Mississippi Gulf Coast Atheist and Freethinking Association Monthly Meetup

We meet at Harmony Hall.
2514 19th Avenue, Gulfport MS 39501
(North off Pass Road, about 1/3 mile East of Hwy 49)

3 pm MEETUP, 5 pm POTLUCK
Please bring your concerns for discussion and your contributions for dinner.

Suggested topic to start discussion:

Do we need a preacher? See the CNN clip - about an "Atheist Church":

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/ (http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/07/21/faces-of-faith-atheist-church-jerry-dewitt.cnn.html)
2013/07/21/faces-of-faith-atheist-church-jerry-dewitt.cnn.html (http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/07/21/faces-of-faith-atheist-church-jerry-dewitt.cnn.html)
Ministers make their living by professionally organizing the support of a community of people with shared interests and activities who come together to satisfy their social needs. How can we organize our group to achieve those satisfactions?

Joint meeting with MS Gulf Coast Humanists :

http://www.facebook.com/groups/AHA.Gulfport.Biloxi/

(You need to enroll to get their announcements.) Likewise:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/HeartsOfTheSouth/
which does not hold local meetings but invites us to participate in public volunteer events like distributing Thanksgiving dinners to local people in need.

Including inactive and distant members who don't come to meetings our

https://www.meetup.com/atheists-131/
group has about 150 people on the confidential email list. They add anyone who enrolls on their MeetUP web site and automatically remove people who never RSVP.

Any ideas for program? For future meetings?

Call or e-mail with suggestions.

Glen 228-697-5195