The Beacon
Newsletter
October 27, 2023 Volume 65, No 44
This SUNDAY: October 29, 2023
Theme: Of Saints and Signposts
On October 29th, we will celebrate All Saints Day several days early! We will consider the history of Halloween and All Saints Day; what it means to be a saint (which includes us!); and remember the saints in our lives who have inspired and encouraged our spirituality and faith. This might be a person who has passed on, or it might be someone living. Please remember that you are invited to bring a photo or object representing that person, and you will be invited to place it on the worship center during the service. There also will be an invitation to share briefly about that person during the Message if you wish to do that.
To prepare, please read Revelation 7:9-17.
Pastor Paula Ulrich
Sunday, October 29
9:30 a.m. Meet & Eat
10:30 a.m. Worship
12:30-2:00 p.m. Trunk or Treat
Monday, October 30
9:00-2:00 p.m. Office Open
Tuesday, October 31
Office Closed
Wednesday, November 1
9:00-2:00 Office Open
9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Food Bank
11:30 a.m. Worship Preview meeting
Thursday, November 2
6:30 p.m. Choir
Office Closed
Friday, November 3
9:00-2:00 p.m. Office Open
Saturday, November 4
Remember to check the Breeze calendar for upcoming events and activities!
Worship on 10/22/2023:
In-person attendance 73
Offering 10/15 $3,755.00
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Food Bank on 10/25/2023:
20 Families served
60 Individuals in families
MEET AND EAT
This Sunday, come to Meet and Eat and meet Joshua Wood, a Church of the Brethren member who owns a travel agency. He is planning a “Brethren” cruise in late August 2024 with a number of cabins reserved for Brethren folks. The cruise will travel on the Danube River and end with a tour of Schwarzenau, the village where the Church of the Brethren started. Even if you aren’t interested in a cruise, he will have lots of interesting information to share with you. Please join us!
Weekly food bank update
Thank you for all your donations! The food bank is happy to report your food donations have helped the shoppers purchase smaller amounts of food. They have not had to carry such large orders down to the food bank. Currently, the most needed items are broth, pasta sauce, and pancake mix. Monetary donations are also appreciated.
Shoppers are needed for January and February of next year if you would like to sign-up! The sign-up sheet is located on the office countertop.
Trunk or treat
Join us after worship on October 29th in the church parking lot (or fellowship hall if it is raining) for trunk or treating. We will have decorated trunks and candy to hand out!
Sunday november 12
Please join us in celebrating our refugee family (Meshack, Aimerance, Romain and Etonyemya).
It will be a time of fun, getting to know them, and a light lunch.
Come on Sunday, November 12, 11:30 – 1:30 at Beacon Heights Church, 2810 Beacon St., Fort Wayne, IN 46805. We’re planning to serve a light lunch. There will be time to meet with Meshack and the rest of the family as they share about their former lives, journey to the US, and hopes for the future. You will have time to ask questions and get to know them better. Others may be attending who immigrated before them from the DRC and Nyarugusu Refugee Camp and have also welcomed them.
We are hoping to gift them with a few ‘Housewarming’ gifts. They will soon be needing warm mittens, hats, scarves, boots, a snow shovel and some other items. Also you may want to check out Manna, the African grocery on Coliseum, as they especially enjoy ‘African’ food. Check out our sign up table the next couple of Sundays!
Intro to Kingian Nonviolence
Join us for an overview of Kingian Nonviolence Conflict Reconciliation at 4pm ET / 3pm CT / 1pm PT on November 6, 2023. Kingian Nonviolence is an approach to conflict and community leadership that offers values and methods useful for anyone who wants to use conflict constructively in your personal life, in group settings, or in community issues and building a reconciled world.
This 2 Hour webinar covers:
The 4 pillars of Kingian Nonviolence
Initial introduction to the 6 Principles and 6 Steps - the “Will” and the “Skill” of Kingian Nonviolence.
The Social Dynamics of Kingian Nonviolence
This training will be co-facilitated by Sara Haldeman-Scarr and Ruth Henry.
Kingian Nonviolence
We regularly feel the weight of the injustices, inequality, and suffering in our communities and around the world—all of the many ways in which we do not experience God’s kingdom “on earth as in heaven" (Matthew 6).
Together as local Church of the Brethren congregations we have discerned that training in the methods and principles of Kingian Nonviolence (with the help of On Earth Peace) will give us the tools and a renewed imagination for actively pursuing peace in the places of violence in our communities.
This training will just be the first step. The goal is to begin forging sustainable networks and initiatives that can address the needs of our world, helping us to participate faithfully in God’s ongoing work of restoration, justice, and peace—bringing all things together and made well in Christ (Ephesians 1:10).
We hope you will join us!
Sincerely,
Brethren Building Beloved Community
NEXT SUNDAY: November 5, 2023
Theme: Called Out
As a denomination and a church we have become more aware of the injustice and violence that surrounds us. Recently, there has been a more specific call to action that demands a response, yet often that response has been anemic at best. It answers with discussion, writing, speaking out, and study. And while these are essential, the prophet Micah calls us out to act. Can we reclaim the Brethren activism apparent through the middle of the last century? What would it look like if the church shifted from a community center to the center of the community?
To prepare, please read Micah 3:5-12, Philippians 1:27-30 (CEV).
Gene Hollenberg
Published by Beacon Heights
Church of the Brethren
Editor: Alexis Shoda
Phone: (260) 482-8595
Email: office@beaconheights.net