This meetup group has been created to help people make better choices.  Our focus is primarily in three general areas but extends to all areas of life.

If you would like to know more about what  this meetup group is about, please visit my website at www.AShiningLight.org.  (When clicking on this link, you may want to open it in a different page or a different tab in your browser so that you can easily come back to this page.  Just right click on the link and select, open in a different tab or different page.)

After you understand the purpose of this group by reading the information on the home page of my website and you would like to be A Shining Light.  Join the meetup group.  

I think we can all be a shining light to someone and strive to help people make better choices as they face various trials in their life.  

As a member of a meetup group, it is our intention to get together on a regular basis to help each other and discuss ways of reaching out to other people.  Meetup.com tends to be a group of people in one area of the country that get together for various reasons, in our case, Gallatin, TN.  but this group is different.  You can be A Shining Light no matter where you are located.  If you live in a different part of the country or the world and would like to be a co-organizer where you live so that you can support a local group, then just let me know.  

We encourage donations.  There is a cost to running the websites and there is costs involved in getting together for dinners and outings, your donations can help defray some of that cost.  Any money you donate will go to support the organization and special needs as they arise.  It is strictly voluntary.

This is a non-denominational group, but we do believe in God and the atoning death of Jesus Christ.  We also believe that a plant based diet is vital to our health, and the environment and all potluck dinners and meals will be plant based. (no animals or animal based products also no refined or processed foods).  Remember this is a group designed to help people make better choices in all areas of their life.  If you are not a Christian or do not currently eat plant based diet, don't let that stop you from joining.  Our intention is not to change you, but to answer questions and encourage better choices in life.

There will be meetups that only deal with food, money, spiritual relationships, personal relationships and sometimes all of these at the same time.  You may only have interest in one area or you may want to come to all.  Again, it's your choice!

If you have any questions at all, please feel free to ask.

Thanks

Scott Vaden