Westport Meeting News:
Interested in attending NEYM Annual Sessions online? To Register, click HERE.
Property Committee met on July 20, and among the items expressed was a decision to recommend to Monthly Meeting for Business that the Meeting consider installing security cameras on the exterior of our buildings, due to recent vandalism and property damage over the last several years. A detailed report chronicling the types of damage to Meeting property 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)
- NEYM Annual Sessions, August 4-9, 2023, at Castleton U., Castleton, Vermont,
Additional details Here. - Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Aug. 9, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom.
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Aug 16, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Aug. 23, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- Seekers Group, Monday, Aug 28, 7-8:30 PM. HYBRID
- NEYM Meeting Leaders Call, Sept 12, 7-8 PM via Zoom. Details below
- Monthly Meeting for Business, Sunday, Sept 17, at 8am Via Zoom
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 July/Aug 2023 Newsletter introduction, “Listening In Love,” comes from Honor Woodrow from Putney, VT, Friends Meeting, may be read HERE.
Introduction
Monthly drop-in for end-of-life interest
Register for Annual Sessions!
Talking circles among BIPOC Friends
Workshop: financially supporting ministry
Work at Sessions
Show your art at Sessions
Hearing assistance at Sessions
Introducing new program assistant
Aging resources news
Update on Quaker Indigenous Boarding Schools research
Service opportunity
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
NEYM Annual Sessions, August 4-9, 2023, at Castleton U., Castleton, Vermont
Additional details Here.
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FWCC in conducting a “soft launch” of their “Find Friends” World Map. Nearly all of the info that they have for our Meeting at this time is incorrect, and I have used their provided Google Form to summit updated contact info for Westport Meeting. You can visit the site, but be aware that it may take some time for them to correct our contact info that they corrently have listed. Visit Find Friends here.
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Sandwich Quarterly Meeting (SQM) News:
Smith Neck
Saturday, August 12: New England Clambake with Chowder 1:30 (take out available for pick-up 2:30 -3:00)
Tickets available: Anne Lopoulos 508-971-8008 or Kaylee Howland 508-922-2758 or online at http://Smithneckclambake2023.eventbrite.com. $65 adults, $32 children under 12. A tradition going on for the past 6 decades!
New Bedford
Sunday, August 13
Work party after worship followed by lunch (every second Sunday)
West Falmouth
Second Sunday Forums
(August: no program due to Sessions.)
September 10: Quaker Indian Boarding Schools a Facing History, Facing Ourselves program with leaders ZOOMing from 3 states: Paula Palmer (C)), Andrew Grant (VT) and Gail Melix (MA).
Quarter calendar for the rest of the year
Business and M&C meetings start at 10:00. Possibly in-person, hybrid, or virtual.
October 28 in Allen’s Neck (…and Allen’s Neck was slated for July)
Quarterly Ministry and Counsel:
Sept. 23 in Mattapoisett
Donation opportunity from our last Quarterly Meeting for Business Presentation:
Donations to Bialystok Friends, a meeting on the Polish border with Ukraine, go completely to buying food, clothing, and necessities for 50-60 families (80 – 100 kids). Ukrainian refugees continue to cross the border into Bialystok and Polish resources are strained. There’s no overhead; the clerk of the meeting (named Zbigniew Kazmierczak) buys the supplies and delivers them to the doors of these families. He reports that he cannot supply all the help that is needed (recently, a mother with a child with cerebral palsy sought $500 in medical equipment to enable her son to walk), spending his monthly budget in 3-4 days buying the food, diapers, medical supplies, and clothing for the families who need it most. Yarmouth Friends have been their biggest supporters (with some occasional contributions from English Quakers) but Yarmouth is a small meeting and its resources too are becoming strained. (They have been sending about $1250/month for over a year.) Please consider these Polish Friends in your donation distribution discussion. Email Jan from Yarmouth with any questions: Frazierjan@aol.com. She is available to come to your meeting or your Peace and Social Justice Committee to talk about the fund and show slides of the families and of the help they are receiving from the Bialystok Meeting.
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:
The greatness of a community is most accurately
measured by the compassionate actions of its members,
a heart of grace, and a soul generated by love.
– Coretta Scott King
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Thank you, Friends,
Kevin