Musings from Pastor Kim
7 Feb: Church is cancelled
Hello all you Children of
God,
We need to get our "Get
Acquainted with your Bible' series done by Lent so the adult Sunday School class
will do chapters one and two this week.
Remember Ad Council is this Sunday afternoon. The confirmation class will be
attending this meeting to 'see how church works'. Please remember leaders that
our confirmands will need to meet with some of you individually after the
meeting to ask you questions about the work of the church. Thank you.
Pastor Kim will be at Pastor's convocation this week - from Monday until
Thursday evening. If you have a pastoral emergency please call Kathy Brown,
Doug Spalding, or Anne Szymanski (our new staff parish chair). They will know
how to get in touch with me. Thank you. The speaker is the Bishop Schnase who
wrote 5 Practices of a Fruitful Congregation. He is writing a new book: 5
practices of a Fruitful Christian. Can't wait to tell you all about it.
Mission opportunity: Feb. 19/20 Prince of Peace Lutheran will be having a 'bag
a meal' event for Stop Hunger Now. EVeryone is invited to go for an hour or a
whole evening or morning. It is a child friendly mission. The meals were
designated to go to Haiti prior to the earthquake. God is Great!! See the
bulletin for more details or go to Prince of Peace's website.
thank you all - for loving and serving the Living God. God will be walking
before you in everything you do this day - keep your eyes open - God may need
you to do something.
God bless,
Shalom, salaam and peace to
you and to the world, Pastor Kim
Rev, Kimberly Barker-Brugman
Phone 703-339-3948
E-Mail PastorKim1@cs.com
www.Silverbrook-umc.org
Bishop Kammerer signs open letter urging Gov.-elect McDonnell to oppose
Robertson's divisive remarksbr />
Bishop Charlene Kammerer was one of three faith leaders who signed an open
letter to Governor-elect Bob McDonnell that was printed on the Op-Ed page of the
Richmond Times-Dispatch on Nov. 25 urging McDonnell to distance himself from
recent remarks by the Rev. Pat Robertson. Robertson, the Virginia Beach-based
founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, asserted that Islam "is not a
religion" but a "violent political system" after the shooting at Fort Hood,
Texas. Robertson is a longtime supporter and associate of McDonnell.
"We strongly disagree with Robertson's words of intolerance and hate because we
believe that our religious traditions are built upon love and compassion," the
letter says. "Robertson's words are more than a simple `disagreement. ' For
those who listen to him, they are a call to action, a call to hate your
neighbor. They are against our tradition of religious tolerance and diversity,
central to the character of our nation. Words of hate such as those spoken by
Robertson will create in America and Virginia new room for bigotry and
intolerance. Our shared traditions call upon us to create local spaces for
mutual appreciation and understanding."
Bishop Kammerer, Dr. M. Imad Damaj of the Virginia Muslim Coalition for Public
Affairs and Rabbi Martin Beifield Jr. of Congregation Beth Ahabah, Richmond,
signed the letter on behalf of leaders of the Episcopal, Baptist, Presbyterian
and Lutheran churches, United Church of Christ, Church of the Brethren, Jewish
and Muslim congregations, Virginia Council of Churches and Virginia Interfaith
Center for Public Policy.
The Times-Dispatch followed up three days later with an editorial
voicing support for the faith leaders' letter. "If Robertson's ill-tempered
remarks were an isolated incident they might be written off," the newspaper's
Editorial Board wrote. "But they are not." The editorial also said that
McDonnell's relationship with Robertson deserved the same kind of scrutiny that
Barack Obama's relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright received during the
2008 presidential campaign.
We have Sunday school
classes
for everyone at 9:45. Bring your friends and neighbors. You do
not need to participate in class (we would love you to but you don't have
to) so no excuses - the coffee is even ready at that hour!!
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