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Spring 2011 Weekly Family Dinner
Hello Friends,
We have settled into our routine for the semester and we hope that you will join us. We are having our weekly dinner every Wednesday night this semester (Spring 2011).
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Peace,
Landon
Family dinners still to come!
Hello friends,
The end of the semester is in sight. We will be hosting a few events before it ends. You can keep up with all our events here, and at our weekly dinners!
Peace and Grace to you,
Landon
The New Semester has come*
*And we are more than half way through it!
My goodness how time does fly. One moment you are trying to think of what kind of fun things the semester will bring, the next you find that you can count the number of Tuesday’s remaining on a single hand and most of us only have the 5 fingers! (per hand)
We have had a wonderful semester so far, International Family Dinners every Tuesday night at 6:30, a baking adventure that led to the Richmond Folk Festival, and finally, an exploration of dumplings from around the world. From Polish pierogies to American dumplin’s.
We have some thoughts for a special Thanksgiving this November, so keep your ears open!
Peace and Grace,
Landon
Spring Break Voluntter Oportunity
Are you going to be in Richmond this Spring Break? Eternity at VCU has a few events planned for the next week. Whether it is serving food to the poor, sustainable community gardening, or just coming together to share meals and conversation we have an event just for you! We will be carpooling to many of the events, so if you aren’t able to get around you can simply contact us and we can pick you up and you can just go with us!
We consistently work with the Central Virginia Food Bank to distribute 3 good meals per person per week to over a thousand families in the north side of Richmond. Every Wednesday at 9:00 AM we distribute cereal, milk, beans, pasta and other necessities. This week we’ll be distributing food, but we will also be helping to reorganize our distribution center at Eternity Church, 1900 Chamberlayne Avenue.
This Spring and summer Eternity at VCU will also be participating in a community garden. On Wednesday of next week we will begin the process of preparing the land and drawing designs for the garden. We’ll have Lunch and then a time when people are free to dig in the dirt and work up a sweat or to sit back and help plan the future beds. Experienced gardeners and complete novices are welcomed equally!
We will also be having a dinner as we normally do on Wednesday nights in our normal location of 126 South Laurel. Since we won’t have as much school work, we’ll be taking more time to play games, sing and dance and have fun! This will be a great time to relax after a hard days work!
The next morning we’ll meet back at 126 South Laurel and have a pancake breakfast before going back to the food bank to help organize the distribution center.
Every other Saturday we have a Grocery Shopping trip. Saturday the 20th falls on this schedule. We will be going to international grocery stores and Wal-mart to help provide for the need of students. No charge for the transportation of course!
Similarly, every Sunday there is a service at Eternity Church, 1900 Chamberlayne Avenue. It is an international congregation and all people are welcome and invited to attend.
To Summarize our spring break click on the link below to see the complete schedule:
Bollywood Night
Just like every week, we are meeting this Wednesday at 126 S. Laurel St. for a Potluck Dinner. However, this week we will be meeting one hour early at 6pm so that we can start a Bollywood film at 6:30. This film should be entertaining but also informative about Indian Culture and all are invited to come out and enjoy! We look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday
Paint by Culture
Eternity VCU will have a “Painting by Culture” event. We are inviting you to come and paint with us! We have all the supplies available for you to express your culture through painting. Feel free to bring any friends along who enjoy painting or want to come.
We painted last year and are so grateful to get the chance to hang out with people again and throw some paint (on canvas of course). There will also be some pencils and maybe some mediums that friends bring!
The painting event is located at 126 S. Laurel St. and will be Wednesday March 3rd from 5 to 9 p.m. All supplies and snacks will be provided free of charge. Please come and paint with us!
Kjell Bjarne! and now, Music!
We had a wonderful time with our first shopping trip this weekend. Thanks to everyone who helped get it going and we are glad to be able to provide transportation to groceries! We don’t have any pictures of it, but trust me, it was fun (although it was cold).
Coming up this Wednesday we’ll be having another potluck dinner. All are invited to join us. We’ll be playing music and having a good time in general. Feel free to bring any music, bring any instruments, bring any requests (as long as those requests come with patience!) As always we’ll start at 7 pm at 126 South Laurel, but feel free to come early as we are there cooking our dishes. If you ever want to come cook with us, or just hang out before we get started you are welcome to!
Robin introduced us to Norwegian film making last week as we watched the quiet film, Elling. She was kind enough to write a little about it for us:
This wednesday we watched Elling a Norwegian film from 2001. The film is a lighthearted comedy about Elling and Kjell Bjarne, two middle aged men who after a long time in a mental institution get an apartment together in Oslo. From there we follow their struggle to adapt to a normal life. It’s a comical story of the two friends surviving their obsessions and neurosis, and together finding the mechanisms that rid them of their fears, and thus in their own ways returning them to a more normal life. Elling presents a convincing and utterly sympathetic portrait of socially challenged people coping with everyday situations, without delving deeply into the clinical aspects of mental illness.
We’re planning on watching a film every month so if you have anything you want to watch, let us know or bring it and we might just watch it!
Keep your eyes open for a painting event we may have in the beginning of March!
Peace-
Landon Holbrook
President of Eternity at VCU
(804) 484-4984
International Movie Night
We hosted our first International Movie night this Wednesday! It was a great time and a good addition to our potluck. We are going to be watching a movie once a month during our normal dinner time. This time we watched War Dance. It is a story of a group of children from Northern Uganda who travel to Kampala to participate in a singing, dancing, and instrumental competition. A lot of the film was difficult to watch because of the tragic conditions and wartime lifestyle these children live in. Additionally, the scope of the pain that has been endured by this tribe is hard to imagine and hard to watch.
Also, to see the dancing as a therapy was beautiful. I wondered as we watched about the quiet moments they spent in prayer. About the prayers the young ones taught the babies they cared for.
