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Sunday Gathering

Name: Sunday Gathering
Start: 2024-11-10T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-10T12:00:00-05:00
Location: Central Park Place, Mackinaw Ballroom

November 10 @ 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, November 10, 2024

What the World Needs Now: Upekkhā (Equanimity)
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Lead Teacher: Brad Ruggles joined C3 as Lead Teacher 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 Lisa enjoy adventuring and traveling with their two adult daughters. Brad ’s interests 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: Nelleke Knarr

Music: Jen Sygit

Meditation: Wayne Johnson

Moment of Silence

Readings/Teaching: Brad Ruggles

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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

Whoever is unopposing among those who oppose,
Peaceful among the armed, Not clinging among those who cling, I call a brahmin.
— Dhammapada 406

Music: Jen Sygit

Gathering Host: Nelleke Knarr

Music: Jen Sygit

.pdf of Bulletin/Matters

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