Resilience & Potluck

Our theme for February is Resilience.
Resilience is the ability to recover from difficult experiences and setbacks, to adapt, move forward and sometimes experience growth. It is a necessary skill for coping with life's obstacles and one of the key ingredients to success.

Sunday, February 12th Service:
Joshua Berg's sermon on resilience begins with contemplating the challenges and hardships his great-grandfather must have endured to cross the ocean and make a life in a land he knew nothing about. He focuses on the lives of persons of color such as Edmonia (wildfire) Lewis -- a renowned sculptress, born at the beginning of Jim Crow of

a black African father and Mississauga ojibwe or chippewa Indigenous American mother. And John Lewis -- brutally beaten during the march over the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama and later to become a U.S. Congressman.