[Uucf-bible] Revival in NYC update

[RevRonRobinson at aol.com]

Hi all. 
 
First, please, prayers requested for all those working on Revival in New  
York City coming up early next month (I don't want to start counting the days or  
weeks yet :) ). And for all those who will be travelling there, and for all  
those preparing to present special programs, and heck, for NYC and the host  
church itself, Fourth Universalist Society...
 
Second, we are pleased to announce that the Communion Service Leader and  
Preacher for the 9 a.m. service, Saturday Nov. 4, will be the Rev. Jeffrey Lane  
Gould of Wilmslow, United Kingdom. Jeffrey is a Massachusetts native,  whose 
childhood was spent worshipping in the Congregational tradition of the  United 
Church of Christ.  He initially trained for a career in the  performing arts, 
but eventually answered a call to the ordained ministry.  He holds a degree in 
Religious Studies from Brown University, and a degree  in Theology from the 
University of Oxford.  Jeff was a staff  member of the Church Divinity School 
of the Pacific in Berkeley,  California, and was commissioned by the Episcopal 
Bishop of California  to exercise a lay ministry in the San Francisco County 
Jail and the San  Francisco General Hospital.  For the past 21 years, he has 
served  congregations of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian 
Churches  in the United Kingdom. This is his third attendance at a UUCF  
"Revival".
 
Other worship will include: Opening Worship Thursday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. led  
by Revival Coordinator Kim Hampton from St. Louis. The 9 a.m. Friday morning  
Taize Service will be led by Chris Walton, editor of the UU World magazine,  
graduate of Harvard Divinity School, blogger at _www.philocrites.com_ 
(http://www.philocrites.com) , who has travelled to  and learned from the Taize 
community in France. The Saturday Nov. 4 5 to  6:30 p.m. prayer and healing service is 
still in planning stages. Closing  Revival Circle will be Sunday morning Nov. 
5 at 9:30 a.m. and then Closing  Worship at 10:45 a.m. led by Rev. Rosemary 
Bray McNatt of Fourth Universalist  Society.
 
In between of course are the keynote lectures, on Friday "Resisting Good  
News" by Jim Mulholland, co-author of books (If Grace Is True and If God is  
Love) on universal salvation and others, and on Saturday "Liberal Theology  Today: 
Crisis and Renewal in Progressive Religion" by Dr. Gary Dorrien, one of  the 
leading theologians in the U.S. and author of the series on "The Making of  
American Liberal Theology" and many others and professor at Union Theological  
Seminary in NYC. 
 
Also, the small groups that will focus on spiritual sharing and bible  study, 
and workshops by the Keynote Lecturers, as well as others on church  history, 
aspects of UU Christianity and living as a UU Christian in our  churches, 
Art, Sacred Poetry, and Music. 
 
Registration for only $150 for full time adult, $50 full time for those  
under 18 years old (which includes catered meal Friday evening), and one-day  
registration either Friday or Saturday for $50.
 
You can register by email to _RevRonRobinson at aol.com_ 
(mailto:RevRonRobinson at aol.com)   and send  payment to the UUCF offices, P.O. Box 6702, Turley, OK  
74156, OR indicate  you will be paying upon arrival at the church where all 
events will be held. We  mainly need to know those planning to come for our own 
planning purposes.  So if the Spirit is moving within you to come, it is never 
too late. And we  are ending each day's activities earlier than usual to give 
plenty of time for  folks to have fellowship and enjoy NYC together. 
 
Go to _www.uuchristian.org_ (http://www.uuchristian.org)  for more  on 
Revival and the Keynote Lectures. 
 
blessings,
Ron Robinson