Name: Community Sacred Fire
Start: 2024-08-24T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-08-24T21:30:00-04:00

FOR OUR ANCESTORS, Fire was the center of community, where stories were told, community issues were resolved, and people came to refocus, renew, and process the events of their lives.

As natural to us as breathing - this connection requires no special religion, ideology, or introduction.

Fire is a great healer, can restore our sense of community, and give us the courage and insight to relate with the challenges of our lives.

**6:30 - 7:00 Social Time Around the Fire**
We begin gathering and have some social time around the fire prior to starting. Bring a snack (optional) to share, a water bottle.

**7:00 - 9:30 Sacred Fire**
**Introduction and Making Offerings**
Your Firekeeper will introduce the evening and explain the significance and how to make offerings, which a brief ceremony of gratitude in the form of offerings from an intact tradition. Once the offerings are given to the Fire, it is a consecrated Fire, and nothing else goes into the Fire except wood, given by the Firekeeper. If smoking a cigar or cigarette, the tobacco can be placed in the fire (no cigarette filters go into the Fire). The offerings help create a safe and sacred space for meeting and sharing, for opening our hearts to one another. Giving offerings to the Fire are optional for anyone who attends. They are a personal way to honor the evening's experience, to deepen our connection to one another and give thanks for the heart energy of Fire.

**Please bring:**

* Face mask (optional)
* Water bottle
* A story, reading/poem, song, music or joke to share
* Donation to community Fire Fund to help keep the fires burning!
* Dress for the weather; if it rains, there will be shelter

**Please leave at home:**

* furry friends
* alcoholic beverages
* recreational/illegal drugs (not permitted on property)

**RSVP is required to attend this event.**

**PLEASE SUPPORT the Sacred Fire East Tennessee FIRE FUND** with a donation: It's easy to contribute via PayPal: paypal.me/MaryBethR472, mbrooster8@gmail.com, or Venmo: @MaryBeth-Robinson-8.

Thanks for helping raise funds to keep the fires burning! If coming to the fires is valuable to you, please show it with a small donation when coming to the fire or online. Contributions help to support monthly subscriptions such as Meetup and Mailchimp; purchase firewood, offerings, tarps, and raise funds to attend annual Firekeeper trainings.

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