Life After Perfect with Kate Bowler, Ph.D. New York Times Bestselling Author, Duke University Professor, Incurable Optimist Monday, November 7, 2022, 7:00 p.m., Fox Hall In this talk, Kate Bowler will illustrate her take on Eckerd’s 2022–2023 College Program Series theme of Courage and Belonging as a scholar of religion and a cancer survivor. Her latest memoir, No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear), grapples with her diagnosis, her ambition and her faith as she tries to come to terms with limitations in a culture that promises anything is possible. Dr. Bowler focuses her studies on the cultural stories we tell ourselves about success, suffering and whether (or not) we’re capable of change. Kate Bowler, Ph.D., is a three-time New York Times bestselling author, a podcast host and an associate professor of American religious history at Duke University. She is the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel and The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities. After being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35, she penned The New York Times bestselling memoirs Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved and No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) as well as her latest book written with her co-producer, Jessica Richie, Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection. Dr. Bowler hosts the Everything Happens podcast, where in warm, insightful, often funny conversations, she talks with people like Malcolm Gladwell and Anne Lamott about what they’ve learned in difficult times. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her family and continues to teach do-gooders at Duke Divinity School. More about Dr. Bowler here.Sponsored by the Center for Spiritual Life Burchenal Lecture Series Endowment and the Eckerd College St. Pete Center for Civic Engagement and Social Impact. Eckerd College students must attend this event in person to receive CPS credit. Image by Rebecca Skelton, retired Eckerd College adjunct professor of visual arts: Staying Positive (detail), mixed materials, 2020Reserve a Seat at the 2022 Burchenal Lecture!Eckerd College – 4200 54th Ave South – St Petersburg, Florida 33711 |
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Harvest Form for 2022
Below is a link to the harvest form. Please either download, print and bring to the church office or fill out and email back.
LUCC Email: lakewooducc@gmail.com
Thank you for all that you do.
Bulletin 10.23.22
LAKEWOOD UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
A Just Peace Church
An Open and Affirming Church
A Creation Justice Church
10:30 am
October 23, 2022
WELCOME and ANNOUNCEMENTS
LIGHTING THE PEACE CANDLE Colleen Coughenour, Liturgist
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle
Plato, 428/427 or 424/423- 348/347 BCE
PRELUDE Lord of the Dance Shaker Tune
* OPENING SENTENCES David Adam, 1936-2020
O God
Open our eyes to your Presence
Open our minds to your grace
Open our lips to your praises
Open our hearts to your love
Open our lives to your healing
And be found among us.
* HYMN This is a day of New Beginnings (vs. 1-4) 417
SCRIPTURE LESSON
Let us prepare ourselves for the word of God as it comes to us in the reading of Holy Scripture. Our hearts and minds are open.
Matthew 14:13-21
For the word of God in scripture, for the word of God among us, for the word of God within us. Thanks be to God.
MODERN READING Mark Twain
* HYMN Bring Many Names 11
REFLECTION God Winks Sherry Santana
UNISON READING—– Daring to Dance Kathy Keay, d. 1994
Lord God,
Dancer of the universe
Take my hand
And dare me
To dance with you
Until I am
Out of breath
And rejoicing
INTERLUDE Pavane Faure
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of Lakewood United Church of Christ, as part of the Church Universal is to:
- Celebrate the presence and power of God in our lives & in our world.
- Offer the hospitality and inclusive love of Christ to all people.
- Work for God’s peace and justice throughout creation.
MORNING OFFERING
Morning offerings may be brought forward and placed in the plates on the altar. You are invited to write your prayer requests on the sheets provided in the bulletin and bring them forward and place them in the basket on the altar. If you would like assistance, please turn to someone seated near you.
Offertory Waltz in Ab Major Brahms
* Time of Dedication Ali, c. 600-661, Muslim
I will conceal the good that I have done to others, while
advertising the good that others have done to me. Amen
* PREPARATION FOR PRAYER Over My Head 514
MORNING PRAYERS- SAVIOR’S PRAYER
Our Creator in heaven, hallowed be your name, your
kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us
from the time of trial and deliver us from evil. For
the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours now
and forever. Amen.
* HYMN In the Bulb There is a Flower 433
*BENEDICTION Albert Einstein, 1955-1979
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a
miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
*SUNG RESPONSE (please form a circle) Rosemary Crow
Weave, weave, weave us together; weave us together in unity and love.
Weave, weave, weave us together; weave us together, together in love.
*POSTLUDE Golliwogs Cakewalk Debussy
Bulletin 10.16.22
LAKEWOOD UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
A Just Peace Church
An Open and Affirming Church
A Creation Justice Church
10:30 am
October 16, 2022
WELCOME and ANNOUNCEMENTS
LIGHTING THE PEACE CANDLE Sally Purvis, Liturgist
If we have no peace
It is because we have
forgotten that we
belong to each other.
Mother Teresa, 1910-1997
PRELUDE Willow HKJ
* OPENING SENTENCES Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
also known as Lady Gaga, B. 1986
Peace.
It does not mean to be in a place
where there is no noise, trouble
or hard work. It means to be in
the midst of those things and still
be calm in your heart.
* HYMN Peace I leave with you, My Friends 249
SCRIPTURE LESSON
Let us prepare ourselves for the word of God as it comes to us in the reading of Holy Scripture. Our hearts and minds are open.
Philippians 4:4-9
For the word of God in scripture, for the word of God among us, for the word of God within us. Thanks be to God.
CONTEMPORARY READING Glennon Doyle b. 1976
* HYMN In All Our Living 499
REFLECTION Don’t be anxious? You’re kidding, Right?
Jim Andrews
UNISON PRAYER The Dalai Lama b. 1935
World peace begins with inner Peace.
INTERLUDE Tom Thumb Ravel
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of Lakewood United Church of Christ, as part of the Church Universal is to:
- Celebrate the presence and power of God in our lives & in our world.
- Offer the hospitality and inclusive love of Christ to all people.
- Work for God’s peace and justice throughout creation.
MORNING OFFERING
Morning offerings may be brought forward and placed in the plates on the altar. You are invited to write your prayer requests on the sheets provided in the bulletin and bring them forward and place them in the basket on the altar. If you would like assistance, please turn to someone seated near you.
Offertory What a Wonderful World Weiss & Thiel
* Time of Dedication
From Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
God, turn our praises into hands that clothe the naked, arms that comfort the afflicted, tables that host the stranger, and shoulders that support the weary so that your name may be praised by those who live and die with their back against the wall. Amen.
* PREPARATION FOR PRAYER I’ve Got Peace Like a River 478
MORNING PRAYERS- SAVIOR’S PRAYER
Eternal Spirit, Earth Maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that ever shall be,
Father and Mother of all people, Loving God in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by all peoples of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and
come on earth!
With the bread that we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and testing, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love,
now and forever.
Amen.
* HYMN I Will Trust in the Lord 416
*BENEDICTION Iona Worship Book, adapted
For the peace we are promised
which the world cant destroy,
Thanks be the God.
*SUNG RESPONSE (please form a circle) Rosemary Crow
Weave, weave, weave us together; weave us together in unity and love.
Weave, weave, weave us together; weave us together, together in love.
*POSTLUDE The Lions Sleeps Tonight Weiss, Creatore & Peretti
Announcements
Member Update: Its with heavy hearts we say goodbye to Ms. Jen DeGroot. Updates on services etc. will be released as received. Please keep the family in your prayers during this time of mourning.
New Time for Weekly Labyrinth Walk: In August, labyrinth walks will return to Wednesday mornings at 9:00 a.m. All are welcome!
Many thanks!
Gratitude is expressed to Sally Purvis and Jim Andrews for leading worship this morning. Your ministry is a blessing!
Covid Supplies: There is a table set up in the back of the sanctuary with masksand sanitizer. These supplies have been donated to the church.Please take what you can use. Thank you!
Operation Attack: OA needs donations of cereal/oatmeal, mac and cheese, pasta sauce, peanut butter, canned meat, fruit, soup, and vegetables. Donations may be placed on shelf in hallway.
Rev. Wells Away: Kim will be on sabbatical for the months of September and October walking the Camino De Santiago in Spain. For pastoral care please contact Patti Cooksey at the information below.
Patti Cooksey: Email- cooksepa@eckerd.edu
Family Promise: Family promise, a program to empower houseless families, is reopening and is in need of Volunteers. Please see the weekly update on the church website for more information.
For the safety and comfort of all, please wear a mask. Thank you
Circle of Concern: Family from Colombia Erik Johnson, Christie Martin, Barbara Donahue,Tony Larson, Ann Quinn who is under Hospice Care, William Owen-Cowan, Carolyn Moore, Maggie Brizendine, Janet Hall, Yoko Nogami, All those suffering from COVID-19, and all healthcare workers, Schools: Students, families, teachers, and staff.
Lakewood United Church of Christ 2601 54th Ave. S. St. Petersburg, FL 33712
727-867-7961/ lakewooducc@gmail.com/ Lakewooducc.org
On land originally inhabited by the Tocabaga
Santiago arrival
Arrived at Santiago.
Malcolm joined us Monday.
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