Koinonia is a group of women that meet twice a month to support each other, pray together and hopefully grow spiritually along the way. Fall meetings begin soon! The daytime group, facilitated by Leslie Diamond, meets at the Journey Warehouse on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month at 11:30 a.m. The evening group, facilitated by Susan Corbin, meets at the Journey Warehouse on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month at 6:00 p.m. All women are invited, so bring your friends, bring your meal, or just bring your own sweet self. Please contact Leslie or Susan if you have any questions!

Our first meeting  will be Monday, Sept. 13. We'll get together and discuss our plans for the fall and spring. Then our book study will begin on Monday, Oct. 4.

The book that the group chose in May to study this fall is Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women's Lives by Jean Shinoda Bolen.  It is a wonderful book that helps us to understand ourselves more clearly.

The backcover of the book reads:

"Myths are fascinating stories that become even more intriguing when we realize that they can reveal intimate truths about ourselves and others.  Esteemed Jungian analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen brings the Greek pantheon to life as our inner archetypes and applies the power of myth to our personal lives."

Here is the schedule of meetings for 2010-11:

October 4          Pages  1-34      Intro – Activating the Goddesses

October 18        Pages 35-74    The Virgin Goddesses - Artemis

November 1       Pages 75-106    Athena

November 15     Pages 107-131    Hestia 

December 6       Pages 132-167    The Vulnerable Goddesses - Hera

January 17        Pages 168-196    Demeter

February 7        Pages 197-223    Persephone

February 21       Pages 224-262    The Alchemical Goddess – Aphrodite

March 7            Pages 263-295    Which Goddess Gets the Golden Apple? – The Heroine in Everywoman

March 21     We will decide what we will read and discuss for the last few meetings at a later date.

April 4

April 18

May 2

May 16

Join Koinonia for some great discussions!

Parents – September 12 is our official promotion Sunday - the week all the kids will move up into their new grades!  This year we will be trying something new with our Children’s Ministry: all of the K-5 children will be combined into one large class.  This class will meet in the library and use the small classrooms for projects.  (The Preschool class will remain in their room).  Our new curriculum is multi-age and experiential, and we are excited to launch a new year of learning with and from our youngest Journeyers.  All of the children (preschool – 5^th grade) will be participating in similar, age-appropriate lessons during Sunday school, and those in Children’s Worship will be building on what they did in Sunday school (although it is not necessary for a child to have attended Sunday school in order for Children’s Worship to make sense). 

If you would like to volunteer to help out with our children or have any questions about this new system or curriculum please contact Bethany Paul (bpaul@journeyifc.com) or the Mind Team (terryz@io.com or julieclawson@gmail.com)

The Death, Dying and Bereavement Series is held at the Journey Warehouse 7-9 p.m. Everyone is welcome!

Monday, October 18th Topic: Spiritual/Theological concepts around dying - Another opportunity to be with Rick as we discuss / ask questions and "just be" with this time in life ~Dying! Rick will be in the space with us as we question, think silently and out loud, discover our beliefs and disbelief...and anything else...

Monday, November 15th Topic: cultural diversity and the difference between grief and complicated grief

Monday, December 13th "Grief and the Holidays"

There is a new Journey Men's Group meeting now scheduled for the First Sunday of each Month. This Sunday, May 2nd will be our first meeting. ALL MEN ARE INVITED...and bring a friend...just remember the "first rule."

We'll gather in the "Youth Pit" at Journey at 7pm...sharp! Hope to see you there...but if you can't make it...just remember...we will meet the FIRST SUNDAY of every month...so come next month...

When light passes though a lens, it is bent or "refracted." It is changed. We all see the world through the lens of our own experience. Here, Journeyers share some of those experiences and lenses with you. Refractions is a new feature of the Journey website that will present stories, images and sounds that show how Journeyers see the world and the Divine. This project was very dear to our late pastor David Gentiles and is dedicated to his memory.

If you are interested in contributing to Refractions, please contact Margaret Zimmerman.