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January 2025 — New Year Addition
Special Small Group Opportunity
The Story of Your Life
7-8:30 pm Thursday Nights
January 16 - February 20 (or 27th if necessary)
Location TBD
The very act of story telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy….We tell stories because we can’t help it. We tell stories because we love to entertain and hope to edify. We tell stories because they fill the silence death imposes. We tell stories because they save us.
~James Carroll,
”The Communion of Sinners”
How would you like to join together with others to reflect on your personal life journey while writing your “spiritual autobiography”? In these first few months of the New Year, Chris is offering a short course that will lead participants through a process of exploring our most meaningful life experiences, helping us to understand and sort out the factors that help define each of our own spiritual journeys, following the process laid out in Dan Wakefield’s book The Story of Your Life. The course will run for six weeks on Thursday evenings (7-8:30 p.m.) beginning January 16 and concluding on February 20 (or February 27th if weather interrupts the schedule). A small amount of “homework” will be required between some sessions, in addition to the culminating writing of the autobiography. Because of the intense personal nature of this experience and the developmental process that builds from week to week, participants will be asked to make a commitment to confidentiality and to regular attendance for the length of the course, planning to miss no more than 1 session over the duration. If interested, please sign up using the link below no later than Sunday January 12 . If you have any questions or need more information, feel free to reach out to Chris (worship@riseharrisonburg.com)
New Year Worship Series
We hope you will join us on Sunday mornings for worship in the New Year
as we celebrate and explore “Blessings for the Journey”!
Unless otherwise noted, worship begins at exactly 10ish am
John Wesley UMC Fellowship Hall (Downstairs)
445 Sterling St, Hburg
January 12
Presence
Isaiah 43:1-7; Acts 8:14-17; Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
January 19
Spiritual Gifts
1st Corinthians 12:1-11
January 26
Body of Christ
1st Corinthians 12:12-31a; Luke 4:14-21
February 2
Voice
Jeremiah 1:4-10; Luke 4:21-30
February 9
Purpose
Isaiah 6:1-8, (9-13); Psalm 138; Luke 5:1-11
February 16
“Blessings”
Luke 6:17-26
February 23
Forgiveness
Genesis 45:3-11, 15; Luke 6:27-38
March 2
Transformation
Exodus 34:29-35; 2nd Corinthians 3:12-4:2; Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a)
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