March Sound Bath – Rest, Reflect, and Give Back
Join us Friday, March 13 at 7 pm in Fellowship Hall for a soothing sound bath experience designed to help you slow down, release tension, and reconnect with yourself. Using gentle instruments and intentional sound, each session provides a calming space to relax, reflect, and refresh your mind and body.
All donations from this session will go directly to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund, helping families remain together while they navigate the complex immigration system.
Whether you are new to sound baths or a returning participant, this is an opportunity to take care of yourself while contributing to a meaningful cause. Our certified Sound Bath practitioners are Jenny Gee and Erin Wohlfarth.
About the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is an organization that helps families remain together while they navigate the complex immigration system.
In the United Methodist tradition, caring for displaced people is not a political act — it is a spiritual one. Our Social Principles affirm the dignity and worth of migrants and call us to offer concrete support to those who are especially vulnerable.
Scripture reminds us again and again that welcoming the stranger is part of faithful living. While caring for ourselves, mind, body and spirit, we also have the chance to practice compassion in a very real way.
Our Social Principles: Migrants, Immigrants, and Refugees
“We affirm the dignity, worth, and rights of migrants, immigrants, and refugees, including displaced and stateless people. In so doing, we acknowledge that the world today is facing an unprecedented crisis related to the displacement of vast numbers of people due to such factors as ongoing wars and other hostilities, foreign interventions, widespread famine and hunger, global warming and climate change, and the failure of nation-states to adequately protect and care for their people.
“We recognize that displaced people are particularly vulnerable as their in-between status often provides them with few protections and benefits, leaving them open to exploitation, violence, and abuse. We urge United Methodists to welcome migrants, refugees, and immigrants into their congregations and to commit themselves to providing concrete support, including help with navigating restrictive and often lengthy immigration policies, and assistance with securing food, housing, education, employment, and other kinds of support.
“We oppose all laws and policies that attempt to criminalize, dehumanize, or punish displaced individuals and families based on their status as migrants, immigrants, or refugees. Additionally, we decry attempts to detain displaced people and hold them in inhumane and unsanitary conditions. We challenge policies that call for the separation of families, especially parents and minor children, and we oppose the existence of for-profit detention centers for such purposes.”
– The United Methodist Book of Discipline 2024/2024, ¶ 163