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THE MAZE OF THE PINK TREES

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The last two months….Wow! is all I can say.

Autumn arrived!

There was a carnival.

And a huge Irish Festival.

Youth ministry has gone into full swing.

Fall Fest happened.

We had our Cornerstone fall DLT mixer, which we call the crockpot cook off, and we baptized three people that same weekend.

We had a men’s conference, a women’s conference and two Volunteer outreaches with the town.

We have also done a fall clean up day at the church.

Meanwhile we have been managing to keep the projects at The Vicarage going.

Brenda started a painting project on the third floor of The Vicarage.

Meanwhile James and the girls have been working in the forest garden cutting away brush to what the girls are calling the maze of pink trees.

BRIDGING IDEAS AND BUILDING FUTURES

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Last month I was appointed as the Secretary of the Friends of Beals Memorial Library, during their annual business meeting.

One of the projects I am working on, as part of a library team, is a set of four community conversations, to be held throughout the winter months. The title of these conversations will be, “Bridging Ideas and Building Futures”. The discussions will be based around four questions about discovering our community identity.

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The library sponsored something like this a few years ago in a program called “the town wide read”. As a community we read the Book, HEY KIDDO

That book sparked some powerful discussion back then. This new town wide discussion forum is going to be connected to other reading and viewing opportunities. I am hoping we will see not only interesting discussion but affirmative action towards becoming something new.

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I will keep you updated. Is your community doing anything exciting this winter?