Westport Meeting News:
Remember to turn your clocks back one hour before going to bed on Saturday night, Nov 5!
NOTICE: Please be advised that the Community House Hall will be closed for annual floor maintenance Dec 26-31. Friends will still have access to the Potter House and kitchen via rear doors, but not the front door that week. This is necessary to allow time for the floor refinishing to dry thoroughly.
Approved previous minutes of Monthly Meeting for Business may be read HERE.
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)
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Nov 2, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- Property Committee, Wed, Nov 2, at 7pm. Zoom only.
- Monthly Meeting for Business, Nov 20, at 8am. Zoom only
- Ministry and Counsel Committee,Monday, Nov 21, at 7pm via Zoom (only)
- Seekers Group, Nov 28 at 7pm. (Hybrid) Potter House and Zoom
- Peace and Social Justice Committee, 7pm, Dec 5 via Zoom
- NEYM monthly check-in for Friends serving their local meetings, Dec 13, 7pm (See below)
- NOTICE: Community House Hall closed Dec 26-31 for floor maintenance
MIDWEEK WORSHIP, via Zoom, WEDNESDAYS, 3:30-4:00pm. (Kevin sends link day of)
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Yearly Meeting/Wider Quaker News:
NEYM October 2022 Newsletter, “What Is My Work To Do?” by Alison Livie, may be read HERE.
- Committee Clerking Workshop
An Update on Palestine
2022 Weed Lecture
Support for Quaker Parents
The Life Cycle of a Meeting
Embracing Spiritual Gifts
Facing Our History
Faithfulness Groups Workshop
Faith & Practice Revision
New Book on Eldering
Friends Camp Video
Stewardship Resources
Got Photos?
A Last Word
Recurring virtual events
- 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
Other events coming soon
- November 6: Drop-in Support for Addressing Racial Justice Among Quakers
- November 7: The Life Cycle of Meetings
- November 7: First Monday Lecture: Adria Gulizia
- November 7: Having Conversations Across Differences
- November 8: Worship with Friends on Election Day
- November 9: Board of Managers Meeting
- November 15: Quaker Indigenous Boarding Schools Workshop
- November 16–20: FCNL Annual Meeting & Quaker Public Policy Institute
- November 20: Drop-in Support for Addressing Racial Justice Among Quakers
- December 2–4: Junior High YM Retreat
Monthly Check-In for Friends Serving Their Local Meetings
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Sandwich Quarterly Meeting News:
- Sat, Jan 28, 2023, SQM Business,- hosted by Martha’s Vineyard Friends. Zoom only.
- Sat, March 25, SQM Ministry and Counsel, at E. Sandwich Meeting.
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Quaker Programs, Study, Retreats, and Spiritual Nurture:
The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope (Quaker Weekly podcast by Pendle Hill)
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