Westport Quakers

Westport Meeting News:

Reminder: Monthly Meeting for Business will be held NEXT Sunday, Nov 21 at 8am via Zoom (only). The link will go out with next week’s worship and newsletter email.

Afghan Refugee Information: Deana Kinsky, of Sandwich Quarterly Meeting, provided meetings of our Quarter with recent information about helping Afghan refugees resettle in our area. For ease of reading, the info is on its own page on our site HERE.  

NEYM Letter of Apology to Native Americans: Meetings within NEYM are being asked to read the Letter of Apology to Native Americans and discuss it within our local meeting communities. We are specifically asked not to publish or distrubute the letter on any non-Quaker public forum, as distribution and publishing will shepherded by the Right Relationship Group of NEYM. Friends may read the document HERE. 

Midweek worship will continue to be offered each week on Wednesdays at 3:30 PM. Please note that the link for midweek worship is not the same as our regular worship on Sunday. A link for joining Midweek worship (which is the same link each week) will be emailed each week on Wednesday mornings. To insure security, we never post Zoom links on websites or portals visible to the general public. Questions? Contact Kevin Lee.

MEETING CALENDAR: (All meetings held via Zoom, in person, or hybrid (meaning in-person and via Zoom), as noted)

• Worship each Sunday in meetinghouse and via Zoom at 10am (hybrid)
• Second Gathering on Spiritual Life and Ministry for Friends in New England, Nov 13, 2021. (info below. Zoom only)
• Peace & Social Justice Committee, Nov 15 at 7pm (Zoom only)
• Midweek worship, Wed, Nov 17, 3:30-4pm. (link sent day of, Zoom only)
• Monthly Meeting for Business, Sunday, Nov 21, at 8am (Zoom only)
• Seekers Group, Monday, Nov 22, at 7pm. Hybrid. (Gretchen sends link)
• THANKSGIVING, Nov 25.
• NEYM Permanent Board, Dec 11, 9am-1pm. via Zoom.
• NEYM Meeting leaders call, Dec 14, 7pm. via Zoom.

MIDWEEK WORSHIP, via Zoom, WEDNESDAYS, 3:30-4:00 PM!

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Yearly Meeting/Wider Quaker News:

NEYM Faith and Practice Revision Committee: Draft chapter for review and discussion on Ministry and Counsel committees at the monthly meeting level; [Our Meeting’s M&C committee will be reviewing this document, but all Friends are encouraged to review this draft copy as well. Click HERE for the link.

New England Yearly Meeting Newsletter, “It is blessed to Receive, too” Oct, 2021 may be read HERE:

Introduction
Ministry & Spiritual Life Gathering
Workshop for Treasurers & Financial Stewards
Exploring the Quaker Way
Support for Addressing Racial Justice
Exploring Prayer and Meditation at Woolman Hill
We’re Hiring!
Right Relationship Updates
Reparations as Testimony for Portland Friends
Marian Baker Reports from East Africa
Faith & Practice “Passage of the Month”
Noticing Patterns
Weed Lecture Video
Find Recordings of Yearly Meeting Events
Keep in Touch!
A Last Word

Quakers in the news

Gretchen’s JYM-JHYM latest newsletter, issue of Nov 5, 2021, contains reflections, programming and retreat info for young people, parents and Friends. Read her newsletter HERE.

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Quaker organizations, and our Yearly Meeting as a whole, are offering an amazing array of opportunities to expand our knowledge and improve our practice as Friends in a variety of ways. Check out the following links and see what we are being offered! Also, take a few minutes and explore additional programs offered by NEYM by visiting the Events page HERE.

Connect, Learn, Explore, and Be in Service among Friends Regionally and Globally.

Check out an array of Quaker schools, camps, retreat centers, other yearly meetings and Quaker organizations listed on NEYM’s website.

Closing:

Our Real Work

It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.

– Wendell Berry

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Thank you, Friends,

Kevin Lee