Westport Meeting News:
Our Annual Book Fair, July 9-17, HAS been a huge success! More info coming soon at Monthly Meeting for Business, July 24 at 8am via Zoom. Please attend!
Property Committee: The small roof area above the chair storage room in the Community House has had a new roof installed. Yeah, finally!
Our Peace Garden needs a little love! Some weeding is needed. The Peace Garden also needs someone with knowledge on which variety of perennials would do best in that location. We’ve got the tools, just need some knowledge and love in action!
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SAVE THE DATE:
Spinner Publications will be offering a panel discussion on the life and significance contributions of our famed Meeting member, Paul Cuffe, with David Cole, local historian and author of, Paul Cuffe: His Purpose, Partners and Properties. Other panelists will be known shortly. The event will be held in our Macomber Friends Community House on the afternoon of either Saturday, August 13, or Sunday, August 14. More details to follow. Save the date and attend!
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)
- Monthly Meeting for Business, July 24 at 8am, Zoom only.
- Worship each Sunday in meetinghouse and via Zoom at 10am (hybrid)
- Ministry and Counsel Committee, Monday, July 18, at 7pm (Zoom only)
- Monthly Meeting for Business July 24 at 8am. Zoom only
- Sandwich Quarterly Meeting, July 24 at W. Falmouth Meeting
- Seekers Group, Monday, July 25 at 7pm. Hybrid
- Peace and Social Justice Committee, Sunday, July 31 at 7pm via Zoom
- NEYM Annual Sessions, Castleton, VT, August 6-11.Important Details
- Spinner Publications Paul Cuffe Panel Discussion, Aug 13, or 14. Details above
- Seekers Group, Monday, August 22 at 7pm. Hybrid
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 June 24, 2022, “Don’t just do something. Sit There!” (From Billy Jonas, God Is In album) contains an opening reflection, programming and retreat info for young people, parents and Friends throughout New England Yearly Meeting. This issue also contains info on registering for NEYM Annual Sessions in August. Read her latest bi-weekly newsletter HERE.
New England Yearly Meeting Newsletter, “This is the Hour, How Does the Spirit Find You?,” June 3, 2022. An Invitation from the Presiding Clerk and Clerk of Sessions Committee, can be read HERE.
This is a special edition of the NEYM Newsletter detailing plans for the upcoming NEYM Sessions to be held in person, and via Zoom, at Castleton University in Vermont, August 6-11. Info and REGISTRATION
An Invitation from the Clerks
Children and Youth Attend Free!
For Families and Youth
For Young Adults
Home Group Facilitators Needed
Sessions Video Library
Photos Needed for Slideshow
Bookstores
Pay-as-Led: A spiritual approach to fees
Registration Opens Soon
Recurring virtual events
- Daily at 8 a.m., Beacon Hill Friends House: Meditation practice
- Weekdays at 10:30 a.m., Portland Friends Meeting: Waiting Worship
- 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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BOOK FAIR VOLUNTEER SIGNUP
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Community-wide news
Westport Writes Together:
Westport resident, musician, and member of Allen’s Neck Meeting, is leading a grant project called “Westport Writes Together,” that has multiple sponsors including the Westport Community Schools, Westport Library, Westport Police Department and other local organizations. In addition to Westport residents, this seasonally themed writing project is also open to people who work in, frequent regularly, or enjoy visiting the local habitats that Westport is well known for.
Overview of Project: Westport Writes Together welcomes the town of Westport into a participatory writing
project focused on the beauty of the natural world. Our coastal, agricultural town and its
landscapes serve as a frame while anyone who lives or works in Westport can submit
writing in response to three seasonal writing prompts. The project will reach a diverse
group of participants and audience members and build bonds between writers, budding
writers, and readers. Designed to appeal to any age, the Westport Community Schools
students will participate at grade level. Periodic stories and updates will encourage
audience participation while the Westport library will hold seasonal gatherings and
readings to share the work. Additional details HERE.
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 -
- Starting at 9 AM, coffee, tea, pastries will be available
- Starting at 10 AM Worship will begin followed by Meeting for Worship to Conduct Business
- Lunch break following the conclusion of the Business Meeting
- Following lunch, W. Falmouth will offer a 1-hour program about the history of Quakers in West Falmouth. Depending on interest and weather, a walk to the site of the old meetinghouse on the Wampanoag trail might be an option.
- Depending on weather, the food and program will be offered outside for Covid safety.Please save the date for Sandwich Quarterly Meeting on July 23 to be hosted by W. Falmouth Friends. A zoom connection for hybrid worship and meeting for business will be available for audio only meaning that those in the meetinghouse and those on Zoom cannot view each other, but will be able to hear each other well.
Schedule is as follows:
The Zoom link and directions to W. Falmouth Meetinghouse will be sent next week.
In Peace,
Lee M. Hamilton, Clerk of Sandwich Quarter
508-241-3995
- –October 22 at Westport Meeting)
- SQM Ministry & Counsel
-September 24 at Mattapoisett
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Closing:
Mama exhorted her children
at every opportunity to “jump at de sun.”
We might not land on the sun,
but at least we would get off the ground.
– Zora Neale Hurston
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Thank you, Friends,
Kevin