Starting this week, you might see a few drop boxes springing up around town and a few different community groups and civic organizations launching different projects and programs. This is part of a town-wide reflection and projection initiative to reflect on what it’s been like living through this past year of the pandemic AND project our hopes for the future moving forward.
The Historical Society will be planting seeds of hope and painting inspiration. The Library will be highlighting resources for processing trauma. Trinity Lutheran will be having a graffiti wall for people to leave messages of remembrance and resilience. Here at CBC, we’ll be highlighting what other groups and churches and organizations around town will be doing over the coming weeks as well as developing our own project.
The Stitches & Stories event happening every other Thursday is part of that. So I encourage you to invite your friends to bring their stitches and stories. We can always move to Fellowship Hall if we outgrow the parsonage.
One major component of this “Unraveled & Restored” initiative is reflection collection. Starting on Sunday and continuing throughout the summer, forms will be available where you pick up the worship bulletins. You’re welcome to fill out a form and submit it either in the offering plate or in any of the drop boxes around town. Those of us involved in this joint venture will be collecting these written (or drawn) reflections, memories, hopes, and prayers anonymously throughout the summer and plan to compile them into a collection to make available in the Fall.
The past fifteen months taught us a lot about who we are and who we want to be. It’s good for us to take some time as neighbors and a community to mark the challenges, lament the losses, honor the sacrifices, remember the lessons, celebrate the joys, and proclaim the hope that were all a part of living through this pandemic time.
I’m excited for us to come together as community especially as we at CBC continue to live out the gospel and practice what it means to be a good neighbor.
In Love,
Pastor Annette