The COCI service team is requesting that event attendees please refrain from wearing perfume, aftershave, or bringing scented candles to our programs as we have some folks who are allergic and cannot enjoy the event. Thank you so much for your cooperation.
COCI Meeting Schedule
Silent Advent
Saturday Morning
Hope, Peace, Joy, Love
Christ
December 7, 2024
First Christian Church
611 Clark Ave. Ames IA
Second Floor, 9-noon
Contemplative Outreach of Central Iowa invites you to set aside 3 hours on the first Saturday of Advent to enjoy quiet reflection and Centering Prayer with others. The focus will be on the themes of the Advent Wreath. You will receive a reflection booklet. Bring a journal if you like. The morning will include two centering prayer sits, a Lectio Divina option and time for quiet reflection. Please join us.
Please register Here. $15 donation accepted. Send donation to COCI, % Tim Goldman, 709 22nd St. West Des Moines IA 50265 or make your offering that morning.
A Weary World Rejoices:
Seven Sacred Pauses
Praying Psalms of Lament
December 21, 2024
Immanuel UMC 2900 49th Street DSM
You are invited to join our contemplative community for shared periods of prayer with Psalms of Lament on the Winter Solstice.
We will gather in the newly remodeled chapel space at Immanuel UMC. Come in the doors at the covered drive and go upstairs, following the hall to the left. (Prayer periods will last about 30 minutes, including brief readings before and after Centering Prayer.
You are welcome to remain in the building for extended periods of prayer and reflection)
Psalms of Lament . . . that turn towards hope and praise
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