For the past few weeks, we have been considering the power of our words. What started as a suggestion of trying to 21 days without complaining has become an expansive discussion on how we use the power our words personally and publicly. If you have missed any of the series, you can find the worship services here.

This week we wrapped up the series by talking about how we start and stop habits. We have the opportunity commit to at least one thing we want to stop doing with our words and at least one thing we want to start doing. We will work on them together! You can join the online "Word Power" group for support here.

We will continue to discuss what the power of our words means for us on "The Daily" this week. Come and join us!

This Sunday, we'll be taking a look at the driving force behind the work of Gandhi and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Meet It With Soul Force." In times of great difficulty and struggle with much work to do, what might we drawn upon to sustain us? Gandhi and Rev. Dr. MLK described it as "soul force." It was a key to their nonviolent resistance. We are looking forward to exploring it together.

Our app is now back up and running on all of your favorite app stores. You can watch services, keep up with what we are doing, and connect with one another. Go to our app page to find the links to download.

Beginning June 18th and conitnuing for several weeks, we will be engaing the book Building Up a New World in our Wednesday evening Together group.

Many of us may be feeling understandably despairing these days. The chaos machine is hard at work trying to distract and discourage us, making it hard to know where to turn or discern what to do. And it’s harder still to feel prepared and skilled in the ways we need to be to respond with loving compassion and justice-bringing passion. The good news is that every chapter in  Building Up a New World: Congregational Organizing for Transformative Impact provides another tool in our organizing toolbelt, equipping us to do the work that is before us in this moment. From practicing mutual aid, to creating community safety and becoming sanctuary, there are so many openings for you and your community to begin or deepen your journey of doing justice, loving kindness and walking humbly with God.

You can join us on-site at 1415 North K ST in Lake Worth Beach, FL or online via Zoom (click here). 

For more information and resources about the group, check out our website.

This year, we are once again sponsors of CROS Ministries Hustle to End Hunger on Saturday October 4th. You can donate or join us in walking or running here.

On Sunday September 7th, from 2:00-5:00, Jason will be leading a new workshop. Soul force is that ineffable quality, the inner power that allows us to meet the demands of life and make a difference in the world.

In this workshop, you will:

• Gain clarity on your most important goals for the next six to twelve months, as well as a vision for the future you're excited to move towards.

• Develop a personal protocol and process to achieve those goals, with easily

accomplishable daily steps.

• Gain greater confidence in your capacity to move through challenges, do hard things, andbe who you're capable of being.

• Know who you are at your best, the qualities that the best version of yourself embodies, and—most importantly-how to express that best version of yourself more consistently every day.

• Cultivate the ability to respond intentionally to life with a simple, repeatable process: stepping into the gap between stimulus and response and closing the gap between who you're capable of being and who you're actually being.

• Create a valuable collection of prior successes, and learn how to leverage your prior successes as fuel to create a better future.

• Know what it means to flourish, and how to live with more wisdom, discipline, courage, love, gratitude, hope, curiosity, and zest.

• Connect with those committed to being the best versions of themselves, in service of something bigger.

This will be in person at the church office, 1415 North K ST Lake Worth Beach FL. You can register here.

The Hope Portal

Our friends at On Being have put together a a reflection/course experience curated by Krista and drawing upon her conversations with several visionary humans: adrienne maree brown, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ocean Vuong, Joy Harjo, Joanna Macy, and Ross Gay. Together, they extend rich and actionable invitations for a muscular, reality-based hope. They offer ways of seeing and living to lay our hands and our hearts, our imaginations and life force on the generative possibilities of life in this time. You can find a link to the episodes, Substack, and journal on their website.

• Grocery Bags
• Peanut Butter
• Pouches of Tuna and/or chicken
• Canned Vegetables (tab top and/or single serve sizes are best)
• Ravioli, Spaghetti, Beefaroni (tab top)
• Canned Soups/Stews (tab top)
• Single serve ready to eat meals

We are in desperate need of the following mens' clothing items: 

• T-Shirts sizes L & XL
• Socks
• Boxer Briefs sizes L & XL
• Athletic shorts sizes L & XL
• Backpacks