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Sunday Gathering

Name: Sunday Gathering
Start: 2024-06-23T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-23T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Central Park Place, Mackinaw Ballroom

June 23 @ 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

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Love Has Never Been a Popular Movement

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Guest Teacher: Joseph Kuilema (he/him) is an assistant professor of social work at Grand Valley State University. He taught at Calvin University until 2022, when he was fired after officiating a Queer wedding for a former student.
He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife and three children.

Musician: Nelleke Knarr is a longtime C3 member, who has lived in SW Michigan for 18 years. She has studied piano since the age of 10, has a BS in Music Therapy, and many years of experience as a teacher, accompanist, music director, and performer. Given her love of beautiful, moving pieces, her favorite styles are contemporary and traditional classical, movie soundtracks, Broadway and New Age.
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Music: Nelleke Knarr

Gathering Host: Rod Van Abbema

Music: Nelleke Knarr

Meditation: Charlotte Rozich

Moment of Silence

Reading/Teaching: Joseph Kuilema

Love has never been a popular movement. And no one’s ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you’ve got to remember is what you’re looking at is also you. Everyone you’re looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide, in yourself, not to be.
– James Baldwin

Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
– 1 John 3:18

Music: Nelleke Knarr

Gathering Host: Rod Van Abbema

Music: Nelleke Knarr

.pdf of Bulletin/Matters

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