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Radical
Hospitality & Vital Spirituality
Share Generous Treasure
Our pledge campaign for the ministry year 2008-2009 runs from April 20 to May 18. During that
time, we encourage all members and friends of Skyline to prayerfully
consider how God is calling you to share the generous treasure of your
prayers, presence, gifts and service for the combined ministry efforts of
our community in the coming year (our fiscal year begins on July 1). Our
theme for this coming year is Share Generous Treasure.
As you consider your part in the ministry of Skyline, read our theme passage
for the coming year, Matthew 6:19-21.
Missions Focus for May: Heifer Project
On the last Sunday in April, our Education Pathway launched a bake sale to begin our May mission focus on Heifer Project International.Heifer’s mission is to end hunger and poverty and care for the earth. In pursuing this effort, Heifer had 867 active projects in 53 countries and 28 U.S. states in 2007.
MORE THAN JUST ANIMALS
Heifer pursues their mission by providing livestock, trees, seeds and other resources to help struggling families build sustainable futures. These are not merely one-time gifts. Heifer project participants receive training and support to enable them to achieve self-sufficiency. Recipients agree to “pass on the gift” of one or more of their offspring to another needy family in their very own community.
GIVE THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING!!!!!
What your money can buy……. one heifer cow = approx. $500.00, one water buffalo = approx. $250.00, one goat = approx. $120.00, one pig = $60.00, honeybees = approx. $30.00 and chicks = approx. $20.00.
Together we at Skyline can really make a difference in the World. Please consider joining us in this giving campaign. (Simply write Heifer in the memo section of your check and it will be included).
Donations will be accepted until May 15th, 2008 for this year’s campaign.
All Are Welcome Here
We're having a community conversation about making a Welcome Statement that assures
all people they are welcome at Skyline, regardless of their sexual
orientation. Our Council
has approved a two-year process of study,
conversation, and forums and we anticipate deciding as a congregation
no
earlier than June 2009. Check out the FAQs about
the Reconciling Ministries Network of United Methodist churches across the
country that have made Welcome Statements to openly welcome GLBT persons.
We're engaged in a process of planning and growth called
Natural Church Development.
A May 2007 survey identified Passionate Spirituality as our primary
health focus for 2007-08. That focus has resulted in our year-long
worship exploration of nine spiritual practices that renew our
passion. We've also added a Prayer Chapel and Small Groups area in
our sanctuary to provide space for and awareness of the Welcoming and
Equipping aspects of our mission. Each Pathway will be sponsoring a fellowship event to ignite our passion by creating more opportunities
for each of us to feel like we truly belong. Find out more about this process here.
Pray
the hours. Thanks to the Vineyard Church of
Ann Arbor, you can find a resource to guide your prayers in the
Morning, Noon, at Supper (Vespers), and before going to bed (Compline),
using PhyllisTickle's prayer resource, The Divine Hours. It's a time-tested way of staying in touch with
God. If you enjoy this, you might also enjoy St. Benedict on the Freeway by Corinne Ware. Check out the video to the right on prayer...
Current Worship Series!
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June 22 - Worship God Forever
We worship an awesome and mighty God who gives us the power of ceaseless praise.
Worship
Our seventh worship series this year focuses on worship as a spiritual practice. Perhaps the most practiced and least understood of all the spiritual disciplines, worship invites us to consider how we lift up God as the primary beneficiary and observer of our worship together.
Throughout the next six weeks, we'll explore not only what it means to worship together on Sunday mornings, but also ways that we can incorporate worship aspects into our daily life, alone or with others. That kind of worship will look different than corporate worship in a church setting, but our daily worship will transform how we experience worship on Sunday.
One of our favorite worship passages comes from 1 Corinthians 14:26. Paul reminds the church gathered at Corinth that their worship should be like a pot luck supper - with everyone bringing something nourishing to share with all who gather. This vision of worship is a far cry from the performances and sermons by professionals in many churches in our own time.
What happens when we worship? We come together apart from the pull and tug of other desires and focus on God alone. We lift God up in our midst and experience anew all that we hope for when we're on our own. We remember, and some of those memories are painful - so in worship we come for healing of our bodies and souls. And when we scatter, sometimes our worship encounter with God has transformed our lives.
Worship... not a spectator sport!
We are all parts of Christ's one
body, and each of us has different work to do. And since we are all one body in
Christ, we belong to each other, and each of us needs all the others.
Romans
12:5 (NLT)
