Cloverdale Church of Christ will host a wild game potluck Sunday evening with an invitation to all who hunt or are hungry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beast Feast, a Cloverdale tradition since 2006, will be at 5 p.m. at the church building after the evening service. All are invited to join and\/or bring food to the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cloverdale church\u2019s elder of fellowship Greg Niblock said he and deacon of fellowship Scott Biddle work together to organize the dinner and encourage the hunters in the church to save some of their game for the feast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd of course there\u2019s lots of folks that don\u2019t hunt, and I\u2019ll say, you know, \u2018We\u2019ll consider cow meat,\u201d Niblock said. \u201cSo the focus is to see what wild game we can bring, and since it\u2019s a potluck, people will bring in other dishes that might be their favorite thing to eat at a potluck.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Biddle said this is his first year helping organize the event and that he is excited about the possibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity for everyone to come together and have fellowship with their church family,\u201d Biddle said. \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity for everyone to potentially try some foods they haven\u2019t tried before, and it\u2019s an opportunity for the whole congregation to just enjoy each other\u2019s company and step back and have a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Niblock said they will try to have a hunting theme with camouflage tables and napkins, duck decoys, and older guns. He said he thinks it is a good representation of the Bible passage in Acts when God said, \u201cGet up, Peter. Kill and eat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think the Beast Feast is sort of reflective of who Cloverdale is as a church,\u201d Niblock said. \u201cWe\u2019re not all professors; we\u2019re not all professionals; we\u2019re not all blue collar; we\u2019re not all retired. It\u2019s a big mix of people, and this gets everybody together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pulpit minister Karl McLarty said one thing that drew him to Cloverdale before he started ministering there was the Beast Feast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo me, we spend way too much time stuck inside, and some of that we can\u2019t help, but I think when people get outside there\u2019s a sense of connecting to the creation of God \u2014 the grandeur of God,\u201d McLarty said. \u201cCreation just has a way of reawakening within us some of that beauty and mystery and wonder that\u2019s all around us that God put there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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