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A SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION SINCE 1889
This Sunday at Althea Center
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Harvesting Opportunities
We are entering the season of harvest. September 29th is the final Supermoon, known as the harvest moon. Advocacy for what we are harvesting is essential in the world. Harvest new ways of being in the new world of paradigm shifts physically and emotionally. Spirit, the Divine Creator, is with us in all time, space, and levels of consciousness. This month is the beginning of new opportunities.
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This four-part series will provide tools and self awareness to harvest what is possible and prepare to plant new seeds.
What are we harvesting?
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How to harvest a great future with spiritual principles?
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“Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the first fruits of the crops you sow in your field. Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field."
~ Exodus 23:16
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All are welcome. Stay for our community lunch directly afterward!
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If you are unable to physically attend, we will also live-stream our gathering on our Facebook page starting at 10:30am MT. Make sure you turn on notifications for Althea on Facebook so you can be notified as soon as we go live. During the gathering, we invite you to submit your prayers, comments, and feedback.
Althea Center's Spiritual Director: Rev. Christina Jones
Rev. Christina Jones is Althea Center's Spiritual Director and a Religious Science CSL minister, certified personal development coach, inspirational speaker, dietitian, and author. Prior to her becoming Althea's Spiritual Director, she had been active in the New Thought/New Age movement since childhood. Seven generations of powerful ancestors in her lineage have passed on metaphysical and spiritual principles from her family traditions from Africa and other cultures.
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Christina has supported various non-profit foundations, domestic violence shelters, and homeless shelters nationwide. She also supports numerous law enforcement officers in Colorado in Crisis Intervention Training (CIT). Christina celebrates life with her husband, dances, and thrives in the magical mountains of Denver, Colorado.
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Rev. Christina is the founder and creator of DivineFeminineEvolution.org, a new CSL-affiliated Focus Ministry, celebrating the Divine Feminine in all.
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Christina is "A healing emissary of light for herself and the world."
Featured Musician: Gonzalo Teppa
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Gonzalo is a Jazz / Classical Musician, Bass player Composer, Educator, and 2 time Latin Grammy Nominee for “Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album” and “Best Latin Jazz Album”, for work on the recordings “Tiempo” by Linda Briceño; and “3rd Element” by Luisito Quintero. He was named “Best Jazz Soloist” by Downbeat Magazine in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
He received “Best Jazz Soloist” award at the Greeley Jazz Festival in 2004 and 2005., and has performed with: Wynton Marsalis, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Matt Wilson, Ed Simon, Chris Potter, Tom Harrell, Ron Miles, Art Lande, Slide Hampton, Don Byron, Jeremy Pelt, Ben Goldberg, and others.
Althea's regular Sunday Gatherings are live-streamed to Facebook and recordings available on Althea's YouTube! If you can't be with us in person, you can still be with us online!
Althea Center's Facebook:
Althea Center's YouTube:
Althea Center's Children's Corner!
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Althea Center's Children's Corner is ready to welcome your little ones so that you can fully be part of the gathering.
Located in the back of the sanctuary, with books, paper, markers, and stuffed animals! During our Sunday gatherings, children can hear/see what is going on in the sanctuary and parents can see their children and have easy access if the need arises.
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A full Children's Program is still in the future, but we hope we are making it easier for the whole family to enjoy Althea.
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All are welcome to join Althea Center's Community Connections each Thursday! This group helps us stay connected to one another and share openly.
Led by Kathy Humphreys
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NEW Zoom Meeting link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88069190258?pwd=TDlPaHlvVG9NNHMrcTFZREFjSDJ2Zz09
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Meeting ID: 880 6919 0258
Passcode: 503877
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Community Connections will not be meeting the remainder of July. The group will resume in Aug.
Althea Center for Engaged Spirituality is turning 100!​
We're asking 1,000 supporters to each donate $100
and help us reach our goal!
$100 x 1,000 = $100,000
Help us raise $100,000 for the restoration & preservation
of our 100 year-old Sanctuary!
Althea Center for Engaged Spirituality is proud to celebrate 100 years of believing in the human capacity for enlightenment, and our primary intention is to elevate the spiritual awareness of our entire human community for freedom of all beings and the betterment of the world. The Althea Center leads, hosts, and facilitates inspiring experiences, engaging programs, and public events that foster diversity, integrity, and an inclusive approach to spiritual practice and mystical awakening.
More recent Althea programs and community involvements have included the Women’s Homelessness Initiative and Mariposa, its LGBTQ+ program. In addition to the many classes and other offerings for its members and the public, the Althea Center is currently home to three non-profits: St. Francis Center, Sisters of Color United for Education, and Spirit of the Sun. These non-profits each address needs in our community such as homelessness, food insecurity, indigenous/native youth and elders, and community health and education. The Althea Center for Engaged Spirituality does not discriminate when offering sacred space and freely open our doors to identities usually cast out of many mainstream religious places, such as community-based group meetings (gender, sexual orientation, generational, etc.), Alcoholics Anonymous, occult/moon rituals, yoga, therapists for LGBTQ+ individuals, midwifery/doula training, etc.
OUR SANCTUARY IS 100 YEARS OLD AND IT SHOWS!
The Althea Center needs the help of the larger community to continue its effort to restore and preserve its beautiful landmark building. Donations of $100 are requested from 1,000 individuals and businesses to repair and revitalize the sanctuary and other parts of the interior, which are suffering from years of accumulated water damage, aging, and other challenges.
In 2017, Althea members contributed $80,000 for a capital campaign in order to qualify for $250,000 in state historic preservation funds to repair the 1922 building’s roof and skylights. Then, in 2019, Althea members again stepped forward in response to a second capital campaign, raising about $70,000 to qualify for another $200,000 in state historical funds to repair the exterior terra cotta detail and some additional roof areas of the 1922 building, as well as to resurface the roof of the 1955 addition.
Now that the structure’s roofs, skylights and exterior have been repaired and the building is safe from future water damage, it’s time to focus on the needed repairs to the interior, which do not qualify for historic preservation funds. Thus the $100 x 1,000 = $100,000 Campaign on the occasion of the building’s 100th year! And this time around, we need the community’s help!
The Althea Center for Engaged Spirituality, for decades known as the First Divine Science Church of Denver, has been a foundational part of the greater Capitol Hill community for 100 years. Over the past century, it has been a spiritual home for thousands, who have come from all walks of life and religious/spiritual backgrounds. This historic building was the Mother Church of the Divine Science denomination and also housed its divinity school, the Colorado College of Divine Science, which was incorporated back in 1898.
Celebrate our 100 year anniversary with the gift of your donation for the restoration & preservation
of our 100 year-old Sanctuary!
at our Sunday services.
"Service is the Loving Energy of our Interconnection made visible.
Be generous with the world and the world will become
beautiful and abundant for you."