Walker Community UMC

In chronological order: Walker Events & Meetings (all at the church unless noted otherwise) & Public Events organized by others that will be held at Walker

Walker Cabaret:  Fri, May 8, 7 pm.  With performances by Aztec Dancers, Jim Stark, Janet Skidmore, Barb Tilsen and Wayne Bailey. Emcees Tony Wentersdorf & Mary Parker

Men’s Group:  Sat, May 9, 9:30 am in the conference room.

Spiral Collective Fundraiser:  Sat, May 9, 6:30 pm.  A silent auction and variety show with spoken word, musical groups, and more!!  As a part of the silent auction you will find items from all sorts of local restaurants, stores, and other businesses! Spiral is a radical collective which provides support to the full-spectrum of people across all pregnancy outcomes and reproductive experiences.  Suggested Donation: $10-$20.  FFI Spiral Collective on Facebook.

Sunday Celebration with guest speaker Sami Rasouli:  May 10. Sami Rasouli is an Iraqi-American who lived in Minnesota for many years before returning to Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion. Sami works in Iraq with the Muslim Peacemakers Team (MPT), a group dedicated to the principles of nonviolence. He returns to the U.S. several times each year to help build people-to-people bridges.

 

Sunday Celebration 10 am on May 10, 2015

Greetings by Margo McCreary, Jan Werness & Janet Court

Communal Singing led by Conrad deFiebre & Dianne O’Donnell

Communal Reading:  Our mission is to nurture spirituality, build caring community & work courageously for peace with justice and mercy.

Opening Smudge 

Lao Tzu # 19 Witter Bynner followed by 5 minutes of silence

Rid of formalized wisdom and learning people would be a hundredfold happier, Rid of conventionalized duty and honor people would find their families dear, Rid of legalized profiteering people would have no thieves to fear. These methods of life have failed, all three, Here is the way, it seems to me: Set people free, as deep in their hearts they would like to be, from private greeds and wanton needs.

Welcome, Announcements & Offering

Guest Speaker Sami Rasouli

Circle with Joys & Concerns & sharing of bread & juice brought by Lou Tofte

Thanks for:  Hospitality set-up by Barbara Hager, Treats by

 

Discussion about the possibility of sharing our building with another congregation: Sun, May 10, after celebration. A meeting was held with Ace in the City, a non-profit hoping to rent space from Walker, those who attended will share about the meeting.  Please come to learn more and give your input.

 

Building Use Task Force meeting:  Tues, May 12, 5 pm

Community Meal:  Tues, May 12, 5:30 to 6:45 pm.

Finance committee meeting:  Wed, May 13, 5 pm

Trustees meeting:  Wed, May 13, 6 pm

Cross Pollinations:  Fri, May 15, 6:30 to 11:30 pm.  Movement Workshop at 6:30-7:30.  Irenic &  Corn Blessing 8 p.m. Alma Andina Dance Group 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.  We will be starting the evening with a community movement workshop led by Zea Leguizamon of Embody Deep Democracy.  Abuela Sylvia Sharma, Elder of the Mexica Moondance tradition, will be present to guide us in a Corn Blessing: honoring the fertility of our land and the connections between our regional food justice efforts.  Enchanting sounds will be shared by singer-songwriter Irenic and the celebratory S. American music of Alma Andina will provide the anthem for our dance party!!! Asase Yaa Food Truck will be available through the evening so we can eat some great healthy world cuisine.

New Moon Drum Circle in Taurus:  Saturday May 16, 1-3 pm.  Presented by Converging Visions.

$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

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.

Men’s Brunch: There is no Men’s Brunch on the 4th Saturday in May. We will resume 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

 

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

 

Earth Day Poem from David West:  Many people were asking for the text of the poem I read in church for Earth Day, here it is:

“If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk around it marveling at its big pools of water, its little pools, and the water flowing between the pools. People would marvel at the bumps on it, and the holes in it, and they would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the ball and at the creatures in the water. The people would declare it sacred because it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be the greatest wonder known, and people would come to pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty, and to wonder how it could be. People would love it and defend it with their lives because they would somehow know that their lives, their own roundness, could be nothing without it. If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter…”