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Church Events
- Parking at St. Luke's
- Sunday parking at St. Luke's Hospital is easily available on the street. The hospital parking lot is also free on weekends. The easiest route to the Chapel is to enter through The Emergency Room ramp and turn right. Everyone is always welcome!
- Visiting John Haynes
- Commit to a visit, please sign up today. He is at Laguna Honda Hospital, Room N414B.
- A Fund for Marshal
- As many members already know, the church financial situation has led Session to pass a budget with only 8 hours of work per week for Marshal. The church would like to offer him some extra support as he adjusts and seeks supplemental work. He has never taken vacation or sick leave in his over 7 years of service. A church fund will be open for contributions so that we can offer him a "severance" equivalent up to 7 years of paid vacation. You can contribute by check, made out to NVM, memo "Marshal," or cash in an envelope marked "Marshal fund." This will be tax-deductible, and gratefully received by Marshal.
- Looking Toward Lent
- Ash Wednesday is on February 22. We will mark it with a service of Communion and Ashes at 7 PM. Our Lenten theme will be a reprise of four years ago, when Keenan addressed various Questions of Faith from the congregation. Each of you is invited, indeed encouraged, to submit a Bible passage, a faith question, or a theological issue which might warrant a sermon. These questions will guide our worship throughout Lent.
- Lenten Study Retreat in March
- Instead of weekly study groups after worship, during Lent, Pastor Keenan will offer a Study Retreat at her home in Larkspur, on Saturday March 10. From 9 AM to Noon, we will examine one of the Lenten passages, looking at it first from a study vantage, second from a "lectio" or personal vantage. Those who wish are invited for lunch from 12:15 to 1:15 PM. Please let Keenan know if you plan to attend.
- Inauguration Activities for New SFTS President
- February 10 and 11 will celebrate the inauguration of Rev. Dr. James L. McDonald as the 11th President of San Francisco Theological Seminary. It begins Friday, Feb. 10, with worship and communion at Stewart Chapel at noon. Lectures and learning, music and fellowship, lead up to and continue after the Inauguration Service at First Presbyterian Church San Anselmo at 10 AM Saturday.
- From Tim Greene
- In joining us for worship two weeks ago, Fr. Tim Greene wrote on the Welcome pad, "A joy to be "home" again with NVM family!"
- Pacifica Institute Event
- On February11th, (Saturday), Dr. Mahan Mirza, will be speaking on. "Islam and Muslims: Rumor and Reality"? With a distinguished academic career,. He has extensively published in the area of Islam and Muslims in America. Dinner: 6:45 pm - Speech: 7:30 - 8:15 pm. Pacifica Burlingame, 1310 Bayshore Hwy, Suite 11&12 Burlingame, CA 94010. Free. RSVP to
- Protest Family Foreclosures
- Rev. Glenda Hope asks us to consider emailing Wells Fargo executives about pending foreclosures in Bernal Heights. Keenan has more details. Sample Email: To: diana.stauffer@wellsfargo.com; alfredo.pedroza@wellsfargo.com; john.g.stumpf@wellsfargo.com. Your bank has rescheduled the auction dates of the homes of Washington and Maria Davila and Alberto Del Rio. You have refused to allow them to refinance their homes or modify their loans, and have not stopped foreclosure proceedings against them. In the spirit of justice, I urge you to cancel the home auctions, and to allow them, along with Ernesto Viscara; Victor Granados; DeDe Martinez; and Archbishop Franzo King, to modify their loans or refinance their homes. I call on you to stop evictions and foreclosures in San Francisco. Wells Fargo is better than this. Our neighbors deserve better.
- People's Prayer Breakfast: Create Your Own
- The elaborate invitation-only National Prayer Breakfast will take place this week in Washington, D.C. It is organized by The Fellowship Foundation, a conservative Christian organization more widely known as "The Family". Just a few blocks away a gathering of interfaith clergy, lay leaders, faith-based social justice advocates and members of the Occupy Movement will hold an alternative interfaith People's Prayer Breakfast. Both mark UN World Interfaith Harmony Week, a special week set aside to enhance mutual understanding, harmony and cooperation among people. "We must remember" states Rev. Brian Merritt, that, "Prayer is a sacred act that connects us to something greater than ourselves and moves us to action in transforming the world." Faith groups nationwide are urged to affirm support for the 99%, opposition to all forms of oppression, and solidarity in the struggle for real human community, with our own breakfast groups. Feel free to invite some folks to an Interfaith Harmony meal!
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