Westport Meeting News:
Reminder: Monthly Meeting for Business will be held, via Zoom only, Sunday, Nov 20 at 8 AM. The Zoom link is in the Meeting’s weekly email.
Notice: While the Grange across from the meetinghouse makes repairs to its faulty well, leaving the building without water, the Saturday evening AA meeting, which usually meets at the Grange each Saturday evening 6-8 PM, will be holding their meetings in our Community House until the Grange water issue is fixed. (This is in addition to their usual Sunday night meetings in our Community House.
NOTICE: Please be advised that the Community House Hall will be closed for annual floor maintenance Dec 26-31. Friends will still have access to the Potter House and kitchen via rear doors, but not the front door that week. This is necessary to allow time for the floor refinishing to dry thoroughly.
Approved previous minutes of Monthly Meeting for Business may be read HERE.
MEETING CALENDAR:
(All meetings held via Zoom, in person, or hybrid (meaning in-person and via Zoom), as noted)
- Monthly Meeting for Business, Nov 20, at 8am. Zoom only
- Worship each Sunday in meetinghouse and via Zoom at 10am (hybrid)
- Ministry and Counsel Committee,Monday, Nov 21, at 7pm via Zoom (only)
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Nov 23, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- Seekers Group, Nov 28 at 7pm. (Hybrid) Potter House and Zoom
- Peace and Social Justice Committee, 7pm, Dec 5 via Zoom
- Advent Sunday: Worship, potluck, and singing! Dec 11 at 11:15 AM
- NEYM monthly check-in for Friends serving their local meetings, Dec 13, 7pm (See below)
- Ministry and Counsel Committee,Monday, Dec 14, at 7pm via Zoom (only)
- Monthly Meeting for Business, Sunday, Dec 18 at 8am (Zoom only)
- Christmas Eve Service in Meetinghouse 7pm. Fellowship to follow. (Hybrid)
- NOTICE: Community House Hall closed Dec 26-31 for floor maintenance
- Book discussion, hosted by Peace and Social Justice Comm., Sunday, Jan 22, 11:30 AM
MIDWEEK WORSHIP, via Zoom, WEDNESDAYS, 3:30-4:00pm. (Kevin sends link day of)
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Yearly Meeting/Wider Quaker News:
NEYM October 2022 Newsletter, “What Is My Work To Do?” by Alison Livie, may be read HERE.
Support for Quaker Parents
The Life Cycle of a Meeting
Embracing Spiritual Gifts
Facing Our History
Faithfulness Groups Workshop
Faith & Practice Revision
New Book on Eldering
Friends Camp Video
Stewardship Resources
Got Photos?
A Last Word
Recurring virtual events
- Daily at 8:30 a.m.: Daily Worship at Pendle Hill
- Weekdays at 10:30 a.m., Portland Friends Meeting: Waiting Worship
- Daily at noon: International Meeting for 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
Other events coming soon
- November 20: Drop-in Support for Addressing Racial Justice Among Quakers
- December 2–4: Junior High YM Retreat
Monthly Check-In for Friends Serving Their Local Meetings
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Sandwich Quarterly Meeting News:
- Sat, Jan 28, 2023, SQM Business,- hosted by Martha’s Vineyard Friends. Zoom only.
- Sat, March 25, SQM Ministry and Counsel, at E. Sandwich Meeting.
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Quaker Programs, Study, Retreats, and Spiritual Nurture:
The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope (Quaker Weekly podcast by Pendle Hill)
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Closing:
In Praise of Hands
Blessed be the works of your hands,
O Holy One.
Blessed be these hands that have touched life.
Blessed be these hands that have nurtured creativity.
Blessed be this hands that have held pain.
Blessed be these hands that have embraced with passion.
Blessed be these hands that have tended gardens.
Blessed be these hands that have closed in anger.
Blessed be these hands that have planted new seeds.
Blessed be these hands that have harvested ripe fields.
Blessed be these hands that have washed, mopped, scrubbed.
Blessed be these hands that have become knotty with age.
Blessed are these hands that are wrinkled and scared from doing justice.
Blessed are these hands that have reached out and been received.
Blessed be these hands that hold the promise of the future.
Belled be the works of your hands,
O Holy One.
– Diann L. Neu
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Thank you, Friends,
Kevin