Westport Meeting News:
Book Fair Volunteer Sign Up:
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Book Fair Committee: In an effort to increase book donations before our annual Book Fair next month, the committee has announced that the Book Shed will, for now, remain open seven days a week, 9am – 5pm. If you can help to unlock the Book Shed in the morning, or to lock up at night, please contact Gretchen at 508-287-6441, or email her HERE. Thanks!
Annual Book Fair July 8-16! Benches in meetinghouse will be moved immediately following worship on Sunday, July 2. Help is needed!
Saturday, July 8, beginning at 7:00 AM, a core group is needed to load pickup trucks with boxes of books. Another large group is needed to begin unloading boxed books onto tables under the tents, also beginning at 7am.
Gretchen will be looking for volunteers to sign up for cashiering during the day, and cover tables in the evening from July 8 – July 16. Please watch for her announcement.
Click to Volunteer at Book Fair!
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Wanted: Westport Meeting Newsletter Editor: Details HERE.
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Approved previous minutes of Monthly Meeting for Business may be read HERE.
MEETING CALENDAR:
(All meetings held in person, via Zoom, 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, Monday, June 19, CANCELED
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, June 21, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- Monthly Meeting for Business, Sunday, June 25, at 8am Via Zoom
- Seekers Group, Monday, June 26, 7-8:30 PM. HYBRID
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, June 28, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- Benches moved at rise of worship, Sunday, July 2, HELP NEEDED!
- Book Fair Tents going up by tent company, Wed, July 5
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, July 5, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- BOOK FAIR! Saturday, July 8. (Runs July 8-16)
- NEYM Meeting Leaders Call, July 11, 7-8 PM via Zoom. Details below
- NEYM Annual Sessions, August 4-9, 2023, at Castleton U., Castleton, Vermont
Additional details Here. - Book Fair Celebration, August 17, 3-6 PM. (Tentative date)
MIDWEEK WORSHIP, via Zoom, WEDNESDAYS, 3:30-4:00pm. (Kevin sends link day of)
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Yearly Meeting/Wider Quaker News:
NEYM’s June 2023 Newsletter introduction, “Getting To Love,” comes from Rob Spencer from Concord (NH) Friends Meeting.may be read HERE.
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
NEYM Annual Sessions, August 4-9, 2023, at Castleton U., Castleton, Vermont
Meeting for Listening: The Spiritual Life in Our Local Meetings. A full-day, hybrid event, June 24, 2023
Join us for a gathering of Friends in New England caring for the nurture of spiritual life and ministry in our local faith communities. Together, we will:
- Dream together,
- Identify the resources meetings have to offer each other,
- Explore themes in State of Society reports and trends from statistical reports, and
- Discover what’s possible now.
For additional information and to register for this event, please click HERE.
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Sandwich Quarterly Meeting (SQM) News:
Extensive updates on upcoming events in the Quarter, and, within various member meetings of SQM may be read HERE.
A big thanks to Deena Kinsky, SQM Recording Clerk for collating these resources!
Quaker Programs, Study, Retreats, and Spiritual Nurture:
QuakerSpeak (Our Quaker faith as shared by those who experience it firsthand, every day, via weekly video interviews)
FGC Gathering, “A week of Quaker worship, workshops, and community for all ages.” July 2-8, 2023. Theme: “Listen. So That We May Live.” Details HERE.
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Local Happenings of Interest to Friends:
If you have something that could go in this space, let let me know! – editor.
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Closing:
If someone comes to you asking for help,
do not say in refusal, “Trust in God. He will help.”
Rather, act as if there were no God, and no one to help, except you.
– Hasidic teaching
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Thank you, Friends,
Kevin