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Sunday Gathering
December 24, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Sunday’s Schedule:
Sunday’s Program and Reading:
Sunday, December 24, 2023
I Am C3
Speakers: Five C3 members will share their “I am C3” stories today:
Gordy Alderink, Jeff Crandle, Ira Engeltjes, Pam Park, and Tod Wyn. Tabitha Blanski was also prepared to speak, but can’t be with us this week due to illness.
Musicians: Ruth and Max Bloomquist need no introduction to the C3 family; they have been playing at C3 Gatherings for years, and they have been playing music together since 1975!
Music: Ruth and Max Bloomquist
Gathering Host: Rod Van Abbema
Music: Ruth and Max Bloomquist
Poem: Rod Van Abbema
When Giving Is All We Have
One river gives
Its journey to the next.
We give because someone gave to us.
We give because nobody gave to us.
We give because giving has changed us.
We give because giving could have changed us. We have been better for it,
We have been wounded by it—
Giving has many faces: It is loud and quiet, Big, though small, diamond in wood-nails.
Its story is old, the plot worn and the pages too, But we read this book, anyway, over and again: Giving is, first and every time, hand to hand, Mine to yours, yours to mine.
You gave me blue and I gave you yellow. Together we are simple green. You gave me What you did not have, and I gave you
What I had to give—together, we made Something greater from the difference.
– Alberto Ríos
Moment of Silence
I Am C3:
Pam Park
Gordy Alderink
Jeff Crandle
Ira Engeltjes
Tod Wyn
Music: Ruth and Max Bloomquist
Gathering Host: Rod Van Abbema
Music: Ruth and Max Bloomquist
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