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Sunday
Services are at 10am
FCCV
Sunday Service
Comcast Cable Community Voice
Channel 5
every Monday at 6 p.m.
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Pen - "Where
Healing Belongs..." |
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Senior Minister,
Reverend Dr. Peter
R.K. Brenner
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In an article entitled
"Where Healing Belongs"
psychologist Larry Cobb
wants to return soul care
to the local church. His
premise is termed "eldering."
He believes that a healthy
church emerges when older,
wiser members work with
younger, struggling men
and women. This interaction
allows healing to take
place.
His thoughts came to
mind when I reviewed what
I had written for the
worship schedule in May.
Our services include a
decommissioning, confirming
and receiving of new members,
a new members class with
sponsors and a Service
of Remembrance. There
will even be a baptism
to be celebrated by the
entire church family.
In every service there
is a dialogue among the
ages - older helping younger,
the younger amazing the
elder. Healing comes about
with this kind of interaction
because it promotes and
encourages wholeness.
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Larry Cobb came up with the
idea of "Do what's right."
The counseling community then
came along and said, "No,
there's something beneath people's
outward problem that's all messed
up." They came up with
a model that perhaps simplistically
I dub "Fix what's wrong."
Cobb's understanding is that
"beneath
all the damage there is something
good that God has placed within
us. It is spirit and a new heart.
Rather than fixing what's wrong
or doing what's right, we need
to release what's good within
us. A connection with elders
and friends awakens within us
what is powerful and good. I
like the idea of tapping into
God's Spirit. It's within us,
we just need to have the courage
to use it.
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Our
handbell Choir is performing --- more
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New Member Classes
have been scheduled more
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695 Hartford
Turnpike Vernon, CT 06066
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We
are located in Vernon, CT at Exit 66, off I-84 on Hartford
Turnpike (Route 30) & Center Road. If you need directions,
please click the Map logo to the right...
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Phone:
860-875-7580 Fax: 860-875-2436
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