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Sunday Gathering

Name: Sunday Gathering
Start: 2024-05-26T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-26T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Central Park Place, Mackinaw Ballroom

May 26 @ 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

The Land Between, Part 2: Breaking Open

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Lead Teacher: Brad Ruggles has been selected as C3’s new Lead Teacher. He is a former pastor that deconstructed and later left the faith he was raised in after 18 years in ministry. He and his wife Lisa enjoy adventuring and traveling with their two adult daughters. His interests are diverse and include backpacking, meditation, breath work, yoga, sport kiting, and photography.

Musician: Jared Adams of Annagail has always defied and stretched genres, equal parts singer/songwriters and rock band. Thinking man ’s Americana. Pop for philosophers? Country for the curious? Rock for the recluse? Whatever you call them, Annagail weave heartache and hope for the disillusioned.

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Music: Jared Adams of Annagail

Gathering Host: Valerie Engeltjes

Music:Jared Adams of Annagail

Meditation: Wayne Johnson

Moment of Silence

Reading/Teaching: Brad Ruggles

The desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing more than a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet. ― Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

Without some sort of guidance and reframing, we don’t understand the necessary ebb and flow of life, the ascents and descents, and the need to embrace our tears as well as our triumphs. Without standing on the threshold for much longer than we’re comfortable, we won’t be able to see beyond ourselves to the broader and more inclusive world that lies before us. — Richard Rohr, Seeing Beyond Ourselves (Daily Meditation, May 1, 2020)

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be. — Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open

Music: Jared Adams of Annagail

Gathering Host: Valerie Engeltjes

Music: Jared Adams of Annagail

.pdf of Bulletin/Matters

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