Summer 2024 Updates
In our Spring Newsletter, we said we were looking for a new location to gather and support to bring to life our vision for a mobile mediation hub we’ve affectionately named A Moment. We are delighted to share that we’ve made significant progress on both!
In April, we began meeting at a new location. We are now gathering in the building of a local community-based organization who’s graciously welcomed us as we continue searching for a space of our own. We’re grateful for the partnership with Challenge Discovery Projects and for the warm welcome they’ve extended to us.
In addition to our Sunday evening gatherings, we are now meeting on Thursday nights for rest and mediation. This gathering is specifically focused on solidarity with the Palestinian people and all those suffering in the genocides happening around the world as a result of colonialism and capitalist imperialism. These intimate gatherings offer a spiritual grounding to those who are speaking and marching and protesting for an end to the ways of war that have saturated every aspect of this planet.
In June we received word that we’ve been awarded a grant from the Winn Mission fund at Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond to make A Moment. Once we secure a minibus, we will begin renovating the soon-to-be traveling sanctuary. In the midst of so much ongoing chaos, A Moment meets people where they are: whether at a festival or street fair, or just out and about in the city, folks will be able to sign up for a time and location to step out of their day and find the steadiness already within them. The time could be used to sit with noise-canceling headphones, mediate, pray, or to simply share space and a cup of tea with someone, feeling a little less alone in this increasingly isolating world.
Have a minibus? Know of someone who does? Help us out!! We would like to dedicate as much of the grant funds as possible to renovation, so we are asking our networks and friends to let us know of any connections that could help us secure a mini-bus.
We continue to seek a more permanent space of our own. We’ve got dreams and visions of a location with communal work spaces, where yoga and meditation are offered daily, where we can share meals and invite people into a space where they are seen and affirmed in the fullness of who they were born to be.
At our core, we continue to be grateful for all of the ways this community is forming. We are grateful for the support and the love of all those who are holding us and holding space for us, and we are ever so grateful for your continued presence with us along this journey toward healing and wholeness.
We often envision a time in the near future when Richmond, Virginia will be seen as the most peaceful city in the world. Go to our donate page to support us financially in this vision, and in leaning into collaboration wherever in the world you may be, until it is no longer a dream but the reality we create together.
