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Dear friends,
Are you looking for a spiritual community? A place where you are known and accepted for who you are and where you know and accept others for who they are. A place to build and maintain friendships over time. A place to meet others on a spiritual journey who seek to increase their awareness of the Divine within us and around us, and who encourage each other to be our best selves.
At New Spirit Community Church, you will find a warm and welcoming community, dedicated to your spiritual growth. We are gay and straight together, of many races, of different economic backgrounds and gender identities, and intentionally of diverse religious beliefs.
We try to live out the Biblical instruction “Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together.” We try to realize poet Walt Whitman’s vision of creating a community where we experience “the dear love of comrades.” And we are inspired by the words of poet Adrienne Rich, who writes:
My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.
We warmly invite you to become part of our lively experiment in religion and our vibrant community of faith. I hope to see you this Sunday morning at 11:00 am at the Chapel of the Great Commission on the Pacific School of Religion campus in Berkeley. We also offer a contemplative candlelight service on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 pm in the same location. Come and visit us to see if New Spirit Community Church is a fit for you!
Sincerely,
The Reverend Jim Mitulski