Westport Quakers

Westport Meeting News:

Reminder: Nov 6: Daylight Saving Time Ends at midnight! Turn clocks back at bedtime!

Afghan Refugee Information: Deana Kinsky, of Sandwich Quarterly Meeting, provided meetings of our Quarter with recent information about helping Afghan refugees resettle in our area. For ease of reading, the info is on its own page on our site HERE.  

NEYM Letter of Apology to Native Americans: Meetings within NEYM are being asked to read the Letter of Apology to Native Americans and discuss it within our local meeting communities. We are specifically asked not to publish or distrubute the letter on any non-Quaker public forum, as distribution and publishing will shepherded by the Right Relationship Group of NEYM. Friends may read the document HERE. 

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)

• Nov 6: Daylight Saving Time Ends at midnight! Turn clocks back at bedtime!
• Worship each Sunday in meetinghouse and via Zoom at 10  AM (hybrid)
• Seekers Group, Monday, Nov 8, at 7 PM. Hybrid. (Gretchen sends link)
• NEYM Meeting Leaders Call, Tuesday, Nov 9 at 7 PM. (ask Kevin for link, if needed. Zoom only)
• Midweek worship, Wed, Nov 10, 3:30-4 PM. (link sent day of) (Zoom only)
• Second Gathering on Spiritual Life and Ministry for Friends in New England, Nov 13, 2021. (info below. Zoom only)
• Peace and Social Justice Committee, Mon, Oct 18, at 7:30 PM (hybrid)
• Monthly Meeting for Business, Sunday, Nov 21, at 8 AM (Zoom only)
• THANKSGIVING, Nov 25.

MIDWEEK WORSHIP, via Zoom, WEDNESDAYS, 3:30-4:00 PM!

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Yearly Meeting/Wider Quaker News:

NEYM Faith and Practice Revision Committee: Draft chapter for review and discussion on Ministry and Counsel committees at the monthly meeting level; [Our Meeting’s M&C committee will be reviewing this document, but all Friends are encouraged to review this draft copy as well. Click HERE for the link.

New England Yearly Meeting Newsletter, “It is blessed to Receive, too” Oct, 2021 may be read HERE:

Introduction
Ministry & Spiritual Life Gathering
Workshop for Treasurers & Financial Stewards
Exploring the Quaker Way
Support for Addressing Racial Justice
Exploring Prayer and Meditation at Woolman Hill
We’re Hiring!
Right Relationship Updates
Reparations as Testimony for Portland Friends
Marian Baker Reports from East Africa
Faith & Practice “Passage of the Month”
Noticing Patterns
Weed Lecture Video
Find Recordings of Yearly Meeting Events
Keep in Touch!
A Last Word

Quakers in the news

Gretchen’s JYM-JHYM latest newsletter, issue of Nov 5, 2021, contains reflections, programming and retreat info for young people, parents and Friends. Read her newsletter HERE.

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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.

Connect, Learn, Explore, and Be in Service among Friends Regionally and Globally.

Check out an array of Quaker schools, camps, retreat centers, other yearly meetings and Quaker organizations listed on NEYM’s website.

Closing:

Lord, take my lips and speak through them,
take my mind and think through it,
take my heart, and set it on fire.

– W. H. Atkin

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Thank you, Friends,

Kevin Lee