This Week At The Table
At the heart of our “reason for being” at The Table is the joyful work of making room to explore what we believe. Given the nature of exploration, that should be a fairly adventuresome enterprise…and I believe it often is. But it can also pretty easily turn into an exercise in navel gazing – self absorbed introspection and the spiritually angsty version of “what about ME?!”
Add to that the fact that our community history includes some seasons where we were barely surviving as an entity, and you could have a recipe for an inward looking group of people that aren’t making much of a conscious, collective contribution to bettering the wider world. That doesn’t feel very congruent with genuine exploration. So what to do?
As I have mentioned on a few occasions, there has been some background work going on regarding a partnership between The Table and an African development project. I realize that is so vague as to be meaningless, but I haven’t wanted to be specific for a couple of reasons.
First of all, this project is one that will initially be quite small – sort of like we are. And it will be personal – it’s the vision of a few people that want to partner with some other folks that they can actually get to know. At the heart of the project at this point is one guy – Vurayayi (“You can call me Ray”) Pugeni. When I encountered Ray, heard his story and felt his passion for this project, I knew right away that I wanted to introduce him to The Table to see if we could all work together.
So…this Sunday morning, that is finally going to happen! Ray will be our guest, and we’ll all have chance to hear what he is passionate about, what a partnership could look like, and how we can work together in a practical, “do-able” way to make a positive difference in one part of the wider world.
Other Items Of Note:
Kid’s Table: Upcoming Kid’s Table gatherings are scheduled for October 12th and 26th, and November 9th and 23rd.
Pancake Breakfast: before our gathering on October 19th, starting at 9:00 a.m. Check the white board at the back of The Table, and fill in a blank spot.
See you on Sunday!
Peace,
Tim Plett