Community Circle Congregation

01/04/2022

Spring is here and the month of April too! April holds a Communion and Holy Week services, Living Spiritual Practices, and a very special The Disciple's Tool Box session on "Evangelist Blessing" with guest presenter Jane Gardner, Community of Christ's Presiding Evangelist. For more details, see our Events Page: https://communitycircleeurope.org/events

02/01/2021

Join us tomorrow at Community Circle, Sunday, January 3rd at 7PM UK | 8PM CET as we celebrate Epiphany in community and through communion! We'll be blessed by the ministry of our sister Gina Colvin in New Zealand:

* All are welcome and worthy at the Lord's Supper (communion) in Community of Christ. For online community, please prepare a piece of bread and a small amount of wine (juice)/water for the service.

* To receive Zoom Link: https://form.jotform.com/maaronwright/sundayworship

* Join us 15 min before and after the service for fellowship!

02/01/2021

SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, January 28th - 6PM UK/7PM CET

Community Circle's The Disciple's Tool Box Series returns this month with guest presenter/facilitator Gail Nicolaysen-Shurtleff, Elder in Community of Christ, member of Community Circle, and practicing psychotherapist, who will present "Accompanying Grief and Loss: Journeying with those who Mourn".

Registration Link: https://form.jotform.com/maaronwright/thedisciplestoolbox

09/12/2020

Voices from Europe: Check out Michael Bott's Advent contribution to the Daily Bread today, "Froher Advent". Michael lives in Hannover, Germany.

In Germany where I live, we say “Froher Advent,” (Happy Advent) at this time of the year, and the Advent season is very prominent here. Lighting the Advent candles, Advent calendars where a door is opened every day from December 1–24, and all the other Advent preparations say, “Christ is com...

03/12/2020

Voices from Europe: Check out Chantal Müller-Mukamurera's Advent contribution to the Daily Bread today. Chantal lives in Munich, Germany.

This year everything seems to be slowing down to me. But still my life is not enough to do justice to all the people to whom my heart belongs. A scripture in the Book of Mormon says, “It is not necessary that people run faster than they have strength.”

01/12/2020

Our Gift to You! This past Sunday we began the Advent Season by lighting the candle of hope. We will continue to journey through this season of anticipation of Christmas each weekend in our worship services, but we wanted to give you a virtual Advent Calendar made by the Leadership Team to accompany you each day through the season.

Michael, Rand, Gail & Claire has created an advent calendar for you! Happy holidays! :)

03/11/2020

Join us for our Virtual Pilgrimage Weekend November 14-15, 2020! This retreat weekend includes the following events, hosted by Community Circle and Comunidad de Cristo España:

* The Disciple's Tool Box: A Journey of Becoming: A Workshop of Personal Pilgrimage. Presenter: Apostle Janné Grover. Saturday, Nov. 14th 5:30 p.m. UK | 6:30 p.m. CET (Simultaneous Spanish translation available)

* Worship Service: Our Faith Adventure. Guest Minister: Mission Center President, Joey Williams. Sunday, Nov. 15th 7 PM UK | 8 PM CET (Bilingual service Spanish/English)

* To receive the Zoom links for these events, please click here to register: https://form.jotform.com/maaronwright/november2020

21/09/2020

Today, Community of Christ observes International Day of Peace with a live Prayer for Peace.
Join us with thousands in other cities to create an international wave of peace. Please join us as Apostle Janné Grover shares the Daily Prayer for Peace from the Temple sanctuary, live on the church's page (Community of Christ) at 7 p.m. (UK time), 8 p.m. Europe Time.

Did you know that Community of Christ and Independence, USA (the church's headquarters) have several connections to the international peace effort? Among them:

* A twelve-foot statue, “Girl with Dove” by Tom Corbin, stands on the United Nations Peace Plaza near the Community of Christ Auditorium.

* The church presents its International Peace Award at World Conference every three years. It has been awarded to Jane Goodall and Ela Gandhi, among others. The most recent recipients were local: Sister Andrea Kantner at Franciscan Mission Warehouse and Gary White of Water.org.

* On 27 June 1945, President Harry Truman arrived in Independence and addressed thousands of onlookers in the Auditorium. He had signed the United Nations Charter just the day before in San Francisco. The brand-new UN was the subject of his speech in Independence.

* On 11 December 2006, after his final speech as UN secretary-general, delivered at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Kofi Annan visited the Peace Plaza for a wreath-laying ceremony.

The UN promotes the International Day of Peace.

07/07/2020

Mini-Service: July 5, 2020
In case you were unable to join us, here is a snapshot of what we learned and celebrated in community this week:

* Lectionary Scripture: Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

* Guest Minister, Nancy Ross (Pastor of the Southern Utah Congregation in the US and Art Historian) used "The Banjo Lesson" by Henry Ossawa Tanner for a Visio Divina Spiritual Life practice. What do you observe in this painting? How does this painting relate to the Lectionary Scripture? Can you see the Divine in this scene of intentional listening, caring, and rest? How might this painting challenge the way you see Jesus?

* The community celebrated the Lord's Supper together.

* Disciple's Generous Response: James 1:5. God is generous with us when we ask! Reflection: Are you the generosity that others have asked God for?

* Closing hymn: "Come unto me" by Take 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7sgIdvj8U

25/06/2020