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Sunday Gathering

Name: Sunday Gathering
Start: 2024-03-17T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-03-17T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Central Park Place, Mackinaw Ballroom

March 17 @ 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 17, 2024
We Have Questions:
What is an Animal Chaplain, and Do Animals Have Spiritual Experiences?
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Speaker: Rev. Ginny Mikita (she/her) is a certified Animal-Friendly Attorney and ordained interfaith minister/animal chaplain who has provided legal assistance to those whose voices have been silenced—animals, children, LGBTQ+ individuals and incapacitated adults. As founder of Animal Blessings, she honors the sacred worth and spirituality of all animals, writes a monthly column for Cats and Dogs Magazine, officiates blessings and memorial services for animal companions, and facilitates two monthly animal companion loss grief support groups.

Musician: Jen Sygit (she/her) is a Lansing-based award-winning songwriter who wields a rare and powerful talent, equally comfortable performing ethereal folk tunes, crooning sultry swing numbers, or soulfully belting gritty alt-county ballads. An accomplished multi-instrumentalist who isn’t afraid to test boundaries and cross genres, Jen’s eclectic musical style draws the listener in and holds them captivated. Her lyrics reveal an oft-overlooked beauty to life’s mundane struggles.
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Music: Jen Sygit
Gathering Host: Mark Smith
Music: Jen Sygit
Meditation: Leslie Newman
Moment of Silence
Reading/Teaching: Ginny Mikita

Animal Chaplains provide support for both animals and humans by using the tools of deep listening and caring companionship. We help animals thrive while living and transition with dignity. We help their human companions move through grief before and after loss by integrating each human’s unique secular and spiritual views.
– Rev Ginny Mikita, JD/Animal Chaplain (she/her)

Spirituality is a feeling of connection to something greater, or simply, Connectedness, which is inherently desired and experienced by cultivating a relationship with oneself, one’s community, one’s environment and one’s orientation with the transcendent.
– Sarah E. K. Lentz, MDiv (Harvard)

Profound spiritual phenomena is connected with the limbic system, an ancient area of the brain that evolved before the cerebral cortex under which it lies and which governs higher cognitive functions. The limbic brain is a structure shared by both humans and animals, including dogs, cats and most other animals kept as animal companions or on farms.
– Kevin Nelson, MD (Neurologist) and Marc Bekoff, PhD
(Biologist/Ecologist)

Music: Jen Sygit
Gathering Host: Mark Smith
Music: Jen Sygit

.pdf of Bulletin/Matters

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