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Sunday Gathering

Name: Sunday Gathering
Start: 2024-10-06T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-06T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Central Park Place, Mackinaw Ballroom

October 6 @ 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, October 6, 2024 What the World Needs Now: Metta
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Lead Teacher: Brad Ruggles joined C3 in May of this year. 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. Brad ’s interests are diverse and include backpacking, meditation, breathwork, yoga, sport kiting, and photography.

Musician: Jen Sygit 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. Her lyrics reveal an oft-overlooked beauty to life’s mundane struggles

Music: Jen Sygit
Gathering Host: Valerie Engeltjes
Music: Jen Sygit
Meditation: Abby Black
Moment of Silence
Readings/Teaching: Brad Ruggles

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves.
– Sharon Salzburg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.
― Martin Buber, I and Thou

He who loves brings God and the World together.
― Martin Buber, I and Thou

Loving-kindness and compassion are the two faces of altruism. It is their object that distinguishes them: loving-kindness wants all beings to experience happiness, while compassion focuses on eradicating their suffering.
― Matthieu Ricard, Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
― Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Music: Jen Sygit
Gathering Host: Valerie Engeltjes
Music: Jen Sygit

.pdf of Bulletin/Matters

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