Westport Meeting News:
Invitation: Joe Bossom turns 94 years old on Jan 27, 2024, and Mika and Joe are inviting Westport Meeting Friends to come on Joe’s actual birthday, Saturday, January 27!! It’s an “Open House” from 1:00 – 8:00 PM. Mika says, “Please, No gifts, just your wonderful selves!”
Location: 82 Holly Berry Hill Road, Tiverton, RI 02837. A fun, hand drawn map to their home is available HERE to view and print out.
From our Peace and Social Justice Committee:
“RUSTIN,“ A SOUTH COAST LGBTQ+ NETWORK FILM EVENT, will be presented at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Sunday, January 14, at 4:30 PM. Preregistration is required. Click HERE to register. This event is co-sponsored by the New Bedford Whaling Museum. local Quaker Meetings, including Westport Meeting’s Peace and Social Justice Committee, other faith communities, and area organizations. Again, click HERE to register. To view the flyer, please click “RUSTIN”.
“Join us to watch this critically acclaimed Netflix about Bayard Rustin, an activist and advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., who faced racism and homophobia as he helped change the course of civil rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington. Please Click HERE to register.(Source: LGBTQ+ Network RUSTIN flayer)
Ministry and Counsel: Please save the date and time for our next “Quaker 101” Gathering at the rise of worship on Sunday, February 4. This program, facilitated by Randy Wirth, will be pertinent for all Westport Meeting members and attenders, especially for newer attendees at our Meeting. The gathering, over a light lunch and beverages, will afford Friends the opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the “nuts and bolts” of Quaker practice. Our discussion will be guided by our NEYM Faith and Practice section on membership, which may be read HERE on the NEYM website.
Invitation from Allen’s Neck Friends: Patti Muldoon, of Friends Meeting at Cambridge, and presenter with the NEYM “ARCH” program (Aging-Resources-Consultation-Help) will be coming to Allen’s Neck meeting on Sunday, January 21. Patti’s presentation will be at the rise of worship at 11:15 AM, and Westport Friends are invited to attend.
(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)
- Peace & Social Justice, Mon, Jan 14 at 8:30 – 10 AM (via Gretchen’s Zoom act.)
- Film viewing “RUSTIN”. Jan 14, 4:30 PM, at Whaling Museum. Details above
- Ministry and Counsel, Monday, Jan 16, 7-8:30 PM
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Jan 17, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom.
- Monthly Meeting for Business, Sunday, Jan 21, at 8am Via Zoom
- Seekers Group, Monday, Jan 22, 7-8:30 PM. HYBRID
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Jan 24, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Jan 31, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Feb 7, 3:30-4pm. via Zoom
- “Quaker 101,” Sunday, Feb 4, at rise of worship in the Community House
- NEYM “Living Faith Gathering,” Dartmouth, MA, April 6. DETAILS
MIDWEEK WORSHIP, via Zoom, WEDNESDAYS, 3:30-4:00pm. (Kevin sends link day of)
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New England Yearly Meeting/Wider Quaker News:
NEYM’s January, 2024 Newsletter may be read HERE.
Introduction
Friends decision-making workshop
Young adult Friends Midwinter
Gathering for Friends with a concern for Gospel ministry
Advance Planning workshop
Save the date: Living Faith
Quaker trustees workshop series
Black History Month
We’re hiring!
Workshops sought for Living Faith
Be a part of Sessions
“Let My Soul Be Quieted”
A reminder from the Outreach Archivist
Fall Legacy grants announced
Legacy grant application deadlines
Reconciliation leadership workshop offering
Bodine-Rustin grant nominations wanted
Support for monthly meeting tech folks
Work at Friends Camp
Letters from the past
New Woolman Hill history
Our hopes for this newsletter
Quakers in the news
A last word
- 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 Living Faith Gathering, April 6, 2024.
Living Faith Gatherings bring together Quakers from across New England to strengthen connections between Friends of different generations and from different meetings, nourish spirits, and provide an opportunity to share the ways we experience and live our faith. We hope Living Faith gatherings will be an opportunity to equip individual Friends and local meetings with resources, tools, and connections to more fully live our faith. (from NEYM website) DETAILS.
Jan 9
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Sandwich Quarterly Meeting
Quarter Meeting for Business-Mattapoisett
Saturday, January 27
9:30 coffee and greetings
10:00 business meeting will start with a half hour worship
One of the things discussed will be the need to formulate a Working Committee to coordinate with NEYM planners of the Living Faith Gathering to be held on April 6 at Friends Academy in Dartmouth.
Post- lunch presentation by John Rider: “Doing Right by the Right Whale.”
After a history of Quaker involvement in the hunting of the now critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale, what is being done, and what can be done to help them recover and thrive?
Quarter Calendar
Meeting for business:
January 27 at Mattapoisett
April 27 at Dartmouth/Smith Neck
July 27 at New Bedford
October 26 at Westport
Meetings start at 10:00 am– most likely hybrid, but will be coordinated with each meeting. Meet for coffee and greetings at 9:30
Ministry & Counsel
March 23 at E. Sandwich Preparative Meeting
September 28 at Mattapoisett
Meetings start at 10:00 am.
Living Faith Gathering
NEYM is coordinating a Living Faith Gathering to be held at Friends Academy in Dartmouth on April 6, 20024. Would Friends like to be part of a committee and volunteer? Possible help may be needed finding coordinators for workshops that the program organizers approve or finding Friends to host traveling Friends.
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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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Closing:
The Truth is one and the same always;
and though ages and generations pass away,
and one generation goes, and another comes,
yet the Word, and Power, and the Spirit of
the living God endures forever,
and is the same, and never changes.
– Margaret Fell
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Thank you, Friends,
Kevin