Westport Meeting News:
Easter Egg Hunt (And More!) Sunday, April 17!
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Save the Date! Easter Sunday Egg Hunt: Sunday, April 17 at rise of worship.
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)
- Worship each Sunday in meetinghouse and via Zoom at 10am (hybrid)
- Easter Sunday Egg Hunt: Sunday, April 17 at rise of worship (Details above)
- Midweek worship, Wed, April 20, 3:30-4pm (link sent day of, Zoom only)
- Young Friends In Person Spring Retreat, April 22-24, in Portland, ME Details
- Monthly Meeting for Business, April 24, at 8 AM (Zoom Only)
- Seekers Group, Mon, April 25, 7-8:30pm. (Hybrid)
- Book Fair Committee Meeting, Wed, April 27 at 7pm via ZOOM
- Ministry and Counsel Committee, May 2, at 7pm (Zoom only)
- Seekers Group, Mon, May 9, 7-8:30pm. (Hybrid)
- Peace & Social Justice Committee, May 15, at 7pm (Zoom only)
- NEYM Meeting leaders call, Tues, May 17, 7pm. via Zoom.
- JYM Retreat, in person, May 20-22, at Woolman Hill. Details HERE
- BOOK FAIR: July 9-17
- NEYM Annual Sessions, Castleton, VT, August 6-11. Important Details
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 April 7, 2022, “We don’t know the whole story” contains an opening reflection, programming and retreat info for young people, parents and Friends throughout New England Yearly Meeting. Read her latest bi-weekly newsletter HERE.
New England Yearly Meeting Newsletter, “Bearing witness,” April, 2022, by Dawn Tripp, of Allen’s Neck Meeting, can be read HERE.
Introduction
Ministry and our meetings
Young Friends retreat
For BIPOC Friends
Young adult Friends retreat
Annual Sessions is coming
Friends Camp reunion
Nurturing Faithfulness
Quakers in pastoral care annual conference
Pendle Hill lecture: These Walls Between Us
Send a teen to camp!
News from Faith & Practice
New podcast episode
New website for technical help
Help Ukrainian refugees
Help in crisis
Quakers in the news
A last word
Nurturing Faithfulness Program: “Who in your meeting is yearning to take “the next big step” in their spiritual journey? Who is yearning to meet God more deeply, hone discernment methods, and more fully express their spiritual gifts in service to your meeting or the wider world?” ( – Jeremiah Dickinson, Interim Clerk of NEYM Ministry & Counsel)
Nurturing Faithfulness is a 9-month faith and leadership program offered by New England Yearly Meeting, in partnership with Woolman Hill Quaker Retreat Center and the Beacon Hill Friends House. The program is designed to set in place support, encouragement, and accountability for Friends called to listen for what Spirit is leading them towards. It runs from September 2022 to May 2023, with two residencies at Woolman Hill (Deerfield, MA), one online residency, and regular online or locally based connection opportunities, in addition to reflection assignments and readings. You can read more about the program HERE.
Quaker organizations, and our Yearly Meeting as a whole, are offering an amazing array of opportunities to expand our knowledge and improve our practice as Friends in a variety of ways. Check out the following links and see what we are being offered! Also, take a few minutes and explore additional programs offered by NEYM by visiting the Events page HERE.
Recurring virtual events
- Daily at 8 a.m., Beacon Hill Friends House: Meditation practice
- 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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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:
- April 10: The Beloved Border Humanity and Hope in a Contested Land
Miriam Davidson a prize-winning Quaker journalist with over 30 years reporting on the borderlands is based in Tucson, Arizona.
Miriam will discuss her new book on border issues. Published in September 2021 by the University of Arizona Press, The Beloved Border describes the work of Quaker researchers and activists, as well as, the influence of Quaker ideas like sanctuary and nonviolence, in helping shape the future of the U.S.-Mexico border region.
- Sandwich Quarter Meetings for Business
-April 23 at New Bedford (State of Society Reports for 2021 are to be presented at this meeting)
-July 23 at W. Falmouth Meeting
–October 22 at Westport Meeting)
- SQM Ministry & Counsel
-September 24 at Mattapoisett
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Westport Community News:
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Closing:
Too many well-intentioned people are so preoccupied with the clatter
of effort to do something for God that they don’t hear Him asking that
He might do something through them. … For the Eternal is urgently,
actively breaking into time, working through those who are willing to
be laid hold upon, to surrender self-confidence and self-centered
effort, that is, self-originated effort, and let the Eternal be the dynamic
guide in recreating, through us, our time-world.
– Thomas Kelly, “The Eternal Now and Social Concern”
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Thank you, Friends,
Kevin