Weekly Announcements
In chronological order: Walker Events & Meetings (all at the church unless noted otherwise) & Public Events organized by others that will be held at Walker
Cross Pollinations: Fri, May 15, 6:30 to 11:30 pm. Movement Workshop 6:30-7:30. Corn Blessing 8 p.m. Alma Andina Performance and dance party at 9:30. Suggested donation $15-35 for the evening. No one turned away for lack of funds. This benefit is all about the intersections of music, movement, and indigenous wisdom. Asase Yaa Food Truck will be available through the evening so we can eat some great healthy world cuisine.
Important Training on Boundaries and Power Saturday, May 16, from 10 am to-Noon. Participants will explore building safer space at Walker Church. This will be an experiential time where we learn together how can act in community. The new Walker Safer Church policy will be distributed. FFI Walter
New Moon Drum Circle in Taurus: Saturday May 16, 1-3 pm. Everyone welcome, come to drum or to listen. Free. Presented by Converging Visions the group that is partnering with Walker to present arts programming.
$15 NOW Fundraiser- Steven Hobert & Lynn O’Brien in Concert: Sat, May 16, 7 pm. With song, guitar, ukulele, piano & accordion, Lynn & Steven pour imagination, laughter & mastery into playful arrangements from funk, folk, Motown & heartfelt originals. Come on time, you can sing along on a few rousing labor songs, led by a merry band from Walker Church. We will hear from a worker fighting for a $ 15 hour minimum wage in Minneapolis. FFI Joe Hesla
Black Lives Matter Fundraiser: Sat, May 16, 5 pm to 8 pm in the yard at 3346 17th Avenue South (in case of rain it will be held in the Walker Church dining hall.) Come join us in celebrating, honoring and funding Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC) and Black Lives Matter Minneapolis as they work to develop Black leadership in our communities in order to break down systems of oppression. Bring your friends, bring your kids, bring your wallets and bring your love! Taco bar, DJ, Community Art Activity, Kids Table. The money that is raised at this event will be divided evenly between both organizations. This fundraiser is part of a national campaign led by Resource Generation and Black organizers around the country to move $1 million to Black-led organizing for Black liberation by May 20th, 2015 – what would have been Michael Brown’s 19th Birthday. Email Kestrel with questions k.feiner.homer@gmail.com
Sunday Celebration 10 am
May 17, 2015
Greetings by Don Browne & Mary Burns
Communal Singing led by Conrad deFiebre & Dianne O’Donnell
Reading: Our mission is to nurture spirituality, build caring community & work courageously for peace with justice and mercy.
Smudge
Octogenarians Celebrating; Jesse & Pat Watkins and Mary Burns
Lao-Tzu: Tao #22, The Way of Life, Witter Bynner translation followed by 5 minutes of silence
“Yield and you need not break:”
Bent you can straighten, emptied you can hold, torn you can mend;
And as want can reward you, so can wealth bewilder.
Aware of this, a wise man has the simple return, which other men seek:
Without inflaming himself, he is kindled,
Without explaining himself, is explained,
Without taking credit, is accredited,
Laying no claim is acclaimed.
And, because he does not compete, finds peaceful competence.
How true is the old saying, “Yield and you need not break”!
How completely it comes home!
Welcome, Announcements & Offering
Scripture Reading: Leviticus 25: 8-17 by Fred Glazer
And you shall number seven sabbaths of years unto you, seven times seven years; and there shall be unto you the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years. Then shall you make proclamation with the blast of the horn on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the Day of Atonement shall you make proclamation with the horn throughout all your land. And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee unto you, and you shall return every man unto his possession, and you shall return every man unto his family.
A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you; you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines. For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy unto you, you shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. In this year of jubilee you shall return every man unto his possession.
And if you sell aught unto your neighbor, or buy your neighbor’s hand, you shall not wrong one another.
And you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am Adonai your God.
Sermon by Fred Glazer
Special Performance “Ave Maria” by the Walker Singers
Circle with Joys & Concerns & sharing of bread & juice brought by Kay Seelhoff
Thanks for: Hospitality set-up by Barbara Hager and an Octogenarian birthday cake brought by Mary Burns
Autoharp Jam: Sun, May 17, 3 pm to 5 pm in the meditation room. FFI Tony Wentersdorf.
Community Meal: Tues, May 19, 5:30 to 6:45 pm.
Finance committee meeting: Wed, May 20, 5 pm
Men’s Brunch: There is no Men’s Brunch on May 23. We will resume 4th Saturday brunches on June 27th.
Women’s Brunch: Sat, May 23, 9:30 am. Place to be announced.
Community Meal: Tues, May 26, 5:30 to 6:45 pm.
Church Council Meeting: Tues, May 26, 7:45 pm
Creation Dance Performance during Celebration: Sun, May 31
Dance the Creation for the Walker Celebration
The Creation Dance will be performed again during the celebration on May 31. THIS WOULD BE A GOOD TIME FOR NEW PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE!! If you did not participate last time and would like to this time around, please see Janet Skidmore after the celebration or contact her. It would be nice for the final run of the dance this year to see a mix of old and new faces dancing. Anyone aged 9 years and older is welcome and you need have no previous dance experience, although having some athletic ability like being a runner or swimmer is helpful. And of course, you are welcome if you were in the dance before and would like to do it again!
The Support Group led by Greg Garman will not meet on Monday, May 18. It will meet on Monday, May 25 (Memorial Day) 3:30 pm at Patrick’s Cabaret and continue meeting every Monday. It will be open to new group members through June 15
“America’s Next Top God”: You saw the show (or maybe not); now, own the DVD. DVDs of the April 19 Howard Kranz play (approx. an hour long) are available for purchase, all proceeds to Walker Church, $10 or pay what you can. Anne Hamre will be bringing copies to church
Converging Visions Programming: This group led by Emily Antin and Linda Melcher recently partnered with Walker Church to present arts programming here. They held a Drum Circle last month that was well attended and their upcoming events are listed below. www.Covergingvisions.org
New Moon Drum Circle in Taurus: Sat, May 16, 1-3 pm. All welcome, come to drum or to listen. Free.
Converging Visions Showcase: Friday, June 26, 7 pm. Our first Local Showcase is coming up! Do you know a band that would be perfect? Send an email to Emily antin.mba@gmail.com
Ukulele Classes This Summer! Tuesdays 10 am to 1 pm at Walker Church. 8 weeks starting June 16
Come join us! Ukulele’s provided as cost of class. Payment and scholarship options available! Come and learn how to play the ukulele. A fun little string instrument. Learn a song by week two! Need more information? Contact Emily at antin.mba@gmail.com or by phone at 651-242-4412.
Events held every week
Sundays Meditation Group 8:15-9:30 am. FFI Nancy Larsen,
Sunday Celebration 10 am, Sunday School 10:30 am
Monday Morning Coffee Gatherings10 am at Lake Street Coffee, 3223 East Lake St.
Walker Singers Rehearsals Tuesdays 6:45 to 7:45 pm. FFI Jim McCreary.
Community Meals Tuesdays 5:30 to 6:45 pm
Rosen Movement Class Wednesdays 9 am to 10 am. FFI Phyllis Weiner
Immigration Vigils at the State Capitol: every day 7 pm to 8 pm from Wed, May 13 through Sun, May 17. Worship service Sun, May 17, 2pm. Over the next days, there are daily vigils outside of the State Capitol building advocating all people in Minnesota who qualify are able to apply for a driver’s license regardless of immigration status. FFI: Jesus Purisaca, 612-735-6198, Simpson Center for Servant Ministries www.simpsoncsm.org
Janet Skidmore sings cabaret with the Twin Cities Cabaret Artist’s Network. Saturday, May 16, 8 pm. Blanche’s Lounge at the Town House Bar, 1415 University Avenue West, St. Paul. Mention you are going to the cabaret and the cover for the Town House will be waved. $10 suggested donation, parking available in the lot to the west, full bar and appetizer menu. 21+ only. I will be telling stories about my experiences doing musical theater this past winter. I’ll be singing the returned-from-the-dead butcher’s wife from Fiddler on the Roof, and I’ll be reprising my role as Inanna, Queen of Love AND War from America’s Top God (with apologies to Mozart). This in an evening filled mostly with cool jazz from the other singers, but I will do something DIFFERENT.
