Awakened Heart Ministries
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Awakened Heart Spiritual Center is supported by a creative collaboration of community members who keep the vision moving forward and the activities of the center flowing. By getting involved you have an opportunity to share your unique gifts, connect with like-minded people, grow and learn, and give and receive support in a sacred, safe environment. We know that an essential part of the journey is to be in loving service. We are deeply grateful for each and every person who support us by being in service.
We invite you to peruse the opportunities to serve Awakened Heart outlined below. If you would like become involved contact the Awakened Heart Office at 302-525-0021 for more information. Or, to see the good company you'll be keeping, click here to check out who is already serving on each team.
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Ministry of Prayer
Our Ministry of Prayer is staffed by Licensed Professional Religious Science Practitioners (RScP) who are available after Sunday services for short, free prayer treatments. They are also available by for full sessions in person or by phone. Please discuss the fee for a full Practitioner session with each Practitioner.
To peruse examples of Affirmative Prayers and find the perfect one for you, please go here.
Open Arms Ministry
Greeters – Our greeters are the warm and welcoming face of the Center. They greet each and every person that enters into our Sunday sacred space with enthusiasm and love. They also set up the AHA (Awakened Heart Activities) table which provides members, guests and newcomers information about our services, events, and programs after Sunday Celebration Services.
Team Lead: Carole Capriotti-May
Ushers –Our ushers pass collection plates and count the tithes and offers.
Hospitality- Social Hour and Fellowship
This ministry promotes friendship, lively conversation and spiritual nourishment of the entire congregation through refreshments, creating a family-like atmosphere after the Sunday services and potluck Sundays (held several times a year). Each week congregants bring food to share, and the Hospitality team sets up and/or breaks down the food table and kitchen area as well as ensures supplies are well-stocked.
The Book Connection
The Awakened Heart bookstore supports the mission and vision of our center through loving, supportive service to our community. By providing the materials to help each individual along his/her path of personal growth and transformation, we support the practical application of the teachings of Science of Mind. Each week our book table is set up and broken down by the team.
Team Lead: Karen Windle
The Healing Connection
The Healing Connection is in service to the AHSC Community by offering their gifts and their talents on the second Sunday of the month. The vision of the Healing Connection is to develop a community of holistic care professionals and healers of diverse modalities, whose practices are based on Principles of Truth. The Healing Connection is dedicated to promoting wellness and wholeness through spiritual application, education, and service.
Team Lead: Jean Weaver
Kidz Program
AHSC Kidz programs run concurrently with our Sunday services (10:30 to 11:30am).
The Youth Ministry of Awakened Heart Spiritual Center provides an environment that promotes our young people's spiritual growth, physical and emotional health, and positive self-esteem based on the practical application of New Thought/Ancient Wisdom teachings and Science of Mind Principles. We teach self-love, self-awareness, Oneness with all Life, and how our thoughts and choices impact our experiences.
The curriculum for our youth program is innovative and transformational rather than instructional. Lessons are interesting, age-appropriate, and creative. Each week, your child will have an opportunity to explore deep questions and learn principles that they can take with them to improve their daily lives.
We have 2 groups: toddlers to age 6, and ages 7 to pre-teens. Teenagers tend to get a lot out of our regular Sunday services because we have awesome music and a universal message, although they're also welcome to assist with the Kidz!
Regardless of age, each group meditates for a few minutes, ponders thought-provoking questions, has an activity, craft, or experiential exercise to help drive home the message, and they all have a lot of fun!
The second Sunday of the month is movie Sunday where the kids watch a movie supporting the Core Concept for the month.
A couple of times a year, we also have Friday Family Movie night where a full length film is shown, complete with popcorn, pizza, pillows, and pajamas.
Community Youth Leader: Carolyn Bennett Sullivan
Sound Team
The sound team is responsible for setting up the sound equipment for the Sunday services, the special events and the Workshops for Well Being.
Team Lead: Dave Jones
Heart to Heart
One of our core values is Love and it calls upon us to be there for each other when times are difficult. We send cards of love and support when our members and friends are facing challenges.
Team Lead: Rosemary Malatesta
Operations Team
The Operations team is responsible for creating the extracurricular aspects of Awakened Heart. The team solicits and reviews ideas for our Workshops for Well Being, the Speakers Series, and other programs and events at AHSC. The team also oversees publications such as the weekly newsletter, calendar of events, PR, and marketing.
Team Lead: Marty Borowski
Special Events
This team manages major events and fundraisers, which happen once or twice a year, some of which have drawn over 400 people. From advertising, scheduling, planning, greeting, and providing refreshments, to set up and clean up, there is something for everyone's skill level and passion. AHSC has had a great line up of speakers such as Terry Cole-Whittaker, Gary Renard, author of the Disappearance of the Universe, and best-selling author and TV personality, Iyanla Vanzant, as well as other nationally-known mystics, teachers, and spiritual leaders.
Special Events Coordinator: Gretchen Kennedy
Community Outreach
There is a deep need for people to make a contribution and to serve something greater than themselves. The balance of a life of prayer and meditation that inspires spiritually motivated action is a path to spiritual awakening that maximizes authentic spiritual growth. When we combine the profound universal principles that the Science of Mind teaches with an understanding of our personal purpose, passions and spiritual gifts, we lay the foundation for strong communities.
AHSC is currently involved in community outreach as a way of extending ourselves in love and service to
people who are homeless, in transition, in prison, and other social services. Be that loving presence that heals, uplifts, and encourages by volunteering for any of the programs.
Team Lead: Contact: Jane Bouza – 302-234-0516
Nominating Team
A nominating team serves the community on an ongoing basis. The role of this team is to seek out the most highly qualified nominees to fill each available position within the Organizational Design Model of the community. This team brings great prayer, visioning and scrutiny to its deliberations, thus providing the community with nominees, or slates of nominees, most gifted and prepared for their proposed service The composition of this team is made up of a representative from the visioning core appointed by the community Spiritual Leader and two lay community members elected at the annual meeting who have demonstrated significant involvement in Awakened Heart Spiritual Center or the community at large.
Awakened Heart Spiritual Center Core Teams
C.O.R.E. Council
The C.O.R.E. Council (from an acronym meaning Consciousness of Reality Evolving) serves a function similar, yet not identical, to a corporate board of trustees. It is the final decision making body for the Community. Its most important role is to take the input flowing from the Visioning, Stewardship and other teams and synthesize them into a clear direction and operational plan for the Community. The Council deals with issues of timing, application of resources, as well as with the overall health of the Community. The President of the Council and its other officers are selected from CORE Council. The Community Spiritual Leader is a voting member of the C.O.R.E. Council. The CORE Council meets on the third Sunday of each month to facilitate the business of the Community. Members and friends are welcome to attend the meetings.
Visioning Core
The Visioning Core meets monthly and visions for the AHSC community as a whole and receives visioning and co-creation input from teams throughout the Community and melds this into a unified direction, a core vision, which constitutes our evolving pathway. The visioning core recommends the most timely and spiritually indicated next steps for our Spiritual Community.
Stewardship Core
The Stewardship Core is charged with fiscal oversight and cultivation, along with basic legal and corporate oversight. It is the arena responsible for the development of budgets, both current and futuristic, as well as for financial reporting and tracking. We are a community that is abundant and dedicated to financial integrity.
Ecclesiastical Core
The Ecclesiastical Team includes the Practitioners and Community Spiritual Leader. They offer spiritual support through Spiritual Mind Treatment. The practitioner is educated in the Science of Mind philosophy.
Practitioners serve on Sundays by rotation, where they do the reading and are later available for Spiritual Mind Treatment.
They do daily treatment for our Center, perform service in the area of choice, teach classes, create specialized services and/or facilitate workshops/seminars. All practitioners take a leadership role in our Center.