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Sunday Gathering

August 27, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Join us!

We gather in person every Sunday at Central Park Place. We would love for you to join us.

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, August 27, 2023

We Have Questions: How Do We Find Hope?

Speaker: Ruth Zwald, retired social worker/minister, makes her home on a farm, starting every dawn with good coffee and the crow of the rooster. She is a Mesa Carrier on the Peruvian Medicine Path, which involves personal healing, transformational healing for others, and creating ceremony and ritual for ourselves and for the earth.

Musician: Hanna Laine is a musician and vocal empowerment coach from Grand Rapids, best known as the vocalist for the Future-Soul band Earth Radio. Skilled in piano, vocal improvisation, beat-making, layering effects, and looping, her abilities to create a soundscape or groovy bop are limitless.

Music: Hannah Laine

Gathering Host: Sandy Kate Stephens

Music: Hannah Laine

Meditation: Cindy Anderson

Moment of Silence

Reading/Teaching: Ruth Zwald HOPE, noun 1. A desire of some good, accompanied with at least a slight expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable. hope differs from wish and desire in this, that it implies some expectation of obtaining the good desired, or the possibility of possessing it. hope therefore always gives pleasure or joy; whereas wish and desire may produce or be accompanied with pain and anxiety. 2. That which gives hope; or that which furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good
– Webster’s Dictionary 1828

Today we lose the words yours and mine and find
in their absence a song that can only be sung together.
How did we ever think we could attempt
this humanness alone?
To the table of love, we bring soup, bring cherries,
bring the bread of our own sweet communion.
We bring scissors to cut away the tresses of the past,
bring dark wine to toast the courage of showing up exposed.
And when we forget the words to the song,
well, there is always laughter.
And when we forget to laugh, well, there is always
the union of tears— the way many rivers
become one river, the way many voices
become one music.
~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, from her collection All the Honey

Music: Hannah Laine

Gathering Host: Sandy Kate Stephens

Music: Hannah Laine

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