Adult Education
Setting New Year Intentions January 11, 18 and 25
Led by Ashley Goff
The New Year is traditionally a time to set resolutions or goals. Goal making is a valuable tool; it involves envisioning a future outcome in your world or in your behavior. One plans, applies discipline, and works hard to achieve New Year goals. Setting intentions is somewhat different.
Setting intentions is not oriented toward a future outcome but, instead, it is a path or practice that is focused on how you are “being” in the present moment. Intentions call your attention to the “now.” You set your intentions based on what matters the most to you and make a commitment to align your actions with your inner values. You live your intentions every day.
This popular, three week series will call us to set New Year intentions. What values do we want to see blossom in our lives this year? What values or intentions need our highest priority in 2009? Come to reflect on 2008 and to set your own personal intentions so you can l
Becoming an Accessible Congregation
January 11, 18, and 25
in the Bird Room
In 2001 the Church of the Pilgrims was certified as an “Accessible Congregation” by the National Organization on Disability. The Certificate noted that Pilgrims’ values people with disabilites, seeing in them the image of God, and that the congregation was trying to remove architectural barriers to accessibility. It’s taken nearly eight years, but in January 2009 Pilgrims will dedicate architectural changes that dramatically improve the accessibility of the rear building entrance and first floor bathroom. In conjunction with that event, an adult education series on disability will be held January 11, 18, and 25, 9:30-10:30 in the Bird Room. It will feature a visit by Judy Heumann, internationally known leader of the disability rights movement, who has held high offices in the Department of Education and the World Bank, and is now Director of the DC Division of Disability Services.
