Westport Meeting News:
HELP Needed: Kevin is needing two able Friends to put our large “Book Fair” sign up at the front of Meeting property. Please contact Kevin at 508-742-8709, if you can help. Thanks!
State of Society: Westport Friends Meeting State of Society was approved with minor edits by monthly meeting for business on April 21, 2024. Friends may read the document HERE.
Property Committee is pleased to report that the meetinghouse chimney and flashing was repaired on April 16. Not cheap, but a job well done and badly needed.
The editor is waiting for news. Any news…related to our Meeting. Don’t be shy! 🙂
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)
- Seekers Group, Monday, June 10, at 7 PM
- NEYM Meeting Leaders Call, Tues, June 11, 7pm via Zoom. Details
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, June 12, 3:30-4pm via Zoom
- NEYM/JYM Retreat at Westport, June 14-16
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, June 19, 3:30-4pm. via Zoom
- Peace & Social Justice Committee, June 23 at 8:30 AM, HYBRID
- Ministry and Counsel Committee, June 24, at 7:00 PM via Zoom
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, June 26, 3:30-4pm
- Monthly Meeting for Business, Sunday, June 30, at 8am via Zoom
- ANNUAL BOOK FAIR: Sat, July 13 – Sunday, July 21!
SAVE THE DATE:
- NEYM Annual Sessions, Aug 2-7, 2024, at Castleton U., Vermont
- Sandwich Quarterly Meeting at Westport, Sat, Oct 26, 2024
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 June 2024 Newsletter may be read HERE.
Learning Love
Gathering for Friends with a concern for Gospel ministry
Quaker Spring is coming!
Right Relationship and restorative action
Join the August FWCC World Plenary online
Other events coming soon
Sessions needs you!
Legacy Gift grants awards
An invitation to prayer
New book release
Conversations about aging
For K-through-8th-grade youth
Our hopes for this newsletter
Quakers in the news
A last word
- Every Tuesday, online: FWCC Prayer for Peace
- Every Thursday, online: Meeting for Worship with Attention to Peace in Palestine and Israel
- June 8, Durham, ME: Gathering for Friends with a Concern for Gospel Ministry
- June 11, online: Monthly Check-in for Meeting Leadership
- June 13, online: End of Life Drop-in Reflection Group
- June 14, Westport, MA: JYM Retreat
- June 14–18, Deerfield, MA: Quaker Spring 2024 Summer Gathering
- June 22, Hartford, CT: Yielding to the Power of the Living Seed extended worship
- June 23, online: Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change workshop
June 11
July 9
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Sandwich Quarterly Meeting
Meeting for business:
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
SQM Ministry & Counsel
September 28 at Mattapoisett
Meetings start at 10:00 am.
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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:
True quiet means keeping still when the time has come to keep still,
and going forward when the time has come to go forward.
In this way rest and movement are in agreement with the demands of the time,
and thus there is light in life.
– The I Ching
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Thank you, Friends,
Kevin