Sunday Morning Worship
Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
November 8, 2026
11:00 AM
Preacher: Rev. Adriene Thorne


“Stories from my Mother’s Garden” with Rev. Mira Sawlani-Joyner
November 5, 12, 19 | 7:00 – 8:00 pm ET | Zoom
Join Rev. Mira for evening conversations with her mother, born and raised in the Philippines, now living in Hong Kong. We will gather together and trace the chapters of her life: growing up in the islands, the long road of emigrating and making a new home, and the years of widowhood that followed. We’ll listen to her story (some of which will likely be new to Rev. Mira too!) and wonder alongside it, asking where God was and is in the soil of it all. Her soul as a garden; the many gardens she has had to plant and replant along the way.
Short Circles are two to three week classes, held on Zoom and led by Riverside clergy and ministerial staff. These classes will allow our Riverside community to connect around various topics and themes, deepening their faith and spirituality, and getting to know one another and the Riverside clergy team.
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