We're a book club without a book!

Is there a book/movie/poem/virtual concert/recipe you have enjoyed that you'd like to share with others?

This is your chance! Join us once a month with a recommendation to share plus a few details about why you enjoyed it (or just hop on to listen!)

This is a virtual group that meets on Zoom.

If you would like to join, email Michele.

Join us online here for spiritual services.

Physical distance can make us feel isolated. CBF now offers a bi-weekly opportunity for you to connect with your CBF family through a video program called CBF Gathering. The program will include music, a devotional and prayer led by members of the CBF community and important words and resources from CBF field personnel, chaplains and pastoral counselors and others carrying out essential ministry in new and faithful ways in these days.

The purpose of this Life Group is to provide a means of support for those serving as Caregivers to a family member or friend.

We will pray & study together, laugh & cry together, lean on one another, share experiences, knowledge & resources, challenges & frustrations, ups & downs, joys & pains.

This group meets virtually on Zoom.

Click here to join this group.

Free.

The Catholic Church of San Antonio is truly blessed with its own television station.

In addition to the televised daily Mass, CTSA, offers coverage of the events of Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, MSpS, news from the Vatican, and great local programming.

Daily Mass. CTSA produces and broadcasts The Daily Mass from the Pastoral Center of the Archdiocese of San Antonio. Mass is broadcast live each weekday at 9:30 AM on weekdays from St Joseph's Chapel. Click here to watch live or later. (Scroll down to watch a recording.)

Other Broadcasts. Click here for CTSA's full broadcast shedulle.

Circles In Da Hood is a folklife centered Participatory Action Research Project facilitated by Laura Ramirez, Kimiya Factory and Madelein Santibanez. Circles build capacity for young leaders to develop a healing justice analysis and embody the radical love needed to create and sustain collective wellness spaces in their homes and communities. This project takes place in occupied Somi S’ek territories, commonly known as San Antonio, Texas. 

In a city with systemic over-policing that disproportionately impacts youth of color, Circles In Da Hood reimagines how social relationships are woven into the fabric of our community to create alternative patterns of accountability and care. 

Circles are rooted in the wisdom of nature, indigenous human experience, with no beginning or end. Circles create a space for people to contribute the wisdom of their lives experience, and listen, learn, grow and heal within a shared brave space. Documenting our process was a key aspect of our project. It’s what folklife is all about.

Click here to view Our Story Gallery

I am privileged to serve adults, children, individuals, couples, and families by utilizing an integrative approach that serves my clients comprehensively. This entails sharing my professional counseling, medical, ministering, and coaching skills with those I work with.

Balancing the utilization of my skills, education, close relationship with God, prayer, and my 20+ years of clinical experiences, I am honored to facilitate healing in a nurturing environment. I value a holistic, empirical-based, integrative approach to counseling, functional medicine, ministering, and coaching.

Therefore, while working with clients I am able to facilitate their healing process in a multi-faceted way. Addressing a client's physical, emotional, and spiritual issues is at the heart of what I do.

Counseling and clinical experiences include (but are not limited to):

• Counseling: Individual, Couples/Marriage, Children/Teens
• Marriage Coaching/Enrichment
• Family Systems Issues
• Christian Discipling
• Coaching: Business, Life, Parenting, Leadership, Weight Loss
• Abuse Recovery: Emotional, Mental, Physical, Sexual
• Addiction Recovery: Alcohol, Drugs, Sex
• Post–Abortion Recovery
• Anger Management
• Adrenal Fatigue
• Anxiety/Stress Resolution/Management
• Autoimmune Issues
• Candidiasis
• Depression
• Detox Needs
• Food Sensitivity
• Gut Disbiosis
• Identity Crisis
• Labs
• OCD
• ODD
• Personality D/O
• PTSD
• Spiritual Stronghold Issues
• Thyroid Issues

Ages 5+.

In-person or telehealth visits available.

Payments accepted on a sliding scale.

We do not accept insurance at this time.

This is a public study of Buddhism led by a Buddhist teacher.

Class held virtually on zoom, click here to attend.

Alpine Ministerial Alliance provides temporary assistance with housing, utilities, clothing, and other needs during emergency situations. The support is provided by community worship services, churches, and individuals.

Dear Faith Community Leader,

We believe that some people in the community you serve may be unable to make the changes necessary to support their health, despite obesity or complications related to unhealthy eating or inappropriate weight. Many of us with this problem have found help in Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA). We hope you and those you work with will find information about FA™ useful.

What is FA?™
FA™ is a program based on the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. We offer help and spiritually based recovery to those whose connection with food can be understood as a form of addiction. We are not a medical group, nor are we connected with any particular form of religion. We charge no dues or fees and our meetings include no weigh-ins. Our membership is international and includes men and women, adolescents, and the elderly. All are welcome.

Who might benefit from FA™?
People who find help in FA™ vary greatly. Some of us have been diagnosed as morbidly obese, while others are undereaters. Among us are those who were severely bulimic, who have harmed themselves with compulsive exercise, or whose quality of life was impaired by constant obsession with food or weight. We tend to be people who, in the long-term, have failed at every solution we tried, including therapy, support groups, diets, fasting, exercise, and in-patient treatment programs.

Does FA™ work?
Like Alcoholics Anonymous, FA treats food addiction as a threefold illness: physical, mental, and spiritual.  Members have maintained continuous recovery (including stable weight and freedom from obsession with food and body size) for years and even decades. Along with improvements in physical health, FA recovery has brought us better relationships, increased self-esteem, more tools for handling stress, and an ever-deepening spirituality.

Would you like more information?
We would be happy to answer any of your questions, to speak with your colleagues, or to any groups within your worship community. Please contact us via email: [email protected].  Additional information is available at the FA website: www.foodaddicts.org.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely, 

FA Public Information Committee

Free

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - R. Buckminster Fuller.

Click here for free spiritual virtual books.

HeavenSent is a mission to nursing homes that provides free greeting cards to encourage residents to reach out more to friends, family, staff, and each other through the love of Jesus. Residents are also prayed for and ministered to personally during regular visits, helping their faith in God to grow.

Our online HomePointe Center will provide you with many exciting and practical tools to strengthen your walk with the Lord and help you bless the lives of those around you. We have a team of trained hosts available to assist you after the 8:30 AM or 10:40 AM service or you can come by and explore the Center on your own.

Most resources are free; others available at cost.

Veterans can experience a range of life events, opportunities, and challenges after they leave the military like:

• Sharing LGBTQ+ Identity With Providers

Click here to learn about the resources and support available for Veterans who have faced challenges related to coming out as a person who identifies as LGBTQ+.

• Death of Family Members or Friends

Click here to learn more about experiencing the death of family members or friends, treatment options, self-help tools, and resources to help you cope with loss.

• Families & Relationships

Click here to learn more about families and relationships, treatment options, self-help tools, and resources to help you overcome family and relationship issues.

• Financial & Legal Issues

Click here to learn more about experiencing financial and legal issues, treatment options, self-help tools, and resources to help you overcome challenges.

• Homelessness

Click here to learn more about experiencing homelessness, treatment options, self-help tools, and resources available for homeless Veterans.

• Work-Related Problems

Click here to learn more about challenges related to jobs and employment, treatment options, self-help tools, and resources to help you overcome work-related issues.

• Physical Injury

Click here to learn more about managing a physical injury, treatment options, self-help tools, and resources to help you live well.

• Preparing for Deployment

Click here to learn more about preparing for deployment, treatment options, self-help tools, and resources to help you cope.

• Retirement & Aging

Click here to learn more about retirement and aging, treatment options, self-help tools, and resources to help you transition.

• Spirituality

Click here to learn more about spirituality, treatment options, self-help tools, and resources to help you overcome concerns related to spiritual issues.

• Student Veterans / Higher Education

Click here to learn more about being a student Veteran, treatment options, self-help tools, and resources to help you overcome challenges.

• Transitioning From Service

Click here to learn more about transitioning from service, treatment options, self-help tools, and resources to help you overcome transition challenges.

Free

Living Grace is designed to provide healthy solutions for your heart and mind while living with any mental health difficulty or disorder. This supportive community experience has a proven track record of helping members reduce symptoms, aid in overall mental health recovery, and renew faith.

A link to access the group will be sent each Monday.

Women only. Living Grace is an open group and new members can join at any point during the semester.

To register, click here.

Questions? [email protected]

Free. Paper versions of the Living Grace workbook are sold in the CBC bookstore.

Weighed down by Loneliness?

Loneliness is heavy. If you’re struggling, you may feel disconnected and isolated. When you feel alone, it can feel like the world around you is empty and meaningless.

But there is hope for connection and meaningful relationships.

You’re not meant to deal with loneliness alone

We connect you to people from local churches who truly care about you and what you’re going through in life. They want to listen, provide help, and encourage you, all with zero expectation or pressure.

Click here to watch a video on Loneliness

Click here to connect with someone

FREE

Weighed down by Loss?

Loss is hard. If you’ve lost someone you love, you probably feel empty, weighed down by pain and sorrow. But you don’t have to go through it alone.

You’re not meant to deal with loss alone.

Whether you’re looking for comfort after losing a loved one or a relationship, wanting to learn ways to cope and deal with the grief in your life, or searching to see where God is in your situation, there are people who truly care about you and want to help you through it.

Click here to watch a video on Loss

Click here to connect with someone

FREE

Not just for “new” meditators, instruction is also recommended as part of our ongoing practice. You are always welcome to come in and speak to an instructor about your regular practice, and you may even ask to form a working relationship with the instructor of your choice.

Depending on a student’s interest and experience, meditation instruction might include:

• Introducing the practice of meditation – Introductory meditation instruction presents the basic meditation techniques taught in the Shambhala community. 
• Clarifying the view of meditation – In our tradition, meditation instruction involves more than the communication of a technique; it is, at heart, about the transmission of the revolutionary view that unconditional wisdom and compassion are the very ground of our being, and that by learning to relax more and more fully, we allow this fundamental nature to flower. 
• Instruction on working with obstacles to meditation – Common obstacles to meditation include disheartenment, resistance, procrastination, discursiveness, and spacing out. The obstacles are well documented in the Shambhala Buddhist teachings—and so are their antidotes. 
• Guidance on the path of practice and study – Shambhala presents many opportunities for students to deepen their practice and study—public meditation sessions, weeknight classes, weekend programs, retreats, and seminaries, to name a few. A meditation instructor can help you decide what to do next and when to do it. 
• Guidance on joining meditation and daily life – The workaday world is where the rubber meets the road. Getting the tools to meet life’s ups and downs with a strong and pliable mind and an open heart is another potential benefit of working with a meditation instructor.

Click here for meditation instruction for new visitors and the regular sit that meets virtually on Zoom.

Click here for the latest information.

Meditation instruction is available to anyone, free of charge.

Deepen your relationship with God and learn His plan for you as you meet with missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We’ll pray, read, and discuss the teachings of Jesus Christ with you.

Click here to meet with missionaries online or in person.

Meditation is a natural state of the human mind—at rest, open, alert. The practice of meditation has been taught for over 2,500 years as a vehicle for realizing the beauty and magic of the ordinary world without aggression or manipulation.

No prior meditation experience required to attend.

Open Public Sitting is happening virtually on Zoom. Click here to join.

Weighed down by Relationship Problems?

Relationships can be challenging. When people hurt, reject, or ignore you, it’s easy to feel weighed down by rejection and feeling unloved. 

But there is hope for whatever relationship feels broken in your life.

You’re not meant to deal with relationship problems alone

We connect you to people from local churches who truly care about you and what you’re going through in life. They want to listen, provide help, and encourage you, all with zero expectation or pressure.

Click here to watch a video on Relationship Problems

Click here to connect with someone

FREE

Weighed down by Sadness?

Sadness is heavy. If you’re struggling, you may feel like you’re going through the motions or barely surviving. When life feels like a constant gray cloud, it’s easy to feel weighed down by pain and hopelessness. 

But there is hope for you.

You’re not meant to deal with sadness alone

We connect you to people from local churches who truly care about you and what you’re going through in life. They want to listen, provide help, and encourage you, all with zero expectation or pressure.

Click here to watch a video on Sadness

Click here to connect with someone

FREE

Spiritual Direction is described in many ways: mentoring, sacred companioning, holy listening, or soul friend.

I welcome clients from all (or no) faith backgrounds and wish only to help you be you. I have a Christian background and tend to use the words God or Holy Spirit to refer to that Being which is greater than, beyond, and within us. But I am open and welcome you and your beliefs as they are. You only need to have a desire for and an openness to the spiritual direction process. As a director, I am not really directing your process. I am just helping facilitate the space for your spiritual process to occur.

Sessions run for about 55 minutes and the typically once each month. 

We will begin with a short time of silence, or prayer, to help center ourselves and become fully present. ?

I will mostly listen during our time. If you don’t have anything specific you’d like to talk about, that’s okay. I may direct our time by asking a question or two, or even allowing for some silence - which is really just some space for both of us to rest and to listen. 

My rate is $50 per session but full and partial scholarships are available upon request.

Spiritual Renewal PPE™ Personal Protective Equipping

A Ministry of Restoration and Reconciliation
"Prepare your Mind for Action." - 1 Peter 1:13

Spiritual Renewal PPE™ (SRPPE) is my signature program that is practice-based  step-by-step journey using biblical principles guided by the Holy Spirit. SRPPE is a great compliment to the healing work of the Grief Recovery Method® to move you beyond the emotional pain of a loss BUT it can stand alone to heal, re-awaken or jump-start your heart to live victorious in Christ.

Because both recovery approaches have brought such transformative healing in my life like nothing before, my preference is to walk you through both approaches, back to back. Not only will you overcome grief and loss, you will awaken to God's embrace and be empowered to live as the person GOD has created you to BE as an Image-Bearer (not just "be your best you" or about behavior modification) and live exponentially in Christ.

God is not done with your story! He is in the business of giving beauty from ashes for His glory (John 12:27-28)

We will:

• Identify and dismantle the lies (often wounds and sin) that keep us trapped
• Through the leading of the Holy Spirit, reflect and embrace truths from God's Word 
• Pray in the Spirit about the spiritual battle we face daily between walking in the light and the forces of darkness (Ephesians 6:10-18)
• Continue on-going renewal of the mind to become fully fortified in Christ's divine nature (2 Peter 1:3-4. Romans 12:2)

The program is offered in person or virtual via a secure, confidential, video platform. Your privacy and confidentiality are our priority. 

   Program Investment:

• $90.00 1/ 90-minute session   
• $625.00 8/ 90-minute session       

If you are looking for a warm and welcoming community where your presence makes a difference, then Beth Am is the place for you. We invite you to join us and see if Beth Am is right for you and your family.

Please refer to our website for service times and other information.

Join Us Live This Weekend!

We're so excited to Worship with you this weekend. We are bringing the Worship and Word to your House.

We meet every Sunday at various services times and on various platforms. We'd love to get to know you.

Join us online for spiritual services here, on Facebook, or on YouTube.

Click here for our bible studies.

Click here for our health & wellness series.

Click here for our behavioral health series.

Free.

Volunteer & Serve

There are many services that need to be done in order to run a successful community center. Volunteer, get involved, and experience the bliss of giving back by signing up for service. Click the link below and let us know if you want to help!

Click here to sign up to Volunteer & Serve

As a parent of special needs, does your heart ache with questions, confusion, or discouragement? Do you ever feel that you have no margin in your emotional reserves or sense a gaping need for encouragement, rest, and refreshment? Caring for someone with autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, emotional disorders, behavior problems,

Down syndrome, or physical disabilities can be all consuming. This group will help you claim God's promises for your everyday life as your own. These promises are for your comfort.

You'll become more aware of God's passion for you and your child through Bible devotionals, support, and prayer that speaks directly to the unique journey of special needs parenting. Ultimately, the goal of the group is to let God guide you into the presence of Jesus and the security that only He can provide.

This is an 11-week class led by Susie Raiford. This group meets virtually on Zoom.

Click here for more information, group dates, and times.

Click here to join.

Book is required. Click here to purchase book for $6.99.

Way of Shambhala is an extensive path of training in authentic meditation practices and wisdom teachings for anyone interested in pursuing such training. This program of courses and weekend retreats offers an experiential overview of practices, teachings, contemplative arts, and physical disciplines rooted in the ancient traditions of Shambhala and Vajrayana Buddhism.

The program is open to people of all religious backgrounds or no religious background. It is recommended for new and experienced meditators as well as those looking to enrich their personal spiritual path and social action.

We welcome you to participate to the extent you wish. Sample a course or a weekend retreat—or a number of them—at any time. The full program is described below.

Program Outline:

Way of Shambhala consists of the following elements:

• Everyday Life series—five courses, with five weekly classes in each
• Shambhala Training series—five weekend retreats;
• Rigden: Unconditional Confidence—a weekend retreat
• the Basic Goodness series—three courses, with six weekly classes in each
• Sacred Path series—six weekend retreats

Way of Shambhala also encompasses some one- to two-week retreats and advanced assemblies. For information about those programs, and about how Way of Shambhala fits in the overall Shambhala path, please see The Shambhala Path on Shambhala's central website. 

The courses are interactive, communal, and create a learning environment where the teachings are intimate and relevant. Participants train in meditation and use inquiry, dialogue, and contemplative arts to integrate the teachings.

The weekend retreats are opportunities to deepen meditation practice in a powerful environment that meets the needs of a workweek and family life.

You may start with any series except the Sacred Path. In each series, the courses or weekend retreats are designed to be taken sequentially. For example, Shambhala Training participants progress from Level I to Level V in sequence. The most gradual introduction is to take the Meditation in Everyday Life course first.

Practice hearing God from the comfort of your home with our Hearing God Zoom Practice!

It’s a fun and safe space to ask your questions, troubleshoot hearing God, and practice listening for the still, small voice of God with the benefit of coaching. 

Group meets virtually on Zoom. Click here to register.