08/22/2026
We have a private event today but head on over to founders square! ❤️
I hope that you will join the gathering tomorrow over at Founders Square to come and celebrate our recovery process. There will be prayer, free food from great restaurants and organizations, co****le and other games, music, and a chance to get outside the house and enjoy a relaxed atmosphere with new and old friends and neighbors. This is NOT a celebration of power being back on, and it never was meant to be. This event was first planned back when it was looking likely that most of Portage might still not have had power by this Saturday. - This is a celebration of our city's people, who came together to take care of each other after the hurricane, and the progress we have made and will keep making as a community together.
If you are not in a place where you are ready to come and celebrate anything, I understand. I have also been struggling with that feeling throughout the last two weeks. But I keep coming back to remembering hoe I taught my students for years as a teacher about the importance of giving ourselves breaks and taking time to celebrate steps in a process being completed so we're not too tired by the time it's all actually done, and I believe the same thing is true of our city’s recovery.
This event is about taking a break and celebrating hiw far we have made it as a people with free food, music, games, prayer, and fellowship with our neighbors. There will be an opportunity to celebrate the process being all finished up, but this is our first brain break.*
*Teacher term I used to use.