Our last celebration of the lovely, lovely strawberry was 4 years ago. It was our 46th annual. The world has changed a bit since then. We’ve grown a little more wary. We’ve lost traditions or let them slide. At a Board of Finance Meeting a few months ago, in conversation about setting our budget, several thousand dollars of which come from special events like the Strawberry Supper, we all felt an urgency in restoring this tradition. I don’t have an actual record of each year, but I think that the last 4 misses broke an uninterrupted string of strawberry festivals dating back to 1973.
Not only that, we are fundamentally about community. It is part of our DNA, not merely to be conserving community and tradition, but to be developing it — to be part of the process of trying to become a people who care for each other and look out for each other, who create spaces that are shared and enjoyable and by so doing help bend the moral arc of the universe toward justice. Anyway, it’s back!
You can sign up to help and we encourage you to do so sooner rather than later. The sign up program, if you give it your email address (and it already has lots of yours), will send you a reminder.
Here’s the Sign Up Genius Link. If you need help, give us a call at the church 244-6606.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A44A9AB2DA1FC1-2023
