2024 Annual Convention Save the Date!
We hope you can join us for the 2024 Swedenborgian Church Annual Convention in East Lansing Michigan this year! Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center
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Annual Convention
The Cloud of Witnesses
Message from the Ordination Speaker By Rev. Jane Siebert Introduction to the reading from Ezekiel 47:1–12. The Hebrew prophet Ezekiel had several visions while in captivity in Babylon. He foresaw the destruction of Solomon’s temple, and the reading tonight is taken from his last vision during the twenty-fifth year of his exile. An angel took
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What in the World Comes Next: Why I Remain Optimistic
Convention Preacher Sermon By Rev. Rich Tafel In all my years of preaching, there’s one thing I have said that really gets push back. It’s not the topic I expected. Mind you I’ve preached on the most controversial topics you can imagine. In fact, I preached a whole sermon series called “Sermons Ministers Won’t Preach
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Practicing Optimism Toward Our Future
Opening of Convention By Rev. Dr. Jim Lawrence Welcome to the 199th Convention of the Swedenborgian Church of North America. Of course, our legal name and the one which we commonly used until about twenty years ago is the General Convention of the New Jerusalem, and that legal incorporated name came the first words of
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Planting for the Future
A Message from the Ordinand By Rev. Dr. Devin Zuber The text for my sermon today comes from the gospel of Mark 4: 26–32: He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts
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We Gathered Together
By Rev. Dr. Jim Lawrence For the fourth time since 2008, we convened our annual convention south of Boston at lovely Bridgewater State University, easily accessible by car and train and only a short drive from both our Bridgewater and Elmwood churches. Overall, our hybrid attendance saw numbers approaching our older times when we always
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Live from Convention 2023!
https://www.youtube.com/@TheSwedenborgianChurch/streams From July 1–4 several programs from our Annual Convention will be live-streamed from Bridgewater, Massachusetts, for anyone anywhere to enjoy and share! Visit our YouTube live page linked above to set up notifications for these events. The following events will be available for free live on our YouTube Channel: –Welcome Worship and Keynote, Saturday,
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Registration Opens for Both In-Person and Virtual Attendees on April 15th
Registration for in-person attendees is open until May 14, and until June 14 for virtual attendees.Registration is online only. The 199th annual convention of the Swedenborgian Church will be hosted by the Massachusetts New Church Union at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, from Saturday, July 1 through Wednesday, July 5, 2023. This area of
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Support the 2023 Convention
Dear Swedenborgian Church Friends and Colleagues, We are rapidly preparing for a wonderful annual convention in the Boston area from July 1 – July 4 that will be hybrid in format again. We are planning both a wonderful in-person setting at Bridgewater State University and will provide robust tech support for virtual participation in key
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