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Dinner is served from 5:45pm-6:30pm.
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here for reservations) For Upcoming Weeks Menus click here. . . Click here for Wednesday Night Cooking Crew InformationAll are welcome to join the Summer Reading Group as we share in Christian conversation as we read and meet to discuss these titles. Dust off your reading glasses and your library card and read with us! Book 1 - Theological Memoir - Night on the Flint River: An Accidental Journey in Knowing God by Roberta C. Bondi. Discussion will be Wednesday, June 25th, at 7pm in the Chapel. (from the book jacket) Our most profound experiences of God often come when we least expect them: in the moments of our lives when something outside the ordinary confronts us. What we learn in these moments -- about ourselves and about God -- can be learned in no other way. These moments offer insight not otherwise available to us, gifts we would not otherwise receive, peace we would not otherwise know. In these accidental journeys with God -- these moments of greatest vulnerability -- we experience the rare glimpses of God's love and grace that remind us that every moment of our living and dying is embraced by God's presence and purpose. These moments shape our living and believing for the rest of our lives. In this volume, Roberta Bondi reflects upon one such accidental journey with God and shows us how to pay attention to how God uses these moments for our good.
(from UMC.org) Sara Gruen’s third novel is as generously infused with love as with the hard realities of of Depression-era circus life . . .Beyond the vivid distractions of the big top, Gruen deftly pulls aside the tent flaps to show readers something of the unadorned lives inside. Actual circus photos of the time enhance the story’s feel of authenticity. The narrative swings easily between the past and present—between the naďve 23-year-old Jacob in the circus, and the crotchety old widower he becomes “either 91 or 93, I don’t remember.” He now lives in a nursing home, alone with his guilt and memories all locked up. When a little circus sets up nearby, Jacob hobbles out to see it and his memory of his time with the circus comes flooding back. In an idealized ending, he finds redemption from his self-imposed loneliness. It comes in the form of two new relationships and a new means of sharing the joy that had shriveled inside him years earlier.
A Description by the author: (This book) "is about my quest to live the ultimate biblical life. To follow every single rule in the Bible – as literally as possible. I obey the famous ones: the Ten Commandments, Love thy neighbor, be fruitful and multiply. But, also, the hundreds of oft-ignored ones: do not wear clothes of mixed fibers, do not shave your beard, stone adulterers. Why? Well, I grew up in a very secular home (I’m officially Jewish but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant). I’d always assumed religion would just wither away and we’d live in a neo-Enlightenment world. I was, of course, spectacularly wrong. So was I missing something essential to being a human? Or was half the world deluded?I decided to dive in headfirst." Child care and refreshments will be provided at each discussion night.
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