To our Happening Community,
The Happening Committee (Kim Centers, Juli
McDaniel, Karen Witherspoon, Chris O'Brien, Krista McLaughlin, Mariah
Dudley, Cornelia Taylor, Nathan Hoyt, and Megan Dern) hopes that you are
well and healthy. We are living in some very challenging
times and we wanted to do something that might bring our community
together in a way that keeps our doors open and our love flowing.
There are few things more precious than friendship. The
friendship and love that we get to feel, share and spread through
Happening is God's Caritas to each of us; we believe that. He loves us
THAT much and invites each of us to share it with each other. His love
can been seen in the faces of each other, can be read in the words that
are written, can be heard in songs that we sing and felt through the
power of prayer. God hears all of our prayers and answers all of our
prayers, and while it may not be what we want, it is usually what we
need.
How can we do that? How can you do that? The Happening
Committee invites you to be a part of something bigger. Your words,
your songs, your prayers are love. One prayer at a time, one song at a
time, this is love. We are officially launching our summer Project
Caritas. Project Caritas is our two-pronged approach to reaching the
Happening Community through Song and Prayer.
Project Caritas SING
We invite you to sing. It's that simple. In our world of
stress, these songs we've chosen bring us peace, evoke memories of
Happenings past, and wrap us in love. Record yourself singing one of
these Happening Songs: Give Yourself to Love; Amazing Grace (Alleluia);
Sanctuary; They Will Know We Are Christians. Sing it, record it, and
send it! Lyrics and video tips can be accessed here. You can upload your song here so that we can create a compilation that we can carry with us everywhere. Please upload your song no later than August 8, 2020. The Project Caritas SING compilation should be ready and released by August 29, 2020
Project Caritas PRAY
Two words you are already familiar with: Prayer Partner. We
would like to invite you to pray for another person and receive the
power of prayer as well. We would like to put together some matches of
people who would be interested. Simply submit your name and Happening
number (if you know it) to Megan Dern at mdern@diosova.org and the committee will match you with someone else interested in having a partner.
The great news is, once you submit your name and method of contact, you
and your prayer partner get to choose how to communicate, exchanging
prayers through email, text, Facebook messenger, or even snail mail. We
encourage any and everyone to lift each other up in prayer and add other
encouraging and giving gestures as you see fit. Prayer is a powerful
form of Caritas. It doesn't matter if you are an alumnus of Happening #1
or #71, all are welcome to participate. If you are interested, please
send a message to a committee member or respond to this post. We will
match all participants and notify you of your partner match as soon as we can.
Project Caritas. Be a part of something bigger. Nothing in this world is bigger than God's love for us.
