LCS party
This is the final call for the Monday, September 16 celebration party at Lake Chapala Society (LCS), presented by the España brothers and Manix Restaurant.
The always popular event will be held on the LCS grounds from 2-5 p.m. The ticket price of 150 pesos includes children’s games, an all-you-can-eat Mexican buffet and Mexican music for listening and dancing pleasure. Children aged 10 and under enter free of charge if accompanied by an adult.
Tickets can be bought at the Lake Chapala Society patio table, Monday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., or at Diane Pearl Colecciones.
Villa Infantil
The Friends Of Villa Infantil, a local support group that helps the Villa Infantil orphanage on the south shore of Lake Chapala, is looking for new volunteers to help with its lunch program. Each volunteer participates on a sporadic basis by making a simple lunch for the 24 children.
The group urgently needs new supporters as two volunteers recently returned to the United States. The Friends Of Villa Infantil are also searching for sponsors to help with educational funding.
Contact Geoff Long at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Lisa Taylor at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.
LCS Singles
The LCS Singles group will host a “Swinging Social” at Adelita’s restaurant on Thursday, September 19, starting at 5:30 p.m. There’ll be half-price margaritas, special pricing on other drinks, dinner specials, and music for dancing after dinner. Admission is free.
Dinner specials, all of which include side dishes, are: pan seared salmon for 89 pesos; blue cheese-stuffed sirloin burger for 75 pesos; filet mignon for 90 pesos; BBQ pork ribs for 75 pesos; lemon/garlic chicken for 65 pesos and a variety of vegetarian pastas and salads.
Those singles interested in attending must reply with their meal choice by noon on Wednesday, September 18. Replies can be sent via the Singles blog at www.lcssingles.blogspot.com (hit “Contact Us”) or by replying to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or calling 331-531-1464.
Pet food drive
The monthly pet food drive will be held on Thursday, September 19 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Animal Shelter pet food store in Riberas del Pilar.
This event occurs on the third Thursday of every month thanks to the support of the Animal Shelter’s Geoffrey Kaye and the assistance of Animal Buddies representatives who will be present to help you.
With your purchase you help the Shelter cats as well as Anita’s Animals, or your choice of animal rescue group.
You can make a purchase of dog or cat food at anytime if you are unable to come to the food drive. When making your purchase, inform the store clerk whether the pet food is for Anita’s Animals, or another animal rescue group, and the Animal Shelter will hold your donation purchase for pickup.
After you have made this purchase, you will need to contact the designated rescue group you have selected. Please let that group know that there is a paid food purchase made by you waiting to be picked up at the Shelter.
LCS bus trips
The Lake Chapala Society (LCS) bus trip on Thursday, October 3 will head to the Galerias mall in Guadalajara. This covered mall and its environs boasts many fine stores, including Liverpool, Sears, Best Buy, Zara, the Home Store, Suburbia, Walmart, Sam’s, Mega and Costco. The choice of restaurants includes Outback, Applebee’s and Chili’s, plus a large food court with Krispy Kreme donuts. The price of the trip is 200 pesos. The bus leaves at 9:30 a.m. and returns from the Costco area at 4 p.m.
Tonala and Tlaquepaque are the destinations of the trip on Tuesday, September 24. Tonala is the first stop and there them option of either hanging around the plaza in Tlaquepaque or going to the nearby Forum mall, which has Home Depot and Liverpool stores. A female mariachi group performs from 3-4 p.m. in the central restaurant area of Tlaquepaque. The price of the trip is 200 pesos. This bus leaves Ajijic at 9:30 a.m. and returns at 4 p.m.
McAllen bound
The Lake Chapala Society (LCS) is planning a trip to McAllen, Texas from Sunday, November 3 to Thursday, November 7. Shopping is scheduled on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The bus will take participants to each shopping area. The return trip will leave late Wednesday afternoon, arriving back in Ajijic early Thursday morning.
The price is 6,000 pesos (462 dollars) for double occupancy and 7,500 pesos (577 dollars) for single occupancy. It includes round-trip transportation, tips for the driver and a three-night stay at the Hampton Inn with breakfast included.
A non-refundable deposit of 1,500 pesos is required. The balance is due by October 18. Travelers must have a valid passport and the correct Mexican documentation (temporary, permanent visa etc.). A copy of both must be presented with the final payment. The trip requires a minimum of 30 people.
All those interested should contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 766-4939, or the LCS table Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
HU Song
Everyone is invited to participate in a HU Song held on the third Saturday of every month at the Spiritual Center (Nicolas Bravo 17B, Ajijic) from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., followed by a fellowship time.
The HU Song is a contemplative spiritual exercise which helps bring inner peace and more love in your life. People of all faiths are welcome.
The September HU Song is scheduled for Saturday, September 21. The door is monitored and closed at 10:30 a.m., so be sure to arrive no later than 10:20 a.m. Contact Penny White at 766-1230 for further information. The event is hosted by Eckankar Mexico.
Center for Spiritual Living
Reverend Tim Schubert continues the September theme with the presentation “Two Levels Up, One Level Down” at the Center for Spiritual Living’s regular celebration on Friday, September 20, from 5-6 p.m. You can also hear his talk, “Enlightenment Without God,” at the Open Circle on Sunday, September 22.
The center is moving its Sacred Cinema event to September 22 due to the many celebrations for Mexican Independence Day on the 15th. “The Bucket List” will be shown, followed by lively conversation.
Classes continue with “The Four Agreements,” beginning on Wednesday, September 18, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. The “Unfettered Soul” continues on Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. to noon. with an optional meditation with group from 10-10:20 a.m.
Feel free to attend any or all activities. For further information contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 766-0920. The center is located at Nicolas Bravo 17, Ajiji
Check out www.cslchapala.com. For further information contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 766-0920.
Freethinkers
Members of the Lakeside Freethinkers, who reject religious beliefs and rely on science and reason to guide their lives, will hold their regular third-Wednesday-of-the-month meeting on September 18. A member will speak “On Becoming a Humanist, a Personal Journey,” in which he will describe how, having had a Catholic education, he came to adopt humanism.
St. Andrew’s
Probably most of us have had the childhood experience of being lost. Walking around the department store engrossed in all there is to see, you suddenly realize mom’s nowhere in sight. Remember the panic, the sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach, and the immense relief when you were found and reconnected? As vivid as that memory may be, it’s an even deeper sort of lostness that Jesus speaks of in this Sunday’s Gospel reading, as well as God’s determination to find and restore the lost sheep, the lost coin, the lost child. “Lost, Found, Brought Home” is the thrust of this week’s sermon at St. Andrew’s Anglican. Week after week, it’s also the goal of worship to create that true sense of a spiritual “home,” a place where all our lostness is swallowed up by a Love determined to find and restore us.
The children’s Sunday School begins at 9:45 a.m., worship follows at 10 a.m., and a time of welcome, fellowship and refreshment in the garden concludes the morning. St. Andrew’s is located at Calle San Lucas 19, just a block south of the Carretera in Riberas del Pilar.
Interdenominational
The interdenominational congregation at the Little Chapel by the Lake will enjoy its refreshment period with the Christ Church Anglican Fellowship at 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, September 15. “The Prodigal Sons” will be the topic of Rev. Gene Raymer’s message at the worship service beginning at 11:15 a.m.
Following the service all attendees are invited to join for a fellowship luncheon at a local restaurant that will be announced on Sunday.
The Little Chapel by the Lake is located at Carretera 10, Chula Vista. All Christian believers are invited to join the service/
Unitarians
The Lake Chapala Unitarian Universalist Fellowship meets each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at Santa Margarita 113 in Riberas del Pilar (a half-block north of the Carretera).
On Sunday, September 15, guest speaker Alberto Nuñez Navarro will help give the Grito de Independencia with his personal interpretation of Independence Day from his own many memories. Bob Koches will be service leader. There will be a coffee hour afterward. For more information call 765-3753 or e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Christ Church
Christ Church Anglican Fellowship will celebrate the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost on September 15 by celebrating the Holy Eucharist Rite II at 9:30 a.m. in the Little Chapel by the Lake (Carretera 10, Chula Vista). The Rev. Deacon Rob Wells’ sermon topic is “Rejoice!!” and the baptism of Dan Cross will be celebrated.
Christ Church in Mazamitla
During Christ Church’s June service in Mazamitla, a young girl called Ximena who appeared to have a cleft palate came forward and requested a prayer for fixing her face. This prompted the Rev. Deacon Rob Wells to begin looking at local and national resources, including Operation Smile, to see how she might be helped. After discussing the situation with one of his own doctors, Dr. Mario Mucharraz, who specializes in plastic and reconstructive surgery, and his brother-in-law, who does dental reconstruction surgery, both offered to do the surgery for no charge.
Funds were still required for the hospital charges and the anesthesiologist. But Wells managed to get the Christ Church and the Little Chapel by the Lake congregations to club together to donate the required amount.
However, at a doctor’s visit in Guadalajara on Monday, Ximena was diagnosed with a non-cancerous tumor which is fed by a blood vessel rather than a cleft palate. She will need surgery for the tumor and possibly dental surgery, which means the hospital now requires three times the amount of money that had been raised by Christ Church and the Little Chapel by the Lake.
You can contact Wells at 766-2362, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., to make a donation to help with these unexpected additional costs.
This is just one example of one of the many links that Christ Church has established with the Mazamitla mission though its “Church-in-a-Box” outreach.
Christ Church will cancel their service on Sunday, September 22 at Lakeside to once again head out to La Sagrada Familia (The Sacred Family) Mission in Mazamitla. A picnic with the approximately ten members of La Sagrada Familia will follow the noon service. Newcomers and visitors, as well as members of other churches, are welcome to join in this experience but must let Kay Borkowski (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 766-2495) know by Thursday, September 19, so that Christ Church can make certain there are enough rides available … and enough fried chicken.
Those going from Lakeside will meet at Farmacia Guadalajara in Ajijic and depart in a convoy at 9:15 a.m. with a dish to share at the chicken picnic. Father Danny Borkowski will lead the service, which will be Holy Communion, Rite II in Spanish, and attempt to preach in Spanish since the three translators at Christ Church are all out of the country.