Update for Sunday, March 2

Mar 1, 2025 | C3 Updates

This week at C3

March is recognized as Women’s History Month, and Core Teacher Ruth Zwald introduces our new series, Your Wild and Precious Life: Celebrating the Wisdom of the Feminine. For week one, Ruth explores the question How do we learn to honor the wisdom of the feminine?

Our good friends Ruth and Max Bloomquist grace us with their music and presence.

Abby Black will add her meditation to the Gathering.

Ruth invites you to find out more about her work by visiting her website.

📍 Location: Central Park Place, Mackinaw Ballroom, 421 Columbus Ave, Grand Haven)

⏰  Pre-Talk: 9 a.m. | Main Gathering: 10 a.m. | C3 Kids: 10 a.m.–Noon

💬  Talk Back: After the Gathering until Noon

📺  Livestream on our Facebook page 

C3 News

🆕  News from the Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees meets the fourth Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the C3 Office location. These meetings are open to C3 members. At this week’s meeting, there was robust discussion about C3 financial needs and the necessity for ongoing fundraising.

    🆕  Have You Read the Strategic Plan?

    You can read the C3 strategic plan at: https://tinyurl.com/C3-2025-Plan.

    Outreach

    Looking for Motivated C3 People to Share Our Values

    We are most ourselves, most C3, when we embody ourselves in the community. That’s what C3 Outreach does, by offering a variety of exciting programs, activities, and partnerships through which C3 members demonstrate our values in the broader community:

    Earth Day, Pride Fest, Hispanic Heritage Fiesta, Adopt-A-Highway and local parks Clean-up Blitz, Coalition for Community Development in Muskegon Heights, The People Center, Humanity for Prisoners, Vigil for Peace and Justice, Week 3@C3, and Red Kettle project.

    In the next few months, we want to expand the Outreach team, invite new volunteers, and seek input about other opportunities. If you want to be part of any of these endeavors, or have additional ideas, or questions about being involved in Outreach, speak with Outreach Committee members Rod Van Abbema or Chrys Moelter-Gray. Learn more about Outreach here.

    Momentum Center Newsletter

    Click here to read the February edition of Just News.

    Charter for Compassion

    🆕  Week 3@C3 in March

    The Week 3@C3 cause for March is World Central Kitchen (WCK), in support of the work they’ve done in providing food assistance to disaster areas worldwide, as well as in our own country, in particular, following Hurricane Helene in Florida and the spin-off damage in North Carolina, and in California during the Palisades and Eaton wildfires. Cash designated for WCK, checks with WCK in the notation line, and credit card donations noted for WCK will be accepted on March 2, 9, and March 16.

    Care and Concern

    Caring for our C3 community is a shared responsibility. Community Care encourages members to support one another with notes, calls, visits, meals, and transportation.To share life events, illnesses, or hardships—or to request help—contact Cheryl Van Abbema by email or phone.

      • 🆕 Lana Brock’s surgery was postponed, while a different procedure is researched. She is home now, and thanks everyone for their cards, notes and well-wishes.
      • 🆕  Cindy Krause’s mother, Pat Krause, age 91, died on February 18 in Grand Rapids. There will be a service on March 28 at Mayflower Church in GR.
      • Mike Rozich’s mother Antoinette (Ann) Valia Rozich passed away on Tuesday, February 18. She was 95. A service will be held in April.
      • 🆕  Carolyn Taylor will have a preventative double mastectomy with immediate reconstruction on Thursday, March 13, in Ann Arbor. She expects to be home by March 17, when a Meal Train will be in effect to help with meals for the family.

    Groups

      • Sunday Night Supper meets at Dr. Rolf’s Barbecue (971 W. Savidge St.) in Spring Lake, 5:30 p.m. this Sunday. Please sign up at the Welcome Table if you intend to come. Jean Regester will be making the reservation.
      • C3 Men’s Group meets on Tuesdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Choir Room at St. John’s Episcopal Church. Call Phil Koster with questions.
      • C3 Book Club and Friends meets March 18 (third Tuesday of the month),
        6 p.m.         at The Bookman to discuss The Women  by Kristen Hannah. Bonnie Newman will lead the discussion of this historical fiction, which deals with the sacrifices of American military nurses serving during the Vietnam Conflict. To read ahead, At Home by Bill Bryson is the book for April.
      • Mindful Living Practice starts on March 19, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Loutit District Library, Program Room A. Come, explore, and share the contemplative practice of Mindful Living every third Wednesday of the month. Have questions?  See or email Kerry FitzGerald.
      • 🆕  Women’s Journey meets on Monday, March 24, at 6:30 p.m. at The Bookman. Get to know each other in this casual group, while sharing stories and activities.

    Values in Action

    Community Events for Your Consideration 

    Click on the links for more information.

    Connections ✋

    Make new friends, meet interesting people, tell them about C3! Check out all kinds of activities in the area at the Grand Haven Area Events Calendar, Calendar of Events for All Ages | Loutit District Library, and Spring Lake District Library Calendar.

    Calendar

    Sunday, March 2

    9 a.m. Pre-Talk

    10 a.m. C3 Kids with Miss Mary and volunteer Sally Alderink

    10 a.m. Gathering, In Person + Livestream on Facebook

      • Core Teacher: Ruth Zwald
      • Music: Ruth and Max Bloomquist
      • Meditation: Abby Black

    11 a.m. Talk Back

     

    Tuesday, March 4

    7 p.m. C3 Men’s Group (Choir Room, St. John’s Episcopal Church, GH)

     

    Sunday, March 9

    9 a.m. Pre-Talk

    10 a.m. C3 Kids with Miss Mary and volunteer Char Kole

    10 a.m. Gathering, In Person + Livestream on Facebook

      • Guest Teacher: Dr. Sarah Kornfield
      • Music: Phabies
      • Meditation: Charity McMaster

    11 a.m. Talk Back

    Dr. Sarah Kornfield is Associate Professor of Communication at Hope College and affiliated professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. Her research combines rhetorical criticism and feminist theory to analyze three pillars of U.S. public culture: entertainment television, Christian religiosity, and politics. She is the author of Contemporary Rhetorical Criticism, and the recently-published book from Johns Hopkins University Press, Invoking the Fathers.

    Phabies, created by multi-disciplinary artist Laura Hobson, is a universe within her imagination. Their lyric-focused music is a blend of 60’s-era folk and genre-blending pop, alternative, and indie. Laura’s voice, “both lyrical and literal, is the shining star of Phabies sky of sounds, celestial yet terrestrial, rising from the earth and the core of her being so beautifully” (Eric Mitts, Revue Mag).

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