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Upcoming events and information focused on education, engagement, and mourning: some for COVID and many for racial justice responses.

Some additional educational resources and regional/national events and correspondence focused either on lamentation for COVID or mourning and engagement around racial justice. Use what you find helpful, and please set aside those notices that you find out of alignment with your approach to these events. What is happening in this nation is complicated, and cannot […]

Local RACIAL JUSTICE RESPONSES and in-depth RESOURCES

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time Addressing events surrounding the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and resultant nationwide/global protests and demonstrations. Acknowledging the need for racial justice initiatives in our own hometowns as well as […]

ANNUAL PLANT SALE SAT, MAY 30th • 9am-12pm

Corrected date (due to cold spring weather): ANNUAL PLANT SALETime: SAT, MAY 30th • 9am-12pm / Plant drop-offs 8-9 amLocation: Jackson Community Church parking lotRaindate: Sun, May 31 • 1-4pm / Plant drop-off 12-1pm Questions? Email Gloria: [email protected] Donate plants: if you are fortunate enough to have an abundance of plants; perennials that need dividing, extra […]

Music: “I Believe”

Our choir performed a beautiful song on Sunday called “I Believe”. Music is written by Mark Miller. The video was filmed by Chris Doktor on Horton Ledge/Pine Mountain. Choir directed by Billy Carleton and music played by Alan Labrie. The lyrics of this song were adapted from a poem written by a Jewish prisoner on […]

What if? What next? Questions in time of anxiety and uncertainty. Walking the road to Emmaus in the presence of love.

I don’t know what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future. — Ralph Abernathy Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi It’s fun to think of the what-if. Scary, but fun. It’s like, I thought this door […]