Dear Freinds,
Please join Church for Our Common Home this Sunday for a special prayer service for Israel and Palestine with Hebrew, Arabic and musical prayers.
We offer the vision and practice of loving our enemy and praying for our persecutors. We pray to find the Third Way of nonviolence, never responding to violence with more violence and never giving up. Disciples of Jesus are needed to host interfaith prayer services and partner with other organizations with the vision of an interfaith global peace movement. We as Americans are called to show leadership. Join us tomorrow, Sunday October 15, 4 pm PST on Zoom
Zoom link Church for Our Common Home Prayer Service
We will also meet in small Zoom group rooms in order to share, without cross talk or back and forth dialogue, how we are feeling about this past week. All people are invited to share and will be honored. Our community invites everyone to God's table of peace and justice, love and prayer.
After Jesus was crucified, our story is not that his followers went out filled with trauma and rage and began revengeful behaviors of an eye for an eye. They did not set up more torture chambers. No, as disciples of Jesus we are called to do the most radical and counter cultural activity of all time. We are called to love our enemy and pray for our persecutors. We are called to hold the truth of history with our minds and hearts. We are in an existential crisis as a human family, a moral crisis worse than ever before in our human history with the risk of escalating global wars and ecologic destruction. Join us as we gather in Zoom virtual community to pray. We mourn together and explore together where we can be the most useful. We make all of God's creatures welcome at God's table. No one left out, no matter how lame, sick, heartbroken, depressed, hungry, thirsty, traumatized, angry, smart or incoherent, confused or messed up. Our Zoom church is a virtual refugee camp of welcome for all broken-hearted planetary citizens, human and non-human, those in this physical realm and in the subtle realms. Don't isolate. Join us. We will proclaim the Good News of the Gospel that God's loves is stronger than any suffering and even death.
Below is a link from The Guardian with an article by Rev. William Barber.
We must say an emphatic ‘no’ to Hamas a thousand times | Reverend William Barber | The GuardianWe are fortunate here in Oregon to be able to attend a Peace Lecture next Wednesday, October 18 with Rev. Barbers partner, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharris at Willamette University in Salem. Please join us.