Westport Meeting News:
Peace and Social Justice Committee: Our Meeting’s Peace and Social Justice Committee, has been supporting the family of Hasila Sedaqat, in various ways since the family’s arrival from Afghanistan approximately two years ago. Many of us have enjoyed the tasty treats and dishes prepared by Hasila previously.
Hasila will be making the Kufta (meatballs) , Kabuli (rice dish) and Salat ( salad) dinner (pictured below) again for October 22.
Thank you for your feedback from the last dinner that she made. The quantity of food will be increased. There will be two Kufta, as well as more Kabuli and salat. The suggested donation is still $30.
If you would like to take part in this opportunity, which also helps to support Hasila’s family, please get your order to Pamela Drouin by email (pardrouin@gmail.com) or via text at 508-979-6838, or in person, by October 16. Pick up will be at Westport Friends Meeting’s Community House after worship, at 11:15 AM.
To view the dish being offered, please 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.
Update on above as of Aug 30: The Meeting has sent in the required deposit for the installation of security cameras on the exterior of our buildings. The necessary equipment and parts have been ordered. Once all the parts and equipment have been received the job will be scheduled for installation. Best educated guess, if none of the parts are back-ordered, the install will begin the middle of September or the start of October. Once the work begins, the Community House will need to be closed during week-day hours until the project is completed.
Book Shed News: Effective September 1, our Book Shed will be open seven days a week, 9am – 5pm. If you are able to help unlock and relock the Book Shed every now and then, please be in touch with Gretchen.
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)
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Oct 18, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- Ministry and Counsel, Monday, Oct 2, 7-8:30 PM
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Oct 4, 3:30-4pm. via Zoom
- Property Committee, Wed, Oct 4, 7-8pm via Zoom
- NEYM check-in for Friends serving their home meetings, Oct 10, 7-8pm
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Oct 11, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom.
- Monthly Meeting for Business, Sunday, Oct 15, at 8am Via Zoom
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Oct 18, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- Peace and Social Justice Committee, Mon, Oct 22, 7pm via ZOOM
- Seekers Group, Monday, Oct 23, 7-8:30 PM. HYBRID
- Sandwich Quarterly Meeting at Allen’s Neck Meeting, Oct 28
- Seekers Group, Monday, Nov 27, 7-8:30 PM. HYBRID
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 Sept 2023 Newsletter introduction, “The Third Way,” comes from Martha Sheldon from Durham, ME, Friends Meeting, may be read HERE.
Introduction
Workshop: financially supporting ministry
An invitation from West Epping Friends
World Quaker Day
Meeting Care Day
We’re hiring!
Legacy Gift news
Sessions bookstore needs you!
Have you subscribed?
New from QuakerSpeak
Friends in South Pittsfield
Lobbying for peace
A last word
Kenzie Burpee, Interim Children’s Ministries Coordinator, has important updates detailing retreat dates and related ongoing programs for Junior Yearly Meeting, and Junior High Yearly Meeting, all under the care of New England Yearly Meeting of Friends. Read Kenzie’s updates HERE.
Recurring NEYM 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
Oct 10
Nov 7
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Sandwich Quarterly Meeting (SQM) News:
(Special thanks to Deena Kinsky, SQM Newsletter Editor for her fine work here throughout the year! –ed.)
A Quaker museum is in the makings on the 2nd floor of the meeting house in East Sandwich. Please reach out if you have any Quaker artefacts to house there (especially from Sandwich Quarter). Also looking for a case for a life-size mannequin!
West Falmouth
Second Sunday Forums:
October 8 12:30 – 2:30: An Introduction to Reconciliation Leadership: A Methodology to Reconcile Relationships and Building Trusting Communities. With Virginia Swain who used this methodology working in the United Nations. Flyer and Registration HERE.
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)
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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)
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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:
In a time of destruction, create something.
A poem. A parade. A community. A school.
A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.
– Maxine Hong Kingston
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Thank you, Friends,
Kevin