Westport Meeting News:
Update, 5 PM, May 1:
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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)
- Ministry and Counsel Committee, May 2, at 7pm (Zoom only)
- Midweek worship, Wed, May , 3:30-4pm (link sent day of, Zoom only)
- Memorial Service for Steven Correia, May 7, at 2pm in meetinghouse
- Seekers Group, Mon, May 9, 7-8:30pm. (Hybrid)
- Seekers Group, Mon, May 9, 7-8:30pm. (Hybrid)
- Peace & Social Justice Committee, May 15, at 7pm (Zoom only)
- NEYM Meeting leaders call, Tues, May 17, 7pm. via Zoom.
- JYM Retreat, in person, May 20-22, at Woolman Hill. Details HERE
- Book Fair Committee, June 1, 7pm
- BOOK FAIR: July 9-17
- NEYM Annual Sessions, Castleton, VT, August 6-11. Important Details
MIDWEEK WORSHIP, via Zoom, WEDNESDAYS, 3:30-4:00pm!
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Yearly Meeting/Wider Quaker News:
Gretchen’s JYM-JHYM latest newsletter, issue of April 26, 2022, contains an opening reflection, programming and retreat info for young people, parents and Friends throughout New England Yearly Meeting. Read her latest bi-weekly newsletter HERE.
New England Yearly Meeting Newsletter, “Bearing witness,” April, 2022, by Dawn Tripp, of Allen’s Neck Meeting, can be read HERE.
Introduction
Annual Sessions is coming
Friends Camp reunion
Nurturing Faithfulness
Pendle Hill lecture: These Walls Between Us
Send a teen to camp!
News from Faith & Practice
New podcast episode
New website for technical help
Help Ukrainian refugees
Help in crisis
Quakers in the news
A last word
Nurturing Faithfulness Program: “Who in your meeting is yearning to take “the next big step” in their spiritual journey? Who is yearning to meet God more deeply, hone discernment methods, and more fully express their spiritual gifts in service to your meeting or the wider world?” ( – Jeremiah Dickinson, Interim Clerk of NEYM Ministry & Counsel)
Nurturing Faithfulness is a 9-month faith and leadership program offered by New England Yearly Meeting, in partnership with Woolman Hill Quaker Retreat Center and the Beacon Hill Friends House. The program is designed to set in place support, encouragement, and accountability for Friends called to listen for what Spirit is leading them towards. It runs from September 2022 to May 2023, with two residencies at Woolman Hill (Deerfield, MA), one online residency, and regular online or locally based connection opportunities, in addition to reflection assignments and readings. You can read more about the program HERE.
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.
Recurring virtual events
- Daily at 8 a.m., Beacon Hill Friends House: Meditation practice
- Alternate Thursdays at 4 p.m., Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL): Thursdays with Friends
- Thursdays at 7 p.m.: Taizé worship
- Thursdays at 8 p.m.: Parents’ Tea-and-Chat
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Sandwich Quarterly Meeting News:
From Deena Kinsky, SQM Newsletter Editor:
West Falmouth Peace and Social Order 2nd Sunday lecture series. These will be Sundays from 12-1:00 on Zoom, and registration is required. Check with Brenda Nolan nolanbab@gmail.com if you’d like to register or be put on a mailing list.
- Sandwich Quarter Meetings for Business
-July 23 at W. Falmouth Meeting
–October 22 at Westport Meeting)
- SQM Ministry & Counsel
-September 24 at Mattapoisett
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Closing:
There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind,
which in different places and ages hath had different names.
It is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward,
confined to no form of religion nor excluded from any where the heart stands
in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows, of what nation soever,
they become brethren in the best sense of the expression.
– John Woolman, 1774
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Thank you, Friends,
Kevin