How Much Unity can you Handle?

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Living Stream Church of the Brethren
June 23, 2022

"How Much Unity Can You Handle?"

Romans 14:1-4, John 17:20-23

Join us in worship this coming Sunday as the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference Moderator, David Sollenberger, will be our guest preacher. Dave will explore what the scriptures tell us about one aspect of our denomination that we wrestle with these days, that we as the Church of the Brethren are clearly not of one mind on all issues of faith and practice. Dave's conclusion from the scriptures, however, is that we are nevertheless called to be unified and work together despite those differences. Playing with the difference between unity and uniformity, Dave's sermon will help us look at the concept of unity, and why that’s important to us as disciples of Jesus.

Worship online with Living Stream Church of the Brethren on Sunday at 5:00 pm Pacific time; 6:00 pm Mountain time; 7:00 pm Central time; and 8:00 pm Eastern time. Or you may access the recorded archives of our worship at www.LivingStreamCoB,org any time that suits your schedule.

Image: dailyverses.net

Brethren Volunteer Service's latest newsletter is available to download and share! Get it here.

"...The opportunity to live and serve in Hiroshima had a great impact on our lives. We are thankful that BVS works to connect people willing to serve “in a little different way” with organizations all over the world needing volunteers to work side by side with amazing people and groups making a difference.

"You may have a heart to do something a little different too. If you decide to do something unusual or go someplace you have never been to, it may, like it did for us, change your life."
—Roger and Kathy Edmark, Unit 319, Volunteer Directors, World Friendship Center, Hiroshima, Japan

Are YouGoing to Omaha? Lunch is on us!
Living Stream COB has a tradition of inviting anyone from our congregation who is at Annual Conference to meet in person for lunch. This year, we've chosen Tuesday, July 12. After the close of the morning business session Tuesday (about 11:40am), make your way to the webcast table at the back of the main hall, and we will walk together to a local eatery. Please join us if you are in town!

Annual Conference Driving Directions, Parking, Shuttle Info, Accessibility Assistance and other updated information is now available online at Annual Conference Travel and Lodging Information.

AC 2022 Business and Ballot
Complete information about the business and ballot for this year's Annual Conference is available by clicking on Business and Ballot 2022.

Interviews with the Annual Conference Ballot Candidates
The Dunker Punks podcasts of the Womaen's Caucus interviews with Annual Conference ballot candidates are available at this link: http://arlingtoncob.org/dpp/?fbclid=IwAR27iUcOFhCZKQKf8tbOrrWekKFTI2-KgaQE5iWA4Z5Mnd_CrBAjj-J8nnM

VIRTUAL (online) Non-Delegate Registration will remain open until 5:00 p.m. CT on June 30. Virtual Non-Delegates will receive information about how to participate in an email sent on July 1. Use this link to register as a virtual non-delegate for the 2022 Annual Conference.

Going to Omaha? Join us at the Living Stream booth!
For those who are attending Annual Conference, we'd be glad to have some Living Streamers be at our booth during exhibit hall times (not during business or worship), simply to be able to greet people who stop by the booth, and to answer questions and share about our congregation. If you are able and willing to hang out by our booth for an hour or two, please let us know by writing to tech@LivingStreamCoB.org to let us know! Thank you!

Annual Conference Business Volunteers Wanted
If you are not a delegate to Annual Conference, but still going to Omaha, please consider being volunteer to help those online be part of the business! The Annual Conference Office has requested that we arrange for a handful of folks who can stand-ins for virtual participants, taking a question they may have posed in the chat up to the microphone line to share on their behalf. For more information and/or to volunteer, please write to Pastor Enten at tech@LivingStreamCOB.org.

Commissioning for Annual Conference
As a part of our worship service on July 3 we will be commssioning Daniel Finkbiner, our delegate to Conference and others from Living Stream for service at Annual Conference.

Image - 5 February 2011 Sunrise, South Padre Island, Texas - by Bruce

Join us each Wednesday in the Zoom Prayer Room as we share from our different locations and then hear a brief word of encouragement and pray together. We meet at 5 pm Pacific Time, 6 pm Mountain, 7 pm Central, 8 pm Eastern Time. We keep the meeting short–just a half hour or so. To join us in the Prayer Room, please go to the Living Stream Church of the Brethren website at www.LivingStreamCoB.org. Then simply click on the link to the Living Stream Prayer Room. (If requested, grant permissions for camera and mic, and choose to connect with computer audio and video to join the Zoom meeting.)
Please note that we will not meet on July 13 because of Annual Conference worship.

UPCOMING in WORSHIP
with LIVING STREAM

July 3
"Go, You Are Sent"
Luke 10:1-12, 16-20
Pastor Bobbi
Commissioning of Conference delegate and others for service at Annual Conference
Fellowship time afterward

July 10
Opening Worship of the
Church of the Brethren
Annual Conference
6:45 pm Central Daylight Time
You can revisit any of our previous worship services by visiting our archives.

Living Stream Church of the Brethren affirms the image of God
in all persons – of every age, gender identity and expression, race, ability, ethnicity, nationality, class, and sexual orientation –
and celebrates each person’s call to
serve the world
and the church.

Offerings and donations made to Living Stream CoB are always welcome by mail:

Living Stream CoB
500 N Emerson Ave Apt 413
Wenatchee, WA 98801-6638

Thank you for your donations toward our monthly budget of $2,045.83:
January - $2,092.74
February - $1,468.69
March - $ 2,366.24
April - $2,836.98
May - $1,737.04
June to date - $1,016.06

Attendance

Date	Posted Chats	Peak Live	Total Views
May 29	27	36	83
June 5	24	39	53
Jun 12	28	37	107
Jun 19	25	31	66

These statistics refer to the number of devices and may represent more than one person on a device. "Total views" includes views of the archives.

Click this button to make an offering online to keep us streaming! Thank you.

INVITATION FROM YOUR PASTORAL TEAM

Contact your pastoral team -- pastors@LivingStreamCoB.org -- to volunteer to share your gift in worship -- be it a reading, a video, a gift of song, or a message. It is your willingness to share your gifts that makes our worship more meaningful and helps us to know each other better across the many miles.

YOUR STREAM TEAM

Contact your pastors with any questions, concerns, suggestions, or to get involved in helping lead worship!

All pastors together: pastors@LivingStreamCoB.org
Bobbi Dykema: Bobbi@LivingStreamCoB.org
Debbie Eisenbise: Debbie@LivingStreamCoB.org
Enten Eller: Enten@LivingStreamCoB.org
Liz Bidgood Enders: Liz@LivingStreamCoB.org

Newsletter Editor and Pastor Emeritus: Bruce Rosenberger: Bruce@LivingStreamCoB.org.
Technology Issues? Contact Enten the Technology Deacon: Tech@LivingStreamCoB.org
Prayer requests? Email your prayer concerns: pray@LivingStreamCoB.org

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Living Stream Church of the Brethren
500 N Emerson Ave Apt 413
Wenatchee, WA 98801-6638

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