SUNDAY 1.01.25 : SPEAKER DRAKE POWE

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DRAKE POWE from Minneapolis will be our speaker. His topic is:

“Becoming a Bridge and Not a Wall; Unlocking the Grudges that Keep Us Trapped”

BIO: Drake is a trauma informed and culturally relevant certified life coach, meditation instructor, stress reduction consultant and public speaker in Minneapolis/St. Paul and all around the metro area. By utilizing yoga and grounding techniques, he teaches a relationship to agelessness and thriving in the midst of modern challenges. Stress reduces our connection to our intuition, natural wisdom and natural healing abilities. Drake supports his clients in grounding themselves by using a blend of ancient and modern tools through simple practices. In this way, we can access our inner resources that center us, even as the world changes. He demonstrates that we are then able to find nonlinear methods to de-escalate conflict. Drake has been doing meditation practice since childhood and has over 35 years experience working in supporting personal growth in the midst of life’s challenges.
You can look for his video series on both physical and mental stress reduction and de-escalation techniques on his YouTube channel: “Touching The Edge”.

Join us IN PERSON at 10:30am

LIVE ZOOM available here:  

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83865904579?pwd=ZUtNWWRYT3grOVptUzMxcENka1pMUT09

PAST SERVICES available on our YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMGTZGmjWe6qwymZ7WYGQ5Q

Our Lunch follows our Service. 
    We consider it our communion.
Please bring food to share when you can.
All are WELCOME!  

  A N N O U N C E M E N T S

  Thursday January 2nd at 7:00pm. 

Janice Hymas will be holding a followup question and answer session at Church for the “The Bruno Groening Circle of Friends” For more information, visit our website at www.bruno-groening.org

   First Sunday Meditation Class: a 2 Hr Mini-Retreat with Robert Aho on January 5th  12:15-2:15pm monthly. Free Will Donation Requested.

~TEACHING WITH THE DOOR OPEN~

This series of teachings, as well as introduced meditation techniques, will provide the basis for Spiritual Practitioners to navigate the Complete Spiritual Path.  In this first part of the series, we will focus on building a strong Spiritual Foundation.  No matter where you are on the Path, whether Buddhist or otherwise, anyone from beginner to master must maintain their Spiritual Foundation.  If you have a very strong foundation, your Spiritual Practice will become indestructible, leading to greater stability, and awakening itself.  We will learn how to do just that.

The intent is to provide various transmissions and instructions, while keeping an eye on the goal, which is to awaken.  The door to our Real Nature is never closed, even though it may seem that way.  By keeping an eye on our own bright open condition, we will have some idea of what to expect as various realizations are discovered.  This will give people the tools necessary for a basic practice, which can be implemented daily.  Each meditation has a purpose.  To understand these tools, or meditative techniques, gives people what is necessary to awaken, and awakening is the only real purpose for meditation.  This will be explained in depth.

Robert Aho is a Dzogchen practitioner, someone who has experienced the Complete Spiritual Path, eventually realizing the Nature of Mind.  He will bring insight into this by sharing various teachings he has received, talking about what led to this, and by recalling his Near Death Experience, which is a reflection of our Complete Spiritual Path.  ‘Teaching with the door open’ means that Robert is teaching in such a way that gives people an idea of how to make yourself ready for receiving what is commonly regarded as secret or even extremely secret.  Robert has said many times, “This is something that I understand very well.  My own master, or Root Guru, Namkhai Norbu asked me to teach people.

Mark your calendar for our next FUNDRAISER :

        VALENTINES DINNER 
             FEBRUARY  7 , 2025
                Friday night 
              Plan ahead and
             Bring the Party!!  with your Family & Friends too!!

Power Outage: 
     Should the City of Duluth be without power on Sunday, the Church will not be open. 

  • Janine L. Bjerklie, 72, passed peacefully on November 30th, 2024 in Duluth, MN.
    Janine moved to Duluth in the early ‘70s, where she worked as an occupational therapist, spending most of her career working for the Duluth school district, retiring in 2015. She loved Duluth for its beauty, community, and friendships it brought her. She also had an adventurous spirit, trekking in India and Nepal, walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain, and singing with the Echoes of Peace choir.  Sara Thomsen will be singing as part of the service.  A memorial will be held at Peace Church in Duluth, MN on Jan. 4th, 2025, with visitation starting at 10 am, service at 11 am, with lunch to follow. Consider sharing a short story you have about Janine.
  • Volunteers Needed! Our Valentine’s Fundraising Dinner is fast approaching! Please let a board member know if you would be willing to help out!
  • Let’s share with the community! It was decided at our last board meeting to continue our outreach to organizations by donating monetary contributions from our Sunday lunch donations once a month. This will begin in January.
  • Are you interested in starting a Course in Miracles  study group? Since we’ve had such a group before, there has been some interest in starting this kind of study group again. Let a board member know if you want to be part of this.
  • Please think about joining our snow removal team. Steve and Michael can use your help! Contact Steve 218-606-2512.

UPCOMING SPEAKERS

JANUARY 12 : KRISTI MARIE NUR JEHAN CHISTI

​”Rise Up Singing”

JANUARY 19 : VINOD GUPTA

​”The Science of Manifestation​”

JANUARY 26 : BARBARA WITH

Will be our channel for our Partners in Spirit

Extended Zoom Link

Meeting ID: 838 6590 4579

Passcode: r15418