Reformation Feast

GRC had its annual Reformation Feast, dovetailing with All Saints Day elsewhere. This event kicks off a season of feasts and is what our church does best, I feel; cook & play & remembering the important matters of faith. The fall feast features soups and stews and a dessert competition. I made an African stew with coconut milk, tomato, and peanut butter - first learned at L'Abri - for flavoring the chicken and sweet potato. A hit!

First we needed to get pumpkins.

Pumpkin patches near the 101 fwy with $5 tickets for the requisite bounce house - but more charming than you'd expect, nevertheless.

Carolyn made a Pin-the-Thesis on the Door contest.

Michael actually won the pumpkin carving contest:based on his favorite theme: catsChildren really love THIS feast, but generally have a larger stake in the worship, since they can participate in the weekly communion, which is focus of the service. Protestants, in a reaction to the medieval church, largely replaced the eucharist with the sermon. Churches like GRC have both.

Winners of this year's various contests!