Center for Spiritual Living

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.

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!

• April 17th – May 22nd, 2025
• 6 Weeks
• Every Thursday from 6:00 – 9:00 pm
• Online Zoom

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:

• Anchor in unconditional love
• Tap into Universal Mind
• Activate deep listening
• Catch Spirit’s highest vision for your life
• Receive guidance to focus your spiritual work
• Increase your spiritual awareness

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).

REGISTER HERE

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:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84023902214?pwd=R05VNjJTMmJlOWhCS3J2cmFsczZSZz09

OR Open your Zoom app to its Home page and click JOIN. Enter this info when requested: Meeting ID: 840 2390 2214   Passcode: fR33dM!

Be sure to put this date on your calendar, and plan to attend in person or on Zoom!

Every year GGCSL meets to elect new Leadership Council representatives and to update the members and congregants about the state of the church. We will share a provided late lunch immediately following the Sunday Celebration. Afterward the meeting will be held in the same location as the service: Corte Madera Community Center. Members must sign in to indicate their attendance and intention to stay for the duration of the meeting, voting on candidates and any adoption of member required changes to policy or bylaws.

All are welcome to attend, but only members may vote. If you’re interested in being considered to serve on the Leadership Council, please speak to Rev. Judith Fleenor.

For those attending on Zoom, join us here online at 11:45 am:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82478079407?pwd=6x9k8l9X0COT3BTTFWza8x5A2qeXXV.1

Volunteering at the Marin Food Bank is a fun opportunity to connect with other GGCSLers, meet other volunteers and give back to our greater Marin community.

Please contact Ellen Nicosia no later than March 4th if you’d like to participate. To sign up text Ellen at 415.720.0225 or email her at ellennicosia@gmail.com.

The first in a series of upcoming Spring hikes in Marin County is planned for Monday, March 10th at 10 am.

Meet at the end of San Andreas Drive (538-598 San Andreas Drive) in Novato. Just a few blocks past The Bay Club, is the entrance to Mt. Burdell with ample parking, especially during the week. This hike is pretty flat with minimal up and down and soil that will probably be moist or wet. Hiking shoes/boots arerecommended.

Here is a link to Mt Burdell Preserve, the largest open space in Novato:

https://parks.marincounty.gov/parkspreserves/preserves/mount-burdell

The second hike is scheduled for Monday, April 7 at 10 a.m. with a destination to be determined.

Sign up at the Activities table. Questions? Please contact Deborah Erwin at 415-497-5951 or Steve Einhaus at 415-238-8767. Text messages are preferable, please include your name.

Visioning is a powerful meditation practice developed by Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith of the Agapé International Spiritual Center and adopted by Centers for Spiritual Living. The meditation is designed to open our minds and hearts to receive the guidance and vision of Spirit. All are welcome, and no previous Visioning experience is necessary. This is a guided meditation. Participants will need paper and pen to fully participate in the Zoom meditation.

All are welcome. Click here at 7:15 pm Pacific tomorrow evening to join the Meditation:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84023902214?pwd=R05VNjJTMmJlOWhCS3J2cmFsczZSZz09

One of our favorite musicians, Gary Lynn Floyd, is coming in person to GGCSL and will be doing our Sunday Celebration music on February 23rd. Following that service we will have a potluck luncheon and then a Song Circle of singing together.

Since the CM Community Center has another booking beginning at 1 pm that Sunday, the potluck and Song Circle will be held at the Sunrise Center just down the street from the Community Center at 645 Tamalpais Drive, Corte Madera, CA 94925.

Sign up sheets for the potluck and the Song Circle will go out on the Activity Table the first Sunday in February. Put this event on your calendar now! You won’t want to miss it.

Suggested Love Offering for the Song Circle: $20.