Announcement from the Communications Office
Good News Gardens Book Group: Invitation to a diocesan book-study group 
January 5, 2020

As we welcome the promises of a new year, please join friends from around Western Massachusetts for a virtual discussion of This is God’s Table – Finding Church Beyond the Walls. In this compelling and readable new book, local writer and pastor Anna Woofenden, a prophetic voice in the faith and food movement, writes about her experience founding and nurturing the Garden Church in San Pedro, California. As Sara Miles (author, and founder/director of The Food Pantry) says in the book’s Foreword, “Woofenden shares the story of what happened when she gardened, worshiped, and ate with anyone who would join her. As churches across the Western world wither, what would it take to find a raw, honest, gritty way of doing church – one rooted in place, nurtured by grace, and grounded in God’s expansive love? What would it take to carry the liturgy outside the gates? What if we were to discover that in feeding others, we are fed? This is God’s table. Come and eat.”

Our conversations will take place on Zoom over four Thursday evenings from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., Jan. 14 and 28, Feb. 11 and 25. You are welcome to attend as many sessions as you can. The final meeting will include a Q and A session with the author. Click here to register for this event.  We will send out the zoom link the day before our gatherings. For more information, please email one of the facilitators: Maggie Sweeney (magsween10@yahoo.com) or Harvey Hill (revharveyhill@gmail.com).  
The Rev. Anna Woofenden

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