Opening Weekend Program
The Opening Weekend Program, held on Saturday and Sunday of the first weekend of camp, is open to teens and adults. It is a special series of events on a different theme each year. It can be religious or secular in nature and is apart from our regular weekday lecture series. You may attend any or all sessions. Local attendees not staying overnight at camp are always welcome.
2025 Theme:
"Be Love, Be Honest, Be Useful"
Presenters: Rev. Sage Cole, Rev. Susannah Currie
Saturday, July 26
2:30-4:30 pm
Saturday, July 26
7:00-9:00
Sunday, July 27
2:30-4:30 pm
Together, we will explore these three primary values/aspects of the Divine: Love, Honesty, Usefulness. Each session will include time for sharing and reflection and will conclude with a shared ritual experience. Join us to explore the love at the ground level of life, the wisdom that comes through our unique experience, and the particular uses we are called to.
Saturday afternoon, BE LOVE
Ritual: Holy Communion
Saturday evening, BE HONEST
Ritual: Remembering our baptism.
Sunday afternoon, BE USEFUL
Ritual: Annointing.
Rev. Sage Cole was ordained into the ministry of the Swedenborgian Church of North America in 2005. She has served urban and rural congregations, worked as a hospice chaplain and as the Swedenborgian Chaplain at Harvard University, and was the first minister to serve the virtual ministry: swedenborgiancommunity.org.
In 2018, she received the vision to build a new ministry that would carry forward the spiritual legacy of Helen Keller, one of the great saints of the Swedenborgian tradition, who understood that the deepest call of faith is to collaborate with all those committed to "lessening the suffering of God's children."
Sage lives in Hyde Park MA with her husband Ted who is an Episcopal priest, her two sons Theo (10) and Zachary (8), and their cat Miso (1).
© Deane Currie 2024Rev. Susannah Currie is a retired Swedenborgian minister who most recently served the Bridgewater New Jerusalem Church in Bridgewater MA. She also served our national denomination for 3 years as treasurer and 5 years as recording secretary of Convention. She is the FNCA's Religious Program Coordinator.
Questions?:
Rev. Susannah Currie
FNCA Religious Program Coordinator
<scurrie@fryeburg.org>