Developed by the Rev. Dr. Sam Wells, Being With is a ten-week long invitation to discover faith in the context of discovering friendship. This series is based on the belief that Being With us is what God is all about, and that being with God, one another, ourselves, and creation, is the calling of our lives in turn. Over the summer, Rev. Claire and Minister for Adult Formation Alice Kochunov completed the training required to lead the Being With course and will facilitate it together beginning on Thursday, September 19th at 4:00 p.m. via Zoom. The group will meet online for 75-90 minutes once a week. Each class explores topics like essence, story, community, suffering and hope. Each session holds space to hear the large and small stories that have made up your life and for you to listen to those of others, and then puts our stories in the context of a talk based in thinking from other cultures and times, as well as scripture. Please contact Rev. Claire (claire@ccla.us) if you'd like to join the course - all are welcome! The course Zoom link is here.