Groups
Join our vibrant community and explore meaningful connections through our various groups. Whether you're looking for fellowship, learning opportunities, or a place to serve, there's a group for you!
Seeking Shelter Solutions Group
12:30 - 2:00 pm on the first and third Thursdays of each month in room 50.
This group seeks to educate people about the epidemic of homelessness, discuss possible ways we can help, and reach out to form working relationships with like-minded groups. We hope you will join us.
For more information, contact:
Carol - carollundberg23@gmail.com
Centering Prayer Group
Wednesdays
4:30PM-5:30PM
St. Claire Room in the Community Center
A Centering Prayer group meets every Wednesday. We invite you to come and experience the deep connection of the sound of silence with Spirit. All are welcome to come and experience the depth of silence.
We've begun reading the book: Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening by Cynthia Bourgealt
For more information contact:
Shar Aslaksen: saslaksen@stfrancisumc.org
Crafting Calm
Friday mornings
11:00 am - 12:30 pm in room 50
In this increasingly crazy world, it's getting more difficult to relax and find a place to be calm. Join us as we explore crafts and creativity to enjoy amazing physical, mental, and spiritual benefits.
No experience is necessary. Lots of experience is fine. Whoever you are, you are welcome and will benefit.
Crafts might include visual journals, prayer shawls, personal prayer flags, tabletop altars and much more! The choices are yours and they are endless.
Shar Aslaksen will be your guide into this amazing world of creation, connections, contemplation and calm. Enlarge your world!
Here's how our meetings go:
After we "Check In" with one another, (where tears, laughter and hugs often occur), we then take turns offering a monthly interactive program on a variety of subjects. Before our noon time closing, we go around the Circle again to share prayerful departing insights.
If this sounds like something that may be of interest to you, we hope you will join us on the last Sunday of the month. You will be very welcome.
Sophia's Circle
Women's Breakfast
Invitation to the "Ladies of St. Francis"
(This includes any woman who has attended St. Francis even one time)
You are most cordially invited to attend the women's SOPHIA CIRCLE gathering that takes place the second Sunday of each month at 10:45am in Ravenscroft Hall.
The aim of SOPHIA is our Spiritual Growth through Learning, Sharing, and Connection with Others.
Soul Connection
How is it with your soul?
Share with us!
Casual, thought provoking and mostly fun. Once a week, a group gets together to tell it like it really is... sharing our thoughts and inspirations or, yes it happens, if we've had a really bad day.
The rules are simple: Listen, not to problem solve or do therapy, Really hear each other, All sharing is confidential. We'd love for you to join us!
4:00 PM
on Zoom
Every Monday
Laughter Yoga
It's Fun, Funny & Free!
Contact the office for more information at: 520-299-9063
Tuesdays at
5PM Room 50
Reduces pain and stress.
Eases depressive and anxiety symptoms.
Promotes overall sense of positive well-being.
Joy and Wisdom
Discussion Group
password:
love
1st & 3rd Fridays
of each month
1:00 PM
on Zoom
The next book the group will read is: The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness by Gregory Boyle. The book is available via Amazon (12.99 + tax) or several other retailers.
For more information contact:
Joyce Leissring 520.404.1691
Divine Journey Yoga
Mondays
9:00 AM in the
Community Center
Enjoy a balanced, gentle practice of both Hatha and Yin styles of yoga. Geared toward bodies of all ages and abilities, Trish provides options for all levels of yoga student and for those with specific physical limitations. Yoga is for everyone. Start right where you are!
For information on classes and fees, contact, contact Trish at Trish@divinejourneyyoga.com
Games For Health
Play has been proven to be very beneficial to our minds and overall health. It can release endorphins, improve brain functionality and stimulate creativity.
It can even help to keep us feeling younger and energetic. Studies show that play improves memory and stimulates the growth of the cerebral cortex!
AND IT'S FUN!!
Join us to release those endorphins by playing board games, carrying on good conversation, all while enjoying goodies.
The group meets every Wednesdays of each month
2:30 pm to 4:00pm
in Ravenscroft Hall
Board games
Card Games
Brain building games
And engaging conversation!
Congregation Kol Simchah
The Voice of Joy in Tucson
Congregation Kol Simchah is a Jewish family that celebrates the gift of life by reaching out to the Divine, our fellow human beings, and the delicate web of life in the world of nature. Our Jewish identity begins with each unique individual, and we build a better world together through prayer, study, observance and social action.
1st and 3rd Fridays of every month
at 7:00 PM in the
Community Center
We share building space with St. Francis in the Foothills and partner with the greater religious, spiritual and peace communities to 'do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our Creator'.
Reality on the Floor
NA Group
Sundays 6:00-7:00 PM in room 50
Iskashitaa Food Workshops
St. Francis in the Foothills
Community Center kitchen
Come join us in the kitchen to transform recently gleaned produce into delicious food products for sale at local Farmer's Markets.