"Spirit works for us by working through us and is us, always. It cannot work for us in any other way. It spreads Itself over the whole universe and shouts at us from every angle, but It can become power to us ONLY WHEN WE RECOGNIZE IT AS POWER."

~ Ernest Holmes

SUNDAYS:

9:30 MEDITATION

10:00 LESSON & FABULOUS MUSIC

10:00 CHILDREN'S CHURCH

11:00 SNACKS & FELLOWSHIP

Special Gift for First Time Guests

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR MEMBERS!

March

April

Thank You

for your generous support of the San Diego Center for Spiritual Living

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Reflections from the Minister's Mind

Rev. John Poleski

Welcome Home!

"Welcome home" to the San Diego Center for Spiritual Living in the Heart of Downtown.

Those words take on a special meaning this month as we celebrate our 7^th Anniversary Easter Sunday in our new location. Although our new home requires renovation, we are ready as a spiritual community to demonstrate our collective empowerment, and affirm our commitment to being in our own facility.

Imagine having Sunday service, classrooms, office, children's room, bookstore, social hall, and kitchen all under one roof! This will allow us to serve our congregation more efficiently and provide spiritual nourishment to the Downtown/East Village area.

We look forward to hosting concerts, art showings, movies, lectures, and special events to inspire and enrich your life.

So pardon the dust during our renovation, and come celebrate with us as we build our work of heart together.

Namaste,

Rev. John Poleski

Senior Minister

Membership Has Its Privileges

Nancy Moyer

Membership Coordinator

To all the members of the SDCSL, I say thank you for planting yourself in our spiritual garden. We offer the richest soil, the warmest surroundings, and the brightest light for you to grow in. For those of you who are not members yet, please join us as we water you with our blessings and support which will help you to grow into the awareness of the perfect being that you have yet to discover within yourself.

As members of the SDCSL, we are cultivating the garden within us. The friendships we've made at our Center are the flowers in this beautiful garden of life. As we walk down the garden path with each other, we are aware that we are not alone on this journey. The Center is here to nurture us and provide us with what we need to bloom. Let's all enjoy the glorious array of styles and colors that are blowing in the wind of our spiritual garden. Please join us and bask in the Center's warmth!

It is with joy that I welcome our two newest flowers - Elzbeita Rataj and Shaye McDermott. We are so happy to have you as members of our spiritual family.

San Diego Center for Spiritual Living members support the Center, love it, and actively participate within it. Join us as we revitalize our lives in the newly revitalized East Village. Welcome Home..

Endowment Fund

Linda Bates

Endowment Coordinator

It's time to go, and it's time to grow. The San Diego Center for Spiritual Living has a new location that allows for permanence and abundant growth.

In order to help us meet the goals of a growing Spiritual Center that is committed to provide an environment that supports all through spiritual education and service, we have established an endowment fund and are actively seeking conscious donors.

Our immediate goal is to raise a minimum $500,000 by July 31, 2008. We will continue our fundraising efforts thereafter with an organized ongoing program to enhance, improve, and expand our ministerial and service program capabilities into the future.

The funds that we raise will be invested consciously and wisely with interest earned directed back into the fund as well as used to expand and grow according to our strategic vision plan.

The San Diego Center for Spiritual Living intends to accomplish its mission by building an infrastructure service facility in downtown San Diego to support the practice of teaching and living by the Principles of Science of Mind. We will continue to dedicate our services and programs to encourage and empower everyone to reach their highest potential. We will continue to promote a welcoming and inclusive community environment. We will focus our programs toward families and especially children in our contribution to changing the spiritual mindset of the world toward peace and understanding of the mutual needs of all mankind. We will provide education and tools for living a spiritually conscious life, as well as practical services for our community such as care and assistance for old and young, connections to public health and welfare providers for those in need, community and neighborhood improvement teams, and liaisons (meeting facilities and facilitation) between community groups and individuals.

Your help is needed. Help us "raise our roof" by making a tax-deductible donation to SDCSL Endowment Fund and mail it to San Diego Center for Spiritual Living, 1009 G Street, San Diego, CA 92101. There is no gift without a receiver, and we bless and thank each and every one of you for your support in growing our Center. Our fund is growing and as our teaching says, we are "Open At The Top" to receive that limitless abundance.

San Diego Center for Spiritual Living Announces

We've Moved!

Our New Location!

San Diego Center
for Spiritual Living

Corner of 10th & G
1009 G Street
San Diego, Ca 92101

Temporary Entrance on 10th Ave.

through the Artistically Creative Gates

Plenty of space for the many ways we serve the Downtown Community and beyond. Children's Church with parent observation window, Spiritual Living Bookstore, Lending Library, Prayer Room, Offices and Classes, Community Room, Kitchen, spacious Sanctuary and room to hold all the special events, workshops, and activities that support the fullest expression of YOUR inherent spiritual nature.

FIRST SERVICE MARCH 23, 2008

CELEBRATE OUR 7TH ANNIVERSARY
ON THIS POWERFUL EASTER SUNDAY

in the Heart of Downtown

Upcoming Events at San Diego Center for Spiritual Living

SEASON FOR NONVIOLENCE January 30 - April 4

A Season For Non Violence is a 64-day movement dedicated to demonstrating that nonviolence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities. Inspired, in 1998, by the 50th and 30th memorial anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this international event honors their vision for an empowered, nonviolent world.

Please pick up a copy of "64 Ways in 64 Days" to support you in BEING the change you wish to see in the world. Other FREE SNV Gifts for you include books and CDs on creating a more peaceful life for yourself and others.

MOVE TO OUR NEW LOCATION March 23 - EASTER SUNDAY

PETER KATER - MAY 18th. If you missed him last time, you will definitely want to mark you calendar to hear this master of man & music share his very soul at the keyboard of our grand piano. It is an incomparable experience.

YOUR EVENT could be listed here. Contact us if you would like to make arrangements to present your workshop, seminar, or special event in our facilities.

Let's Do Lunch!

Whether it's Sammy's Woodfired Pizza, The Dublin Square Pub, Brian's Eatery in the St. James Hotel, or any of a myriad of other wonderful downtown venues with culinary delights, on the second Sunday of each month you will find a bunch of happy, hungry Religious Scientists saving a bundle on lunch with coupons right out of the 2008 Entertainment Book. Spend some quality time with some quality people by planning to "Do Lunch Downtown" at the San Diego Center for Spiritual Living Second Sunday Socials. Don't have your own coupon? There are enough to share and to spare - or you can purchase your own Entertainment Book at the Spiritual Living Bookstore. This book pays for itself in savings after just a few uses.

March 9th: Fun Crew & Pizza Party in our new location at the corner of 10th & G. Wear your grubbies and join us in joyful preparation of our NEW SPIRITUAL HOME, 1009 G Street, San Diego, 92101. 12:30 PM.

April 13th: Let's decide together aand then make an announcement. See you there...

Children Are Our Future

Welcome to our newest volunteers to work with our Children: Shaye McDermott and Vickie Gallant, who both have lots of experience with pre-schoolers and childcare centers. Our children have a very special hexagonal room with lots of creativity. We are excited to welcome more children of our families to their own space with child-size furniture and guided activities. Puppets, puzzles, and coloring pages blend with books, toys, teachings, and the chatter and laughter of the little ones. Donations of pre-school chairs and classroom essentials beckon these smiling faces to age-appropriate activities in alignment with the lesson for the week - but with a simpler presentation.

You can share in the healthy growth and self-empowerment of all of our future by assisting in Children's Church one Sunday each month. Not sure how to get started? We'll set up an orientation and mentor you. The curriculum is already provided. Come play and learn with us!

Spiritual Living Bookstore

Nancy Moyer

"The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend, and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one."
(Oliver Goldsmith, British Poet and Novelist, 1730-1774)

Have you gained a new friend lately? Or have you been reunited with an old friend? We all know what wonderful feelings both those actions stir up within us! The ideas we encounter in the pages of a good book often lead to a lifetime of friendship - one that we can revisit time and time again. The Spiritual Living Bookstore offers you a chance to make new friends with wonderful ideas. We have some of the world's greatest authors waiting to share their ideas with you -- waiting to become friends with you. Why not give them a chance? I invite you to peruse the fine selection of authors and subjects we have for you. In addition to all the great books we have, we also have motivational tapes, CDs of Rev. John's Sunday messages, candles, and beautiful Science of Mind jewelry. Please stop by after service each Sunday. I think you'll find something to make your heart sing.

Change your thinking. Change your life. Buy a book.

A Season for Non Violence

A Season for Nonviolence, January 30 - April 4, is a national 64-day educational, media, and grassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that nonviolence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities. Inspired by the 50th and 30th memorial anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this international event honors their vision for an empowered, nonviolent world. The San Diego Center for Spiritual Living supports the Season for Nonviolence by actively disseminating related information and presenting activities and programs promoting the principles of nonviolence.

Shared Vision - A Better World Is Possible

Association for Global New Thought

"You must be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

There are people everywhere who want to help create a better world - people deeply concerned about widespread suffering, environmental destruction, escalating materialism and the loss of our sense of community. There is a deep and growing hunger for a wiser and more loving society. Ghandhi and King modeled the vision to create such a society.

They claimed the power for social change lies within individual consciousness. That if we really want to create a wise and loving world, we must first become wise and loving ourselves. With a vision of a society governed by love and the common good -- we have a powerful antidote to the violence, distrust and division of today's politics of fear.

In practicing the relational principles of Nonviolence we seek to recover and renew ourselves, our families and our politics - so violence and secrecy no longer shape our behavior. We realize that our lives, and those of our children, depend on our evolution. Learning to be non-violent is a new way of living - requiring a healing process that begins with the individual and ripples out into the larger world. As we heal our own relations we are demonstrating that people, organizations and governments can move the world proactively toward peace and wisdom. Join us in exploring and building this new future.

Practitioner Pillars

Constance Cook-Core, RScP

Holmes Institute Ministerial Student

Building a Work of Heart

Last Fall we received 10 months notice to find a new location after sharing space with the NewSchool of Architecture for about 6 1/2 years. Knowing we had until the end of August to find and move into a new Spiritual Home, we lightly mused... Wouldn't it be nice to have a new place by Easter and celebrate our Anniversary in it?

We planted a seed thought that day, and through our Visioning process we nurtured it and watched it bloom in our hearts and minds. We found out that a building that caught my eye several times, and where we had focused our first local outreach program, had been vacated. Our Founder told me about it and gave me a phone number to call. Since it was near Christmas, I waited until January 2nd. By January 26th we had a Letter of Intent and on March 7th we picked up the keys to the shell of our New Spiritual Home.

The corner of 10th Ave. & G Street in the Heart of Downtown San Diego is one of the most consistently busy in the East Village. That was a huge factor in our decision-making process. The space needed a lot of work, but it had great bones and was within 50 square feet of what we desired. Even the configuration and size of the rooms was in alignment with how we planned to do business as a family-oriented spiritual center.

Deciding we could get half of the new space cleaned up and painted well enough to set up a temporary sanctuary in time for Easter service, we committed to the early move. After all, wouldn't it be nice to celebrate Easter and our 7th Anniversary in it? What were we thinking?

We knew but have had confirmed over and over again that we are along for the ride on a fast-moving train of Faith and Truth. The transformation is amazing with old walls tumbling down, new walls rising overnight, food showing up along with volunteer labor, interior painting, carpeting - all the while holding classes, adding to an Affirmations List of what we wanted and seeing with fresh eyes the bounty and abundance of the Universe as all these things and more just keep showing up as donations, gifts, and volunteer service.

How do you go from blight to brilliant in less than two weeks for less than pocket change? With the generous hearts and minds of those who believe in us and in our Vision and Mission. We're creating a Gratitude Wall in our new spiritual home where we can honor all those who have become a part of our hearts.

We are all creating a Work of Heart.

WHEN AND WHERE:

The San Diego Center for Spiritual Living opened March 23rd for Easter Service followed by an Easter Pot Luck Ham Dinner and guided tours of the Construction Zone. Please join us at 1009 G Street, San Diego, CA 92101 where you will find plenty of space for the many ways we serve the Downtown Community and beyond. Children's Church with parent observation window, Spiritual Living Bookstore, Lending Library, Prayer Room, Offices and Classes, Community Room, Kitchen, spacious Sanctuary and room to hold all the special events, workshops, and activities that support the fullest expression of YOUR inherent spiritual nature.

Namaste

Board of Directors:		Teams:
Noble Benning, President June Francis, Secretary Constance Cook-Core, Treasurer Ken Casey, Director Sylvia Isely-Aguilera, Director Advisors to The Board: Rev. John Poleski, Sr. Minister Rev. Gordon Bishop, Founder Emeritus	(858) 254-0189 (619) 491-3087 (619) 226-0560 (619) 236-8671 (619) 244-2337 (619) 980-5190 (619) 301-6100	Bookkeeper Bookstore Education/Classes Hospitality Membership Music New Home Outreach Sound	Kathy Casey Nancy Moyer, Linda Bates Constance Cook-Core, RScP Ken and Kathy Casey Nancy Moyer Sylvia Isely-Aguilera Shaye McDermott Ken Casey Brad Moyer Steve Bates

Whoever you are, wherever you are on your spiritual journey, you are welcome here.

Join us as we Serve and Grow