Practical Thanksgiving – A Full Circle Sunday

Hey all…this is, as advertised, a Full Circle Sunday. Kids Table, music, Community Time, Talky Bit, D.j…just kidding. About the DJ that is. Unless you are actually a DJ, in which case let’s chat. The rest of it was true. We will meet at 10:45 a.m. at VA Cafe. We’ll livestream here and podcast the Talky Bit here.

In the Talky Bit we’ll be doing some exploring about what it might look like, and how it might be good for us, to practice some practical thanks giving (not a typo). That’s all I’ll say about that for now, except to add that although this is officially the Thanksgiving Weekend, we’ll be having our “Not Quite Thanksgiving” potluck next Sunday. So freeze some leftovers or something, and we’ll have our party on October 20th. More details about that in the blurb next week, but for now hold the date and know that the time frame for that gathering will be the same as usual.

And speaking of parties, a reminder below of some of the exciting things that you should put on your calendar for the coming months:

• Future Souper Sunday potlucks on November 22nd and December 22nd. I’ll include more details about those as they draw closer, but the short version is they’ll be lovely opportunities to eat and connect with one another, uninterrupted by any formal musings. The December date will also be our “Not Quite Christmas” gathering. So good…
• The long-delayed “Pie-In-Your-Face” fundraiser is now slated for November 3rd. As some of you may be aware, the kids at The Table have requested that they be the recipients of the pie-in-your-face. They want to get pied. We (the adults) agreed to this arrangement, but with two twists. First of all, the kids only get pied if we raise $1000 in extra funds. If you are donating, make sure we know that this is money you want to count toward the total by putting a note on the cheque or accompanying your online donation. You can just put “pie” somewhere in the process, so we know when we’ve reached that goal. Second twist – if we reach $5000, one of the kids (we have a very clever, but secret, way of randomly selecting who it’ll be) gets to pie…me. (I didn’t discuss this with the leadership team, but if we raise $10,000 everyone in the community can line up and pie me, and I’ll be smiling the entire time).