DES MOINES, IA – The public is invited to an open forum on the year 2012, at 7 p.m. Thursday, January 10, in the Greenwood Room of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, 4126 Ingersoll Ave., in Des Moines. Everyone who attends will be invited to share their impressions on the changing of the earth and coming events leading to it. Channelers and meditators are invited to share brief outlines of the visions they have received. For more information, contact Bev Stone, facilitator of The Common Thread Group, at [email protected]. This event was regularly scheduled in early December, but was postponed due to the recent winter storm.