Update for Sunday, March 9

Mar 7, 2025 | C3 Updates

This week at C3

The second week in our series Your Wild and Precious Life: Celebrating the Wisdom of the Feminine features a return visit from Dr. Sarah Kornfield. Her contribution to the series is Our Mothers Preached.

In 1636, Anne Hutchinson pastored a church that met in her home in the Massachusetts Bay Colony–until she was exiled for preaching. Following in her wake, devout women including abolitionists, suffragists, revival-tent evangelicals, and Xvangelicals have preached across the United States. Join me in thinking about the resources and speaking styles our preaching foremothers used as they wore a rhetorical groove into US culture.

Laura Hobson (she/her) and Garrett Stier (he/him)—known by the band name Phabies—join us for the first time. Their album “Fire Seed” was awarded Critics Choice Album of the Year at the 2023 WYCE Jammies.

Charity McMaster will add her meditation to the Gathering.

⏳ Daylight Saving Time begins—Remember to set your clock forward before bedtime on Saturday!

📍 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 

🆕  Brad Ruggle’s email: Celebrating the Wisdom of the Feminine with Ruth Zwald

🆕  Last Week’s Teaching and Meditation

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 February’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.

    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.

      • 🆕  Former C3 member Judy Henzler passed away on March 1. She was 84. She had recently moved into a memory care facility, where she had two falls and was hospitalized. She never recovered and was not able to walk or live alone. Her ashes will be brought back to Grand Haven Cemetery and placed in a niche with her mother. Condolences may be sent to her family Blake & Vonne Nye.
      • 🆕  Jean King needs someone to stay with her on Thursday, March 13, beginning at 11 a.m., while Pam goes in for a colonoscopy. Pam Park needs a ride to Holland Hospital at 11 a.m. and back home when the procedure is completed at approximately 1 p.m. Call or email Pam if you can offer help with either.
      • 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. Cards may be sent to 14466 Angelus Circle, Grand Haven, MI 49417.
      • Mike Rozich’s mother Antoinette (Ann) Valia Rozich passed away on Tuesday, February 18. She was 95. A service will be held in April. Cards can be sent to 213 South Street, Spring Lake, MI 49456.
      • 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.

    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 9 and March 16.

    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. 🆕 Cheryl Van Abbema 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.

    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.

    🆕  The Diatribe

    Click here to read this month’s news from The Diatribe.

    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 9

    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

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

    11 a.m. Talk Back

     

    Tuesday, March 11

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

     

    Sunday, March 16

    9 a.m. Pre-Talk

    10 a.m. C3 Kids with Miss Mary and volunteer Renee Borton

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

      • Core Teacher: Beth Buelow
      • Music: Molly
      • Meditation: Wayne Johnson

    11 a.m. Talk Back

    Beth Buelow (she/her) has been part of the C3 Community since March 2018 and has loved every minute of it. She’s a business owner; leadership, team, and mentor coach; author, speaker, and mediator, and she has added photographer to the list of ways she wants to be known in the world.

    Molly (she/her) is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Grand Rapids. She writes to explore what it means to be a Black woman in America. Her unique past and desire for a sense of freedom inform both her emotive style and her thought-provoking lyrics, making for a moody, eclectic, colorful, and soulful sound.

    Update copyright © 2025 C3 Spiritual Community. All rights reserved.