For the past five years, friends, family, business and faith associates, and friends and associates of friends have been gathering in Reverend Joyce Buekers home over the Wednesdays of Lent for a personal and “up close” Lenten experience. We called it the Ladies Lenten Luncheon Series. We are reaching out to you and members of your faith community who might be looking for the spiritual connection to the Gospel that we provide so many during this sacred time.
A group clergy from the United Church of Christ Southwest Conference met recently with Rev. Marjorie J. Thompson for a “Living the Lenten Lectionary” retreat at the Beatitudes Campus. Rev. Thompson is the author of “Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life,” and founder of “Transforming Practice Ministries”. The scripture study tools we learned during this retreat (see the attached document) will be the basis of our Lenten Women’s Journey of Renewal for 2012, our Arizona Centennial Year.
We are looking forward to having you join us for the series or any of the one week, to learn new spiritual discipline, and engage your own spiritual journey, and guide other women on their spiritual paths. We would also love to get the word out to women about this Lenten series (LLL5) !
Therefore, during this 40 days of Lent, we are inviting women to either meet in person weekly for a small group experience or join us through our online exercises for the Ecumenical Lenten Journey of Renewal. Through either approach, they will be enriched through the process.
We are pleased to provide the materials and format for each Wednesday session, each week studying the Gospel passage(s) assigned to the upcoming Sunday and utilizing one spiritual discipline from the list.
We would love to have you participate for either the online or the small group version. All you need to do is RSVP by phone or email to:
Rev. Joyce Buekers, Executive Director, The Harp Foundation at 602-230-7070 or buekers@aol.com or
Rev. Dr. Beth Johnson, Minister for Clergy Health and Vitality Programs, United Church of Christ-
Southwest Conference at 480-513-1125 or revbethjohnsonphd@gmail.com
Blessings,
Rev. Joyce Buekers and Rev. Dr. Beth Johnson
Picture a small premature baby coming out of surgery and calming within a few minutes after listening to beautiful harp music. Less pain medication is needed and the baby is able to get home sooner. The Harp Foundation provides therapeutic harp music for the essential healing, comfort and well being of individuals in crisis or with special needs – from prebirth to end of life. That’s what The Harp Foundation does in our various hospital, hospice, school, and outreach programs. To find out more, visit our web site at TheHarpFoundation.org.
The “Angel Song” CD, generously donated to the Cardiac intensive Care Unit by The Harp Foundation was able to provide an infant with much comfort and relation. This particular infant cameback from na invsive heart surgery and was not coping well to her surrounding environment. As soon as I could lower the lights and softly play the soothing harp music she was able to calm down ad fall asleep. The soothing sounds of the harp was a great benefit not only to thepatient, but also to her family. Wecan’t thank you enough for providing such a wonderful CD!
