Awaken Community

Pastor Kelly Chatman joins us this morning to continue our series on the Life & Teachings of Jesus.

For our second week of the series, we're talking about the third way; non-violence and peace making. It's the way of Jesus and of his kingdom.   ***This week we made the hard decision to be back online for a few weeks due to the surge of covid cases.

At Awaken, we say we're about the well and not the fence. We prefer to gather around the well instead of building a fence to decide who's in and who's out. Which begs the question - what's in the well? What do we center ourselves around? Starting this week, we'll name those things that we center our community around. 

As a community, we reflect on 2021 and share some of the ways we saw God working in our lives through the year. 

We invite you to consider the arrival of Emmanuel. God with us. 

This Sunday, we had the treat of hearing from Pastor Jenna. She shared what it might look like to have the author of Peace with us here and now in this time. 

The word “father” can be complicated. It can be discomforting. It can bring up bad memories. It can also be reassuring and warm. However you come to that today, there’s a place for you.   We had an original sketch written by Tiffany Cornwell, Directed by Joy Donley, starring Tiffany Cornwell and Mike Donley during the gatherings.

This second week of Advent, the week of Joy, we continue on in Isaiah 9 on the names of the Lord - Almighty God. The Lord's might is different than the typical might; the way of the Lord doesn't fight fire with fire, violence with violence. So what does the Lord's might look like?

For the first Sunday of advent, we continue our tradition of the Advent art series with Vanessa Lucius brining her painting and Brienna Rossiter, a poem. This season, we'll be going through Isaiah 9:6 where it's prophesied the coming of Jesus and the names that he will be known as; Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

In addition to Jenna's prayer and reflection practice, we have Micah's teaching he would have taught on Sunday should he have been able to make it. He closes out the Faith & Doubt series with John the Baptist who asks "are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?"    Meditation music by: Signa (feat. John Mark Nelson)