Esther Spear, Publicity It’s time to gather your friends to play mah jongg, bridge, canasta, Mexican train, hand and foot, Scrabble or any game of your choice at the Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation Sisterhood’s annual charity fundraiser on Monday, February 12, at Oakwood Country Club at 10:00 a.m. (Doors open at 9:00 a.m.). You…
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Religion, February 2018
SLUMC hosts annual Women’s Retreat
Linda Gercken The Sun Lakes United Methodist Women will hold its annual Women’s Retreat on Saturday, February 10, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The event will take place in Lindsay Hall at the Sun Lakes Methodist Church (SLUMC) located at 9248 East Riggs Road. The cost is $10 which includes the program,…
Religion, February 2018
A very different Valentine’s Day event
Rev. Ron Burcham, Risen Savior Lutheran Church Valentine’s Day is going to be a bit different this year. February 14, 2018, is not only Valentine’s Day, but also on the Christian Church calendar, it is Ash Wednesday! Valentine’s Day is typically a day when you tell the special people in your life how much…
Religion, February 2018
A project for Lent
Chuck Reinhart The Lenten season begins with Ash Wednesday on February 14, 2018. The members of the Sun Lakes United Church of Christ will be collecting items each Sunday during Lent to distribute to the less fortunate. We are asking for donations of items that cannot be bought with money from government subsidies. Instead…
Religion, February 2018
Celebrate Lent at SLUCC
Chuck Reinhart Join us for our celebration of Ash Wednesday on Wednesday, February 14, at 8:00 a.m. and the Lenten season on Sunday, February 18 at our 11:15 a.m. worship service. Our Lenten theme is Journey to the Cross. Lent is about transformation and change. Richard Rohr comments: Jesus is much more concerned about…
Religion, February 2018
Sun Lakes Lutheran
Marty Patton The Lenten Season begins February 14, 2018. Sun Lakes Lutheran will observe with an Ash Wednesday service at 8:00 a.m. in the Sun Lakes Chapel. Each Wednesday, beginning February 21, we will gather in the Chapel Center adjacent to the Chapel for Soup and Scripture. The soup each week is homemade, along…
Religion, February 2018
Unity: Happy Heart
Kay Davis At Unity Church of Sun Lakes, we choose to live a healthy lifestyle filled with affirmative prayer, meditation, love and gratitude. We follow the teachings of Jesus as well as other wise spiritual masters. Reverend Debbi Brown Adams is our spiritual leader. Join us Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m. as we celebrate…
Religion, February 2018
Falling Upward – Spirituality in the second half of life
Chuck Reinhart In some church traditions, Lent is focused on penance and sin and the practice of giving up things as a form of sacrifice. Lent in the ancient tradition of the church was about the rites and rituals that prepared individuals for Baptism at Easter. Richard Rohr, a Franciscan and a Roman Catholic…
Religion, February 2018
The Intercessor’s Prayer
Jean Newell, Associate Pastor of Sun Lakes United Methodist Church One afternoon, I was talking on the phone with a friend who lives in Flagstaff who was getting ready to leave on a trip to visit her sister in California. Frazzled by all there was to do before she left really early the next…
Religion, February 2018
More grace…yet to come
Marc Drake, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church Sun Lakes We all know of places we’ve yet to visit. There are books we’ve yet to read. People we’ve yet to meet. In the same way, there are aspects of the grace of God that believers have yet to experience. The word “grace” comprises all the…