December 31, 2015 | 0 Comments

Celebrate the Past and Welcome the New Year

Today is Throwback Thursday and it just happens to coincide with New Year’s Eve, a traditional time to celebrate the past while bringing in the new.

Here at Faith Fusion we had a great year so we want to say thank you to our readers, visitors, new and old friends, and to God who inspires us every day! We also want to thank FFWPU for the generous grant that helped us reach out and develop programs during 2015. As we close this year our hearts are filled with gratitude for the wonderful experiences we had and the new people we met. Below are a few highlights from 2015:

2015 Highlights

January – Deeper With God, workshop with Gerry Servito, and The Sacred Application of Music with David Eaton
February – We launched our weekly Public Access TV program
Regardless of some heavy snowstorms we focused on the positive and made it through (God Has Been Good to Me)
We promoted the Universal Peace Federations Leda Project in Paraguay
In March we posted a sermon series on creating Peace within ourselves and beyond, and also launched Ladies Night Out
2 couples were blessed in marriage
Our Pastor gave the sermon for the Sudanese community at Grace Episcopal Church on International Women’s Day
April – Through the Book Club, Insight Manchester, we hosted a mini seminar on Spiritual Senses and Intuition and our pastor became a drummer
We celebrated Easter and began a sermon series on Opening Doors
Insight Manchester promoted it’s first monthly Movie Night
May – We celebrated Mother’s Day and Memorial Day as well as launching a music ministry with Emerald playing violin on Sunday’s
June – We ran a sermon series on Community Building and hosted the Take Your Life On seminar with David Young
We started to support the work of Safari Youth Club
We enjoyed another Ladies Night Out with a pot-luck dinner and Holy Yoga with Grace
We also welcomed a new baby to our community, Leo Politella, son of Tony and Shujen
July included Camp Aurora featuring Holy Yoga and a week of other great activities
The launch of the Lasting Imprint DVD series also happened in July as well as featuring this series on Public Access TV
August featured a seminar on Spiritual Development with Ron Pappalardo, and launched our YouTube Welcome to Faith Fusion video
In September we were blessed to hear a sermon by visiting Youth Pastor Tamami Okano from Worcester, MA
Also returning Peace Corps Volunteer Hyomi Carty shared her reflection of her 2 years in Africa
October highlights were a sermon by Rev. Richard Buessing, reflections on the cross country road trip of a mother and daughter, as well as a sermon series on Developing Faith
November included collaborating with local author Perry Smith on his book, The God Experience, a sermon by Pastor Jim Edgerly from Boston, and a report from John Gehring on the Leda project, as well as celebrating Thanksgiving with gratitude for everything
We also launched Throwback Thursday and Fun Friday as monthly blog features
December began with a Christmas party and Author Event featuring Perry Smith
It has been a month of reflection as we celebrated the life of our dear sister Songja Ono and supported her transition to the Spiritual world.
We continue with a sermon series on miracles as we reflect on this year and prepare to welcome 2016.

And that’s not all folks! Our previous posts are always available through the Archives by Month list on the bottom of the right sidebar of blog pages on this site. Also check out the Author Archive Links, also on the sidebar.

We are so deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed to helping Faith Fusion grow, and helping us continue this online ministry. This has truly been a year of miracles through faith and effort. As FFWPU vice-president Rev. Miilhan Stephens recently said in his Sunday message, “God is already there preparing everything, all we have to do is show up.”