Back on the Road

 After a wonderful holiday season, Trish and I are back on the road again on the storytelling trail.

This past weekend we were in Newnan, Georgia, for a wonderful event organized cooperatively by three Newnan churches. The Presbyterian, Eposcopal and Central Baptist church’s have for twenty-nine years come together one weekend each year for a shared community program.  They have a speaker in the Christian tradition for a Saturday night banquet and for shared services on Sunday Morning.  It was my privilege to be their guest this year.

Since we were already going to be there, I asked whether we could do something for children and families on Saturday morning.  We had quite a gathering of families with their school-age children in the old Carnegie Library, right beside the church, where I had fun telling family stories.

The Saturday night banquet was in the brand new Central Baptist Fellowship Hall that they informal call the COVID Building as it was constructed during these past two years.  This was their first community event in that new space.

This event was also used to raise money for the Samaritan’s health clinic serving uninsured and underserved people in Coweeta  County.  The weekend was a model of how churches can cooperate for community good as well as their own.