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| 913 S. Illinois Ave. - Carbondale, IL 62901 - (618) 549-7387 - www.ourgaiahouse.org |
| Directors: Kim Magwire & Maurine Pyle - Operations Manager: Jon-Paul Diefenbach |
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Calendar of Events
SUNDAY: 10:00 AM Quaker Meeting 1:00 PM Art & Spiritual Inquiry Group, Second & Fourth Sundays 2:00 PM Eckankar, Third Sunday 7:00 PM Carbondale Swings MONDAY: 8:30 AM Summer Labyrinth Walk 6:00 PM Women BEing, Second Monday 7:30 PM SIWADE, African Drumming TUESDAY: 8:30 AM Summer Labyrinth Walk 5:45 PM T'ai Chi 7:00 PM Shawnee Dharma Meditation WEDNESDAY: 8:30 AM Summer Labyrinth Walk 6:00-8:00 PM SIUC International Socialists 7:00 PM Shamanic Drum Circle, Second Wednesday 6:30 PM Peace Coalition, Third Wednesday THURSDAY: 8:30 AM Summer Labyrinth Walk 10:00 AM Collage For The Soul, First Thursday 12:00 PM Book Discussion The Quaker Reader by Jessamyn West 4:30 PM Non-Violent Communication Session 6:00 PM InterVeg, Vegetarian Potluck Dinner FRIDAY: 8:30 AM Summer Labyrinth Walk 6:00 PM Rice and Spice, International Slow Food Dinner SATURDAY: 2:00 PM Soil Chorus 6:00 PM Bitch and Stitch Weekly Events in Carbondale Vigil For Peace, Saturdays, Noon to 1 PM, corner of Main and Illinois, Carbondale. Sponsored by the Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois A Call for Caulkers Dear Friends, As we continue our efforts to revive Gaia House Interfaith Center and improve its sustainability, we will soon be caulking up the windows and walls. Many hands make light work, and we are looking to our wonderfully diverse community for anyone who wants to help with the effort! Please email the office if you have experience caulking and would like to help. If you want to help but don't know how, we are also very grateful for any donations of caulk or caulk guns. Thank you for helping us keep it together! |
Newsletter for July 20, 2010 New in This Issue:
WHAT IS IT AND HOW DOES IT WORK? WEDNESDAY, JULY 21 @ 4:30 PM Maurine Pyle, co-director of Gaia House Interfaith Center, will lead a community workshop to explore our collective concept of hospitality. All are welcome, especially volunteers, students, board members, and community members who visit Gaia House at least once a week to participate in its programs. Join us in an exploration of our 67-year-old culture of hospitality and where it might lead us in the future. THURSDAY, JULY 22 @ 6:00 PM The InterVeg Forum series is laying fallow for the summer, but the meals are still going strong! Not a vegatarian? Not a problem! All are welcome to come enjoy a good meal and a chance to play in the garden. Those tomatoes are about ready to fall off the vine! FRIDAY, JULY 23 @ 6:00 PM There is no scheduled chef or theme this week but that won't keep us from enjoying each others' company as we cook and eat together. We are looking for main chefs for the summer and fall to showcase their food and culture. Interested in being a chef? Feel free to email Aur Beck if you'd like to coordinate your own slow-food meal. Send a list of ingredients (within our budget) you need us to get so we can help you to prepare and share your tasty food. INTERVIEW WITH TOD KINGTON The latest in a continuing series of interviews being conducted by R. Michael Fisher, Director of our Center for Spiritual Inquiry and Integral Education, this one vastly elaborates on how Nonviolent Communication relates to a subject near to our hearts. Read the full article that the excerpt below is taken from. M: What stands out from the workshops you attended and what you saw in general communications at the [recent U.S. Social Forum in Detroit]? T: The immense amount of creativity out there and passion people have to remake the world. A world that will serve everybody's needs. I remember one gal had a t-shirt, which was indicative of the whole feel in the air: "Justice... not just us." And for me that speaks to the universality and community of all human needs. M: It seems overwhelming to think about the needs of not just myself but all the world? How are we going to get to care really about others needs in real action ways? T: First we have to dispel the myth of scarcity. And share the consciousness of abundance. Secondly, we have to abandon strategies for needs.... SATURDAY, JULY 24 @ 10:00 AM - NOON NVC is a powerful technique for staying true to ourselves and connected with others even in the face of fear and conflict. In this introduction you will learn to: Participants will be invited to continue and deepen their practice if they wish, through the ongoing practice group at Gaia House.
FRIDAYS, NOW - AUGUST 6 @ 10:00 AM FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST) Marleen Shepherd invites those interested to join her in examining the scholarly search for Jesus' actual words and deeds through the eyes of the controversial Jesus Seminar. The Seminar is comprised of more than 150 scholars from disciplines such as social anthropology, Biblical history and textual analysis, on a quest for the historical Jesus. This study is a non-dogmatic exploration of the historical Jesus. All with an interest are welcome to participate in any or all of the sessions, regardless of religious affiliation. For more info, contact Marleen Shepherd at (618) 521-3541 or by email. |
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With a mission to SIUC students and an outreach to the wider area, we are a welcoming community committed to spiritual awareness that integrates peace, justice, and ecological sustainability. Gaia House Interfaith Center's multipurpose areas, kitchen, and library are available for your meetings and social events. Free wireless internet access. Visit our free lending library and our Labyrinth Peace Garden, 913 S. Illinois Ave. (corner of Grand), Carbondale, IL 62901. Website: www.ourgaiahouse.com. Gaia House is now present on FaceBook and Twitter for daily updates and reminders. We are supported by the Illinois South Conference of the United Church of Christ, and locally by the Church of the Good Shepherd UCC, the Carbondale and Cobden First Presbyterian Churches, the Carbondale First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship, and many generous individuals and families. Thank you. Happenings in Faith, Peace, and Justice is available for your announcements. Please let your interested friends know about it. We will be happy to include them. Contact Jon-Paul Diefenbach, Operations Manager, at 618-549-7387, or by email. Subscribe/Unsubscribe |
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