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Love Brought Me Through the Holocaust
Name: Sacra Nicholas
Meetings: 1 Sunday Meeting
Date: February 28th, 2021
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am America/Chicago
Event Type: Zoom
Audience: All Are Welcome
Description: Judith Koeppel Steel
“Love Brought Me Through the Holocaust”
Cantor Judith Steel is a holocaust survivor and author of Love Brought Me Through the Holocaust: A Daughter’s Memories. She was born in Berlin at the beginning of WWII. Her family was Jewish, and escaped aboard the ship St Louis in 1939 when she was an infant, only to be turned away by Cuba and the US. The ship was returned to Europe. Her family disembarked in Belgium and was interred in Camp Gurs. Her father was able to sneak her out to a French Catholic family, who hid her during the war. She came to live in the US in 1946, sponsored by her Aunt and Uncle.
Cantor Judith is an Interfaith minister, a Reiki practitioner and an active speaker for various organizations as well as schools and many places of worship. She feels that she has the responsibility to tell her story of survival for the good of future generations. We are honored to be one of the communities Judith has chosen to speak to and as a special treat she has promised to also share her gift of song by singing a special song acapella during her talk.
“Love Brought Me Through the Holocaust”
Cantor Judith Steel is a holocaust survivor and author of Love Brought Me Through the Holocaust: A Daughter’s Memories. She was born in Berlin at the beginning of WWII. Her family was Jewish, and escaped aboard the ship St Louis in 1939 when she was an infant, only to be turned away by Cuba and the US. The ship was returned to Europe. Her family disembarked in Belgium and was interred in Camp Gurs. Her father was able to sneak her out to a French Catholic family, who hid her during the war. She came to live in the US in 1946, sponsored by her Aunt and Uncle.
Cantor Judith is an Interfaith minister, a Reiki practitioner and an active speaker for various organizations as well as schools and many places of worship. She feels that she has the responsibility to tell her story of survival for the good of future generations. We are honored to be one of the communities Judith has chosen to speak to and as a special treat she has promised to also share her gift of song by singing a special song acapella during her talk.
Other: The Zoom link will be live from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m Central time
Event Fee: $0.00
Session: https://morningstarcenter.org
Contact: Sacra Nicholas
Everything Matters
Name: Sacra Nicholas
Meetings: 1 Sunday Meeting
Date: March 7th, 2021
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am America/Chicago
Event Type: Zoom
Audience: All Are Welcome
Description: Christine Glidden (Featured Speaker)
"Everything Matters"
In 2020 Christine Glidden received the "Service Above Self" award from the Albuquerque Rotary Club. In many ways that award encapsulates Christine's lifetime of service, spanning her career and retirement. As director of Employee Assistance Programs for Fortune 100 companies, Christine specialized in addictions and women's issues, caring deeply about mental health.
In retirement she served on numerous boards in various capacities as well as having the prestigious position of Honorary Wingman to the Kirkland Air Force Base, home of the Global Nuclear Weapons Center. There she provided an insider's view of the Base to the New Mexico community.
A pivotal life event came in 2014 when Christine founded, and now volunteers for, Women To Be, a 501c3 that distributes sanitary pads to women in the world, including Nepal, Zambia, Mexico and Native American Pueblos and tribes of New Mexico. These kits last 3 years and enable girls to stay in school and avoid early marriage. Through this group the King of the Bemba people of Zambia was hosted by Christine in New Mexico, meeting with dignitaries there. The result was an historic proclamation signed by the 19 Pueblos and the Kingdom, agreeing to support girls and their success in life regardless of their tribe or continent.
In 2019-2020 Christine led a Rotary team to complete a project to establish a sewing center in Dhulikhel, Nepal to employ refugee women to sew 5000 kits for some of the most remote and needy areas of Nepal. During Covid, she shifted her attention to aid the Navajo community. Through Women To Be, food, water, and essential supplies were provided to these native New Mexicans who have been hard hit during the pandemic.
For these services and many more, Christine has received numerous awards and honors. She and her daughter hiked Mt. Kilimanjaro in 2013. She has competed in over 160 triathlons, several times as SW Age Group Champion. She likes risk and is committed to being unpredictable in her life. Please join us in welcoming this amazing woman as our guest speaker this coming Sunday.
"Everything Matters"
In 2020 Christine Glidden received the "Service Above Self" award from the Albuquerque Rotary Club. In many ways that award encapsulates Christine's lifetime of service, spanning her career and retirement. As director of Employee Assistance Programs for Fortune 100 companies, Christine specialized in addictions and women's issues, caring deeply about mental health.
In retirement she served on numerous boards in various capacities as well as having the prestigious position of Honorary Wingman to the Kirkland Air Force Base, home of the Global Nuclear Weapons Center. There she provided an insider's view of the Base to the New Mexico community.
A pivotal life event came in 2014 when Christine founded, and now volunteers for, Women To Be, a 501c3 that distributes sanitary pads to women in the world, including Nepal, Zambia, Mexico and Native American Pueblos and tribes of New Mexico. These kits last 3 years and enable girls to stay in school and avoid early marriage. Through this group the King of the Bemba people of Zambia was hosted by Christine in New Mexico, meeting with dignitaries there. The result was an historic proclamation signed by the 19 Pueblos and the Kingdom, agreeing to support girls and their success in life regardless of their tribe or continent.
In 2019-2020 Christine led a Rotary team to complete a project to establish a sewing center in Dhulikhel, Nepal to employ refugee women to sew 5000 kits for some of the most remote and needy areas of Nepal. During Covid, she shifted her attention to aid the Navajo community. Through Women To Be, food, water, and essential supplies were provided to these native New Mexicans who have been hard hit during the pandemic.
For these services and many more, Christine has received numerous awards and honors. She and her daughter hiked Mt. Kilimanjaro in 2013. She has competed in over 160 triathlons, several times as SW Age Group Champion. She likes risk and is committed to being unpredictable in her life. Please join us in welcoming this amazing woman as our guest speaker this coming Sunday.
Other: The Zoom link will be live from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m Central time.
Event Fee: $0.00
Session: https://morningstarcenter.org
Contact: Sacra Nicholas
Where Do We Go from Here: Climate Chaos or Beloved Community?
Name: Sacra Nicholas
Meetings: 1 Sunday Meeting
Date: March 14th, 2021
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am America/Chicago
Event Type: Zoom
Audience: All Are Welcome
Description: Mark Davies
"Where Do We Go from Here: Climate Chaos or Beloved Community?"
Rev. Dr. Mark Y.A. Davies has been a professor, administrator and leader at Oklahoma City University for 24 years, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. With a P.H.D. in Social Ethics from Boston University, Mark has also served in a multitude of capacities thru the United Methodist Church to implement initiatives and bring awareness to causes of global ethics, and interfaith higher education with an emphasis on social and ecological responsibility.
Mark engages in advocacy and activism in the areas of peace, social justice, and ecological sustainability. Locally this is expressed through his work with the Human Community Network, to create non-violent systemic change for a just, flourishing human and ecological community.
He and his wife Kristin and their two teen-aged daughters reside in Edmond, OK.
Mark says, "We are living in a time of fierce urgency to do something about the climate crisis. Our actions and our policies today will determine whether we head down a path of climate chaos or begin the sacred work of healing our ecological community." Please join us for new perspectives from one of our gifted visionaries.
"Where Do We Go from Here: Climate Chaos or Beloved Community?"
Rev. Dr. Mark Y.A. Davies has been a professor, administrator and leader at Oklahoma City University for 24 years, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. With a P.H.D. in Social Ethics from Boston University, Mark has also served in a multitude of capacities thru the United Methodist Church to implement initiatives and bring awareness to causes of global ethics, and interfaith higher education with an emphasis on social and ecological responsibility.
Mark engages in advocacy and activism in the areas of peace, social justice, and ecological sustainability. Locally this is expressed through his work with the Human Community Network, to create non-violent systemic change for a just, flourishing human and ecological community.
He and his wife Kristin and their two teen-aged daughters reside in Edmond, OK.
Mark says, "We are living in a time of fierce urgency to do something about the climate crisis. Our actions and our policies today will determine whether we head down a path of climate chaos or begin the sacred work of healing our ecological community." Please join us for new perspectives from one of our gifted visionaries.
Other: The Zoom link will be live from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m Central time.
Event Fee: $0.00
Session: https://morningstarcenter.org
Contact: Sacra Nicholas
Your Gospel
Name: Sacra Nicholas
Meetings: 1 Sunday Meeting
Date: March 21st, 2021
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am America/Chicago
Event Type: Zoom
Audience: All Are Welcome
Description: Elder Gideon (Guest Speaker)
"Your Gospel"
Elder Gideon, MFA, is an ordained elder of the Sophian Tradition, a published poet and essayist, a veteran teacher of underserved high school youth, and an artist formally trained in the U.S. and Italy.
For over twenty years, Gideon has served Sophia Fellowship as a companion and elder while building its outreach through an online forum to which he's contributed over a thousand essays on Gnosticism, Kabbalah, and biblical studies. He co-authored Gnosis of Guadalupe: The Mystical Path of the Mother with Tau Malachi, and wrote thirty-two articles introducing people to the teachings and practices of Sophian lineage. These articles are available at the virtual visitor center ecclesiapistissophia.com and his journey may be traced through his website at eldergideon.com.
Elder says, "We are here to embody our freedom in the Divine. How we come to that inner freedom is by breakthrough, insight, and enlightenment. This is our gospel, our liberation: Both words mean the same." He will share a teaching and practice that is ancient and new. Drawing from his journey in discipleship with Tau Malachi, Elder will propose an innovation of the deeper meanings of gospel as self-knowledge by which one comes to unmediated knowledge of God.
"Your Gospel"
Elder Gideon, MFA, is an ordained elder of the Sophian Tradition, a published poet and essayist, a veteran teacher of underserved high school youth, and an artist formally trained in the U.S. and Italy.
For over twenty years, Gideon has served Sophia Fellowship as a companion and elder while building its outreach through an online forum to which he's contributed over a thousand essays on Gnosticism, Kabbalah, and biblical studies. He co-authored Gnosis of Guadalupe: The Mystical Path of the Mother with Tau Malachi, and wrote thirty-two articles introducing people to the teachings and practices of Sophian lineage. These articles are available at the virtual visitor center ecclesiapistissophia.com and his journey may be traced through his website at eldergideon.com.
Elder says, "We are here to embody our freedom in the Divine. How we come to that inner freedom is by breakthrough, insight, and enlightenment. This is our gospel, our liberation: Both words mean the same." He will share a teaching and practice that is ancient and new. Drawing from his journey in discipleship with Tau Malachi, Elder will propose an innovation of the deeper meanings of gospel as self-knowledge by which one comes to unmediated knowledge of God.
Other: The Zoom link will be live from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m Central time.
Event Fee: $0.00
Session: https://morningstarcenter.org
Contact: Sacra Nicholas
The Faithful Heart
Name: Sacra Nicholas
Meetings: 1 Sunday Meeting
Date: March 28th, 2021
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am America/Chicago
Event Type: Zoom
Audience: All Are Welcome
Description: Glenda Green
"The Faithful Heart"
Glenda Green writes, "On this day when everyone celebrates the HEART, let us take it to a higher level. The heart is the center of our physical life, our emotional life, our values, dreams and desires. There is a part of it that is sacred, silent, holy and still, In that place we find our most potent connection with God.
Glenda Green has long been acknowledged as one of the world's foremost portrait painters and spiritual artists. Her work is a blend of talent and dedication that can currently be viewed at the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of the City of New York, and Williams College Museum of Art. She has worked with practitioners of holistic and spiritual health, is a teacher, author, and counselor. Glenda has taught on the faculties of Tulane University and the University of Oklahoma. She is an exceptional and highly sought-after public speaker.
In 1991 Glenda's life was transformed when Jeshua, known as Jesus to English speakers, appeared to her and began communing with her daily. In 1992, from that relationship came her masterpiece painting "The Lamb and the Lion." Jeshua continues to reveal through Glenda "The Way" that is both mystical and practical. Miracles and healings in body, mind, and spirit have occurred in the lives of thousands who attest to the wisdom that flows from Jeshua through Glenda.
Please join us for this unique experience of hearing Glenda share opportunities for us to gain a truer, more complete understanding of the Universe and our place in it.
"The Faithful Heart"
Glenda Green writes, "On this day when everyone celebrates the HEART, let us take it to a higher level. The heart is the center of our physical life, our emotional life, our values, dreams and desires. There is a part of it that is sacred, silent, holy and still, In that place we find our most potent connection with God.
Glenda Green has long been acknowledged as one of the world's foremost portrait painters and spiritual artists. Her work is a blend of talent and dedication that can currently be viewed at the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of the City of New York, and Williams College Museum of Art. She has worked with practitioners of holistic and spiritual health, is a teacher, author, and counselor. Glenda has taught on the faculties of Tulane University and the University of Oklahoma. She is an exceptional and highly sought-after public speaker.
In 1991 Glenda's life was transformed when Jeshua, known as Jesus to English speakers, appeared to her and began communing with her daily. In 1992, from that relationship came her masterpiece painting "The Lamb and the Lion." Jeshua continues to reveal through Glenda "The Way" that is both mystical and practical. Miracles and healings in body, mind, and spirit have occurred in the lives of thousands who attest to the wisdom that flows from Jeshua through Glenda.
Please join us for this unique experience of hearing Glenda share opportunities for us to gain a truer, more complete understanding of the Universe and our place in it.
Other: The Zoom link will be live from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m Central time.
Event Fee: $0.00
Session: https://morningstarcenter.org
Contact: Sacra Nicholas