Java & Jesus

Sunday, March 8, at 9 am

Attend in-person at the church in the

Alfred Swan Room (off Friendship Hall)

(This session will NOT be offered by Zoom)

Facilitators: Jim McNamara & Ginny Stiles

All are welcome!

Join us even if this is your first time!

At Java & Jesus, feel free to share your comments and questions or simply listen to others share.

Your facilitators will be guiding the discussion of four elements: 1) Scripture, 2) Commentary, 3) Poetry, and

4) Artwork, which are included in a discussion guide

which you will receive upon your arrival on March 8th. The only advance preparation is to read the following two Scripture texts:

Mark 6:32-44 (NRSV) And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them. As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things. When it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, ‘This is a deserted place, and the hour is now very late; send them away so that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.’ But he answered them, ‘You give them something to eat.’ They said to him, ‘Are we to go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give it to them to eat?’ And he said to them, ‘How many loaves have you? Go and see.’ When they had found out, they said, ‘Five, and two fish.’ Then he ordered them to get all the people to sit down in groups on the green grass. So they sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; and he divided the two fish among them all. And all ate and were filled; and they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. Those who had eaten the loaves numbered five thousand men.

Ephesians 3:20-21 (NRSV) Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen