Photos courtesy of Rod Sprott.
Mother’s Day Poetry + Poesía para el día de las Madres
05/14/2012Immanuelle
God was present in my mother
God came in the flesh in my mother
With unconditional love
Forbearance and forgiveness
Listening to my confession of faith-
My lack of faith
Weeping as I poured out my soul
My doubts my disbelief
Sharing my pain, suffering for me
Offering me redemption
Comforter of the wounded-
John back from Vietnam
Consoler of the weary-
Martha from off the streets
Counselor of anyone who turned to her
In need…
She died and ascended into heaven
I long for her resurrection
~Rev. Dr. Chuck Robertson
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Immanuelle
Dios estaba presente en mi madre
Dios vino en la carne de mi madre
Con el amor incondicional,
Tolerancia y perdon
Para escuchar mi confesion de fe-
Mi falta de fe
Llorando al ver mi sufrimiento,
Eran tantas mis dudas, mi incredulidad
Compartia mi dolor y sufrimiento
Y me ofrecia el perdon;
Consuelo de los heridos
Mi hermano John regresa de Vietnam,
Consolador de los cansados.
Mi hermana Martha regresa de las calles,
Consejera de todo aquel que se volvio a ella,
En necesidad ….
Mi madre murio y ascendio al cielo
Y yo, yo desespero por su resurreccion
~Rev. Dr. Chuck Robertson, traducción para José Haro
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Mom’s Sunday Dinner
Roast beef and string beans
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Cole slaw and sweet desert
At mom’s Sunday dinner
So get the sermon over
The roast is in the oven
We all want to get home
To mom’s Sunday dinner
It was put in the oven
The heat set at slow roast
Vegetables on low stewing
For our Sunday dinner
So let’s sing the last hymn
Roast beef is awaiting
We all want to get home
To mom’s Sunday dinner
Roast beef every Sunday
It is mom’s special blessing
There’s either pie or cake
At mom’s Sunday dinner
So pronounce the benediction
Our tummies are a rumbling
We all want to get home
To mom’s roast beef Sunday dinner
~Rev. Dr. Chuck Robertson
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Celebrando a las Madres
Lasagna y ensalada de pollo
Agua fresca y pastel
Dejemonos de tanto rollo
Las madres ya quieren comer
Asi que acabemos con el sermon
Vayan sirviendo la ensalada
Despues a pedir perdon
Ahora a tomar limonada
Destapen ya la champagna
Las madres quieren celebrar
Saquen ya la lasagna
No se nos vaya a quemar
Cantemos la ultima cancion
Que ya quiero tomar agua fria
Cantemos con emocion
A las madres en su dia
Pastor dennos la vendicion
Dennosla sin mas retraso
Y demos con emocion
A la madre un abrazo
~José Haro, inspirado en el poema de Pastor Chuck
News Item: 5.12.12
05/12/2012Deported Moms With American Children Separated On Mother’s Day
(from the Huffington Post)
As the rest of the nation celebrates the importance of motherhood Sunday, thousands of young Americans will, for the first time, be without their moms on Mother’s Day.
About 22 percent of all undocumented immigrants deported in the first half of 2011 were parents of U.S.-born children. As part of the Obama administration’s record-setting deportation year, between January and June 2011, 46,486 undocumented mothers and fathers received orders to leave the country and were forced to decide what to do with their U.S.-born children. While in some instances, deported parents decide to bring their children with them, parents thinking it was in their child’s best interest, left them with relatives, neighbors, or friends in the United States.
Read the rest here.
This Sunday + Este domingo: 5.13.12
05/08/2012This Sunday + Este domingo
May 13, 2012 + 13 de mayo de 2012
Sixth Sunday of Easter + Sexto domingo de Pascua
10:30 am: Servicio en español (Santuario)
Mensaje: Anciano David Mass
10:30 am: English service (Chichester Chapel)
Sermon: Rev. Dr. Chuck Robertson
11:30 am: Todos/as Juntos/as + All Together
Moment with our children + Momento con nuestros/as niños/as
12:00 pm: Convivio
Mother’s Day Celebration + Celebración para el día de las madres
Immanuel Men + Hombres de Immanuel
05/03/2012Mothers Day Planning Meeting
This Sunday, May 6, there will be a planning meeting for Mothers Day at 12:30 pm following worship and the convivio in Ruth Beck Room, Room 106
Since the men are the primary organizers and supporters of our Mothers Day event at Immanuel, you are encouraged to participate. Please invite other men as well to join us in planning this celebration.
For more information, please see Rev. Chuck Robertson or Nelson Palencia.
Reunión de la Planeación para el Dia de las Madres
Este domingo, el 6 de mayo, habrá una reunión para el Dia de las Madres a las 12:30 pm, después del servicio y el convivio en el Salón Ruth Beck, 106.
Debido a que los hombres son los principales organizadores y colaboradores de nuestro evento del Dia de las Madres en Immanuel, está animado a participar. Por favor invite otros hombres para unirse a nosotros en planeando esta celebración.
Para mayor información, por favor hablen con el Revdo. Chuck Robertson o Nelson Palencia.
Mother’s Day for Peace – Julia Ward Howe
05/08/2010Arise then…women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
“We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”
From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: “Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.”
Blood does not wipe out dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace…
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.









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