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2025 March Stewards Minutes
Stewards minutes
Seekers Church
March 9, 2025 in person
Present: Marjory Bankson, Peter Bankson, Cynthia Dahlin, Joan Dodge, Judy Lantz (recorder), Dave Lloyd, Sandra Miller, John Morris (meditation), Trish Nemore, Keith Seat (moderator), Deborah Sokolove, Jacqie Wallen, Glen Yakushiji.
Absent: Kolya Braun-Greiner, Ken Burton, Jeanne Marcus, Margreta Silverstone.
Housekeeping: Stewards will meet on Sunday, April 13 at 4:30 pm in person.
Moderator – Deborah
Meditation – Joan
Recorder – Glen
Dinner Angels – Dave & Cynthia
2025 Retreat Opportunites at Dayspring – Cynthia for LWMG
May 2 – 4 Sandra leader Marta assistant leader
Sept. 26 – 28
Report on Rolling Ridge/Stillpoint – Keith
Earth & Spirit have their retreat starting Friday evening April 4. …
Reflections on Being Born Again-And Again
Cynthia Dahlin
March 9, 2025
First Sunday in Lent
Take a breath. Now take a deeper breath.
Close your eyes, and lay your hands open on your lap.
Take another breath.
Feel your feet on the floor, feel the weight of your hands.
Feel your heartbeat.
Clear your mind, just focus on your breathing.
You have joined this community to give you new life.
Can you let energy come in your lungs as you breathe.…
A Prayer for Courage to Seek Justice for Transgender People
Praying for Peace and Justice on May 7, 2023
Let us pray.
Holy One, we learn from the Bible that we are made in your image and so when we look around, we have to notice that you have many images including those that defy gender specification.
Our trans brothers and sisters need your help and we need your help in making our voices heard on their behalf, in seeing them, in respecting them, in loving them. May it be so. Amen.
Background
In 1997, Pat Conover preached a sermon at Seekers coming out as a transgender person. Pat received a warm reception for the sermon, with people noting the honesty, the courage, the vulnerability. …
A Prayer for Body Autonomy and Reproductive Justice for the Women of the United States
Peace and Justice Prayer for March 3, 2024
Let us pray.
Holy One,
I am scared. The women of America are scared.
We are slowly losing hard won rights to decide for ourselves what we want to happen to our bodies. We are once again becoming the second class citizens we were some fifty years ago.
With a pen stroke our rights were stripped from us by the Supreme Court, our ability to get IVF treatments was destroyed in Alabama, in Florida and Texas and other places we are prevented from getting reproductive medical care to save our own lives.
I am angry, Holy One.…