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 For information on upcoming and recent direct action events we have supported or participated in, please see our Social Justice page.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Save the date!
MLK 2008 January 21st
“THE NOOSE AS THE NEW SWASTIKA”
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Rev.
Dr. Carl P. Wallace, Justice and Witness Ministries
WHEN: January 21, 2008 8:30AM-2:00PM
WHERE: St. Albans Congregational Church (17217 Linden Blvd.,
Jamaica, NY).
Celebrate the legacy of Dr. King with worship, workshops
and a keynote address by the Rev. Dr. Carl P. Wallace. Dr. Wallace
will be addressing systemic racism in the world today, touching on his
involvement with the Jena 6. A light breakfast and full lunch will
be served. Youth are encouraged to attend.
For more information call: Rev. Tom Martinez (All Souls
Bethlehem Church) at 718-915-2600.
Open
Mic with a Soul
Moved to the First Monday of the Month!
Join us at
7:00PM at
the Parsonage/our house church - 566 E. 7th St., between Cortelyou Rd. and
Ditmas Avenue (also between Coney Island Avenue and Ocean Parkway)
Come and
share a poem, song, piece of artwork or a personal reflection.
Subject
matter that touches on spirituality (from any tradition or your own Personal
perspective) is encouraged. The atmosphere/vibe is informal. We’ve Done about
three or four of these and each one’s a little different, but mostly it’s
folks playing a song or reading something they’ve written. When our Senior
Minister (Rev. Tom Martinez) attends he usually offers a slide show to music.
Other
photographers interested in showing images beginning in September can use this
link to contact .
100th Anniversary Service!
Our
Special
100th Anniversary Service was a music-filled worship service on Sunday,
July 1st in the afternoon. The service was held at Trinity Lutheran (just a few blocks away from the Parsonage at the
intersection of E. 8th Street and 18th Avenue). A potluck meal and informal reception
followed the 90 min. worship service.
Several of our own musicians (Terris Krueger, Rev. Matthew Fox, Tom Peters, Erika Kulnys and others)
participated in this special event.
Mother's Day at ASBC
Our worship service on May 13th touched on the pro-peace sentiments at the heart of Mother's Day.
To learn more,
click on this link to a Mother's Day For Peace video.
Among the News from the UU District of Metro NY
From the April
2007 Issue
"Rev. Tom Martinez, minister at All Souls Bethlehem Church (Brooklyn NY), sees a meaningful interface between worship, justice, and the arts, and engages in what he calls Photography Ministry in the form of slide shows synchronized to music during worship."
Read
the Full Article (in Adobe
PDF format)
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RECENT EVENTS
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--- The 5th annual Children of
Abraham Peace walk took place June 12, 2008 ---
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Jews, Christians, Muslims and many people of goodwill from a variety of
Brooklyn organizations walked from the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church to
the Beth Emeth Synagogue to the Albanian Islamic Center in Ditmas Park. A
good time was had by all!
The Organizer's Statement Reads:
We Jews, Christians and Muslims and others are walking together today
to demonstrate that it is possible for us to walk in peace and live
peacefully as neighbors. We understand ourselves to have grown from the
same roots, starting with the Biblical Abraham, and so we call ourselves
the children of Abraham. Like many children of the same father, we have
disagreements and arguments, and in too many parts of the world those
arguments erupt in hatred and violence. We abhor that violence, and pledge
to continue to work together here in Brooklyn in peace and for peace We
take pride in our American freedom of expression and are determined to
speak up on behalf of our Jewish, Christian, Muslim and other brothers and
sisters when need be. We refuse to accept unwarranted imprisonments and
deportations based on racial, ethnic or national profiling. We refuse to
be enemies only because some see us as such. We refuse to justify
terrorism or cruel and inhuman acts of any kind anywhere. We refuse to
believe that military solutions, rather than political or non-violent
solutions, are the preferred way to resolve problems between people. We
believe that injustice anywhere amounts to injustice everywhere.
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--- Open Mic Night - December
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Open Mic Night December 2007.
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Meg West sharing a piece she wrote.
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Rev. Matthew D. Fox playing at the Open Mic.
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--- UCC Conference ---
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UCC Conference Minister Geoffrey Black
speaking at a luncheon for a visiting German delegation held at Judson Memorial Church in the West Village.
EKD Chairman, Bishop Dr. Wolfgang Huber is seated at left.
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--- Matthew Davis Fox's
Ordination --- |
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On Sunday, March 4, 2007 we celebrated the ordination of the Rev. Matthew Davis Fox. Matthew has been assisting Rev. Martinez on Sundays since graduating from the Pacific School of Religion and returning to the greater NY area. Now that he's been ordained into the United Church of Christ, he will serve ASBC as a full-fledged Associate Minister. This is in addition to Matthew's full-time call to serve the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. Matthew's ordination was a very special day in the life of the
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Parishioner Claudette McLennon pauses during the post-ordination celebration for a photo with ASBC Minister Emeritus, Rev. Dr. Bill Nye, while Margaret Haas looks on (background, left). |
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--- UCC's 50th Anniversary ---
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50th Anniversary celebration of the United Church of Christ denomination (at
the Church of the Evangel, in Brooklyn, NY). UCC is one of three denominations with which ASBC is affiliated - see home page.
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