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Sunday Gathering

October 20 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Join us!

We gather in person every Sunday at Central Park Place.

All events held in the Mackinaw Ballroom in Central Park Place (421 Columbus Ave., GH)

Sunday’s Schedule:

9am Pre-Talk:

Meet the morning’s teacher in a small group setting for an open discussion of the morning’s theme

10am Gathering:

Welcome, readings, meditation from a community member, teaching, and music

11am Talk Back:

A chance to share questions, comments and stories related to the morning gathering

C3 Kids:

Each week we provide a safe and welcoming environment for kids starting at 10am. If you are looking for a Sunday morning experience for your kids that includes C3 Values, creative activities, toys, books, games and outdoor fun (when weather permits), we are here to make it happen! Miss Mary is happy to be spending time with your kids!

Sunday’s Program and Reading

Sunday, October 20, 2024
The Great Search: Turning to Earth and Soul in the Quest for Healing and Home
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Guest Teacher: John Phillip Newell is a Celtic teacher and author of spirituality who calls the modern world to reawaken to the sacredness of Earth and every human being. Canadian by birth, and also a citizen of Scotland, he resides with his family in Edinburgh and works on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2016 he began the Earth & Soul initiative and teaches regularly in the United States and Canada. He has authored over 15 books, including The Great Search (August 2024), in which he looks at the great spiritual yearnings of humanity today in the context of the decline of religion as we have known it.

Musician: Spencer LaJoye (they/them) is an East Coast singer/songwriter from the Midwest making queer indie folk music for everyone. The 2021 Kerrville Songwriting Competition winner spins crystalline vocals through a loop pedal while strumming an acoustic guitar in charming, banter-heavy performances that keep audiences laughing one moment and weeping the next.

Music: Spencer LaJoye

Gathering Host: Mary Ellen Mika

Music: Spencer LaJoye

Readings/Teaching: John Phillip Newell

We are living through a time of immense transition as old systems of authority and belief are questioned. A new vision of reality is trying to be born.

Religion as we have known it has failed to adequately address the most urgent challenges of humanity, including the threatened plight of Earth. …That is why there is a quest of soul today for new depths of wisdom to guide us into wellbeing, both individually and together.

This time of spiritual exile in the Western world is a moment in which we are being invited to find relationship with Earth and one another in ways that surpass anything we have known. … It can be a time too of liberation from the closed boundaries of nationhood or race or religion that have confined us in the past and separated us from one another.
-John Philip Newell, The Great Search: Turning to Earth and Soul in the Quest for Healing and Home

Meditation: Cami Twilling

Moment of Silence

Music: Spencer LaJoye

Gathering Host: Mary Ellen Mika

Music: Spencer LaJoye

.pdf of Bulletin/Matters

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