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Sunday Gathering

March 24 @ 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, March 24, 2024

We Have Questions:

How Can We Find Our Sense of a Beloved World?

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Teacher: Ruth Zwald (she/her) starts every morning with good coffee and the crow of the rooster. Her spiritual path winds among the trees of Christianity, the flowering plants of Indigenous beliefs, the cycles of the seasons rooted in the earth. Every day she tries to find her way towards balance.

Musician: Frances Luke Accord, the duo Nicholas Gunty and Brian Powers (both he/him), are what NPR’s Mountain Stage calls “the definition of leanin music.” Their soft, contemplative vintage of indie-folk gestures toward a timelessness that honors the Simon & Garfunkel comparisons but pushes beyond into the world of Bon Iver, Jose Gonzalez, and progressive folk music.

Music: Frances Luke Accord

Gathering Host: Mark Smith

Music: Frances Luke Accord Meditation: Nelleke Knarr

Moment of Silence

Reading/Teaching: Ruth Zwald

In our time and culture, we are easily pulled off balance by the many events and instances of disharmony and harm. Together we explore the word, “beloved” and listen for ways we can create such relationships. Love is a word that is a bit ruined – something we routinely speak of – something we fall in and out of. It is bigger. It is a virtue and way of being that we have barely begun to mine. People who have turned the world on its axis through history have called humanity to love. It is not a private good. It is time we dare this more bravely – dare to learn how love can be practical, creative and sustain us for the public good – the common good.

– Krista Tippet, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry Into the Mystery and

Art of Living

For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.

– Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Music: Frances Luke Accord

Gathering Host: Mark Smith

Music: Frances Luke Accord

.pdf of Bulletin/Matters

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