Moving forward
A new group for people who have lost a life partner through death or divorce has formed.
Through a circle of support they will focus on the ups and downs of emotions experienced and come up with ways to harness these feelings and create a new life.
The group will meet on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. The first meeting will be on November 28. The group is free and is run by a professional counselor. To join, contact Valerie Rhoda at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 766-4522.
Free thinkers
The Lakeside Freethinkers – for atheists, agnostics, humanists and others who reject belief in the supernatural – will hold its regular third-Wednesday-of-the-month meeting on November 21.
A member will speak on her experience in becoming and then un-becoming a Mormon. There will also be a report on the Colloquium on Mexican Atheism held in Mexico City this month by the Mexican Atheists and Freethinkers organization, in which noted scientists and other atheists from the United States participated. For information on the time and place email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Navy League
The next meeting of the Navy League Lake Chapala Council will be on Saturday, November 17 at Manix Restaurant, Calle Ocampo 57 in Ajijic. The luncheon will begin at 1 p.m.
The speaker will be Jorge Ochoa Ochoa, the Port Captain/Harbor Master of Lake Chapala. His presentation will provide information on the responsibilities of the port captain office at Lake Chapala and the implementation of new procedures in the system of harbor masters. Ochoa has served as port captain in Puerto Marus, Nueva Vallarta, Acapulco and Cabo San Lucas after a long career on various ships of the merchant marine and shipbuilding facilities. This is bound to be an interesting and informative talk.
Bus trips
The Lake Chapala Society bus trip for December will be to Guadalajara’s Galerias Mall on Wednesday, December 5. The bus will leave from the sculpture in La Floresta at 9 a.m. This mall has Liverpool, Sears and Best Buy stores, as well as many restaurants and cafes, including Starbucks, Krispy Kreme, Chili’s, Applebee’s, Outlook Steakhouse and Sanborn’s. Alongside the mall are Walmart, Sam’s, Costco and the Mega store.
Sign up at the LCS table Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The round trip ticket costs 200 pesos.
Jewish classes
The Lake Chapala Jewish Congregation is pleased to announce the classes that Otto (Baruch) Rand, resident Jewish scholar, will again be presenting, starting in December, continuing into January and February of the new year.
Those who have attended the classes have found them to be fascinating, intelligent and thought-provoking. Baruch welcomes interactions and questions, making the classes even more interesting.
The series is entitled “Faith versus Science Analysis of Ideas of Monotheistic Faiths and Their Scientific Rebuttal.” Mark these dates on your calendars:
December 4. “Do We have Free Will?”
December 11. “Do We Have a Soul?”
January 8. “Evolution versus Creationism”
January 15. “Angels, Satan and the Trinity”
January 22. “Sharia and Its Textual Basis”
January 29. “Messiah, Resurrection and the Afterworld”
February 5. “The Case for God”
February 12. “The Case against God”
All of the classes begin at 3 p.m. and cost 20 pesos each.
To sign up, contact Helena Feldstein at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Unitarians
The Lake Chapala Unitarian Universalist Fellowship meets each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at Sta. Margarita 113 in Riberas del Pilar. Sunday, November 18, the presentation will be given by Bob McKeown and will discuss the reason that we give thanks, not only at this time of year, but all year round. There will be a coffee hour following the service. For more information please call (376) 766-1119 or email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The Fellowship is a welcoming congregation.
Presbyterians
Sunday, November 18, Lakeside Presbyterian Church will have a guest preacher, Woody Dee, at the 10 a.m. service. The men of the congregation will meet for breakfast on Tuesday, November 20, 9 a.m. at Sunrise Restaurant. There will be no Bible study on November 23 but it will resume on Friday, November 30. The church is located on the mountain side of the Carretera just west of S&S Auto and Bubba’s Restaurant.
St. Andrew’s Anglican
Sometimes faith is easiest in the middle of a crisis: a death, an illness, a tragedy, an accident. The extraordinary can frequently bring out the best in us – psychologically, emotionally, spiritually. On the other hand, when life is normal, ordinary and predictable, it’s all too easy for out faith to run into the ditch and be left behind, neglected and forgotten. That’s the situation described in one of the Bible readings at St. Andrew’s this week, and addressed by Father Winston Welty’s sermon: “A Faith for Ordinary Times.”
The “high season” schedule has begun at St. Andrew’s with Sunday worship each week at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. and a time of refreshment, welcome and fellowship between the services. The Church is located at Calle San Lucas 19, just one block south of the Carretera in Riberas del Pilar.
Jehovah’s Witnesses
The Jehovah’s Witnesses will meet in a district convention at the Palenque of Auditorio Benito Juarez in Zapopan on November 23, 24 and 25. Check out www.jw.org for more details.
Christ Church
Christ Church Anglican Fellowship will celebrate the 25th Sunday after Pentecost on November 18 with the Holy Eucharist Rite II at the Little Chapel by the Lake at 9:30 a.m. The theme of Father Danny Borkowski’s sermon is “The End is still to Come,” based on Mark 13: 1-8. There is a time of joint fellowship for the congregations of Christ Church and the Little Chapel by the Lake after the 9:30 a.m. service and before the 11:15 a.m. service of the Little Chapel congregation. All are welcome to join them for worship and fellowship.
Immigration
To help clarify the new immigration laws for foreigners in Mexico, there will be a conference on the subject at the Terranova School on Wednesday, November 21 at 6 p.m. The school is located at Rio Lerma 19 in Rancho del Oro. Everyone is welcome.
Nevertheless, don’t miss the interview with National Immigration Institute Chapala office chief Juan Carlos Galvan to be published in next week’s Reporter. In the article, many concerns of foreigners over the new regulations will be addressed by this official Mexican government source.