sponsored by New England Yearly Meeting, Beacon Hill Friends House and Friends Peace Teams
UPDATE: The recording of The Quaker Indigenous Boarding Schools: Facing Our History and Ourselves, as well as guidance for its use, is now available at: https://bhfh.org/the-quaker-indigenous-boarding-schools-facing-our-history-and-ourselves.
Everence, partnering with New England Yearly Meeting, is offering a series of webinars designed to support you in your personal finance journey. Everence is a faith-based stewardship agency, grown from a Mennonite tradition, which supports New England Yearly Meeting and its members who are seeking to integrate their faith and values with their finances. Everence provides charitable, investment, insurance and banking services for both individuals and organizations. Webinar dates and topics include:
· Oct. 26: Understanding Medicare: Hear about how (and when) to sign up for Medicare; what it covers (and doesn’t cover); Parts A, B, C and D; and plans that supplement Medicare.
· Nov. 2: Estate Planning Basics: Learn how an estate plan can ensure that your wishes for family and financial assets will be carried out upon your death. Hear about the key elements of an estate plan, including wills and trusts, powers of attorney and life insurance. Discover key stewardship questions to be asking as you prepare your plan.
· Nov. 9: Basics of Investing: Learn the basic principles of investing, including hearing about the various types of investments, the power of compounding, managing risk and diversification. Along the way, consider the role your faith plays in making decisions about investing.
· Nov. 16: Maximize Your Generosity with a Donor Advised Fund: Explore how this flexible “charitable checking account” can help you streamline your charitable giving. Find out about the many types of assets than can be gifted and how a DAF can help you manage both the gifting process for tax purposes and the distribution component of when you want to support the organizations you care about.
Each event in this “Webinar Wednesday” series is offered at 2 and 8 p.m. For more information or to register, click on the title links. If you have questions, contact Everence Stewardship Consultant Lyle Miller at lyle.miller@everence.com.
[Updated] Falmouth Quarter will meet on October 15th from 10:00 – 1:30 at Durham Friends Meeting.
We invite you – all of you – to come to share about the abundance you have found in these hard times.
We are imagining our entire time together as a meeting for worship, with sharing, art, laughter, reading, cider, and business.
The schedule for our time together is:
10:00 – gather in worship – Singing, fellowship, perhaps some Juice and coffee and snacks and sharing
10:30 – Brief meeting for business to approve the budget, approve donations for the year, to confirm the dates we will be meeting and to consider what program we might like to bring to the Quarter in January.
During the business meeting, those who would rather make cider will be setting up and operating the cider press. The books that Durham meeting has been donating to pre-schools and early elementary classrooms will be out for reading.
11:00 – We will be making windsocks with an invitation to inscribe the wind socks with messages about where we have felt God moving in our meetings and in our lives. There will be times of open sharing of these messages. Each meeting is invited to think about what the meeting will share and inscribe upon their windsock. Cider making will continue, book reading will continue.
12:30 – Picnic lunch – bring something to share or bring your own.
1:30 – Wrap up; close worship. Please take your windsocks home to fly them from your porch, or from your meeting house so the wind can spread the messages to the world.
“We didn’t find what we were looking for, but look at what we found.” (Wendall Berry)
Update: In November and December, there will be an in-person option at the Durham Friends Meeting on the 1st Thursday of the month. Doors will open at 6:45p.m. For questions, contact Mey Hasbrook.
Fall Meeting for Healing schedule: 7PM on 1st & 3rd Thursdays (mostly)
The Portland Friends will hold its Meeting for Healing this Fall, on Zoom, on 1st and 3rd Thursdays at a slightly different time: 7:00 pm. (For September the Meeting for Healing will be on 2nd and 4th Thursdays.) You are welcome to join worship for part of the time or to worship with us without the Zoom connection. The Divine connects us all.
Fall Meeting for Healing schedule, Thursdays at 7PM
September 8 & 22
October 6 & 20
November 3 & 17
December 1 & 15
If you have any questions or need the Zoom link, please feel free to reach out to
Chris Davis: goblinshark@gmail.com or
Beth Bussiere-Nichols: beth.bussiere@gmail.com
Meeting for Worship for Healing is an old Quaker tradition. Our goal with this meeting is to focus on the physical and spiritual illnesses of the current world. It’s not intended to be the same as a full meeting for worship but instead is meant to be focused on communal prayer. We are often blessed with a time of deep silence. Messages may arise but should be de-centered from our ego.
An invitation to Worship in clamorous times. We are living through a time when we are inundated with words. We invite you during worship to sink deeply below the political messages, below the personal efforts to put things into words, down to the Silence, down to the Living Waters, down to the Source that connects us all.
All are welcome!
| How to join World Quaker Day worship with Friends around the world |
| Please find below the details of the host Quaker meetings and Friends churches from each Section welcoming visitors on World Quaker Day, including the links to join them. If you encounter any technical difficulties with your connection, please refer to Zoom support here. All times are given in the time zone of the host meeting/church location. To convert to your local time zone, please use the World Clock Meeting Planner. Africa Section Lang’ata Friends Church, Nairobi Yearly Meeting Programmed worship with pastoral leadership Sunday 2nd October at 3 pm East African Time Link will be posted on the World Quaker Day website soon Asia West Pacific Section Australia Yearly Meeting Unprogrammed worship followed by breakout room discussions Sunday 2nd October at 3 pm AEST Register here for Zoom link Europe and Middle East Section Disley Quaker Meeting, Britain Yearly Meeting Unprogrammed worship Sunday 2nd October at 10.30 am BST Zoom link | Meeting ID: 331 243 767 West Somerset Area Meeting, Britain Yearly Meeting Unprogrammed worship Sunday 2nd October at 10.30 am BST Zoom link | Meeting ID: 872 7266 8050 Beccles Quaker Meeting, Britain Yearly Meeting Unprogrammed worship Sunday 2nd October at 10.30 am BST Zoom link | Meeting ID: 838 8955 3770 Hastings Quaker Meeting, Britain Yearly Meeting Unprogrammed worship Sunday 2nd October at 10.30 am BST Zoom Meeting ID: 552-187-7961 | Passcode: 708168 Frandley Quaker Meeting, Britain Yearly Meeting Unprogrammed worship Sunday 2nd October at 10.30 am BST Zoom link | Meeting ID: 865 2798 0954 | Passcode: 608583 Hereford Local Meeting, Britain Yearly Meeting Unprogrammed worship Sunday 2nd October at 10.30 am BST Zoom link | Meeting ID: 838 2588 9153 | Passcode: 584482 South Belfast Meeting, Ireland Yearly Meeting Unprogrammed worship, followed by social time in breakout rooms afterwards. Young people especially welcome. Sunday 2nd October at 10.45 am BST Zoom link | Meeting ID: 461 319 5026 | Password: 143412 Landline dial in: 0330 088 5830 and enter 419667037# Finland Yearly Meeting Unprogrammed worship Sunday 2nd October at 1-2 pm EEST (Eastern European Summer Time) Zoom link | Meeting ID: 443 072 2720 | Passcode: Kveekar1 Friends House Moscow Meeting for Worship to pray for peace in Ukraine Sunday 2nd October at 5 – 6.30 pm BST / 7 – 8.30 pm Kyiv / Moscow The room will be open from 4.30 pm BST for Worship Sharing on the theme: Becoming the Quakers the World Needs.Zoom link | Meeting ID: 416 500 5614 | Passcode: 182805 Section of the Americas Iglesia Evangélica Amigos Central de Bolivia / Bolivia Central Friends Yearly MeetingWorship service with all the churches in the district 9.30 am-12.30 pm BOTActivities (including dance as a form of worship) with young people, adults and children from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm BOTTo join, please send a Facebook friend request to ‘Junta Trimestral Distrito La Paz’. The celebration will be broadcast live on their Facebook page. Three Rivers Meeting, New England Yearly Meeting, USA Semi-programmed worship Thursday 6 October at 9.30 am Eastern Daylight Time (USA) with time for fellowship after. Consecutive translation will be available in English and Spanish Zoom link | Meeting ID: 884 8212 5397 Winnipeg Monthly Meeting, Canada Yearly Meeting Unprogrammed worship Sunday 2nd October at 10.45 am CDT (Central Daylight Time) Zoom link Jamestown Friends Meeting, North Carolina Fellowship of Friends, USA Semi-programmed worship Sunday 2nd October at 11 am Eastern Daylight Time (USA), with Zoom available from 10.30am for fellowship Zoom link | Meeting ID: 899 9387 4643 Palm Beach Meeting, Southeastern Yearly Meeting, USA Unprogrammed worship Sunday 2nd October at 10.30 am Eastern Daylight Time (USA) In person: 823 No A St, Lake Worth, Florida, followed by potluck lunch. All welcome! Zoom link Lake Forest Friends Meeting, Illinois Yearly Meeting, USA 101 West Old Elm, Lake Forest, IL 60045 Unprogrammed worship Sunday 2nd October at 10.30 am, Central Time (USA) Zoom link | Meeting ID: 666 266 529 | Passcode: 936489 Fifteenth Street Monthly Meeting, New York Yearly Meeting, USA Unprogrammed, hybrid worship Sunday 2 October at 11 am Eastern Daylight Time (USA) Zoom link | Meeting ID: 215 310 4074 | Password: 15221 Portland Friends Meeting, Maine, USA Unprogrammed worship Sunday 2 October at 10.45 am Eastern Daylight Time (USA) Zoom link Charleston Friends Meeting (WV), Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association (SAYMA), USA Unprogrammed worship Sunday 2 October at 10 am Eastern Daylight Time (USA) Zoom link | Meeting ID: 851 6961 5099 | Passcode: 065719 Pendle Hill Unprogrammed worship Sunday 2 October at 08.30 am Eastern Daylight Time (USA) Zoom link | Meeting ID: 432 071 090 | Password: 081885 Please feel free to share this information with other Friends who may be interested in joining another Quaker group for worship on World Quaker Day. |
Helen Cornelia Clarkson (Pratt), at the age of 96, passed away peacefully in her beloved home on Flying Point overlooking Casco Bay on Saturday, July 16, 2022.
She was born on August 21, 1925 in Somerville, MA, the oldest child of Albert Pratt and Marion Cornelia Pratt (Dwelley). The family became part of the Durham Friends community in 1930 when they moved to Brunswick, ME, where Helen and her sister grew up on a farm on the Lunt Road.
On August 2, at noon, her family is having a celebration of her life at the Durham Friends Meeting. All are invited to attend in person or on zoom. There will be a reception after at the Muddy Rudder in Yarmouth. Please RSVP to her daughter (Joyce) if you plan to join the family at the reception
(joclarkson@icloud.com).
Helen had a full and wonderful life, spanning wondrous events in history, and to the very end of this chapter on Earth, was an avid reader, maintained an unforgettable sense of humor, and an unwavering love for her family and friends, past and present.
She requested that in lieu of flowers, a donation to Bates College for the Vernon A. and Hellen Pratt Clarkson (’46) Scholarship, mailed to Bates College, Office of College Advancement, 2 Andrews Road, Lewiston ME 04240.
The dates of our trip to Cuba to visit our sister meeting, Velasco, have had to be changed. The trip will now be in February 2023 and include visiting Cuba Yearly Meeting, which is from February 16 to 20.
There are three Friends from Portland planning to go. Two of our Durham Friends who hoped to travel no longer can, so we are looking for two or three more who want to. Let Nancy Marstaller know if so. Thanks!
Friends are invited to gather for an experimental hybrid worship this summer. Portland Friends Meeting convenes a recurring Meeting for Healing using Zoom on select Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The Durham Friends Meeting House will be open by 7:15 p.m. on July 21 and August 18, for synchronizing via the Owl system. For questions, contact Mey Hasbrook.
Meeting for Worship for Healing is an old Quaker tradition. Our goal with this meeting is to focus on the physical and spiritual illnesses of the current world. It’s not intended to be the same as a full meeting for worship but instead is meant to be focused on communal prayer. We are often blessed with a time of deep silence. ~from Portland Friends Meeting
Peace and Social Concerns Committee calls attention to this coming program at Pendle Hill:
To register, click here
Living on what was another peoples’ homeland through their coerced removal carries with it a generational responsibility to recognize and honor their history and their legitimate claim to places where we live. Recognizing that preparing a land acknowledgment is a first step towards creating right relationship with the land and its native peoples, we will review:
We undertake this review centering the ultimate goals of writing land acknowledgments, including relationship building, identifying and restoring erased history of local sites, and returning land to native peoples.
To enhance your experience of the webinars, consider consulting the following resources:
1961 – Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
1986 – Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. Some excerpts can be found here: africaspeaks.com/reasoning/index.php?topic=5770.0;wap2
2009 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The danger of a single story: youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg (19 minutes)
2012 - Tuck & Yang, “Decolonization is not a metaphor”: clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%20metaphor.pdf
2018 - Liz Nicholson, “Quakers are Colonizers”: quakervoluntaryservice.org/quakers-are-colonizers/
2019 Decolonizing Quakers – Seeking Right Relationship with Indigenous Peoples: decolonizingquakers.org
The resource list from Summer 2020: https://pendlehill.org/fall-conference-2020/working-towards-right-relationship-resources/
tom kunesh and twelve siblings were born to a Standing Rock lakota tribal member mom and a white lawyer dad, and grew up good-and-catholic in Minnesota on what had been dakota & anishinaabe contested land. He joined the Navy for adventure and the GI Bill, became a linguist, served in the Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean, and Spain, and studied religion. He works today at being a dad, protecting and educating about indigenous sites in Tennessee, attends Nashville Friends Meeting, and hangs out at the intersection of religion, decolonization, atheism, and quiet.
For more information, click here.
Falmouth Quarter will gather on July 16th (the third Saturday in July) at Ed and Dot Hinshaw’s Camp at Labrador Pond in Sumner! The summer gathering is a time for celebrating our community, and catching up on all that has been happening in our meetings and our lives this year. This will be an outdoors, in-person, no zoom party.
The camp has a beach, some kayaks, & space to play. Friends are invited to come from 10:00 – 4:00. We will gather for a whole community worship at 11:00 followed by a brown bag lunch. there are things to do for the Young Friends, and for families and children.
All are welcome! We would like a rough idea who will be there; please let us know if you plan to come. Or just come.
Rain date is Sunday, July 17.
There will be a Sing-Along Concert with Quaker folk singers Annie Patterson and Peter Blood on Saturday, July 9* from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at Growing to Give in Brunswick**.
Address: Growing to Give Farm, 30 Coxon Road, Brunswick, ME
It’s a fundraiser to help grow food for people in need. Advance tickets are required.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Individuals, 18 and below in age, are FREE.
Visit https://growingtogive.farm/ for details more information about the farm and to see the poster for this event. Hope to see you there! – Craig Freshley
*Rain date is July 10.
Yea- the school year is almost over and summer is upon us!!
Please come join Durham Friends in Georgetown at Betsy Muench’s ocean paradise! We are invited anytime on Saturday, June 18 AND Sunday June 19.
Saturday is a day for play.
On Sunday, Falmouth Quarter Friends have been invited to join us! We will hold a family friendly Meeting for worship on the beach at 10:30 and the rest of the day is at your pleasure!
Let me know your plans if you can, but come anyway and surprise us if you decide to come last minute!!(wendy.schlotterbeck@gmail.com)
Directions are at the end of this message- I will fasten a balloon by the driveway! Everyone is warmly invited. Betsy loves to share this beautiful place with us and it is a lovely gift. Wendy Schlotterbeck’s cell# is 513-9187. The house phone is # 371-2237
Note: Durham Monthly Meeting for Business this month will be June 26, not June 19.
What to bring?
1. Bathing suit, towel and sunscreen.
2. Change of clothes, jacket and bug spray.
3. Food- bring a picnic lunch, drinks and snacks- there is water at the house.
4. Mask- please bring a mask to wear if you use the bathroom inside Betsy’s house, and wear one outside if you wish.
5. Betsy has several kayaks, life jackets… to share but feel free to bring your own.
6. Friends! We welcome your friends.
7. As always, please come only if you are Covid symptom free to keep our community safe.
8. If it’s bad weather we will likely cancel- call Wendy if in doubt.
Directions to the Holt-Muench property at 710 Bay Point Road in Georgetown:
Take Rt. 127 south from where it crosses Rt. 1 in Woolwich (just across the river from Bath, Maine) and follow it 8.8 miles to Georgetown center. On the right, after you pass the Georgetown Pottery, post office, Country Store and firehouse, Bay Point Road will turn off just before you start down the hill. After about 3 miles Bay Point Road will cross a marsh and make a fairly sharp bend to the left, then start watching for a white feldspar driveway on the left. Our mail box may or may not be out on the right. After you turn in to the driveway a white sign on a tree to the left of the gate says Holt. Follow the driveway down to the end and park on the feldspar circle by the house. Total distance is about 12 miles from Rt. 1.
Proposed May 22, 2022
ENTRY and USE
Vaccinations are encouraged but not required.
If you feel even the slightest bit unwell, please stay home and join Meeting for Worship on zoom.
Masks should be worn at all times inside the meetinghouse, such as when giving the message, announcements, or speaking during worship or other inside events.
KN95, N95, or surgical masks are preferred. Well-fitting cloth masks are acceptable if 2 or 3 layers, especially with a filter insert or surgical mask added. Plastic shields, kerchiefs, gators, or buffs are not acceptable.
We have a supply of masks available at the entrances to the meetinghouse.
Please maintain 6-foot distancing with people not in your family group or “pod.” We do not have any attendance cap or reservation system.
INFORMATION SHARING
All are asked to sign in when attending meetings, adding your name, phone number and email address to a dated sheet. These will be placed outside each door to the worship room for worship. Clerks or convenors of other meetings will keep their own lists. If you come down with Covid within 3 days of attending a meeting at the meetinghouse, contact the meeting clerk, Bob Eaton, if it was after attending meeting for worship, or the clerk or convenor of any other meeting you attended.
Fellowship before and after meetings is encouraged. Masks must be kept on when inside. Feel free to unmask when outdoors. No food will be served indoors but may be served to eat outdoors.
Air purifiers are used in the worship room. Please use them for other meetings and events. You may temporarily move one from the worship room to another room that you are using for a smaller meeting.
Turn on overhead fans when using the worship room. When weather permits, open windows in any room that you are using, including the bathroom. Keep windows open for at least 20 minutes after use, if possible, to replace air flow, but please remember to close windows when you leave.
COMMITTEE AND OTHER MEETINGS
ZOOM meetings will continue to be available.
Meetings and events should be scheduled on the Durham Friends Meeting calendar. Committee clerks can schedule meetings; others need to contact our Trustees for scheduling events. At present the trustee to contact is Sarah Sprogell. There is a link to the calendar on the Durham Monthly Meeting of Friends website. Note if it is a Zoom meeting, in person, or hybrid.
These guidelines apply to all members and attenders, as well as families or any group seeking to hold memorial services or similar events.
Please limit your visit to as few rooms as possible.
Fellowship before and after meetings is encouraged. Masks must be kept on when inside. Feel free to unmask when outdoors. No food will be served indoors but may be served to eat outdoors.
Air purifiers are used in the worship room. Please use them for other meetings and events. You may temporarily move one from the worship room to another room that you are using for a smaller meeting.
Turn on overhead fans when using the worship room. When weather permits, open windows in any room that you are using, including the bathroom. Keep windows open for at least 20 minutes after use, if possible, to replace air flow, but please remember to close windows when you leave.
COMMITTEE AND OTHER MEETINGS
ZOOM meetings will continue to be available.
Meetings and events should be scheduled on the Durham Friends Meeting calendar. Committee clerks can schedule meetings; others need to contact our Trustees for scheduling events. At present the trustee to contact is Sarah Sprogell. There is a link to the calendar on the Durham Monthly Meeting of Friends website. Note if it is a Zoom meeting, in person, or hybrid.
These guidelines apply to all members and attenders, as well as families or any group seeking to hold memorial services or similar events.
Please limit your visit to as few rooms as possible.
Update, May 7, 2022:
Rebecca Leuchak, Mary Hopkins and Chris Jorgenson, who travelled to Cuba for the annual sessions of Cuba Yearly Meeting in February, will be speaking at Durham’s meeting for worship on Sunday, May 15. They will be available for a short time to answer questions at the rise of meeting.
These Friends will then go to Portland Friends Meeting for an informational and organizational meeting starting at 1:00 to start planning the fall trip to Velasco, Cuba. Rebecca, Mary, and Chris will answer questions; then we will organize folks to work on various aspects for the trip including funding, logistics, coordination with Puente and CYM, clearness for travelers, communication, spiritual support, and any other needs. The meeting will be in-person only and may last about 2 hours.
Interested in visiting Friends in Cuba? Or supporting those who go?
We’re so excited that Durham and Portland Meetings will be sending a delegation to Cuba in early November. If you are interested in going or helping those who go, or just want to find out more, please contact Nancy Marstaller by March 31.
The Portland/Durham/Velasco Sister Meetings committee will organize an informational session in April, to talk about details, and hope to have one of the recent travelers to Cuba join us. I hope to hear from many of you by March 31. Thanks!
Nancy Marstaller
Durham Friends and Portland Friends will enjoy an intergenerational, outdoor gathering on Saturday, May 7, from 9:30 to 2:00 at the Durham Friends Meetinghouse. Bring your own lunch!
The Durham Friends Meeting Peace and Social Concerns Committee encourages participation:
Rally for Sipayik Water and LD 906
The rally starts at 10, but you can attend the preparatory session with Wabanaki leaders and Wabanaki Alliance staff starting at 8:00 a.m. in the back room of the Cross Building Cafeteria (in the basement), and plan to stay after the rally to lobby your legislators:
The public water supply delivered to the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Sipayik contains high levels of carcinogens and is brown at certain times of year. Over the years, the state and a neighboring town have impeded tribal attempts to access water located on tribally-owned lands to bring clean water to a new elementary school and the larger community. LD 906 would remove those barriers, provide financial assistance to the local water district, and help the Passamaquoddy Tribe access clean drinking water at Sipayik.
Please join Passamaquoddy Tribal leaders and citizens, the Wabanaki Alliance and supporters next Monday, April 11 at 10 AM outside the State House in Augusta for a Rally and March for Clean Drinking Water for the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Sipayik!
WHERE: Park at the State Office Building Parking Garage for free. Walk across the street to the outdoor area between the Burton M. Cross Office Building and the State House.
WHEN: Monday, April 11 from 10 AM – 12 PM.
WHO: All are encouraged to attend! Masks are no longer required in the State House, but we ask that all Lobby Day participants please still wear a mask when indoors and make the best decision for your health and those around you when outside.
WHAT: A rally and march to show widespread support for clean drinking water for the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Sipayik. Please consider staying after the rally to lobby your State Senator and State Representative! We’ll give you the instructions and materials you need.
Please click here for homemade sign guidance and remember to register here if you plan to attend.
Trustees are planning an outdoor work day.
When: Saturday April 23, 10-12 and 12-2. Come for the morning or afternoon; bring a picnic lunch.
What: Cleaning up the outdoor area around the meethinghouse.
Tasks will include: raking, cleaning up sticks and branches, cleaning up behind the horse shed, bucking up fallen trees as needed, washing outside windows.
Please bring a rake, clippers and/or hand saw, tarps for moving leaves. Also gloves. Dan will bring a small chain saw.
Peace & Social Concerns invites you to a
Worship Sharing on the Peace Testimony
April 2 at 4:00 p.m. EDT, via ZOOM (prior registration required).
Friends are invited to join to share their thoughts and discernment about the Peace Testimony of Friends and how the events in Ukraine have affected them.
Hosted by Quaker House, in Fayetteville, N.C. (near Fort Bragg).
Please note: an RSVP is required to receive Zoom connection details.
Quaker House is hosting a second Worship Sharing session on Saturday, April 2 at 4:00pm EDT. Friends are invited to join to share their thoughts and discernment about the Peace Testimony of Friends and how the events in Ukraine have affected them. The Worship Sharing will be unprogrammed and we will wait for messages to rise from the silence. As a time of
worship, we will not record the session.
If you wish to participate, send an email to wayne.finegar@quakerhouse.org or call 910-323-3912 and the connection information will be sent to you. This will allow us to have a sense of how many will be joining in worship. After the time of worship, we will discuss next steps in this discernment. Some options already suggested include:
A Parenting for Peace event sponsored by Friends School of Portland:
Dax-Devlon Ross, an alum of Sidwell Friends, will be addressing how we sustain our racial justice work and deepen our efforts to create long-term, meaningful change within our community and society at large.
This event is free and open to all who would like to attend.
Friends can use this link to register.
UPDATE May 22, 2023: Masks are no longer required in the Meetinghouse. For the safety of those choosing to continue wearing a mask, there will be a section of the Meeting room where we ask that no one without a mask should sit.
Accepted March 20, 2022; to be reviewed regularly.
ENTRY and USE
We require that only fully vaccinated people enter the meetinghouse.
If you are not vaccinated, please join Meeting for Worship by Zoom.
If you feel even the slightest bit unwell, please stay home and join us on zoom.
Masks must be worn at all times when giving the message, announcements, or speaking at any type of meeting or event inside the meetinghouse. We will have a microphone and speaker available in the worship room.
KN95 or N95 masks are preferred. Well-fitting cloth masks are acceptable if 2 or 3 layers, especially with a filter insert or surgical mask added. Plastic shields, kerchiefs, gators, or buffs are not acceptable.
We have a supply of masks available at the entrances to the meetinghouse.
Please maintain 6-foot distancing with people not in your family group or “pod.” We do not have any attendance cap or reservation system.
INFORMATION SHARING
All are asked to sign in when attending meetings, adding your name, phone number and email address to a dated sheet. These will be placed outside each door to the worship room for worship. Clerks or convenors of other meetings will keep their own lists. If you come down with Covid within 3 days of attending a meeting at the meetinghouse, contact the meeting clerk, Bob Eaton, if it was after attending meeting for worship, or the clerk or convenor of any other meeting you attended.
Fellowship before and after meetings is encouraged. Masks must be kept on when inside. Feel free to unmask when outdoors. No food will be served indoors. When weather allows, snack may be served for eating outdoors.
Air purifiers will be used in the worship room. Please use them for other meetings and events. You may temporarily move one from the worship room to another room that you are using for a smaller meeting.
Turn on overhead fans when using the worship room. As weather permits, open windows in any room that you are using, including the bathroom. Keep windows open for at least 20 minutes after use, if possible, to replace air flow, but please remember to close windows when you leave.
COMMITTEE AND OTHER MEETINGS
ZOOM meetings are available at present and will be in the future as an adjunct when the meetinghouse is open.
Meetings and events should be scheduled on the Durham Friends Meeting calendar. Committee clerks can schedule meetings; others need to contact our Trustees for scheduling events. At present the trustee to contact is Sarah Sprogell. There is a link to the calendar on the Durham Monthly Meeting of Friends website. Note if it is a Zoom meeting, in person, or hybrid.
Please meet outside or on ZOOM if your group is not fully vaccinated.
These guidelines apply to all members and attenders, as well as families or any group seeking to hold memorial services or similar events.
Please limit your visit to as few rooms as possible.
Youth ministers Maggie Fiori and Gretchen Baker-Smith invite Friends of all ages from across the Yearly Meeting to gather with their local meetings – in person or virtually – to bake, laugh, and consider what yeast and bread have to tell us about Spirit and community. You can read more about it here.
Saturday, March 5: Durham Bread Day- please come via zoom or in person!!
Two options:
ZOOM Plan for Gretchen’s Kitchen
March 5, 2022, 10AM-2PM
Meeting ID: 964 3395 6342
Passcode: 326033
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| Time | Segment | What |
| 10:00 | Welcome, explain the day. Hello’s to each other! | |
| 10:10 | Introduction Message & Meditation from Gretchen | |
| 10:20 | Start Bread – all are welcome to make any kind! | |
| 11:00 | Dough will Rise | From here on out, we will bob and weave with what we do… I expect people to come and go, come late, etc. We will likely read some picture books and possibly people will have stories.. We may also have breakout room optional conversations or Whiteboard Drawing collaborations. Perhaps we’ll sing with different people leading.We will encourage everyone to send photos or thoughts or short videos to share. |
| 2:00 | Done, celebrate goodbye! | |
| After this time, I’m available by text! But I will be helping my Meeting with their bread day so will be off this zoom. GBS #508-287-6441 |
The 2022 FWCC (Friends World Committee for Consultation) Section of the Americas Meeting is coming online March 12th; registration is open now. The theme is: “Hope and Resilience: Drawing strength from our Quaker faith.”
The bilingual gathering is a great opportunity to witness the true diversity of Quakers in the Americas.
Learn more at: https://fwccamericas.org/_wp/event/2022-section-meeting/
Friends Committee on National Legislation wants to hear from the members and attenders of Friends Meetings all around the country as they set their priorities for the coming year. They are asking what we believe should be emphasized in their work this year. Our answer to that question will then be combined with the views expressed by the members of other meetings.
What do you believe should be given priority by FCNL this year? Peace and Social Concerns Committee will gather the views of our membership and will transmit them to FCNL in Washington. The Committee has called a special meeting for this purpose, to take place online on Wednesday, February 23, starting at 7:00 p.m.
Please join us as we discuss these matters. If you are unable to participate then but wish your views to be considered, please share them with Cush Anthony or another member of that Committee.
FCNL’s areas of activity normally include such things as:
If you plan participate by coming to the meeting on February 23, or if you are unable to come but desire to have your ideas considered at that meeting, please contact Cush at cush@maine.rr.com and he will send you the details.
On February 13, the Durham, Portland, Velasco sister meeting committee is hosting an experimental, bilingual, inter-generational zoom worship!
The zoom link will be https://zoom.us/j/94840029377 (no password)
This will be the Sunday worship for both Durham and Portland, with families from the whole quarter invited. Click Here for Additional Materials for the Joint Worship.
We will gather at 10:45 for a worship centering on an original faith and play story in English and Spanish. There will be songs, creativity, and open worship – trying new ways of being together on zoom. (Beyond the break-out room). The group planning this worship is getting excited. We hope that families will forget their zoom fatigue and winter doldrums and join us in creating a worship experience to share with our Cuban Friends.
This worship is for us, and it is a gift to the Velasco meeting in Cuba. A recording of the service will be carried to Cuba by a delegation from New England to the Cuba Yearly Meeting in February.
Please save the date, plan to come and expect more information in the next week or two.
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Portland Friends Meeting is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting Sunday, Feb 13 at 10:45am
Topic: Meeting for Worship at Portland Friends
Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet anytime
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Falmouth Quarter will meet, via zoom, at 9:30 on January 15, 2022.
We know that God promises us that we experience an abundance of blessings and gifts AND we know that this knowledge of the generosity of the spirit can be challenged when we consider our funds, our budgets, our assets and our money.
Falmouth Quarter invites you to come and discover the gift economy. We will share stories of engaging with money as a gift, confident that there is enough for all; stories from our experience, from folklore, from children’s books and from scripture.
We invite you to this opportunity to begin to explore our spiritual relationship to our material assets.
PLEASE, come to Falmouth Quarter via zoom on the morning of January 15. All are welcome and all have wisdom. The Zoom link is below
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February 5, 2022 – February 26, 2022, Saturday afternoons, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
New England Yearly Meeting’s Israel-Palestine Working Group (under the care of the Permanent Board) invites you to join a group discussion of The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151740.The_Lemon_Tree).
Everyone in the Yearly Meeting and beyond is invited to attend one or more sessions, every Saturday afternoon in February.
The discussion will be facilitated by Mimi (Amelia) Marstaller, a member of Durham (ME) Friends Meeting and high-school English teacher. Mimi spent two years teaching at Ramallah Friends School and worked last summer at Friends Camp. More about Mimi here.
Young Friends are especially welcome.
For more details or to register, please contact us at israel-palestine@neym.org
Durham Meeting’s Peace and Social Concerns Committee is collecting and assembling household cleaning kits for refugee families from Afghanistan that are being resettled in Lewiston Auburn. A list of items being collected is below, and then follows a link to a spreadsheet on which Meeting folk can record their intention to provide the items
Please provide 10 of each item so we can make 10 complete kits. Drop items off at Durham Meetinghouse by Sunday Jan 23. Cindy Wood has offered to find and purchase needed items for the kits. If you would rather donate money for this purpose, please make checks out and send them to Cindy Wood. Thank you!
Questions? Contact Wendy at wendy.schlotterbeck@gmail.com
KITCHEN/LAUNDRY: Trash can, Trash bags, Dish soap, Sponge/dish cloth, Kitchen towel, Laundry detergent
CLEANING: Toilet brush, White vinegar/all purpose cleaner, Cleanser/baking soda, Broom, Mop, Bucket
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-ZO7YYpgDtWIL5zYL7URG4G3QgOujslaI-3DKyYd1xw/edit
Last week the Trustees, Finance Committee and Clerk of Meeting met and decided to have a called Meeting for Business to receive a proposal by the Trustees to replace the current heating system in the large Meeting Room.
The meeting will begin at 12 noon after Sunday worship on 9 January. == From Bob Eaton, Clerk.
Any advance materials will be posted here when available.
