Recovering from divorce is not an easy task. More often than not we need help to heal and put life back together again. Solo Flight's next divorce recovery program, "Journey to Wholeness," is scheduled for September 2009.
Meanwhile, Christ Episcopal Church is offering a mini-course which meets for five consecutive weeks, starting January 21, 2009. We will meet from 7:00 to 8:00 pm in Room 206 in the Christian Family Center. This course is at no charge and registration is not required. For complete details and other information, contact Terry Totman at 285-7390 x 231.
12/12/08
Solo Flight Singles Ministry Retreat
Sign up now for Solo Flight’s Retreat
Calls are already coming in from around the country for Christ Church’s third annual Solo Flight Singles Retreat -- “Becoming Like Jesus: A Weekend of Experiencing God’s Grace,” led by Chris Webb, president of the Christian church renewal organization Renovare.
With that kind of advance interest, there’s sure to be a large and varied group of people at the Cerveny Conference Center at Camp Weed, March 13-15, 2009. If you’re single -- never married, divorced or widowed -- be sure to sign up now for what promises to be an enjoyable and enriching weekend of spiritual discovery and shared fellowship.
The focus of the retreat is to explore spiritual disciplines that lead to a more mature life and faith. Father Bob Morris, who has heard Chris Webb speak, describes him as “an earthed individual” who is “funny, engaging, young and very spiritual.”
The weekend’s program includes activities and social time, all set amid the serene, “Old Florida” surroundings of Camp Weed, where you can hike through the woods or relax in a rocking chair. At the 2008 retreat, attendees created dramatic cross-shaped collages from “found” materials -- who knows what this year’s retreat will create?
As Solo Flight Singles Ministry has grown at Christ Church, from 20 active members in 2006 to more than 300 today, so have its activities and shared experiences in service, sociability and spirituality. Solo Flight members serve breakfast in the parish center one Sunday a month, take kayaking trips, help build Habitat homes and gather for social events.
“This is a church that takes singles seriously,” says Holly Scholl, one of Solo Flight’s founders at Christ Church. And singles can become as seriously involved as they wish in any or all Solo Flight events. Sign up now for the retreat and become better acquainted with your spiritual self, your fellow singles at Christ Church and others attending the event.
Cost for the retreat, including room, board and all materials, is $190 per person double occupancy, $275 single occupancy. The deadline to sign up is Feb. 1, 2009. For more information, contact Terry Totman at 285-7390 x 231 or terrytotman@christepiscopalchurch.org.
Solo Flight Singles Ministry members attending the 2008 spiritual retreat created large, distinctive “cross collages” that were displayed on the Christ Church campus. Sign up now for the 2009 retreat, “Becoming Like Jesus: A Weekend of Experiencing God’s Grace,” March 13-15 at Camp Weed.
By Kathy Cramer
Calls are already coming in from around the country for Christ Church’s third annual Solo Flight Singles Retreat -- “Becoming Like Jesus: A Weekend of Experiencing God’s Grace,” led by Chris Webb, president of the Christian church renewal organization Renovare.
With that kind of advance interest, there’s sure to be a large and varied group of people at the Cerveny Conference Center at Camp Weed, March 13-15, 2009. If you’re single -- never married, divorced or widowed -- be sure to sign up now for what promises to be an enjoyable and enriching weekend of spiritual discovery and shared fellowship.
The focus of the retreat is to explore spiritual disciplines that lead to a more mature life and faith. Father Bob Morris, who has heard Chris Webb speak, describes him as “an earthed individual” who is “funny, engaging, young and very spiritual.”
The weekend’s program includes activities and social time, all set amid the serene, “Old Florida” surroundings of Camp Weed, where you can hike through the woods or relax in a rocking chair. At the 2008 retreat, attendees created dramatic cross-shaped collages from “found” materials -- who knows what this year’s retreat will create?
As Solo Flight Singles Ministry has grown at Christ Church, from 20 active members in 2006 to more than 300 today, so have its activities and shared experiences in service, sociability and spirituality. Solo Flight members serve breakfast in the parish center one Sunday a month, take kayaking trips, help build Habitat homes and gather for social events.
“This is a church that takes singles seriously,” says Holly Scholl, one of Solo Flight’s founders at Christ Church. And singles can become as seriously involved as they wish in any or all Solo Flight events. Sign up now for the retreat and become better acquainted with your spiritual self, your fellow singles at Christ Church and others attending the event.
Cost for the retreat, including room, board and all materials, is $190 per person double occupancy, $275 single occupancy. The deadline to sign up is Feb. 1, 2009. For more information, contact Terry Totman at 285-7390 x 231 or terrytotman@christepiscopalchurch.org.
Solo Flight Singles Ministry members attending the 2008 spiritual retreat created large, distinctive “cross collages” that were displayed on the Christ Church campus. Sign up now for the 2009 retreat, “Becoming Like Jesus: A Weekend of Experiencing God’s Grace,” March 13-15 at Camp Weed.By Kathy Cramer
Christ Church New Year's Eve Celebration
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elebrate We Will!
Join fellow parishioners and ring in the New Year at Christ Church. What better place and better way to welcome in 2009 than with faith and fellowship? Bring your PDAs and Day Timers to be blessed . Watch the ball drop on the big screen television in the new Parish Center. Raise a toast and enjoy hors d'oerves at a reception hosted by Solo Flight. Singles who wish to volunteer, please contact Holly Scholl at beachscholl@comcast.net or 242-7129
by Robin Ray
elebrate We Will!Join fellow parishioners and ring in the New Year at Christ Church. What better place and better way to welcome in 2009 than with faith and fellowship? Bring your PDAs and Day Timers to be blessed . Watch the ball drop on the big screen television in the new Parish Center. Raise a toast and enjoy hors d'oerves at a reception hosted by Solo Flight. Singles who wish to volunteer, please contact Holly Scholl at beachscholl@comcast.net or 242-7129
by Robin Ray
12/11/08
“How A Near-Death Experience Changes How One Looks at Life”
“How A Near-Death Experience Changes How One Looks at Life”
Solo Flight Singles Ministry Luncheon Series
They say there are some moments in our lives which change us forever. These moments change the way we think, behave and view life and death. How do you think facing your own death would change you? On January 18, the Solo Flight Luncheon Series continues with the Rev.
Richard Roos who will speak of his own near-death experience and how it changed how he views life. Roos, an ordained priest in 1970, has degrees from St. Meinrad College, Gregorian University in Rome, Italy and Indiana University. His story is moving and affirming- and sprinkled with humor.
Plan to join us in the new Parish Center, following the 11:15 a.m. Eucharist. Lunch is $5 and child care is provided if you reserve by Jauary 12th. For reservations or more information, contact Mary Alice Wester at 273-2961 or mawester@bellsouth.net.
- By Robin Ray
Solo Flight Singles Ministry Luncheon Series
They say there are some moments in our lives which change us forever. These moments change the way we think, behave and view life and death. How do you think facing your own death would change you? On January 18, the Solo Flight Luncheon Series continues with the Rev.
Richard Roos who will speak of his own near-death experience and how it changed how he views life. Roos, an ordained priest in 1970, has degrees from St. Meinrad College, Gregorian University in Rome, Italy and Indiana University. His story is moving and affirming- and sprinkled with humor.Plan to join us in the new Parish Center, following the 11:15 a.m. Eucharist. Lunch is $5 and child care is provided if you reserve by Jauary 12th. For reservations or more information, contact Mary Alice Wester at 273-2961 or mawester@bellsouth.net.
- By Robin Ray
Cosmic Bowling
Cosmic Bowling
Friday January 16th, 2009
Solo Flight Singles Ministry
Beaches Bowling Center, 818 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville Beach.
Come enjoy the fun of bowling with music, glowing bowling pins and cosmic lighting. No bowling experience is needed; even if you can’t bowl come visit and join in the laughs and fun. The cost is $9.00 per person for two games of bowling and bowling shoes, starting at 7:00PM. For information contact ejverges@aol.com Cell # (904) 553-1510.
Friday January 16th, 2009
Solo Flight Singles Ministry
Beaches Bowling Center, 818 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville Beach.
Come enjoy the fun of bowling with music, glowing bowling pins and cosmic lighting. No bowling experience is needed; even if you can’t bowl come visit and join in the laughs and fun. The cost is $9.00 per person for two games of bowling and bowling shoes, starting at 7:00PM. For information contact ejverges@aol.com Cell # (904) 553-1510.
12/10/08
Solo Flight Christmas Traditions
I don’t want to haul a big “real” tree in and out by myself, so I’ve become attached to this raggedy little tree that proudly pretends to be alive, wrapped in a burlap ball with “snow” on its branches. My grandchildren help me decorate it every year. I’m reminded that Marin Luther decorated a small evergreen tree in his home with candles to replicate the beauty of the December stars shining through the branches of the fir trees. Wondering what other singles do at Christmas, I spoke to members of Solo Flight about their special ways of celebrating the holidays.
When their children were little, Malinda and Murray Harris used to sing carols on Christmas Eve, with Malinda at the piano, then read the Christmas story from Luke, so the children could talk about it before they heard it in church. They always had fondue for dinner. Now that Malinda is widowed, she still puts up a tree and remembers all the Christmases with her family through the ornaments collected over the years. She lights the Advent wreath by herself and finds it meaningful. On Christmas morning, her daughter and grandchildren come over for breakfast and open presents. However, Malinda says, “For our family, there was never any doubt that Christmas Eve was centered at the church, and for me, it still is.”
Alan Moore said, “We always tried to focus on family during the Christmas season and even after we divorced, we have continued to maintain that family focus. I take my kids who are now all in college to pick out a Christmas tree- it’s a tradition to argue over the ‘perfect’ tree. We decorate it together with Christmas music and eggnog with the last item being the angel on the very top of the tree. On Christmas Eve, we have dinner and then visit the Ponte Vedra Inn to see the giant tree and take the annual family photo in front of it. Then it’s off to church for the ‘midnight’ service together. My favorite times are when we sing O Come All Ye Faithful at the beginning and then later Silent Night, kneeling in a candlelit church. The joy of Jesus coming into the world is so real and so present.”
Because Carol Chestnut is single and doesn’t have children, Christmas is always spent at someone else’s home, and their traditions become hers for the day. She adds, “In my home, though, I put up a tree. I also have a large collection of St. Nicholas figures and traditional Santas that I always display because they’re so beautiful. My favorite is Santa, down on one knee, praying.”
Whatever we do as singles is part of a joyous explosion of celebration, our birthday party for Jesus. Each year, our traditions remind us again that we have such a foundational reason to rejoice and to remember that we are not alone!
- By Barbara Church
When their children were little, Malinda and Murray Harris used to sing carols on Christmas Eve, with Malinda at the piano, then read the Christmas story from Luke, so the children could talk about it before they heard it in church. They always had fondue for dinner. Now that Malinda is widowed, she still puts up a tree and remembers all the Christmases with her family through the ornaments collected over the years. She lights the Advent wreath by herself and finds it meaningful. On Christmas morning, her daughter and grandchildren come over for breakfast and open presents. However, Malinda says, “For our family, there was never any doubt that Christmas Eve was centered at the church, and for me, it still is.”
Alan Moore said, “We always tried to focus on family during the Christmas season and even after we divorced, we have continued to maintain that family focus. I take my kids who are now all in college to pick out a Christmas tree- it’s a tradition to argue over the ‘perfect’ tree. We decorate it together with Christmas music and eggnog with the last item being the angel on the very top of the tree. On Christmas Eve, we have dinner and then visit the Ponte Vedra Inn to see the giant tree and take the annual family photo in front of it. Then it’s off to church for the ‘midnight’ service together. My favorite times are when we sing O Come All Ye Faithful at the beginning and then later Silent Night, kneeling in a candlelit church. The joy of Jesus coming into the world is so real and so present.”
Because Carol Chestnut is single and doesn’t have children, Christmas is always spent at someone else’s home, and their traditions become hers for the day. She adds, “In my home, though, I put up a tree. I also have a large collection of St. Nicholas figures and traditional Santas that I always display because they’re so beautiful. My favorite is Santa, down on one knee, praying.”
Whatever we do as singles is part of a joyous explosion of celebration, our birthday party for Jesus. Each year, our traditions remind us again that we have such a foundational reason to rejoice and to remember that we are not alone!
- By Barbara Church
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