Church brochure and bulletin

This blog entry contains the church brochure and following that, a sample Sunday Service Bulletin. I am sorry right now I have not the software nor the technical knowhow to do any fancy formatting, and in fact editing the line spacings here in this entry seems problematical. The church logo displayed is the next-to-final version. This blog entry and its presentation are part of the exercise and practice of our religion.

"AMPLIFYING DIVINE LIGHT IN ALL"  CHURCH

 

Are you looking for a Church that

                           --respects you as already God/ess-Spirit
           -- fosters your empowerment to
                      co-create a better world for all

--actively works toward a
         life for everyone that is
             loving, joyful, and thriving
                                    on an earth that is clean and peaceful

This is Who We Are

What kind of organization are we?

We are a completely independent Church not affiliated with any other religion or spiritual tradition.

Our primary mission and purpose is to perceive, recognize, evoke, and amplify the Divine Light in everyone. Each of us has a ministry to benefit and uplift others.

Our primary ministry is being a resource for others to know their own God/ess-nature in body, mind, and spirit. Our ministry provides people with direct experiences of their own inherent God-Self nature, and we serve as examples of Divine Light ourselves.

People participate in our Church through various ceremonies, spiritual counseling, eclectic spiritual healing techniques, and groups, classes, and programs for spiritual upliftment. Most of these are open to anyone. They are listed at the end of this booklet.

Our Church spaces are open for specific events and activities.

We engage in outreach, but not evangelism. We provide fellowship, resources, and spiritual evolution opportunities for those who feel a resonance with us.

We offer training for ministers and spiritual healers.

Our authority is from God/ess on the religious level, and from the Divinely-inspired
US Constitution on the secular level. We affirm separation of Church and government. We affirm everyone's God/ess-given inalienable rights to life, liberty,and the pursuit of happiness.

What do we believe?

We don't "believe" or impose/require beliefs, only abiding by ethical values. Each person is endowed with access to inner knowing and guidance directly from God/ess. We foster that access. Here are some "knowings" we share within our Church:

   About God/ess

God/ess is the Source and the Substance of Everything Everywhere Forever Infinitely. God/ess is the Force of Creation, the Creator, the Creation, and the Creating. God/ess is all Consciousness, all Energy, and all Matter. Nothing that exists or happens is not-God/ess or is outside of God/ess.

God has many names, such as Goddess, Divine Love, Divine Light, and Great Spirit.

We celebrate male and female aspects of God/ess.

The ultimate purpose of life is to live continuously in the realization that everything which exists is inherently always already, because it exists, One with God/ess.

Every Being is a sovereign Creation. Our primary authority is God/ess's Will, as known by each for self.

Each Being can directly access God/ess without clergy to intervene or interpret. The best functions of clergy are to support, uplift, encourage, and be of service.

We delight that each person experiences their spiritual evolution and God/ess in their own unique way.

   About Life

God/ess has given every Soul the power to create its experiences through its consciousness, so it has total responsibility for its own life.

Everything that happens, happens by God/ess's Will for the sacred purpose of providing people with an opportunity to increase their awareness of their Oneness with God/ess.

In our Church, Light-Amplifying means Life-Enhancing. Each of us chooses to embody and express the highest potentials of human life, to live in the most life-enhancing, life-affirming, life-celebrating ways.

Central and essential to the practice of our religion is that we regard every aspect of the human body and earthly life--including pleasure and sexuality--as Divine, as sacred, and as spiritually uplifting.

We honor our Creator by choosing to be as healthy, thriving, prosperous, flourishing, and happy as possible, and by fostering the same for others.

A blissful life "in Paradise" is possible in this life to anyone who recognizes and claims their innate Divinity as a Creation of the Divine Creator. People can live a heavenly life, not needing to earn or learn their way out of this life. People are Spirit Masters, not striving human students or sinners.

Everyone has a Life Purpose which can potentially benefit the entire world; our special mission is to help people discover and fully express their Divine Talents.

   About Human Relating

We respect the choices, dignity, and Divinity of everyone, and we encourage others to do the same. We are committed to voluntary, peaceful, nonviolent, non-condemnatory relating even in controversies, differences, and conflicts.

Our religion recognizes that there are many spiritual and religious teachers worthy of study, there are many "paths to God," and there are many religious writings which contain some of the spiritual Truths we share.

Science/rationality/logic and spirituality/intuition/-guidance/revelation are not opposed; our ideal is integrated, flexible left-brain and right-brain consciousness that uses all of these in appropriate ways for various purposes.

Everyone benefits when people expand their conscious-ness to more empathy and compassion, greater wisdom and understanding, more Divine Love, and more of their multi-dimensional SpiritSelf.

We encourage consciousness and behavior that fosters respect, harmony, and ecological balance among all who affect our living planet, Gaia. We encourage consciousness and behavior that
---     plans and acts in ways that would make life on this planet optimal for all future generations,
---  and takes into account the wellbeing of all living Beings on the planet, as an interdependent system.

We support those whose Divine Purpose includes creating and/or implementing ways of interacting in every arena of life that are respectful, uplifting, loving, and peaceful and that promote optimal wellbeing for all. We actively work toward co-creating a better world.

What worship services and sacred activities are open for people's participation?

    Group:

Sunday "Amplifying Divine Light" Church Service

Oprah-Eckhart Tolle-A New Earth  Discussion Group

"Co-creating Our Spirit's Ideal World" Circle,  based on www.intenders.com

"Aliveness Unlimited" class in practical spirituality, life purpose, "finishing the healing," personal empowerment, planetary transformation, and many other spiritual topics

Spiritual Healing Clinic

The "More Joy and Laughter" Restoreth-My-Soul Club

"God/ess's Universe" Book Discussion Group

"Living Spiritually" Study Group

Informational meetings about the Church

    Individual:

"Co-creating New Realities" Spiritual-Healing and -Counseling Services

Tantra Sacred-Sexuality Spiritual-Teaching, -Counseling, and -Coaching Program

Peaceful Pleasure Reiki Holistic Healing Program

Readings of individual Cosmic Essence

Many articles about spiritual topics

Program for training ministers and spiritual "healers."

version 3/18/08


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Please note there is none of the beautiful graphics and formatting in this version.
What is in boldface italics is repeated aloud together by all.

All the predictions are that many of us will be seeing our sphere of influence expanding greatly, soon, and rapidly. Today we'll focus on choosing the characteristics of our next arena of activity that will offer us the Quality of Life we are entitled to choose, and will assist in our spiritual evolution as well as helping us benefit the world.

 

Invocation, Call to Sacred Awarenesss ........................................Rev. OM
We now invoke Blessèd Self-aware Representatives of the Infinite Radiant
Creative Conscious Energy's feminine qualities, and Blessèd Self-Aware
Representatives of the Infinite Radiant Creative Conscious Energy's
masculine qualities, all who are in the balance, harmony, and synergy of
those qualities.
We invite you to pour forth your blessings upon us and upon all Beings,
upon this place and upon the whole world and all of Creation.
We recognize and rejoice in our Oneness with you and the Infinite
Consciousness. We appreciate the beauty and awesome magnificence of us,
you, and All That Is.
We ask for your help in successfully completing our project of uplifting
and transmuting ourselves and this planet to our highest possible state of
Unity-consciousness and Unlimited Beingness, restoring our awareness of who
we truly already are, and harvesting the wisdom of all our experiences of
separate and limited consciousness.

Chant Three Om's...............................................................................................Everyone
"Om": A Sanskrit word which vibrates with the experience of:
I am now recognizing, acknowledging, and allowing myself to experience that
I am one embodiment of All That Is, and of Divine Grace, the Force and
Power which creates All That Is from the Field of Infinite Possibilities.
As such, I am One with All, and One with the Force and Power of Grace.

Vision Statement for this Church and this Service............................................Rev. OM
Our purpose is to amplify the Divine Light in All, including Gaia herself.
The purpose of this service is to uplift, inspire, invigorate, refresh,
renew and to strengthen each person's knowing of their Oneness with God/ess
and their living in that knowingness.

Welcome and Announcements............................................................................Rev. OM

We Sing Along*................................................................................................Everyone

Meditation, In Silence, Your Own Communion with Your Own Ultimate...........Everyone

An Amplifying Transmission of Divine Light/Love through Energy and
Sound...........................................................................................................Rev. OM

Special Music*......................................................................................."Dreamflight III"

Sharing of Uplifting Stuff..................................................................................Anyone

Message:  Amplifying Our Arena of Activity....................................................Rev. OM

Tithes and Love Offerings.................................................................................Everyone
We acknowledge that God-We-Are is the source of all money, and money is
God-We-Are in action.
We recognize the spiritual purpose of money: a substance used to facilitate
an unlimited variety of exchanges and gifts of goods and services for
embodied Beings who require certain things for survival and flourishing.
We ask for and accept all support, supply, and nourishment in all forms
including money.

Blessing of Tithes and Love Offerings.................................................................Rev. OM
This money is received and accepted in the name of the Church. It is
dedicated to the Missions and Purposes of the Church, blessing our lives
and the world. It is from our ministry and for our ministry. It is received
with rejoicing and appreciation. May the givers be blessed many times over
in every good way.
We now imbue each bill and coin with Sacred-Heart Christ-Consciousness
Love-Light Energy. We raise its vibration entirely to that energy. May it
glow with that energy as it goes forth through the world, blessing and
uplifting everyone who touches it. And through that energy may it attract
back to us, and may we receive, ten-fold itself. We more than give and
receive money, we flow money in and out of our hands and lives. So be it.


Benediction and Inspiration.......................................Rev. OM, Everyone, and Anyone
Sharing of inspirations received during the service.
Playing of Crystal Singing Bowl representing our new higher vibration.

I now choose to accept, integrate, and become every opportunity for
amplifying my own Divine Light Self and Divine Love Self provided by this
service, with rejoicing and celebration. I go forth into a more joyful life
as more of the Divine, fully alive Self I already am, to be a blessing and
upliftment to this beloved Planet and every Being in Her. Through Divine
Grace, it is done.

 
Church Presentation: Spectacular Results!

The Church's various services were presented to the Holistic Synergy Network in the evening on July 25. A 3-page description went out by email to 25 people. Only two other people were at the meeting, but Rev. OM was invited to be on a radio show that reaches 1.3 million listeners, and several local referrals will also be forthcoming!. This presentation
involved a demonstration of Rev. OM's spiritual counseling around sacred sexuality. The purpose of the presentation was to enable Network members to more easily know whom to refer for various Church services.

Please know that Rev. OM is available to pray and meditate with you and for other
spiritual healing and upliftment services, by appointment, in person or by phone.

We encourage networking and fellowship. Please put your own cards, brochures, and flyers on our Sharing Table. Also bring inspiring articles, reprints, printouts, for our Inspiration Notebook on this table, and feel free to browse the Notebook! Please put in notes about uplifting movies, books, videos, music, etc.

Today's Special Music is from the album "Dreamflight III" by Herb Ernst

Today's We Sing Along is "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" sung by Robert Goulet from his CD album "16 Most-Requested Songs"

Community Traffic and Parking Alert
Highway construction in the our Area causes occasional road closures. Do allow a few extra minutes of travel time getting here. If you cannot find parking in any of the three Visitor (uncovered) areas of this condo complex, you can park OK in the lot of the commercial building on the corner next door. Best to NOT park in a visitor spot in another complex.

Feedback Please: We'll be delighted to hear how we can improve our ability to amplify your Divine Light through our services and materials.

   Those who have contributed:
    We are so grateful to Jessica, age 7, for the wonderful Sunday Service she did last week!

  Support You Can Give When Divinely Guided to:
   From time to time we will have guest speakers. Please suggest someone!
   We are always looking for inspirational music. Please tell us what you love.  Even  better, lend us that tape or CD for our Sunday Service.
   Our Sunday Service would benefit from a remote for the background-music player.
   A donation of a carpet cleaning would make us shining and uplifted.

   Volunteers Intended:
   Someone slightly handy could finish the bookcase for the Church Library.
   Someone could find a hard-to-locate Christian song "On Eagles' Wings." See Rev. OM.
   Someone to transcribe one or more Messages would be fabulous. We have a special tape player that facilitates transcription.

We invite you to pick up a list of all our events and activities from the display rack.

Today

A tape or CD of any week's Message is available for $5. Contact Rev. OM to order.

This Week  July 29-August 4

All events are here at Temple of Om Mangala Bastet.

Wednesday 8/1    "God/ess's Universe" Book Discussion Group (First Wednesdays) 7:15 - 8:45 PM.  pick up flyer on this

Thursday 8/2     Intenders Circle (1st & 3rd Thursdays) (free) 7:15 - 8:45 PM
pick up flyer on this

Next Sunday  August 5

Sunday 8/5 Spiritual Healing Clinic (first Sundays) (free) 1:30-3:30 PM     pick up flyer on this

The Message topic will probably be Basic Visioning Guidelines
The Special Music will probably be "Secret Lake" by Vidhano
The We Sing Along will probably be "Amazing Grace"

Mark Your Calendar  

Monday 8/6   More-Joy Club Movie (first Mondays) 7:00 -?   pick up flyer on this

Note: as of 3/18/08 the Aliveness Unlimited class is third Wednesdays because the Oprah-Eckhart Tolle-A New Earth Discussion Group is second Wednesdays

---Wednesday 8/8    Aliveness Unlimited Class (second Wednesdays) 7:00-9:00 PM
pick up flyer on this.   Topic: Are Other People Real?

Thursday 8/9   "Living Spiritually" Study Group (2nd Thursdays) 7:00-9:00 PM
pick up flyer on this    Current topic: Consensus

Monday 8/13  Learn-about-this-Church Evening (the 13th of each month) 7:30-8:45 PM
pick up flyer on this

Thursday 8/16   Intenders Circle (1st & 3rd Thursdays) (free) 7:15 - 8:45 PM
pick up flyer on this


Sunday Messages in July have focused on Amplifying Divine Light in Yourself, Your Life, and All Living Beings
Sunday Messages in August will focus on Visioning, Intending, Choosing and Allowing the Future