A summer that’s renewing, relevant and based in relationship…

If your family is like ours, you’re starting to dream of summer plans. The spring sunlight invites us to grab our calendar and quickly fill it with plans and ideas for grand adventures.

But is our church family’s calendar looking the same way? Are we looking for opportunities to participate in our church’s life with the same excitement and enthusiasm?

This summer, I invite you to focus not only on schedules and ‘busy’-ness, but also on renewal, relationships and being relevant. Many of us find these opportunties through communal worship in our faith community. How can you help provide worship at Tuality Community of Christ that is renewing and relevant and provides blessings to you and others this summer?

Are you good at planning and organizing, creating a welcoming and sacred space, putting words to Jesus’ message of mission, performing the sacraments, praying, singing, listening, being…all of these (and more) are talents and unique offerings which are crucial to our worship together. It is through our worship that we come into our identity and calling as a Community of Christ….

‘Community of Christ,’ your name, given as a divine blessing, is your identity and calling.
If you will discern and embrace its full meaning, you will not only discover your future,
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Please consider where God is calling you to serve through worship at Tuality Community of Christ this summer. As a group, we have commited to a volunteer based schedule, so your stepping forward to provide ministry is crucial to our ability to provide a spiritual home. See 2015 Worship Calendar to volunteer.

Blessings,
co-Pastor Roberta
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Reaching and Lifting Hearts Through Song- by Carla Nilsen

Have you ever had your teenager rush to the piano to open your hymnal and excitedly show their friends a new hymn?  Well, with this new, wonderful new hymnal, that has happened at my house.  More than once, Ryan has enthusiastically showed more than one of his friends his new favorite hymn lyrics.  It’s Community of Christ Sings number #340, “We are Children of Creation”.  His favorite line is

“We are children of creation, star flung bits of living fire, creatures with imagination, framed with passion and desire…”

As you can imagine, this gives my mamma heart joy!  I too love the new hymnal and many of the hymns in it!

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Last fall, during a Hymn Sing service, we all chose songs from the new hymnal that were meaningful to us.  Many of us chose our favorite hymns that we’ve loved for a long time, some chose new songs that we’ve come to love, and some chose songs that they don’t know yet, but they like the lyrics and would love to learn.   So here is that list that TCC made.  Use it to enhance your devotional time-read the lyrics, or use some of these songs if you are planning a worship service for TCC.  If you ever need help teaching a new hymn, please let me know.  I love helping us sing from our new hymnal.

Favorite Hymns

Why Church? – Anonymous Responses

WHY CHURCH?

Anonymous Responses from March 16, 2014 Worship Service

1

  • Reorient personal perspectives
  • Closer relationships with other members
  • Gain scriptural knowledge in context of “community”
  • Experience God’s presence

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  • To keep one focused on God & blessings
  • To give one hope
  • To relate with people there
  • To feel wanted and loved (acceptance)
  • To broaden outlook on the world
  • To bring our cares and needs and share them
  • To help where we can at church and in our communities
  • To enjoy being with others
  • To remember what I think is my purpose for being here

 

3

  • Helps me get through the week
  • Look forward to see everyone and connect and share with them

 

4

  • Emotional and physical support for life’s issues

 

5

  • To be involved with people and learn about God and Jesus’ teachings.
  • We need to belong with people who believe like we do
  • I believe in what our community of Christ is teaching.

 

6

  • To learn of Christ and his teachings
  • To fellowship with other members
  • To serve in ways to help others
  • For my own spirit and happiness

 

7

  • It’s what I know
  • If I didn’t come to church, then I would not communicate with adults outside of work.  This is my family.

 

8

  • Because I believe in Jesus Christ and the mission of the church and want to support it.
  • Connecting with others in worship allows a sharing of ideas and a support network of love.
  • Hearing the morning message, singing hymns, attending Sunday school class, etc. provides spiritual inspiration and insight.
  • Attending church provides a corporate connection and avenues to provide service to the community.
  • Church lifts me up with a positive and happy message that carries me through the week.

 

9

 I believe in the savior Jesus Christ.  I trust that his message and mission are the truth.  I want to develop my spiritual understanding of His love.  I come to be uplifted by His message through His influence in the lives of others as expressed when we worship together.

 

10

Jesus came for sinners, to save them. I come to be saved.

I must believe in Jesus and the things that he did because I want to have my second life, in heaven.  I must believe that the Father raised Jesus from the dead as well.

 

11

Hmmm….Church or Shamrock Run in downtown Portland?  No question – church!  It’s a chance to be with my spiritual family, my tribe, my community, to recharge the spiritual battery that gets drained by dealing with issues in the real world and having to endure the insignificant stresses of those who lack awareness of a sense of beyond (where life is about more than what they think is important about work).

 

 

– Why Church? by Various participants during the March 16 worship

 

Why Church? – by Erik Nilsen

Being a member of the Tuality Community of Christ congregation is all about “connecting” for me.  I have opportunities in worship and service to connect with my higher self and to live out the principles of love and transformation and acceptance that I see modeled by the ministry of Christ.  I attend because of the connections that I make with people who are like me in their desire to walk the path of discipleship and yet who are very different from me along so many different and interesting dimensions.  I have church friends who are young and old, liberal and conservative, straight and queer, wealthy and homeless, black, tan and peach colored, healthy and infirm.  I am privileged to be part of a community that openly shares their triumphs and struggles, joys and sorrows.  On a regular basis, we live out the Apostle Paul’s counsel in Romans 12 to “Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.”  By opening myself up to their story and participating in their lives, I feel more connected with humanity and yes, am constantly surprised by a connection with divine love that can break through in the most unexpected circumstances.  I am a member because I The major factor is the stiffness in the upper body Side effects similar to stern abdominal soreness, diarrhea, rectal bleeding, unrelenting fever, vomiting and nausea, distorted hallucination or vision conflict, sensitive to reactions, and hearing troubles call for instantaneous medicinal concentration. cialis for cheap Some of the effects include organ dysfunction, cognitive issues, heart damage, osteoporosis and levitra 20 mg pdxcommercial.com neuropathy, among others. These spasms can send aggressive bile acid upwards or downwards, and cialis samples free neither option is pleasing. Although this is an uncomfortable subject, it IS an apt choice for all in generic cialis for sale search of a safe cure of the condition as mentioned. am connected with the diverse expression of gifts and perspectives that I experience in our worships.  From this old college professor sharing spiritual insights derived from research in Neuroscience to a child playing piano, to a person struggling with serious health issues sharing their testimony of being fed and supported by church friends.  Finally, my life is enriched by the connections between human experience and divine love that is available through the sacraments of the church http://www.cofchrist.org/sacraments/. They make visible God’s grace and generosity. The sacraments are a glimpse of who God is and what God calls us to be. As we are blessed by the sacraments, we receive power to share the peace of Jesus Christ and to fulfill our mission in the world.  To finish, I would like to share a few words from a song in our new hymnal entitled “For Everyone Born” that captures the reason for hope that being a member of this faith community gives to me.  For everyone born, a place at the table, to live without fear, and simply to be, to work to speak out, to witness and worship, for everyone born, the right to be free.

– Why Church? by Erik Nilsen