Spiritual Lessons from Fathers You’ve Never Met

Hey all – lots of content in this blurb so top up your beverage, get comfy, and read on…

This week marks the second gathering at our new address – 171 McDermot Avenue, the everyday home of VA Café and the weekly home of The Table. Our first visit last week solidly confirmed a couple of important features of VA Café. The meeting space has a good vibe and works well. It was an easy place to feel at home. And the coffee / other beverages – outstanding! At least, that’s what the connoisseurs in the community told me. If you are someone that tends to purchase coffee on a Sunday morning, please consider getting it at VA. It’s a simple way we can be kind to our hosts and enjoy fair trade, locally (as in, right inside the cafe) roasted coffee at the same time.

This Sunday is, of course, Father’s Day. We will not be convening a panel, at least not in the way we did for Mother’s Day. That said, we will be hearing from several different fathers, and be invited to consider and discuss what spiritual lessons or images their stories might evoke for us. I’m going to leave the details as a surprise.

Here’s how to find us: When you come up the stairs into the cafe, get your coffee then keep going straight ahead down the stairs and to the event space on the lower level. We’ll be there.

We are now meeting in-person every week with the exception of the summer long weekends. This week is an alt.Sunday, so expect the unexpected, and (this week at least) you can anticipate being part of the conversation. We’ll livestream as usual here. Just FYI – a good portion of what we’ll do this week will be interactive, so if you are joining online and can participate by posting to the Facebook group, please do so. We’ll also podcast an edited version early the following week. You can find that here.

Also, a reminder that you can find ways to respond online to our need for additional financial support here.

I’ll see you on Sunday.

Peace,
Tim Plett