Getting to know you - --
Saturday October 22nd will be one of the first opportunities for the folks from St. Aidan’s and Beach UC to get to know each other. This is not the absolute first because the Jazz Vespers has already happened in the sanctuary at St. A’s and the Thursday Inter faith lunch program served 40 people in the Memorial Hall last week.
The “Roast and Toast” event will give us all an opportunity to eat together. This will happen on Saturday afternoon, at St. Aidan’s, from 2.00 pm onwards: pork will be roasting and many other dishes will be available for us all to sample. Breaking bread together is a real symbol of hospitality and welcoming those that we do not know. It is also very biblical, in that travelers were offered a safe haven as an expression of faith being lived in a practical way. As we eat together and get to know each other, we will also have the opportunity to explore St. Aidan’s. This will be our new home for a while; so come and see where we will be.
On Saturday evening, from 7.00 to 9.00 pm we will be returning to the auditorium at Beach UC. We will be “toasting” the past through the last basketball game. In years gone by there was a basketball league that played out of the auditorium. Members of both congregations remember or played in these games. This will be a way of celebrating one of the many activities that took place in the auditorium over the years.
As we gather to have fun, I hope that people will tell the stories of the other events they remember in the south part of the building at Beach [formerly Kew]. Perhaps you were married in the chapel, which is now where the staff offices are located. I know there are many wonderful memories of the shows that were put on in the auditorium by the Couples Club.
In this time of change, I offer this prayer that was written by a woman with the wonderful name of Phoebe Griswald, who wrote this prayer as she was flying off to a new experience, with new people in a new place!
Dearest One, increase the capacity of my heart.
Take its edges and stretch them out
To include all in me that I do not love,
All in my family that I judge,
All in my church that I fear,
And all in the world that doesn’t fit.
May we all learn from Phoebe’s courage.
Blessings, Karen
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