Center for Spiritual Living

Sunday, December 14th immediately following our Sunday Celebration, our artists and craftspeople are offering their wares for sale! If you are someone who would like to have a table for the craft fair, please contact Sophie Fleming for details! 10% of your sales goes to GGCSL and the rest is yours. There is a small fee for a table (or a half table).

GGCSLers, bring your cash that day and prepare to do a bit of Holiday shopping for hand-created crafts and art from our own congregation! We look forward to enjoying the delights of everyone’s creativity that day!

Our next opportunity to serve at the food bank is coming up on Tuesday, December 9th from noon to 2 pm.

Our volunteer food bank service at the San Rafael warehouse usually consists of packing food so that it can be transported to distribution centers near the neighborhoods where this food is most needed.

Our coordinator is Ellen Nicosia. To participate on the December team, contact Ellen by text or email with your interest and contact info by December 3rd so that she can let the food bank know who is coming: 415-720-0225 or ellennicosia@gmail.com.

We have a specific number of slots available and volunteers fill them on a first-come, first-served basis.

Location: SF-Marin Food Bank, 2550 Kerner Blvd., San Rafael, CA 94901

Following the Sunday Celebration on December 7th we will meet at the Corte Madera Community Center for one hour, 11:20 AM-12:20 PM to get your feedback on the live music and workshop offerings we’ve had recently, as well as discussing classes and other future social and educational offerings. All are welcome.

This won’t be a long meeting, so we aren’t providing lunch. But we are providing a Zoom space for those who can’t attend in person. At about 11:20 AM, please use this link to join the meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82376014079pwd=mI2MlneaFXBdONrDb9A8jvXTPe5hEr.1

If you have any difficulty joining the meeting online, open your Zoom app, click JOIN then provide the following info when requested:

Meeting ID: 823 7601 4079

Passcode: L3tM3iN*

We have open slots coming up at the SF-Marin Food Bank shift on November 11th from noon to 2 pm. Contact Ellen Nicosia by November 4th to sign up: text her at 415.720.0225 or email her at:
ellennicosia@gmail.com.

Our next opportunity to serve is Tuesday, October 14th, noon-2 pm. Our coordinator for this volunteer service is Ellen Nicosia. To participate on the September team, contact Ellen by text or email with your contact info by Tuesday, October 7th: 415-720-0225 or ellennicosia@gmail.com. We have a specific number of slots available and volunteers fill them on a first-come, first-served basis.

Location: 2550 Kerner Blvd., San Rafael, CA 94901

On Sunday, at 1:30 PM at the Sunrise Center in Corte Madera, we’ll welcome Dr. Bijoya Sen, PhD, a research scientist, from the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, who will do a presentation on her current research entitled: The Science Behind Living Better Longer. If you plan to come, please sign up on Sunday so we know how many to prepare for.

We will have the ever-popular Men’s Brunch immediately following the Sunday Celebration. We’d like to have all our guys involved, so please contact Steve Einhaus: steveeinhaus@hotmail.com, to help and participate.

For the rest of us, come and enjoy a great Sunday brunch for just $10!

Beginning September 11th, every Thursday from 4 – 6:00 pm, for 6 weeks, Lynne Law, a former longtime facilitator with the Center for Attitudinal Healing, is offering this group to support our consciousness of wholeness and wellbeing in spite of any conditions that might distract from these.

This circle is a sacred place to honor one another by listening only. No advice is given as it is believed we
all have our own best answers. Each one chooses to share whatever is on their mind and heart in a
nonjudgmental, confidential environment.

Please sign up at the Activity Table. Please note the group is limited to 7 individuals.

• No Cost

Location Information To Be Provided

Our next opportunity to serve is Tuesday, September 9th, noon-2 pm. Our coordinator for this volunteer service is Ellen Nicosia. To participate on the September team, contact Ellen by text or email with your contact info by Tuesday, September 2nd: 415-720-0225 or ellennicosia@gmail.com. We have a specific number of slots available and volunteers fill them on a first-come, first-served basis.

Location: 2550 Kerner Blvd., San Rafael, CA 94901

Our next opportunity to serve at the food bank is coming up on Tuesday, August 12th from noon to 2 pm. Our volunteer food bank service at the San Rafael warehouse usually consists of packing food so that it can be transported to distribution centers near the neighborhoods where this food is most needed.

To participate on the August team, contact Ellen Nicoia, our coordinator, by email at ellennicosia@gmail.com or text her at 415.720.0225 with your interest and contact info by August 5th so that she can let the food bank know who is coming.. We have a specific number of slots available and volunteers fill them on a first-come, first-served basis.

Let’s keep our participation flowing and abundant!

This year our summer picnic will be held on the patio at CMCC following the Sunday Celebration on Sunday, August 10th. We’re choosing to do it there, rather than out on the grounds as we have in the past, so that all of our congregation can come. Some of our folks are less steady on their feet than they once were, and this will make it possible for them to attend and be a part of the event. Everyone will already be parked, with their food onsite, and that will make the entire process easier.

We will be able to grill as usual, because CMCC has a grill onsite that we can use, and we’ve also asked to use their shade tent in case of hot weather. So think about what you want to bring, and prepare to enjoy a fun afternoon together right there! Sign up sheets will be available next Sunday for the potluck items you wish to bring to share.

Many of our longterm members will remember Lloyd Strom who created a vast body of work through NovaTech Ministries: Religious Science QuickStart, Financial Freedom, and more teaching materials with the late Rev. Dr. Marcia Sutton, one of our former ministers at GGCSL.

Rev. Lloyd made his transition on May 25^th at age 80. His Celebration of Life will take place at the Valley Memorial Cemetery in Novato, on Monday, August 4th at 10 AM. Memorial donations may be made to the American Heart Association, or to Christ Church of Co-Creation.