About once a month we step away from our typical weekly gathering to seek a new perspective. We intentionally stand in new places, do new new things, roll up our sleeves, and consider new ideas with the hope of loving and seeing ourselves, our friends, and our city more clearly. We aspire to listen, learn and serve together.

On Sunday, June 21st, we’ll gather at Save Maumee to learn more about their work—reflect, pray, and lend a hand. Families are welcome; this will be a good, spacious atmosphere for kids. Please plan to arrive by 10:45a so we can begin together promptly at 11a. Wear clothes appropriate for working outdoors and if you’d like to venture into the woods, pants are recommended to protect against bugs.

For planning purposes, it is helpful to know who is coming. To opt-in fill out the form below.

Thanks!

A blessing for the land:

God of the Universe,
You made the heavens and the earth,
So we do not call our home merely “planet earth.”
We call it your Creation, a Divine Mystery,
a Gift from Your Most Blessed Hand.
The world itself is your miracle.
Bread and vegetables from earth are thus also from heaven.
Help us to see in our daily bread your presence.

Upon this land…
May your stars rain down their blessed dust.
May you send rain and sunshine upon our garden and us.
Grant us the humility to touch the humus,
That we might become more human.
That we might mend our rift from your Creation,
That we might then know the sacredness of the gift of life—
That we might truly experience life from the hand of God.
For you planted humanity in a garden,
and began our resurrection in a garden.
Our blessed memory and hope lie in a garden.

Thanks be to God,
Who made the world teeming with variety,
Of things on the earth, above, the earth, and under the earth.
Thanks be to God,
For the many kinds of plants, trees, and fruits,
We celebrate.
For the centipedes, ants, and worms,
For the mice, marmots, and bats,
For the cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers
We rejoice,
That we find ourselves eclipsed by the magnitude
Of generosity and mystery.
Thanks be to God.