Meditation at 10 a.m.
Service at 10:30 AM
Followed by Fellowship in our Social Hall
Rev. Gil Olmstead is RGCSL’s Spiritual Director. Rev. Gil’s ministry and service is grounded in collaboration, community, and compassion. When he first came to RGCSL, he felt it was home. He’s excited about our magical journey together and for what is unfolding.
Rev. Gil also works with his wife, Robyn, in their ministry, Live Inspired. They host "Rockin’ the Love," a weekly podcast, where they share insights from over 20 years of spiritual play, disappointments, triumphs, and growth as a couple.
You can check out their latest episode here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/TjeWmw1NKHg?si=sS8eqvfhylkej9Ij
Susan Clark is RGCSL's Director of Musical Inspiration. A hard-working musician and talented songwriter, she inspires and motivates congregants to dive deeper into spirituality each time she performs. Outside of RGCSL, she shares her talents with Alzheimer's patients and veterans. Susan has received numerous awards and collaborations with New Thought performers. She has produced several CDs, including "Sunlight of The Soul," which contains many of her spiritual songs, specifically crafted with the New Thought community in mind.
For more information about Susan, go to:
https://www.facebook.com/susanclarkmusic/
Kent Pittsenbargar
I have had the great fortune of performing with some of the very best local musicians for over 50 years. The great fortune for me came 31 years ago, when I received the strongest knowing to get my will and my ego out of the way before I begin playing music. By doing that, Spirit flows through me to the audience. When the audience starts to feel it, they send it back, and that creates the back and forth of God's harmonious, Healing Love!! I am grateful to be a member here at RGCSL and to support Susan Clark in the Music Team.
Announcements
PRIDE MONTH at RGCSL
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Join in and celebrate Pride Month with your beloved community. Every weekend in June offers a new opportunity for fun, learning and fellowship. Sunday, June 21, 1-3pm, in the Sanctuary: LGBTQ Author Panel The Quantum Portal bookstore hosts five well-known Albuquerque authors -- Lynn C. Miller, Cynthia J. Sylvester, Gency Brown, Lynda Miller, and P.J. Sedillo -- who will read from their books and answer questions about writing, Pride, and being an author. Their novels, memoir, and nonfiction books will be available for purchase so you can get your signed copy! Saturday, June 27, 1-3pm, in the Sanctuary: Drag Bingo Come play bingo with us! Exciting prizes are only half the fun. There will be live music and performances by your hosts, the Imperial Sovereign Court of New Mexico, a service organization that supports the underserved in Albuquerque's LGBTQ+ community. All proceeds go to charity. Click here to buy your tickets in advance, or pay at the door. Either way, prepare to have fun and be dazzled! Link text: Pride parade/booth: https://rgcsl.breezechms.com/form/a04034 Artists Out Loud application: qrco.de/bgpkk5 |
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Love Does Not Harm: Recognizing Abuse and Restoring Wholeness
Join us for an important and compassionate presentation by Sheryl Rae after service on July 19, 2026. Sheryl uses Resurgent Phoenix to explore the realities of domestic violence and abuse through the lens of spiritual truth, personal empowerment, and community support. Abuse can take many forms—physical, emotional, verbal, financial, religious and more—and often remains hidden behind silence, shame, or misunderstanding.
This enlightening gathering will help participants recognize the signs of unhealthy and abusive relationships, deepen their understanding of the impact of abuse, and discover pathways toward healing, safety, and restoration. Together, we will affirm the inherent dignity, worth, and wholeness of every person and explore how spiritual communities can foster awareness, compassion, and support during and after incarceration.
Whether you are seeking information for yourself, a loved one, or simply wish to become a more informed and supportive community member, this presentation offers valuable insights and resources. Love uplifts, honors, and nurtures. Love does not harm.
All are welcome. Love offering will support incarcerated people through a gift subscription to Science of Mind magazine. (Learn how the publication saved Sheryl’s sanity!) Sign up after Service.
Date: July 19, 2026, Time: 12:30 to 2:30
Address: Rio Grande Center for Spiritual Living, 2404 San Mateo Pl NE, Albuquerque, NM
Sunday Potluck Alert!
Calling all food lovers and kitchen magicians! Every Sunday, we turn mealtime into a community feast — and you’re invited to bring a dish to share! Whether it's Grandma’s secret casserole, your go-to salad, or store-bought (no judgment!), we’d love for you to join the fun. Come hungry, leave happy, and let’s make Sundays the tastiest day of the week!
Carol Ann will be providing materials for labeling your generous donations. We prefer not to trigger any allergic reactions! Please label your dishes.
When: Sundays after 10:30 service
What to Bring: A dish to share + your appetite!
Gracie Woods is the June RGCSL
Volunteer of the Month
Volunteer of the Month
Of course Gracie is the volunteer of the month -- isn't she the one you always find at the back of the sanctuary with sign up sheets every Sunday!?!?Somehow we neglected to publicly acknowledge her part in the magic of our transition, but she was an essential part of organizing the moving sale. We honestly couldn't have done it without her.
Always jumping into the middle of whatever big plans RGCSL seems to have brewing, Gracie is a huge, huge blessing to our community. Thank you, Grace! Find yourself something nice from the bookstore and take 10% off!
Monthly Theme: Deeper Love
CSL Weekly Affirmation: Love is the faces and the life around me.
Solid Grounds Announcements
Come Help out!
Solid Grounds is always looking for volunteers to help with the fun on Friday nights. If you would like to be one of the many sets of hands that help bring this awesomeness to life each week, please contact Robyn (818-300-3911 or rcrice1@aol.com).
Solid Grounds
Solid Grounds welcomes all to enjoy snacks and music free of charge! Love donations are encouraged and gratefully accepted.
For more information and to check out upcoming performances, please visit the
June 19, 2026 - Ryan Biter
Ryan Biter is the aimless, eccentric, tactless kid you went to school with growing up that you always kind of wondered what happened to after high school.
With equal measures of irreverence, sharp insight, and vulnerability, Biter invites audiences to be open to our profound humanness. Weird, wonderful, and flawed.
Think of him like a guitar slinging Mr. Rogers for messed up adults.
The grit, soul, and raw emotion of his voice has drawn comparisons to Chris Stapleton, Amos Lee, and Martin Sexton. His songwriting is incisive yet free of pretence. Catchy but thoughtful. Rootsy but Radio Ready. It's like if Ed Sheeran wrote songs for Kenny Chesney.
His expansive guitar playing tells epic stories and has been compared to players like Tommy Emmanuel, Michael Hedges, John Butler, Newton Faulkner, and James Taylor.
Biter has been described as "A One Man Musical Force" with a singular focus.
Biter has played for audiences in the US, Ireland, and Australia.
Awards and Such
4 time Dripping Springs Featured Songwriter
2 Time Featured artist on The Blue Plate Special.
2026 Your Roots Are Showing Featured Artist ( Belfast, Ireland)
2025 Corpus Christi Songwriters festival featured artist
2025 Banderra Songwriting Festival Featured Artist
2024 South West Regional Folk Alliance Official Showcasing Artist.
2023 Red Lodge Songwriting Competition Finalist
2023 Wildflower Festival Al Johnson Songwriting Competition Finalist
2022 Southwest Regional Folk Alliance Alternate Showcasing Artist
2022 Kerrville New Folk Finalist
2022 Songwriters Serenade Finalist
Opening act for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Carvin Jones
Check out this video, "ryan biter dripping springs video"
June 26, 2026 - Laura Di Mauro and Alicia Ultan
Laura Di Mauro is a singer, songwriter, and classically trained guitarist. Her original acoustic compositions draw inspiration from a diverse range of musical styles, including R&B, pop, jazz, blues, and soul. Rather than confining her music to a specific genre, Laura focuses on creating pieces that resonate with her in the moment. After sharing her acoustic tunes in two private house concerts for friends and family, she made her public debut alongside her dear friend, singer-songwriter and violist Alicia Ultan, in August 2024.
Laura is currently working on a series of singles with John Wall at the Wall of Sound studio in Albuquerque. She released her first three singles in 2025, one of which has been nominated for the 2026 New Mexico Music Awards in the Adult Contemporary/Adult Pop category. John Wall describes working with Laura: ‘A gifted singer-songwriter with an enchanting voice and classically trained guitar skills, Laura infuses each composition with unique artistry and heartfelt storytelling. Working with her on her singles has been exhilarating and has confirmed her versatility and depth as an artist.’
Alicia Ultan
An award-winning singer-songwriter as well as a violist, Alicia Ultan has been performing and recording throughout Albuquerque since the early 2000’s, including with Roger Jameson and the Jaded Heart Band, the “twisted folk” duo, Charmed, with whom she performed for nine years and released two albums, and the popular multi award-winning Folk-Americana-Français group, Bébé La La, founded in 2010 by herself and vocalist/accordionist Maryse Lapierre. Ultan’s original songs have won numerous New Mexico Music awards and nominations, including from Bébé’s La La’s debut CD, High Wire, and from their 2022 release, A Curious Series of Unexpected Events. Her songs were described by music writer James Mahoney as “Wild – Alternative – Magic!” She also performed with the large improvisational ensemble, Out of Context, led by J.A. Deane, for many years and has added her viola to many NM artists’ recordings, including the award winning hONEyhoUSe, Nancy Rudolph and more.
RGCSL Healing Circle
Sheryl Rae will offer healing services this Sunday. Sheryl says, "My ancestors called me to be a healer. Over the years, I learned Myotherapy (acupressure). I have used that gift to relieve pain from migraines, general muscle pain and even carpal tunnel syndrome. People have told me my hands and hugs are healing. I know I must share my gifts, and this is a great place to do that. If you need a healing touch or hug, see me after service."
For more information and to check out upcoming performances, please visit the
The Quantum Portal Updates
10% off for all June birthdays and first timers.
The new June/July issue of the Science of Mind magazine is now available.
The Quantum Portal is proud to announce Authors Out Load on Sunday, June 21st, from 1 - 3 p.m. Join us for a reading and panel discussion featuring some of Albuquerque's most celebrating LGBTQ+ authors. This is a free event.
Compassion Ministries
Prayer Support
Prayer Support
Compassion Ministries (CM) is an in-reach Ministry that is about unconditional positive regard for the spiritual health and well-being of our congregants in time of struggle, despair, grief, or at a time when there is a temporary need for a supportive lending hand. We are looking for more volunteers for this program. If you have a gift that you wish to share with our congregants, please let us know what you'd like to contribute when a need arises. For further information contact Susan Solari 510-225-5305.
We are blessed to have numerous Licensed Practitioners, and they are ready to respond to your prayer requests or to schedule a counseling/prayer session. You may also submit an online prayer request. May your strength of faith provide peace to your heart and to your mind.
For guidelines on respectful communication, please see: Respectful Communication | Rio Grande Center for Spiritual Living
It's a new, exciting time for Rio Grande Center for Spiritual Living, as we shift our focus to our abundance, We stand in the knowingness that every expenditure is an expression of appreciation. As we give, we receive. Our community generously demonstrates that truth so magnanimously that even Spirit is impressed!
Financials are available upon request. Remembering that thoughts are creative and what we focus on expands, we are actively focusing on the love and gratitude we are as a community. We ARE the Power of Love in Action!
Our total reach for the week (Solid Grounds, Sunday service and classes) = 174 plus all the folks we reached through the Pride Parade!
From Home Office
Every Coin and Dollar Counts!
Don’t underestimate the power of your spare change! Our Change for Change! project is underway, and each coin and dollar you bring moves us closer to our goal of funding 10 Science of Mind Magazine subscriptions for the CSL Incarcerated Persons Ministry. As you head to service each Sunday, grab a handful of coins (or bills!) and drop them in. Small, consistent acts create meaningful impact—let’s make every week count!
🗓️ Collection runs through the month of June (8 Sundays!)
🎯 Our goal: 10 subscriptions = $500 — let’s see if we can make it happen!
Together, we’re proving that even the smallest change can make a powerful difference.
Do you Have News for Our Community?
If so, then please email your *short* article about RGCSL classes, group meetings and news that affect our community to announcements@rgcsl.org by Tuesday at 6 pm for inclusion in Thursday's bulletin. The newsletter team will respond to your request with a confirmation email or comments. Thanks!
Download the latest newsletter here
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Prayers/Treatments
All Exists Within God
June 18, 2026Treatment for Living in the Present
June 17, 2026BEST. DAY. EVER.
June 16, 2026An Affirmation of Life
June 15, 2026
Join us!
When
Meditation Sundays at 10:00; service at 10:30 a.m.
Where
2404 San Mateo Pl NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Call
(505) 224-9405
Monday - Thursday 10am - 3pm
Next Board Meeting is Sunday, November 30 at 12:15ish (after service and social hall) on Zoom and in person: RGCSL Board Meeting: Please note that time and date may vary depending on Trustees' schedules and availability. To attend any board meeting, please text Board President Sheryl Rae at (505) 918-8749. Journey of One, Every Other Sunday in person in the Sanctuary Journey of One: Join Dr. Michele Coleman in the exploration to express the oneness that we are. Held at noon(ish) every other week in the sanctuary on Sundays. Next one will be this Sunday, December 5th after fellowship in the social hall. Tuesdays, 9 a.m. In Person -- POSTED UNTIL MARCH 2026 QiGong: Join us for this moving meditation with YouTube videos in the sanctuary — a perfect way to begin your day! If you have questions, please contact Sherry Noone at 908-486-4442. Access the Real You Wednesday 6:30 - 8 p.m. on Zoom Access the Real You life check-in call: Every Wednesday night call 6:30-8m MDT - now EVERY Wednesday night! Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/ Thursdays, 6:00-7:30 p.m. In-person AND On Zoom A Course in Miracles Group: Join Nancy Bowers at the Center or on Zoom. Everyone is welcome. No prior experience necessary. This class is done on a love-offering basis. Launch Meeting - Zoom Meeting ID: 849 8672 4452 Passcode: 536144 Fridays from 6:30 p.m..-9:00 p.m. Solid Grounds Music Cafe Come and enjoy a wonderful evening of music and community this Friday! Doors open at 6:30, show is at 7 p.m. Solid Grounds welcomes all to enjoy snacks and music free of charge! Love donations are encouraged and gratefully accepted. |
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