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Association of Congregational Christian Churches, P.O. Box 288,
Oak Creek, WI 53154
414-764-1620
Email:
naccc@naccc.org
Web Site: http://www.naccc.org |
| CALIFORNIA DREAMING |
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by Mike Fales, Director of Church Relations and Campus
Ministries at Olivet College in Michigan. This is his final article on NA
Churches. We hope to have a new writer from a different region of the
country starting with the September issue. Thank you, Mike! |
| Recently, Olivet College
held Alumni gatherings in California, allowing the College to
visit several NA Churches while there. Our President, Dr.
Donald Tuski, spoke at FCC of Los Angeles. Our Alumni
Director Marty Jennings spoke at Hyde Park Congregational, and I
spoke at Pilgrim Congregational in Pomona. I felt right at
home in their beautiful sanctuary which is designed in the "Akron
Plan," named for our Church in Akron, Ohio, and much like our
Church in Olivet. On Sunday evening I decided to pay a visit to
a new Church start in Los Angeles. It has the unusual name
of Tribe and it meets in the home of Rev. Rebecca
VerStraten-McSparran. As you might expect Tribe wasn't the
church most of us find on Sunday morning. The congregation
was casually dressed and seated on the floor with a small lit
candle in front of them. The worship service was conducted
in the Taize style where chants and songs with a few simple words
are repeated over and over again which make the service
uncomplicated, meditative and accessible to all.
At first glance you might be tempted to identify the Church as
"New Age." What I experienced with them was not that at all.
The worship service was Christian, with a Christian, and it was
Congregational.
Each of the Congregational Churches we visited was different
and unique. The common thread that holds them all together
is that they are distinctly Christian and distinctly
Congregational. Thank God we have so much freedom to be able
to do His work in so many different ways.
LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE
We have all experienced either first hand, or through a
close friend, the challanges a family can go through in providing
long-term care for a loved one. Not only are we faced with
the financial considerations (long term care is the leading cause
of impoverishment among the elderly), but the emotional and
spiritual ones as well. The good news is that through
education and proper planning, the more serious problems can be
minimized.
The NACCC is pleased to announce, that after receiving the
endorsement from the Financial Services Committee, it has
partnered with our friends at Northwestern Mutual to sponsor a
long-term care program. This program not only provides
educational and personal planning services, but also discounted
long term care insurance for NA Church members and their parents
and parents-in-law (whether or not they belong to an NA Church).
Visit our web site at www.naccc.org
for more details. |
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