This Week In Common

This Friday, February 12th is our next scheduled Contra Dance! Join us from 7:00 to 10:00 with caller Jim Sizelove and great music by the 10th Street Regulars!

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
Presents
Women of the 21st Century
When: Tues. March 9, 3:30-5:30pm Panel discussion from 4-4:30pm
What: A reception celebrating education. Our panel discussion explores the role of education in women's lives today. Refreshments will be served and door prizes awarded to attendees.
Where: Indiana University East, Whitewater Hall Lobby

Tom Benevento is leading an effort to create a sustainable living homestead in the heart of Harrisonburg, Virginia.

This initiative seeks to integrate agroforestry, fish farming, solar applications, an organic garden, transitional housing for the homeless, and other sustainable living features into a community urban homestead.

Come as early as 11:45 to help the lunch line go quickly.

The Financial Aid Committee will be interpreting the new Financial Aid Plan for Bethany Seminary that will go into effect for the next academic year. Come learn about the new plan. There will also be time to ask your questions about the plan.

March 26-28, 2010

This silent retreat is for those who want to get away to connect with the self and with the divine. Take the opportunity to journey within, find the places that need refreshed and renewed and restore peace to your soul with the assistance of a reflective, quiet setting.

On February 10th (Wednesday) at 4:30 p.m., come to the ESR Dining
Room and hear about Dancing Bird's Apprentice, the project that was
chosen for the Tom Mullen Ministry of Writing Fellowship. To
introduce her work in progress, Patty Willis will take on the
characters of her industrious Mormon ancestor and a Native American

This coming Friday, we'll be offering a joint worship of song and readings. We would like to prepare a service that speaks to the community and so are inviting anyone to submit requests for particular hymns, songs or readings.

Take a break from studying, every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. and come over to the ESR Dining Room and watch French Chef episodes, starring Julia Child. This event is low-key and will take only a little over an hour of your time. Sponsored by ESR SMB and facilitated by Julia Pantoga. February dates are: 2/3, 2/10/ 2/17 and 2/24.

Connecting Art and Spirit, a workshop with mixed-media artist Rosie Huart.

ESR will be hosting Elizabeth "Betsy" Meyer as Friend in Residence the week of February 21st, 2010.

Betsy will be the speaker for ESR's Common Meal on February Tuesday, 23rd. She will share some of her spiritual journey; how God has worked in her life to form her through daily living. She also will tell us the stories of when she heard the voice of the Devil and when she saw the face of God.

Join Bekah Houffe and other students at a Lock-In in the Bethany building on February 12 from 7pm to 1am. Come learn new and traditional youth games. Come to eat good food. Come to socialize. Just come! It will be Lock-In style fun but you will by no means be actually be locked-in. Come and go as you like!

Sponsored by BTS Community Life Comm.

The annual clergy tax seminar has been scheduled. It will be held on Monday, February 22, 2010 in Bethany Center classroom 20 from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon and from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. The presenter will be Rev. Deb Oskin, a member at the Living Peace Church of the Brethren in Columbus, Ohio.

Mark your calendars for Bethany chapel on the following Wednesdays (11:20am-12pm). Members of Bethany & ESR communities, as well as the public, are always welcome to join us.

More information will be added as it becomes available.

January 27
Worship Leader: Parker Thompson and Katie Shaw Thompson
Preacher: Travis Poling
Scripture & Theme: Psalm 46 & Global Warming

February 3
Worship Leader: Laura Arendt
Preacher: Dan Ulrich

February 24
Worship Leader: Bekah Houff
Preacher: Tracy Stoddart

March 10
Worship Leader: Katie Shaw Thompson
Preacher: TBA
Theme: International Women's Day

March 24
Worship Leader: TBA
Preacher: TBA

March 31
Worship Leader: TBA
Preacher: TBA
Theme: Holy Week

April 14
Worship Leader: TBA
Preacher: Becky Rhodes

April 28
Worship Leader: TBA
Preacher: TBA

Saturday, February 27, 2010
10th Annual Spirituality Gathering
Spirituality and Caring in the Midst of Suffering
ESR Center, 8:15 am - 4:00 pm

Keynote Speaker Dr. Dominic Vachon is the Director of Behavioral Medicine and Caring Science Training on the faculty of the Family Practice Residency Program at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in South Bend, Indiana.

Meeting for Worship with Attention to Spiritual Healing will be held in the Moriuchi Room. from 11:20 to noon on Tuesday. March 20

If you'd like more information or to be held in the Light, please contact Jerry Knutson or Sue Axtell.