“Mardi Gras Fun and Lenten Lore”

This Sunday, March 2’s “Mardi Gras Fun and Lenten Lore,” will be a special celebration of “Fat Tuesday”, Mardi Gras, as we prepare for the beginning of Lent on Wednesday. 

Presenter Romella Hart-O’Keefe will suggest taking on the 40 days of Lent in a new way – anticipating the earth’s energy and our energy changing as we flow through the six weeks to Easter. Romella serves as a coordinator of these forum presentations. She is a teacher of dowsing, EFT, and Reiki as well as a water aerobics instructor. An ordained minister, she has served, along with her husband, Ed, as co-interim ministers at a Unity church in Buffalo, NY. 

“Food and Faith: What are the Connections?”

This Sunday, February 23 at 9:15, our own Melissa Malum, registered nurse and certified diabetes and health care educator, will present “Food and Faith: What are the Connections?”  This session will follow up the speaker from Monday’s February Fellowship Supper by facilitating a discussion of the many ways in which our personal and communal choices about food – what we eat, where we get our food, how we prepare it (and dispose of the scraps) – can have a positive impact with regard to preservation of the earth, social justice, and spiritual health. This will be an open discussion with hopes that the participants will develop one or more ideas about how we can become more mindful and involved in these areas as individuals and as a congregation.

“Spiritual/Emotional Tasks in Our Later Years”

Tomorrow, February 16 at 9:15 our own Larry Anderson will lead a discussion of “Spiritual/Emotional Tasks in Our Later Years.” We’ll listen to a short segment of Michael Dowd’s interview with world traveling Franciscan teacher, Richard Rohr, to move our thinking along

” The Flag of Humanity,”

This Sunday, February 9, Bruce Benson will be speaking about, and showing,” The Flag of Humanity,” and detailing the evolution of the concept and the flag itself. He believes it’s about time we had a flag, or symbol, that celebrates the commonality of being human. Bruce Benson is a Canadian columnist for the Hendersonville Times-News. He lives in Hendersonville when he is not employed as a commercial fisherman. He is also the author of a recent book about the 40 days in 2009 he spent in Giza, Egypt, picking up trash near the great pyramids.  He will gladly answer any questions about the new flag, or about the wide range of topics he has written about in his column.