Westport Meeting News:
“Harvest Table”
(Taken at Woolman Hill, 1999)
Reminder: Monthly Meeting for Business will be held next Sunday, October 17, at 8 AM via Zoom.
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 10 AM (hybrid)
- Seekers Group, Monday, Oct 11, at 7 PM, on site in Potter House and via Zoom (Gretchen sends link. Hybrid)
- NEYM Meeting Leaders Call, Tuesday, Oct 12 at 7 PM. (ask Kevin for link, if needed. Zoom only)
- Midweek worship, Wed, Oct 13, 3:30-4 PM. (link sent day of) (Zoom only)
- Monthly Meeting for Business, Sunday, Oct 17, at 8 AM (Zoom only)
- Peace and Social Justice Committee, Mon, Oct 18, at 7:30 PM (hybrid)
- Welcoming into membership celebration for John Wojtowics, following worship, Sunday, Oct 31 at 11:30 AM. (In person!)
- Ministry and Counsel Committee, Nov 1, 7 PM, via Zoom
- SAVE THE DATE: Second Gathering on Spiritual Life and Ministry for Friends in New England, Nov 13, 2021. (info below. Zoom only)
MIDWEEK WORSHIP, via Zoom, WEDNESDAYS, 3:30-4:00 PM!
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Yearly Meeting/Wider Quaker News:
New England Yearly Meeting Newsletter, “How Then Are We Called?” Oct, 2021 may be read HERE:
Introduction by Holly Baldwin
Save the date: next gathering on Ministry and Spiritual Life
Midweek Meditations fall series
Support for addressing racial justice among Quakers
Clerking workshop: October 23rd
Young Friends leadership & welcoming workshop series
Lectio divina: a friendly exploration of Quaker writings
International prayer gathering
For Friends ages 35 to 59-ish
2021 Weed Memorial Lecturer: Sarah Gant
News from Annual Sessions
Word from Cuba
Yearly Meeting calls to end the Cuba embargo
Book launch: These Walls Between Us
The stirrings of transformation: a letter
Obadiah Brown trustees announce Special Focus Grants
World Quaker Day
Quakers in the news
Gretchen’s JYM-JHYM latest newsletter, issue of Oct 6, 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.
Recurring virtual Quaker events:
- Daily at 8 a.m., Beacon Hill Friends House: Meditation practice
- Sunday–Thursday at 9:30 p.m. Calming Pajama Party
- 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
Events coming soon:
- Oct 12: Check-in for Local Meeting Leadership
- Oct 6, 13, 27: Discussion: A Better Future for Israelis & Palestinians
- Oct 17: Weed Memorial Lecture with Sarah Gant
- Oct 22–24: Junior High YM Retreat
- Oct 23: Best Practices for Quaker Meeting Clerks
- Oct 23: Young Friends Fall Day Retreat
- Nov 1: Hope and Witness in Dangerous Times
- Nov 5–7: Junior YM Retreat
- Nov 6: Permanent Board
- Nov 9: Check-in for Local Meeting Leadership
- Nov 10: Board of Managers
- Nov 13: Spiritual Life and Ministry Gathering
- Nov 19–21: Connecting Locally: A Hybrid Retreat for Teens
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:
To watch the spirit of children,
to nurture them in Gospel Love,
and labour to help them against
that which would mar the beauty
of their minds,
is a debt we owe them.
– John Woolman, 1758
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Thank you, Friends,
Kevin Lee