at 541-386-6164 for more information.

Archives: Thin Places Worship

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March 1 - April 14 2007 - Thin Places Events: Please join us each Saturday leading through Easter. Time will be focused on In New Wineskins: Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving, and Saints. Each meeting will run from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM at Soul Cafe.

We will be invited to re-imagine these things by reading and listening to reflections from Joan Chittister and Robert Ellsberg and sharing our thoughts and experiences. Last night was no exception. Here’s an excerpt from Joan Chittister’s reflection:

"The function of prayer is to change my own mind, to put on the mind of Christ, to enable grace to break into me. When prayer is privatized religion on a spree, it’s not prayer. Contemplative prayer, converting prayer, is prayer that sees the whole world through incense—a holy place, a place where the sacred dwells, a place to be made different by those who pray, a place where God sweetens living with the beauty of all life. Contemplative prayer is prayer that leads us to see our world through the eyes of God. It unstops our ears to hear the poverty of widows, the loneliness of widowers, the cry of women, the vulnerability of children, the struggle of outcasts, the humanity of enemies, the insights of the uneducated, the tensions of bureaucrats, the fears of rulers, the wisdom of the holy, the power of the powerless."

So join us as we walk the Lenten journey to Easter together. If you have a “favorite” prayer, bring it with you next week.

May you see the whole world through incense this week and always—a holy place where the sacred lives and God sweetens living with the beauty of all life! And may we be made different by all those who pray!

December: Thin Places Worship: Topic: Advent.

October 21st: Thin Places Worship: Topic: Reformation. The Reformation was the pivotal event that brought about the beginning of the Protestant church, but we’ll be looking at a bigger picture of what Reformation means. Bring your favorite reading (essay, quote, holy scripture, poetry, etc.) and music about what Reformation means to you. We’ll be nourished by the words and music as well as the bread and cup.

June 17th : Thin Places Worship: Join us for the next Thin Places Worship on June 17th, 6:30 PM at the Asbury United Methodist Church. We will be talking about Pentecost and what it means for us and the world. Never heard of Pentecost? You're not alone. Come and learn and share together.

May 13th: Thin Places Worship: In keeping with the theme of Easter/Resurrection, we’ll hear from people as they share how they have experienced the Christ/New Life/Resurrection. In particular, you are invited to bring with you to share music (your own or someone else’s—we’ll have a CD player if you need one—there is also a piano), readings (poetry, sacred texts, etc.), artwork, personal experiences, or anything else you would like to share. Not everyone will have something to share, so if you don’t have something, don’t let that keep you away. Just come and hear from others! Time - 6:30 MP at the Asbury United Methodist Church, Hood River, Oregon.