Volunteering at the SF-Marin Food Bank is a fun opportunity to connect with other GGCSLers, meet other volunteers and give back to our greater Marin community. We have open slots on our June 10th shift from noon to 2 pm. Please contact Ellen Nicosia no later than June 3rd via text at 415.720.0225 or email at
ellennicosia@gmail.com if you’d like to participate.
A couple of years ago, the Legacy Circle sponsored a Zoom workshop with Estate Planning attorney,
Kelly Kilkenny. Our Legacy Circle packets were also revised for those in our congregation who might
want to leave a donation to GGCSL in their estate plan.
This year the Leadership Council would like to offer several workshops and a book study on variouspreparations for retirement and end-of-life planning.
On Sunday, June 1 from 1–3 pm, we’ll be offering one of those workshops with Sharon Kobrin Evans
and Brenda Kobrin from Kobrin Financial Services. This workshop is offered free of charge.
Bring your questions about insurance, Medicare, investments, taxes, and financial planning for the third act of life. Please sign up this Sunday to let us know you intend to participate in the workshop so that we make sure to locate it with enough space for all those who want to come.
Location: the Sunrise Center, 645 Tamalpais Drive, Corte Madera
THIS SUNDAY from 1–3 pm is our free presentation with Sharon Kobrin Evans and Brenda Kobrin from Kobrin Financial Services. Bring your questions about insurance, Medicare, investments, taxes, and financial planning for the third act of life. (Please note: This is not a sales presentation.)
Location: Sunrise Center, 645 Tamalpais Drive, Corte Madera
One of the things GGCSL does on the Sunday nearest Memorial Day is a slideshow of dear ones we want to remember, especially those who have made their transition into the next adventure of Life in the past 12 months. That Sunday this year is May 25th.
Please bring photos of dear ones you want to remember for the altar that morning, and email any photos of GGCSLers you want remembered in advance so they can be included in the slides that morning. Email photos to Rev. Mary at RevMary@ggcsl.org, and make sure to include their names and how you remember them at GGCSL.
Sacred Service Matters
As we give service we’re contributing to the quality of life we share and experience. At the Food Bank, we’re literally contributing to Life itself by contributing our time for food security for our neighbors.
SF-Marin Food Bank: Contact Ellen Nicosia by April 1st by email, text, or voicemail to be included as a participant with GGCSL’s team, Tuesday, May 13th from 12:00–2:00 pm: ellennicosia@gmail.com or (415) 720-0225.
May 11th is Mother’s Day, and there will be a special Mother’s Day altar at GGCSL that morning. I encourage you to bring photos of your own Mom, of yourself with your kids if you are a mom, and
photos of daughters and/or daughters-in-law with their kids. Every kind of motherhood is essential for children to develop healthy, well-balanced lives, and we celebrate them all.
So let’s fill the altar with Moms, Grandmothers, Step-Moms, Foster Moms, Adoptive Moms, Pet’s Moms, and maybe even animal mamas,if we have those in our lives. Mothering is deeply loving, support and encouragement, tempered with guidance and accountability. It’s nurturing, advising, disciplining and giving affection to a young one, in cooperation with other adults in lesser or equal roles.
It’s a huge job, even with just one child, because there are no breaks, sick leave, vacation, comp time or salary. It’s 24/7 every day from their birth until your child leaves home (and sometimes even after they have). We all survived into adulthood, and possibly navigated into parenting from the giving side ourselves.
So let’s honor the role and the women who take it on. No one does it perfectly. A few are stellar, some are dreadful, but most do their best with pretty good results. Thanks Moms! We’ll never really know how you did it!
Bring Your Specialty Dish For Easter!
This year Easter is April 20th, and that is also the day we celebrate GGCSL’s 42nd Anniversary. We have sign up sheets ready now at the Activity Table for help with set-up, clean-up, and for potluck dishes you will bring. Please sign up Sunday to let us know what you will bring, and can do to help!
Begin decorating your Easter “bonnet” now for our contest. (Prizes will be available!) And think about one experience you’ve had at GGCSL that has made a big difference in your life. We’ll share these on Easter in a special way.
Jai Josefs and his band are booked to do live music for us in the Sunday/Anniversary Celebration that day, and Rev. Mary will offer one of her stellar messages. Don’t miss this wonderful community celebration!
Visioning is a unique spiritual practice used in our CSL churches. It’s not the same thing at all as visualization! Bring heaven more fully into your earthly experience through this organic process of guidance, transformation and manifestation. Discover direction and clarity for your life with this transformational spiritual practice.
In this 6-week Visioning class with Lesley Gianetti, RScP and Karen Frost, RScP you will:
Together we’ll explore what it means to “catch Spirit’s Vision” and what to do with it once you have.
Type: Certificated class
Prerequistes: Foundations or Beyond Limits
Tuition: $210 or special pricing of $180 with a non-refundable $50 deposit or payment in full received by (balance of tuition must be paid in full by class 2).
As we give service we’re contributing to both human consciousness and in a practical way, to our shared quality of life. We have options for participating to help more than just ourselves:
For our SF-Marin Food Bank:Contact Ellen Nicosia by April 1st by email, text, or voicemail if you’d like to be included as a participant on the GGCSL team on Tuesday, April 8th from noon to 2:00 pm: ellennicosia@gmail.com or (415) 720-0225.
Steve Einhouse and Deborah Erwin are planning a second Wildflower Hike on Sunday, April 6th at 1:00 at Ring Mountain Preserve in Corte Madera.
Starting at 1:00 p.m. affords everyone time to grab some lunch before meeting up. There will be a sign up sheet on the table. Be sure to write down your phone number.
Stump Rev. Mary! has been well-received at GGCSL in the past. So although Rev. Mary deferred this Sunday event for a week, she will be on the platform this Sunday bringing back this enjoyable process.
Congregants will be invited to write their questions on 3×5 cards at the beginning of the Sunday Celebration, and Rev. Mary will address as many as she can get to during the talk portion of the service. Start thinking about what you’d like to ask.
We could call this Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Ask About Science of Mind & Ernest Holmes. But it’s much more fun to see if the congregation can ask a question Rev. Mary can’t answer somehow. (She likes to call this You Pretend to Have Questions, and I’ll Pretend to Have Answers!)
Come Sunday to enjoy the fun, and bring your deep questions!
Sometimes called guided imagery, with guided meditation you form mental images of places or situations that support relaxation and receptivity. You will use a variety of senses like sights, sounds and textures. Guided meditations are the easiest ones to participate in, since the only thing one needs to do is listen and follow the prompts given by the leader. Open your intuitive and creative awareness to let the meditation bring you insights you might not have discovered in another way.
To attend, please click this link at 7:15 pm to join Zoom meeting:
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