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Classes - Current Classes, Workshops & Events
Classes are offered in-person, and workshops, in-person or via Zoom.
WHAT’S YOUR VISION FOR 2025? WORKSHOP
WHEN: Sunday, January 5, 2025, 12:30 pm ~ 2:00 pm
WHERE: CCC living room, following service
FACILITATOR: Dana Smith, RScP
COST: $20 or love offering donation
What better time to bring your desires for financial abundance, meaningful relationships, or vibrant health into focus than the beginning of the new year? Shape your vision for the future through focused and clear, attention and intention. We will come together in our nurturing community and inspire one another to create a tapestry of hope and infinite possibilities where our dreams can take flight.
A HERO’S JOURNEY: MY ADVENTURE DOWN THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD CLASS
A Feel Good Class
DATE: Thursdays, beginning January 9th, 2025 (8 weeks )
TIME: 7:00 - 9:15 pm
FACILITATOR: Rev. Dr. Margaret Palagye
LOCATION: Rev. Dr. Margaret's Home
TUITION: $175 (purchase book separately)
BOOK: The Wizard of Us: Transformational Lessons from Oz by Jean Houston
This class promises to be a grand adventure of boundless possibilities filled
with “ah-ha” moments! Students will discover just how amazingly brilliant,
brave, and lovable they are; essential to Life itself! Using Jean Houston’s
book, The Wizard of Us: Transformational Lessons from Oz, we will uncover
the deeper messages within "The Wizard of Oz" that await each of us.
14TH ANNIVERSARY LUNCHEON CELEBRATION
DATE: Sunday, January 12, 2025
TIME: 12:00 noon - 3:00 pm following service
LOCATION: the Collingswood Community Center
COST: $45.00/person
Celebrating 14th Years of Joy and Gratitude!!!
Are you ready to party? Are you ready for an afternoon of fabulous fun, friends, food and entertainment? Let's celebrate together.
Enjoy a lovely catered luncheon, dancing, & fantastic music provided by the amazing and talented, Ginger Coyle and Daille Kettrell, and more!
Joyful Gathering wholeheartedly welcomes Rev. Dr. Michelle. On stage, in person, or virtually, Michelle is a dynamic speaker who delivers powerful messages of empowerment, forgiveness, acceptance, love, and tools to never again be at the mercy of anything and to live life gloriously! Her recent book, Shadow Work, A Spiritual Path to Healing & Integration, was released in September.
Join Michelle as she leads you into a somatic experience of your God essence. 90 minutes of imagining, feeling, and moving in God.
Go to www.michellewadleigh.com for more information.
COMMUNITY MEETING
WHEN: Sunday, February 9, 2025, 12:30 pm ~ 1:30 pm
WHERE: CCC Living Room following service
Please come to share your questions, your ideas, your desires, your vision, and your love whether you are a long-time member, or someone new to our community. You are Joyful Gathering and JG values you! Your support is greatly appreciated!
SIGHT & SOUND THEATER BUS TRIP - NOAH
WHEN: Friday, March 21, 2025, 12:30 pm ~ 8:30 pm
WHERE: Leaving from 315 Horse Pike, Collingswood, NJ and returning about 8:30 pm. Bus leaves 12:30 sharp
COST: Adults ~ $212 / Children 12 & under ~ $200. Includes luxury transportation, the show & a smorgasbord dinner
PAYMENT: Cash or Cash App to be made directly to Dana Smith
CONTACT: Dana Smith, RScP *609~367~3001* for payment arrangements or with questions
With a catastrophic storm on its way, Noah is given a monumental task: build a boat big enough to save his family from a flood that will cover the entire earth. As Noah endeavors to live faithfully in the midst of an increasingly chaotic world, can he trust that God’s promises run deeper than the rising waters around him? Returning for one season only, this landmark production takes you onboard one of the world’s best-known voyages as live animals fill the stage and aisles. Set sail inside the enormous ark as this extraordinary story comes to life in this special 30th anniversary season!
JOYFUL GATHERING IS DOING IT AGAIN - Join Fellow Community Members for this 2nd bus trip to the fabulous Sight & Sound Theater near Strasburg, PA to see this amazing production of Noah.
SEATING IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 24 PEOPLE WHO SIGN UP.
CRUISE TO BERMUDA
A 7-night Bermuda cruise from Cape Liberty, Bayonne NJ departing Sunday, June 22nd & Return to Cape Liberty Sunday, June 29th, 2025
Open to all! Join us for sun & fun on the turquoise waters of Bermuda aboard the Celebrity Silhouette.
Exclusive Onboard & Onshore Activities are prepaid events. Possible workshops & Meditations onboard contingent upon the availability of space. Prices Include port charges & taxes. Travel insurance is optional.
Inside Cabin $2529.40 ~ Ocean View $2939.40 Cabin ~ Balcony Cabin $3615.40. *Prices fluctuate ~ based on Double Occupancy ~ lock in your cabin with a deposit
Day 1 - Bayonne, NJ; Day 2 - at Sea; Day 3 - at Sea; Day 4 - Kings Wharf; Day 5 - Kings Wharf; Day 6 - Kings Wharf; Day 7 - at Sea; Day 8 - Return to Bayonne
Contact Dana Smith: 609-367-3001 or dana.smith@foxroach.com for more information.
LUNCH AROUND THE WORLD
Connect with, and enjoy the camaraderie of fellow community members on the 3rd Sunday of the month at 1:00 pm after the fellowship that follows service. RESERVE YOUR SEAT IN ADVANCE by the preceding Friday of each month’s date. Hosted by Laurel Guenther (laurel6960@yahoo.com).
JANUARY 19th (no event for December): Paloma Restaurante - Mexican – 703 Haddon Avenue, Collingswood, NJ 08108 (RSVP by January 17th)
OUR COMMUNITY FACES PAGE
Would you like to meet and get to know the people who make up our community? And would you like to be included? Please send your:
name
photo
email address
phone number
city and state of residence
birth (month and day)
and your profession and/or special talent(s)
to Beth Kraus at 856-979-4521 or bethkrausLS @gmail.com)
PLEASE INCLUDE ONLY THE INFORMATION YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE- A LINK TO THE PAGE IS POSTED ON OUR NEWSLETTER
OUR SPIRITUAL WEDNESDAY PROGRAM NOW INCLUDES MEDITATION, LIVING THE SCIENCE OF
MIND DISCUSSIONS, POWER OF EIGHT, MOVIE NIGHTS & SPECIAL TOPICS
SUCH AS LAW OF ATTRACTION, KABBALAH, & NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES,
AS WELL AS HEALING SOUNDS & MUSIC AMONG OTHER OFFERINGS
Join with like-minded community members and align weekly with clarity, peace and love.
Accreditation: Joyful Gathering Spiritual Center is an Affiliate Center of the Emerson Theological Institute, with headquarters in Oakhurst, California. Emerson Institute is accredited by the Accrediting Commission International for Schools, Colleges and Theological Seminaries, which has its executive offices in Beebe, Arkansas, and currently accredits 212 schools in six countries, including the United States.
This is a church-related accreditation. Students taking Emerson Institute classes must not assume that credits taken through it will be accepted by private schools, colleges, universities, businesses or governmental agencies. Prior to taking classes, students are advised to check with their school districts, businesses and other institutions to determine if Emerson Institute credits will be accepted. Emerson Institute is recognized by the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education as being a church school teaching a specific belief system and is, therefore, permitted under the laws of California to offer degrees in religious studies and divinity.
