Announcements- February 28, 2019
Parking restrictions to the odd side of residential(Ave) streets in Minneapolis until April 1st.
Parking is allowed in the Fairview clinic lot just south of 31st Street on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Our mission is to nurture spirituality, build caring community & work courageously for peace with justice and mercy.
Walker Community United Methodist Church
Hello Walkerites, Friends & Visitors
Here are the announcements.
No one has signed up for bread & juice or hospitality treats.
Walker Events & Other Public Events at Walker
All meetings and events listed are at Walker Church unless noted otherwise See our website calendar www.walkerchurch.org for happenings further into the future. For more information office@walkerchurch.org
Parking restrictions to the odd side of residential(Ave) streets in Minneapolis until April 1st.
Parking is allowed in the Fairview clinic lot just south of 31st Street on Fridays after 5pm, all day Saturdays and Sundays until 10pm.
Sarah Dagg Massage: Thursday, February 28th and Friday, March 1st. By appointment only. Please contact Sarah 218-831-9570.
Anne Tiller’s 70th Birthday Celebration: Saturday, March 2nd 6pm-11:30pm in the Dining Hall. Schedule: 6-8pm: Potluck, ceremony, peaceful quilts show; 8-10:30pm Rock & Roll Dance to live music by the Waneacs. Quilts need to find homes. Browse Anne’s inventory book to select your favorite. Donation: $10 minimum for Walker Church, no one turned away. Everyone welcome. Friends, Children, Chosen Family. We are all related! https://www.facebook.com/events/2875387239145626/ FFI Anne Tiller amtsunflower984@hotmail.com
Membership Meeting w/ Dessert: Sunday, March 3rd 1-3pm in the conference room. Reception for potential new members.
Sunday Celebration
March 3, 2019
Greeters: Jan DeNoble & Greg Garman
Communal Singing by Nancy Larsen
Communal Reading
Our mission is to nurture spirituality, build caring community & work courageously for peace with justice and mercy.
Opening by Al Hildenbrand
Lao Tzu followed by 5 minutes of silence
59 Witter Bynner
To
lead people and serve heaven, weigh the worth
Of the one source:
Use the single force
Which doubles the strength of the strong
By enabling people to go right, disabling them to go wrong,
Be so charged with the nature of life that you give your people birth,
That you mother your land, are the fit
And ever-living root of it:
The seeing root, whose eye is infinite.
Poetry by
Welcome, Announcements & Offering
Reading: Exodus 34:29-35 by Jan Werness
29 Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the
two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of
his face shone because he had been talking with God.
30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.
31 But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke with them.
32 Afterward all the Israelites came near, and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
33 When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face;
34 but whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he would take the veil off, until he came out; and when he came out, and told the Israelites what he had been commanded,
35 the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of his face was shining; and Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Sermon by Pastor Walter Lockhart
Special Performance by Alice Browne
Circle with Joys & Concerns & sharing of bread & juice by
Hospitality Time Thanks for set-up by the Hospitality Committee, Treats by
Community Meal & Food Giveaway: Tuesday, March 5th, Doors open & food giveaway at 5 pm. Meal served 5:30 to 6:45pm. Free, everyone welcome. Volunteers are needed, please sign up!
Walker Singers Rehearsal: Tuesday, March 5th at 7pm in the sanctuary.
Z Puppets’ All-Ages Dance Party: Friday, March 8th 7-10pm in the sanctuary. All ages welcome. Pay-what-you-will at the door or in advance. To celebrate 20 years of Z Puppets’ power of playfulness, we’re throwing a family-friendly dance party.https://www.facebook.com/events/333688810811534/FFI Shari shari@zpuppets.org
Community Meal & Food Giveaway: Tuesday, March 12th, Doors open & food giveaway at 5 pm. Meal served 5:30 to 6:45pm. Free, everyone welcome. Volunteers are needed, please sign up!
Walker Singers Rehearsal: Tuesday, March 12th at 7pm in the sanctuary.
Membership & Outreach Meeting: Monday, March 18th in the conference room.
Walker Community Announcements
Save the date(s)! Spring rummage sale coming up the first week of April! FFI Lulu Philips 612-281-3778.
The Fireroast Mountain Boys featuring Walker’s own David West, Don Browne, Dick Danaher and Steve Sandberg appear once a month at the Underground Music Cafe 1579 Hamline Avenue in St. Paul on the fourth Saturday at 5pm. Original tunes, jazz, rock, and old time served in a convivial wine bar atmosphere with wood fired pizza.
Events Elsewhere
Community Concert: Sunday, March 10th at 1:30pm 4501 Bloomington Ave. MPLS Free will offering-proceeds benefit community gospel choir workshop(March 22-24) and Puerto Rico Disaster Relief www.livingspiritumc.org
Benefit: You are invited to join us for a beautiful evening of music to benefit Joyce Uptown Foodshelf. 6:30 pm on March 1st at Lake Harriet UMC 4901 Chowen Ave. Mikyoung Park, Macphail Center for Music faculty and Music Director at Living Spirit UMC in collaboration with Jungjoo Park, Director of Music ministries at Lake Harriet UMC, are bringing together musicians of all ages. Featuring Soojin Lee, on the gayageum, Jungjoo Park on the organ, soprano Mikyoung Park, Lake Harriet’s adult and youth choirs, the Lake Harriet Trio and Lake Harriet’s bell choir. All are welcome, no tickets are needed. The program is free and open to the public however a freewill offering will be taken to benefit Joyce Uptown Foodshelf.
Heart of the Beast Puppet Lab Performances: March 15th & 16th 7:30pm, March 17th 2:30pm.
Devotion: The Early Years of Rachel Carson by Tara Fahey: Devotion is an immersive puppet epic bringing us into Rachel Carson’s early life. Experience the outpouring of Rachel’s devotion to the ocean, witness the struggles and successes that defined her life, and be transformed by the impact of her work, still reverberating in our world today.
A By Akiko: A for Akiko, Asian, Alien, Atomic bombs, American Dream, Away from home, At home. Weaving together shadow puppet, progressive collage, poetry, and dance, A explores white supremacy and white fear from an immigrant point of view.
As many of you might have heard this year will be the last MayDay solely sponsored by Heart of the Beast. Because of loss of some grants that HOBT has depended on for years, the theater has been experiencing some cutbacks. You can read more here. If in addition to advertising you’d like to support HOBT, click here.
LGBTQ Grief Support Group This ongoing support group is for those who have experienced a death, serious break-up or divorce in a same sex relationship. The group offers support and understanding to cope and adjust to the loss of a relationship. The group meets the 1st Tuesday of each month at 7 pm at Bradshaw Minnehaha, 3131 Minnehaha Ave, Mpls. For more information call Tony at 612-724-3621
Ongoing Walker & Walkerite Groups
Sunday Celebration & Children’s Sunday school: Sundays 10:30 am
Chalice Circle: Sundays 9 to 10 am in the Meditation Room. We listen to music, meditate, read a passage on spiritual growth, and discuss our thoughts and feelings using the circle method. All are welcome! Come once or many times!
Coffee Gathering: Mondays 10 to noon at a local coffee shop. FFI Pastor Walter Lockhart.
Community Meal & Food Giveaway: Tuesdays, Doors open & food giveaway at 5 pm. Meal served 5:30 to 6:45pm. Free, everyone welcome.
Walker Singers: Tuesdays 7 to 8 pm led by Jim McCreary
Initiates: 3rd Sunday of each month 8:30 to 10:15 am in the conference room. FFI Lou Tofte or Howard Kranz
Men’s Potluck Brunch: one Saturday of each month at someone’s home.
Women’s Potluck Brunch: 4th Saturday of each month at someone’s home. FFI Nancy Larsen
Open Flow Forum: 1st Thursday of each month 7 to 9 pm. A group of artists with disabilities FFI Tara Innmon or Kip Shane
Health & Wellness Services at Walker by Walkerites
Alice Browne’s Music Therapy & Sound Healing: By appointment. Contact Alice 612-860-6644 abmermaid@gmail.com
Sarah Dagg Massage Therapist: Two days each month between 9 am to 5 pm by appointment. Contact Sarah 218-831-9570
Other on-going groups meeting at Walker that are open to all
East Lake LOL AA: A mixed, open AA group that meets every Wednesday 6:30 to 7:30 pm
Rosen Movement: Wednesdays 9 am to 10 am for simple movement with music. Open to all, come any week, cost: $5 to $10. FFI Phyllis Wiener wienerphyllis@gmail.com
Aware Dance: Wednesdays 7:15 to 9:15 pm Free style movement with music. Cost $10-15 FFI Facebook Aware Dance & Movement
Hoop Twin Cities: Thursdays 6:30 to 8:30 pm Free hoola hooping for all ages FFI hoopjeans@gmail.com
Queer Birth Project: 2nd Saturday of each month 10 to noon. LGBTQ new parent support group www.queerbirthproject.com
Bluegrass Jam: Last Monday of each month 7 to 10 pm. Free, come to jam or listen. FFI Roy Vanderwerf revanster@gmail.com
Dance for Women: 2nd Saturday of each month 7 to 10 pm in the sanctuary.
Neurodiversity Group: 2nd Thursday of each month 7 to 9 pm led by Paul Johnson. Free emotional support for adults on the autism spectrum and their family & friends. Pljohnson46@yahoo.com
Northern Mississippi Prisoner Support Group: 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month 6 to 8 pm. Write letters to build and sustain relationships with prisoners in Minnesota and beyond. Open to all. FFI Bailey Riley rileyb16@gmail.com
Norwegian Folk Dance: 1st & 3rd Monday of each month 7 to 9 pm in the Sanctuary. Rehearsals open to all, free.Stop Line 3 Climate Justice Group: Some Tuesdays 7 to 9 pm in the conference room. FFI Al Sherwood stopline3mpls@gmail.com
