Sermons
This Dreamer
Queries:
How can we transform destructive competition into creative collaboration?
How can we gain a more generous perspective on others?
Whose gifts are we invited to nurture?
Whose dreams are moving us to take action?
What are we to do in the face of relentless violence?
Crossing Over (Guest Speakers: Joe and Jane Snyder)
Joe and Jane have been Quakers for over 50 years and are both actively engaged in the Society of Friends. They have a long time commitment to working with children and youth. Joe and Jane first visited Guatemala attending a Quaker conference in 2006, where they learned of the Friends Scholarship Program. They became “hooked” on the program after being invited to attend a week long teaching English experience a few years later and have been regular visitors and contributors since. Both now serve on the board of directors of PROGRESA, the scholarship program. They are grateful to be with many Camas Friends at the peaceful witnesses for justice and due process at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Center in Portland.
Sustained In Grief (Guest Speaker: Sarah Katreen Hoggatt)
Sarah Katreen Hoggatt is the author of seven books and numerous articles. A writer, spiritual director, and international speaker (for which Sarah is a recorded minister of SCYMF), Sarah lives in Keizer, Oregon, where she dragon boats, takes guitar lessons, and makes art out of dots (when she has time). Sarah is on staff with Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) and also does freelance book design (this is what takes up a lot of her time). After serving as co-presiding clerk of SCYMF, she spends what free time she does have hiking with friends or cuddling up with a book on a rainy day.
A Stairway To Heaven
10 Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran. 11 He came to a certain place and stayed there for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place. 12 And he dreamed that there was a stairway set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
Discerning Love
Queries:
What has my God/Guide enticed me to do, say, or become?
When have I felt a “burning fire in my bones?” What did I do about it?
Does our truthtelling arise from a Loving Center? Does Love guide our speech?
How do I know when I am experiencing or expressing Love? What are the cues?
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