The trip will be hands-on work helping families rebuild their homes. No experience is necessary.

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If you shop at Ralph’s Supermarkets, you can now select West Hollywood Church’s Sack Lunch program as a Community Contribution recipient. Depending on the amount you spend each month, our Sack Lunch Program will be eligible for a grant of between 1% and 4% of your month’s total purchase.

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This Sunday we welcome the Rev. Felix Villanueva, the Conference Minister of the So California Nevada Conference of the United Church of Christ. Felix will be preaching during worship, then after a brief Social Hour, we will have a Question & Answer period in the Sanctuary. This is your chance to ask any questions you have about the UCC! This is also our final UCC discernment Sunday before we vote whether to begin the process of seeking transfer to the UCC.

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This Sunday, November 6, we welcome the Rev. Felix Villanueva, the Conference Minister of the So California Nevada Conference of the United Church of Christ.

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A while ago my sister-in-law sent me this piece:

There Are Two Kinds of Legacy

When you die, your possessions will be distributed according to a will in which you allocated property to specific people. Objects left in a will are called a legacy.

But “legacy” also has a much deeper meaning.

In Jewish tradition, people write “ethical wills” in which they pass on to the next generation, especially their children, the gift of wisdom and good wishes. This legacy is far more profound and permanent than bequests of property.

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There’s an old joke in clergy circles that’s often passed around at stewardship and pledge time. It goes something like this: “50 weeks out of the year we preach that ‘money is the roof of all evil.’ The other 2 weeks of the year, we ask them to give it to the church.”

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of our world’s most extraordinary leaders. He’s been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, Gandhi Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He is regarded as South Africa’s moral conscience. An opponent of apartheid, he became the first black South African Archbishop of Cape Town and headed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. One of most notable religious leaders of our day, as an Anglican priest and bishop, he campaigns to fight poverty, racism, homophobia, AIDS and tuberculosis.

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For the last six months or so our congregation has been in an intense process of spiritual discernment. Spiritual discernment is the practice of listening and the process of seeking – listening for God’s word and seeking the movement of God’s Spirit in the life of the congregation. It is sort of the thing you need to do before you make a big decision that will affect the future of the congregation. Why? Because without listening for God’s voice we tend to make decisions only for ourselves – driven by our own minds and our own ideas.

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This summer while attending the General Synod of the United Church of Christ (the national setting of the UCC), I heard a term I had not ever heard before and it caused me to think deeply about my life and my (current) position of privilege. That term is “Temporarily Abled Person.” The context in which this term was used made it all the more disturbing: it was a presentation on one of the UCC’s four commitments to inclusion in ministry called “Accessible to All,” sometimes shortened to “A2A.”

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I’m always a little surprised to find that the Jesus in the Bible is really not the same as the Jesus in hymns and on those decorative plates your grandmother had.

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