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Dec 5 Build for Unity
Home Events Reaching in Love Dec 5 Build for Unity

Dec 5 Build for Unity

  • December 5, 2019
  • 7:30 am – 1:30 pm
  • 5125 Stoner Drive, Sacramento, CA 95820
  • Habitat Construction Site
  • Reaching in Love
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The Table made a gift of $10,000 to Habitat for Humanity’s Build for Unity last fall and construction is ready to begin! We’ll take part in 5 construction days this winter as we join this multi-faith effort to build two Habitat homes next door to each other as a celebration of diversity, inclusion, & community here in Sacramento.

Details are below. Sign-up to join our construction team on Thursday, December 5, here:

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    We are building this two-home project alongside the Emelyanenko family of 8 and Omar family of 6, both of whom currently live in severely overcrowded two-bedroom apartments. The families have already become fast friends while working on their initial sweat equity hours, and are thrilled to be neighbors soon, living in an established and safe neighborhood where their kids will have space to grow and play in the yard together!

    As with all Habitat partner families, the Emelyanenko and Omar families will each put in 500 hours of sweat equity helping to build their home alongside volunteers, and will purchase the home upon completion for a 30-year 0% interest equivalent affordable mortgage.

    Event Name: Build for Unity

    Event Date/Time: Thursday, December 5, 2019 (07:30am – 01:30pm)
    Event Meeting Location: 5125 Stoner Drive, Sacramento, CA 95820

    What to Bring

    We will provide all the tools needed to work on our construction site.  For your comfort, the following items are highly recommended:

    • Work Gloves
    • Water Bottle
    • Lunch

    We have hard hats, safety glasses, and ear protection on site.  In order to help you prepare for a great experience, the following is a list of items you should wear:

    • Sturdy shoes, preferably boots
    • Comfortable clothes (you will get dirty!)
    • Layers for all weather possibilities
    • Sunscreen

    Volunteers must be at least 16 years of age to be on a job site. Any volunteer under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a legal guardian at all times.

    Thank you for your time and efforts in helping Sacramento Habitat build homes and UNITY!

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    FROM THE ARTIST:
    “Messianic Secret”
    Inspired by John 2:1-11
    14″x18″ Acrylic on canvas

    The Wedding at Cana is my favorite text because there is a lot of humor in it. There’s humor in a mother approaching her son and telling him to do something without ever actually telling him to do it. There’s his pouty resistance to his mother’s non-demand while she completely ignores him and paints him in a corner. There is humor in a raucous wedding reception where the people are so “lit” that the wine has run out. And, for me, it’s particularly humorous that there’s this huge, beautiful secret of which only a few people are aware.

    Those people include Jesus’ mother and the select servants who help him pull off the miracle that inaugurates his ministry. Servants are normally meant to be inconspicuous, so I wanted to focus on the servant who goes to the chief steward with a cup full of what, as far as he’s concerned, is water.

    If Jesus—whose ministry has not started, so there haven’t been any wonders associated with him yet—tells you to fill jars with water and draw from the jar to give to the chief steward, what is going through your mind at that moment? I invite the viewer to focus on this servant and all his curiosity and expectation, and think of a time when you were surprised by something God did. What actions preceded the miracle? Did it make sense? What did you know, and what was hidden from you? What “secrets” might God be keeping from you now as God works clandestinely on your behalf?

    —Rev. T. Denise Anderson