Past Celebrations At Pebble Hill

November 4, 2018

Lead by The Celebration Team

Norm Danis  MA, MS was a Counselor/Teacher/Seminar leader at both Drexel & Temple Universities. Currently, as a Life Coach, he specializes in relationship building, facilitating transitions and effective life skills. He enjoys supporting and inspiring individuals to use their ‘divine power’, while supplying practical tools.

He graduated from the Pathwork Transformational Program and is presently in the Grad series. He is a lifelong student in Insight, Gestalt psych, EST etc.

As a 30-yr. member of Pebble, he has served on church Council, and been a Celebration team member. He continues to be a Sun. morning Meditation leader and coordinator of the Greeters.

October 28, 2018

Lead by Rev Larry Hall

Katye Anna Returns to Pebble Hill. (And don’t miss a “Spotlight” turn by Barbara Atkinson in her rappin’ nod to Hallowe’en, “The Nerdy Scientist.”)

Katye Anna is a teacher of soul, transformational author, speaker, and workshop facilitator. She is the author of five books, “Conscious Construction of the Soul,” “Birthing into Spirit,” “Into the Light,” “Soul Love Never Ends,” and Cross-Roads Living A Soul Inspired Life. Katye Anna fully embodies the life of a modern day mystic.

Gifted with the ability to travel the many planes of consciousness within God, Katye Anna walks between worlds. Katye Anna has a direct connection to the world of soul and the world of spirit. Communicating with the world of spirit is as natural as breathing for Katye Anna. Katye Anna shares a steady stream of consciousness with a group of souls known to her as Anna.

Katye Anna believes everyone has a direct line to the world of spirit. Through meditations and spiritual guidance, Katye Anna opens those she works with to embrace their own unique line of communication with the world of spirit. With her messages of love, she seeks to show that everyone can live a soul empowered

October 21, 2018

Lead by The Celebration Team

Khalid and Sabeeha Rehman gave 111 lectures in 26 cities last year, plus talks at the Chautauqua Institution every summer. The subjects can run the gamut, from Quran: beliefs, creed and practices; Family Life in Islam; and Women in Islam to the Shia-Sunni Divide and Shariah.

October 14, 2018

Lead by Kalie Marino

“I have been blessed to have had many wonderful teachers in my life, but as Leo Buscaglia said “to know and not to do is not to know.” Learning and doing are very different. Growing up in a spiritual family gave me a great spiritual education, but my stressed out unsatisfied life proved I didn’t know how to apply what I learned. And so it wasn’t until recently that I embraced the hard work of living a meaningful life. This is my personal story of searching for happiness and learning to live a meaningful life. In this entertaining story I share how I discovered my Hero’s Journey, and how it has truly changed my life.”

David is the current president of Pebble Hill Church council and has a PhD from the prestigious School of Hard Knocks. As a life long student of spirituality, David grew up around a variety of spiritual and meta physical practices, from traditional Midwestern conservative Christianity to Indian Sikh’s, from A Course In Miracles to Stoic Philosophy.

October 7, 2018

John is a beloved meditation teacher, gifted counselor and inspiring lecturer who for nearly forty years has been helping people heal through the difficult – often unexpected – changes that life offers.  He has been a practioner of Vipassana Meditation and various forms of Yoga since 1969.

He is the author of One Soul, One Love, One Heart the Sacred Path to Healing All Relationships, and also authored the critically-acclaimed books Awakening from Grief and When Prayers Aren’t Answered. He has worked extensively with Ram Dass and Stephen Levine, and trained with Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

He holds a B.A. in Comparative Religions from the University of South Florida, and an M.A. in History of Religions from Florida State University.  He has traveled extensively in India, and is one of our culture’s most respected authorities on how to use life’s challenges as fuel for our spiritual journey

Join us for Sunday Celebration @ 10:30AM

September 30, 2018

Lead by Celebration Team

Okay, we had camp, we had our 50th anniversary bash, and our bfm (beloved former minister) Gary Culp stirred us up with his special brand of love and excitement on his annual visit… This pre-holiday lull is a good time to catch our breath, and re-ground with a quiet, restorative, inner-directed gathering aimed at refreshing our connection to spirit.

September 23, 2018

Lead by Jacqui Menkes

Come and let us join our minds, hearts and souls at the Autumnal Equinox to help one another and Earth Mother take its next step on our individual and collective pathways. The morning service and later workshop will include a lecture and meditation to raise our frequency and vibration to the Divine. Come with an open heart and spirit, it promises to be a beautiful event.

John Michael Sherdon has been enlightened since his late 20’s. He first received his instruction in Raja Yoga (Patanjalis system or eight limbed path to enlightenment). Then he studied Siddha Yoga where he became a Sat Guru or Teacher of Truth. He then moved on to the teachings of the Ascended Host, Jesus, St. Germaine, Buddha and Lao Tsu. During this time period he discovered many of his past illumined lives. He returns to help Humanity take its next step on the evolutionary pathway.

September 16, 2018

Lead by School of Sacred Ministries

Please join us as we celebrate the start of another great class by Pebble’s own School of Sacred Ministries. The class of 2020 will start today and we want to send them off with our blessings and support.

September 9, 2018

Lead by Gary Schoenberg & Deva Troy

This celebration will focus on the Jewish High Holy Day of Rosh Hashanah, a time we return to our own inner essence during the beginning of the 10-day period of t’shuvah. Singer/Songwriter/Interfaith Minister, Deva Troy and Gary Schoenberg will co-lead on this journey with community readings, chants, melodies, meditations, and prayers.

The High Holy Day/Renewal Celebration is the annual ritual where we begin the process of taking time for self-reflection to make inward acknowledgment of our shadow selves to bring into the light of compassion and healing and reconciliation with our true essence. Through realignment with source we feel the peace of true t’shuvah. We will dip apples in honey commemorating the sweetness that comes with the blessings that pour forth as a result of this healing and reconciliation with our own true essence and be inscribed for a healthy New Year beginning with the 1st new moon of the Jewish calendar.

September 2, 2018

Lead by Rev. Kalie Marino

After the tragic loss of his Sister Dr. Anna Cabeca’s son, Garrett Viera Bivens, Robert was compelled to author a book about his nephew’s brief life. In conveying Garrett’s exuberant joyful spirit, the message was clear and distinct that healing and thriving in life with a new purpose is not just possible, but certain.

Change is scary, uncertain and we are suspicious we aren’t going to like it. Change is also inevitable: It will happen whether you want it or not. Just hoping for things to be better festers doubt, fear and indifference – thereby dis-empowering us. This interferes with our ability to feel the satisfaction, joy and success we want in our lives. Resistance to change is the result of remembering negative experiences that involved change. Remembering positive experiences and associating positive results of change makes change something to look forward to.

Robert Cabeca creates positive and wholistic change as a Business Transformation Specialist. Being a success coach of the highest standards is a result of not just being an entrepreneur at heart but being impassioned about the true quality of life in others. Having distilled decades of experience in many different fields of work, Robert has started on a broader journey of awareness and expansion through writing, teaching, and coaching. This is where he is presently finding the most fulfillment.

Robert is also a Chocolatier and published two Chocolate themed cookbooks, in addition to his most recent book, “Creating an Accelerated Life-Plan” showing you how to predict your future by creating the future you want.

August 26, 2018

Lead by Celebration Team

Following our 50th Anniversary Party, our former beloved minister will also lead the celebration one last time before heading back to his home in Mexico.  More to come!

August 19, 2018

Lead by The Home Camp Team

While the campers are away, the home campers will play. Songwriter, singer and reverend, Deva Troy will both lead and provide music when she brings her guitar for singing around the “campfire.” Bring stories of your spiritual moments to share.

And don’t forget to join us for Home Camp. See details on our Home Camp page.

August 12, 2018

Lead by Celebration Team

Our former beloved minister will also lead the camp celebration on Aug. 19 and return to Pebble to lead Aug. 26 before heading back to his home in Mexico.  More to come!

August 5, 2018

Lead by Rev. Larry Hall

Peace Sunday, Pebble’s annual celebration of humanity’s undying dream of universal peace!

Janet Berkowitz, the 2018 recipient of our annual Harold & Alma Able Peace Award, will be our speaker, and we will have a drawing among members to see who gets to take Pebble’s lovely brass Peace Dove home for the next twelve months.  Rev. Larry Hall will lead.

Monday, Aug. 6, remembered as Hiroshima Day, is the 73^rd anniversary of the first use of an atomic bomb in war.  It obliterated the Japanese city of Hiroshima, immediately killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians and more thousands by lingering wounds and radiation in succeeding years.

In 1984 Pebble became an official peace site under the auspices of The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy, now known as Peace Action.

NOTE:  Peace Action will hold a memorial vigil in Doylestown Monday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the corner of State and Main streets!

July 29, 2018

Lead by Celebration Team

Jeanne Elodie Montclair is back speaking about abundance reflecting on how one person’s famine may be another person’s feast, and how when you have the experience of having very little in the financial area of one’s life, or other areas, one’s priorities get clarified – quickly.

Staying focused on appreciation and gratitude and staying the course, despite the kind of fears that kept her awake at night, have taught Jeanne that receiving help from friends graciously and with humility, and having a few good books to read in the middle of the night, is sometimes exactly what is needed.

With open heart, and a little bit of humor, Jeanne shares about recent health, financial and familial difficulties, the take-action lessons inherent in “Nowhere to go but up,” and standing up for one’s rights without engaging a “fight against” mentality. Jeanne finds everyday grace in friendship, creativity, the beauty inherent in this world, and the gift of being willing to live with an open heart.

Jeanne believes the best of Abundance and Prosperity is available to each of us – because sometimes it just takes changing one’s mindset to live as a free, creative, thriving soul in a wild world drunk on it’s own excesses and belief in lack.

July 22, 2018

Lead by Rev. Dave Perkins

Katye Anna, Psychic and the Teacher of Soul, transformational author, speaker, and workshop facilitator, will bring her special gifts to Pebble.  She is the author of five books, “Conscious Construction of the Soul,” “Birthing into Spirit,” “Into the Light,” “Soul Love Never Ends,” and “Cross-Roads Living A Soul Inspired Life.”  Katye Anna fully embodies the life of a modern day mystic.

Gifted with the ability to travel the many planes of consciousness within God, Katye Anna walks between worlds. Katye Anna has a direct connection to the world of soul and the world of spirit. Communicating with the world of spirit is as natural as breathing for Katye Anna. Katye Anna shares a steady stream of consciousness with a group of souls known to her as Anna.

Katye Anna believes everyone has a direct line to the world of spirit. Through meditations and spiritual guidance, Katye Anna opens those she works with to embrace their own unique line of communication with the world of spirit. With her messages of love, she seeks to show that everyone can live a soul empowered.

July 15, 2018

Lead by Rev. Kalie Marino

“If you only knew the life you get to have, you would be running out that door.” That is the voice that came to Emily Hollis as she laid in bed getting ready to do one of the hardest things in her life. After a very dysfunctional 10-year marriage, she was ready to forge a new path, not only for herself, but all the women she would help along the way that were stuck in abusive or dysfunctional relationships. After returning from a meditation workshop and experiencing a profound shift and connection, she walked out the door that day and never looked back.

In a very short amount of time she was able to free herself of a 10-year opiate addiction, without traditional rehab, quit smoking, met the love of her life, and most importantly, was able to let go of the very limiting beliefs she had always held on to. She always believed she was much more than just her body and after a profound spiritual awakening, she knew it to be true.

Emily, a student of Dr. Joe Dispenza and soon to be author, is now very passionate about sharing her story to show both women and men that it is possible to let go of their own limiting beliefs and live a life they never thought possible. Through telling her story, she shows people how to live beyond the self-imposed limits we all create in our lives and how to get in touch with their bigger self.

July 8, 2018

Lead by Rev. Donna Fry

Robert followed many paths. Born in England, he became a journalist and an award winning News Photographer and an accredited War Correspondent by age 24. After living in the Middle East for 13 years, he worked in broadcasting in Germany and British Columbia taking three national awards for documentaries. As Public Relations Director he helped build North America’s first driverless rapid transit system in Vancouver.

In recent years he has conducted healing as an accredited hypnoanalyst. He created his own ministry and his own publishing house and has written and published 12 books. Half of them are on spiritual and self-improvement topics, the other half are historical adventure novels. “This keeps me balanced,” he says. In all of this he has been an energy worker, a dowser – an art which he teaches and practices. Through this he learned two things: The Power of Imagination and Goal Setting, and the Power of Self-Love. He will share some of his thoughts on these with us.

July 1, 2018

Lead by Rev. Denny Daikeler

Sam describes himself as The Miracle Man.” He is an author, minister of inspiration, healer, speaker, and founder of Head Trash Anonymous. Head Trash Anonymous helps people to heal and recover from negative thought addiction. Sam recently launched Head Trash Anonymous in NYC, and has a chapter in Philadelphia.

He has appeared on TV, radio, podcasts, magazines and live appearances around the country. He resides in NYC living his passion of helping people clear their head trash, get out of their life of pain, and restore their health. Sam brings hope to those that feel hopeless. www.dontdwell.org

Denny has been part of Pebble Hill Church since 1970. She was part of the founding class of the School of Sacred Ministries, and has been celebration coordinator, consistory member, speaker and dance partner of Gary Culp. Denny’s career centered in interior design, both teaching, consulting, and authoring two books, “What Color Is Your Slipcover” and “Messages, Flowing With Synchronicity.”

June 24, 2018

Lead by Rev. Kalie Marino

Stash Serafin was born blind and became a great ice skater. He teaches ice skating to others. He was also a favorite “A Course in Miracles” teacher. Through 40 years of skating experiences and now his pottery experiences he came up with an exciting term called Evolutionary Equality.

“Love more, fear less as love feels less solid than fear. Fear feels like friction, love feels like flow, liquid life at its best. Being able to feel the flow as to the friction without judging has helped me through many challenges. I am so excited to share with everyone the personal experiences I have felt from loving more and fearing less.”

Stash Serafin and Kalie Marino, both teachers of “A Course in Miracles” will dialogue about how the principles in the Course have helped him through life.

June 17, 2018

Lead by Gary Schoenberg

Father’s Day, a day that may bring back fond childhood memories; or possibly difficult memories that we wish to heal. This Celebration will include sharings from several men in the Pebble Hill Community about their relationships with their fathers including both the shadow and gold aspects of their fathers and how those relationships have impacted upon them being men today.

Some of the dynamics of these relationships have had their rewards and also their challenges including striving to be the kind of man or father who nurtures and supports others, whether raising children or not, a single parent, divorced, co-parenting, traditional/non-traditional relationships, etc. Clearly the range of possibilities has expanded as we explore new paradigms. What does it mean to be a father or a man today? What impact has our father or lack of fathering had upon us today? What does it mean to be good enough? How do we connect to the deeper part of us that yearns to be whole and healed of our childhood wounds and also yet connected to the golden child within and embraced in a safe and loving way? How does one stay in one’s power and yet be open, vulnerable, and generous in relationship with others and fulfill the tasks of the mythological “Hero’s Journey”?

The men who will share include Norm Danis, David Cook, and Gary Schoenberg who will lead the Celebration. Singer/Songwriter, Deva Troy will sing an original song she wrote about her own father. Rituals will be used to invoke a container by calling in the directions, drumming, and the use of sage to create sacred space along with meditations, guided imagery, songs and chants!

Bring pictures and any memorabilia that you wish to place on the alter about fathering in whatever way is meaningful to you.

June 10, 2018

Presented by the founder of Creative Crisis Care, Janet Berkowitz

The essential mission of Creative Crisis Care is to provide awareness, education and healing around issues such as bullying, suicide, and addictions. It employs all form of the arts, integrative exercises (role plays, etc.) and discussion to create experiential workshops. Facilitators establish safe containers to help participants explore these painful topics. It allows people to give voice to feelings and thoughts that they have possibly never felt comfortable sharing and gain insight into new and creative options for recovery. It is based on the belief that we all have the answers within.

June 3, 2018

Join us as we celebrate the holy month of Ramadan! A month of fasting, devotion and charity, the most beautiful month in the Islamic year.

This year we will honor Ramadan with the Dances of Universal Peace a powerful and joyous form of interfaith group meditation and prayer.

Using sacred phrases, chants, music and simple movements inspired by many spiritual traditions, the Dances promote peace and healing by focusing on what deeply unites us—one Source, one Essence. From this place of unity, we celebrate the magnificent diversity of life.

May 27, 2018

Lead by Rabbi Michael Shevack

Memories and insights from those in the wider community who served.  Possible participants include Bill Mettler, Rabbi Michael Shevak (Bucks County Free Synagogue, The Patton Foundation), Kathleen Rice (Vets’ Journey Home, Warrior Watch) and Dan Fraley (Bucks County Dept. of Veterans’ Affairs).  Special appearance by the color guard Warrior Watch.

May 20, 2018

Rev. Cindy Greb returns from Shasta, California!

Lead by Celebration Team

She will tell us about this very significant time on the planet. “Mt Shasta is considered sacred by people as far away as Brazil and Japan,” she writes. “In fact, it’s considered (spiritually) one of the planetary centers. Various ascended masters and other beings of light and wisdom are considered to have a base here.”

Cindy will bring a slide show!

May 13, 2018

Lead by Rev. Rosalind Cauffman – invites you to bring flowers and pictures of your mothers

John is a highly respected contemporary spiritual teacher who lectures and leads meditation courses throughout North America. He has been a practitioner of vipassana (mindfulness) meditation and various forms of yoga for more than forty years.

He is the author of One Soul, One Love, One Heart: The Sacred Path to Healing All Relationships; Awakening from Grief: Finding the Way Back to Joy and When Prayers Aren’t Answered, all books that emerged from his thirty-five years of experience helping people deal with dramatic life change and loss.

John has studied world religions throughout his life, and holds a B.A. in Comparative Religions from the University of South Florida, and an M.A. in History of Religions from Florida State University. He has also traveled and studied extensively in India. He is a gifted counselor and teacher who has worked closely with Ram Dass and Stephen Levine and trained with Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.

His workshops and lectures are offered in personal growth centers, yoga schools, churches, hospitals, hospices, corporations, colleges, and universities. He is also available for one-on-one consultations. He currently resides in northern New Jersey. John’s website is www.onesoulonelove.com

May 6, 2018

Lead by Kalie Marino

What if everything I know about life is false? What if I am more powerful than I realize?  These thoughts went through Scott Sunderland’s mind, as he lay in bed paralyzed from a rare illness.  Scott, the owner of a construction company, a husband, father and athlete, could not accept his fate.

After many months of introspection, releasing limiting beliefs, utilizing powerful visualizations, and connecting with a power much bigger then himself, Scott completely healed himself.  Scott will share his remarkable journey of healing.

A student of Dr. Joe Dispenza and soon to be published author, Scott enjoys helping others to achieve their dreams and goals by using the same tools that led to his incredible success. His passion lies in showing people the power they possess inside of them.

April 29, 2018

Stay for the workshop at 1:30!

Lead by Rev. Kalie Marino

Rev. Kalie Marino, who lived among the Sikhs of India, leads the Celebration with a guest speaker from India, Harvinder Kaur. Many will remember Harvinder as the musician and speaker who accompanied S.S. Mahan Rishi Singh Khalsa D.C. when he spoke at our Feb. 25th Celebration.

Harvinder shares her struggles as an immigrant in America. Her family came to the U.S. in the early ’70’s.  She is an Indian Sikh who struggled and faced many challenges. “What I was most confronted by was my identity. Who was I; where did I belong; why was I not ‘white;’ why was I so different; why couldn’t I just be ‘normal’? I would visit Amritsar, India every summer as a child.  The Golden Temple was where I belonged, but I didn’t belong in India.”

Her love for chanting and mantras was a seed planted by her parents. It really flourished when she revisited her faith as an adult. She became interested in mantras through Kundalini Yoga.

Her story is a story of Transformation, which is the topic of her workshop in the afternoon.

Harvinder is a student of The Ancient Vedas and the Sacred Text of Gurbani.  She has been a speaker and lecturer for over ten years.  She is able to simplify and present knowledge with ease and clarity.  She has a unique perspective regarding Life and Spirituality.  However, knowledge without action is futile, so Harvinder is committed to creating change through conversation, dialogue and by sharing techniques that were given by the Sages of The East.

April 22, 2018

“Pebble Hill Church Brothers and Sisters!

You are Invited to Our Earth Day Celebration”

OUR PLANET, YOUR FUTURE, YOUR SPIRITUALITY

This Coming Sunday, April 22 Earth Day

Performance by Quiet Riot:  Dave & Bill Mettler

Bring Your Family, Friends & Neighbors:  5 to 95 years old

• Experience Storytelling, Comedy, Sound F/X, & Audience Interaction
• Witness How a Farmer Saves the Islanders from a Tsunami with Respect
• Learn Why Modern AstroPhysicists Agree with the Ancient Spiritual Masters
• Take One Action Step to Help Create a Livable Future for Your Grandchildren