Westport Meeting News:
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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)
- Ministry and Counsel Committee, June 13, at 7pm (Zoom only)
- NEYM Meeting leaders call, Tues, June 14, 7pm. via Zoom.
- Midweek worship, Wed, June 8, 3:30-4pm (link sent day of, Zoom only)
- Westport Friends Intergenerational Gathering, June 18, 4-7pm (Details above)
- Seekers Group, Mon, June 20, 7-8:30pm. (Hybrid)
- Monthly Meeting for Business, June 26 at 8am, Zoom only.
- Peace and Social Justice Committee, Monday, June 27 at 7pm
- BOOK FAIR: July 9-17
- Sandwich Quarterly Meeting, July 24 at W. Falmouth Meeting
- 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 May 27, 2022, contains an opening reflection, programming and retreat info for young people, parents and Friends throughout New England Yearly Meeting. This issue also introduces Kenzie Burpee, the new JYM Sessions Coordinator, and Rainer Humphries, the new Sessions Childcare Coordinator. Read her latest bi-weekly newsletter HERE.
New England Yearly Meeting Newsletter, “This is the Hour, How Does the Spirit Find You?,” June 3, 2022. An Invitation from the Presiding Clerk and Clerk of Sessions Committee, can be read HERE.
This is a special edition of the NEYM Newsletter detailing plans for the upcoming NEYM Sessions to be held in person, and via Zoom, at Castleton University in Vermont, August 6-11. Info and REGISTRATION
An Invitation from the Clerks
Children and Youth Attend Free!
For Families and Youth
For Young Adults
Home Group Facilitators Needed
Sessions Video Library
Photos Needed for Slideshow
Bookstores
Pay-as-Led: A spiritual approach to fees
Registration Opens Soon
Recurring virtual events
- Daily at 8 a.m., Beacon Hill Friends House: Meditation practice
- Weekdays at 10:30 a.m., Portland Friends Meeting: Waiting 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
Other events coming soon
- JHYM Retreat, in person, June 11-12, at Framingham Meeting
- June 14: FAHE Conference: “Quakers and Racial Justice”
- June 25–28: Quaker Spring
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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.
- Sandwich Quarter Meetings for Business
-July 23 at W. Falmouth Meeting
–October 22 at Westport Meeting)
- SQM Ministry & Counsel
-September 24 at Mattapoisett
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Closing:
There must be always remaining in every life,
some place for the singing of angels,
some place for that which in itself is breathlessly beautiful.
– Howard Thurman
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Thank you, Friends,
Kevin