Gathering & Pot Luck
- April 21 · 10:30 AM
The Fellowship of Freethought, as part of its mission to promote a family-friendly organization that emphasizes education, socialization, and charity, will be encouraging its members to gather together once a month to learn from each other, share in each others' lives, and coordinate outreach to the community. These "Gatherings" will combine music, short presentations, and special announcements all running alongside a fun yet educational youth program. Following presentations and youth activities is a potluck meal to encourage close fellowship among all members.
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Fundraiser for West, Texas
Our neighbors to the South in West, Texas suffered a terrible calamity this week, and they need our help. We'll have kolaches for sale before and after the Gathering program on Sunday, with all proceeds going to benefit the recovery effort in West. Please bring plenty of cash!
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Monthly Theme: Arlington Archosaurs
Derek Main, director of the Arlington Archosaur site here in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, will be joining us to talk about this amazing discovery and its implications here, and within the field of archaeology.
All members (age 9 and up) are invited to join Derek at the dig site itself the Saturday before this Gathering. Details can be found here.
Potluck Tips
Let's make this potluck great for everyone by following some time–tested tips…
- Bring a main dish, or hearty side. FoFDallas will supply the desserts, drinks, ice, napkins, plates, cups, and eating utensils. Tip: home–cooked is better and cheaper than pre–made foods at the store, but those are an alternative if you are in a rush.
- Bring a sufficient amount. A good rule of thumb is to bring enough to feed yourself, your family, and your guests — as if that were all you had to eat — preferably with some left over.
- Food should be "ready to serve". It should be cooked, cut, and ready for someone to quickly put it on their plate as they walk through the line.
- Label your item. Use a notecard to indicate what the item is, and perhaps what is in it (if it's not obvious). If it's vegetarian and/or vegan–friendly, you can note that as well. This is especially important if your dish contains one of the most common food allergens: milk, eggs, peanuts (groundnuts), nuts from trees (including Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, almonds and walnuts), fish, shellfish (including mussels, crab and shrimps), soy products, and wheat.
If you are able to plan your pot luck dish in advance, or at least know the type of dish you can commit to bringing, please indicate main, side, vegetarian, diabetic, etc in your RSVP comments.
If you have your own suggestions on how to make the potluck better, please let Whitney know.
Applications for Voting Membership will be collected at the Gatherings.
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Jamye Carr
I want to thank our members for being generous with their donations for the Archosaur site today. We were able to collect $134 for Derek and the site cause, in addition to money for West and the disaster relief fund.
4 · April 21
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John Pantzer
Great presentation from Derek Main. I hope to get out to the Arlington Archosaur site to help dig some time, but whether I do or not, it's excellent to know this site exists right here in the metroplex.
2 · April 21
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Patrick Jackson
me and my wife cant attend I had schedule change at last minute this after noon we will catch the next one
April 20
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Donn Barnes
Thank you for doing this. I can't make the event but have been working on an effort of my own. I knew some of the first responders who were killed, and have friends who volunteer with the EMS service that lost a building and an ambulance. We ware putting together a series of EMS related fundraisers to help rebuild and to replace the ambulance and three fire trucks that were destroyed.
For those that don't yet know, the volunteer fire department in West was wiped out. Only two have survived, one in critical condition. The bodies were recovered today but have yet to be identified.
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