By Clarabel Marstaller
The Adult Sunday School class has just finished its consideration of a Pendle Hill pamphlet by Bill Taber on “Four Doors to Worship.”
On Sunday, June 26, we will begin a study of an article from each of three issues of “Quaker Life,” on Friends Peace Testimony, Friends Testimony on Integrity, and Friends and Authority.
The Adult Sunday School class meets from 9:30 to 10:20 on Sunday mornings, in the Christian Education room. Join us!
Please change your meeting contact list to reflect these changes:
Daphne Clement asks that she be contacted using the phone number: 207.353.6354.
Charlotte Anne Curtis asks that she be contacted using the phone number: 207.319.7326.
Jo-an Jacobus’ email address has changed to mjo.anjacobus@gmail.com
Wayne Hollingworth is now receiving email at wayne.hollingworth@maine.edu
By Clarabel Marstaller for the Christian Education Committee
Sunday, June 12, is Children’s Day with meeting for worship and special events to show appreciation for our children. A second offering will be taken during meeting for worship which will go to the Youth and Children’s Project of the United Society of Friends Women International. That project supports three ministries helping young people:
1. Children and Youth programs at three Friends Indian Centers–MOWA Choctaw in Alabama, Kickapoo in Oklahoma, and Mesquakie in Iowa.
2. Eli and Sibyl Jones scholarships for the Friends Schools in Ramallah.
3. Support for girls’ education in Turkana, Kenya.
Please help us make these programs come alive in all three areas. Thank you!
By Jo-an Jacobus
Durham Monthly Meeting of Friends (DMM) has received two donations of computers. Thank you to both donors.
Kitsie Hildebrandt as Treasurer will use the first computer donated by John Curtis A laptop it can be used at Kitsie’s home to prepare reports and also brought to Monthly Meeting so she is able to answer questions about the meeting’s finances.
The second donated computer came from Sarah Sprogell. Bobbie Jordan bought it not long before she passed away. Sarah felt the meeting would be a good home for this computer. It is also a laptop which allows Jo-an Jacobus to do the newsletter and website work on a computer dedicated to DMM of Friends.
By Angie Reed
Tess Marstaller is currently serving in Tombel, Cameroon as a Peace Corp Volunteer. She has asked the Woman’s Society and Durham Meeting of Friends to put together a care package for the children she works with. Woman’s Society will collect items from now until Father’s Day in the box next to the piano in the Gathering Space at Meeting. The box will be small so keep that in mind when planning donations.
Items Requested:
Jump ropes (large ones held by 2 people are best), a tie-dye kit (colors, no shirts), shiny prize items to be used in a summer camp setting and as educational prizes, such as stickers or pens. Also books of stories, games, theater sequences (especially of a Christian nature), other camp type games, and fixin’s for s’mores. Items with a Christian theme are especially well received. For more information, check out Tess’s Blog at tessincameroon.blogspot.com Thank you.
By Jo-an Jacobus
Durham Monthly Meeting has had local landline phone service installed in the meetinghouse. Because of the difficulty with cell phone reception on the property, the number of evening events and to deal with possible medical emergencies, the meeting decided it needs to have local phone service in the building.
The phone number is 207.725.0411.
Currently, there is a phone on loan to the meeting. However we need a permanent replacement. A corded phone would be best in case the power goes out. If you have a corded phone, not wireless, that you would like to donate to the meeting, please contact Jo-an Jacobus at 666.3213 or jacobusj@gwi.net .
Having phone service means we will now be listed in both the white and yellow pages of the Brunswick phone book. The listing will read Durham Meeting of Friends.
By Angie Reed
The Annual Woman’s Society Yard Sale will be Saturday, May 28, 8-1. This is Memorial Day weekend, and please plan to share some time with us that weekend. Remember, please save your “yard sale” items to donate. They can be dropped off at the meetinghouse no earlier than Sunday, May15. Plants can be dropped off up to the morning of the sale. Plant pots are available in the vestry and horse shed. Unsold donated items larger than a small microwave are the responsibility of the donor and must be removed if unsold. Volunteer sign-up sheets are up. Sorting and pricing will take place during the week before (see sign up sheet for times). Sign up now for your favorite volunteer spots.
By Jo-an Jacobus
This is a reminder that the worship room is now open for waiting worship beginning at 9:30. The meeting requests that those arriving at their usual time for the hymn sing or for worship at the regular hour enter the worship room in prayerful silence as they join the ongoing worship.
Sunday School classes for ages 3-13,
During Meeting for Worship
May 1 Jesus and the 12
May 15 Paul’s Discovery
June 5 Plan for Children’s Day
June 12 Children’s Day – an All Meeting picnic at the Meetinghouse following worship, everyone is invited.
Passages for teens in high school,
Second and fourth Sundays, 10:15am
May 8 CO Movie and discussion
May 22 Special Guest and last Passages Meeting until September
May 2011 THROUGH July 2011
1 Sue Wood, Dorothy Curtis
8 Nancy Marstaller, Clarabel Marstaller
15 Betsy Stivers & family
22 David & Kathy Brown
29 Sarah Sprogell, Leslie Manning
June
4 Linda Muller & Jim McCarthy
12 Bee Douglas, Nancy Marstaller, Jo-an Jacobus
19 Helen Clarkson, Julie Krejsa
26 Margaret Wentworth,
Phyllis Wetherell
July
3 Kitsie Hildebrandt, Clarabel Marstaller
10 Glenice Hutchins & Al Anderson
17 Brenda Masse, Wayne llingworth
24 Dotty DeLoach, Don Goodrich
31 Sukie Rice, Susan Wood
Pastor would like to borrow a garden cart or wheelbarrow for a few weeks for parsonage yard spring-cleaning.
Please call Daphne Clement at 353-6354.
Beginning May 1st – 9:30AM
During the month of May we will read Bill Tabor’s Pendle Hill Pamphlet Four Doors for Worship at Sunday School, please join us.
Synopsis This essay describes four doors as thresholds into the heart of worship.
About the Author William Taber (1927-2005) grew up in Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative). He taught at Olney Friends School for twenty years, and at the Pennington Boys and Moses Brown Schools. He later taught Quaker history, practice and spirituality at Pendle Hill. Ohio Yearly Meeting recognized Bill Taber’s gifts in the ministry in 1966. These gifts centered on his ability to translate spiritual experience into everyday
On Sunday, May 22 all are invited to join in a potluck shortly after the rise of meeting. Following the meal there will be a discussion including all Durham Friends Meeting members and attenders of all ages. Please join us for this unique event.
May 20: 7 – 9PM
Young Friends at the Meetinghouse
Special Notice – Young Friends who would like can join us for a Sleep Over at the Meetinghouse following our meeting on May 20 Bring sleeping bag, pillow and toothbrush for this experience!!
Parents may pick up their youth at 11AM
Tess Marstaller is in Cameroon, Africa, in the Peace Corps. She has a fascinating blog. I recommend it for its pictures and descriptions of life there. www.tessincameroon.blogspot.com
Recommended by her proud grandmother!
By Jo-an Jacobus
A few newsletter readers have swapped their delivery method from paper to email. Thank you for your willingness to make the changeover. We are hoping that even more people will want change in the near future. Would you switch today? You could have a part in shrinking the deficit in Durham Friends Meeting’s budget for this year. If you decide you’d like to help the meeting in this way, please drop us a note at the return address on the newsletter, call 207.666.3213 or email jacobusj@gwi.net to let us know you’d like to switch. The meeting would appreciate your help.
On Saturday, May 21st Lisbon Area Christian Outreach (LACO) is holding a fund raising dinner at Holy Trinity Parish, 67 Frost Hill Avenue, Lisbon Falls. From 5 – 7 they will be serving an “All You Can Eat” spaghetti and lasagna dinner. The price of admission for one is $5.00 for those age 12 and up, $2.50 for children and children under 6 years of age eat for free. The proceeds will support LACO’s Food Bank and Clothing Pantry. Hope to see you there.
By Angie Reed
Orders are currently being taken for pies of all types to be distributed Easter Sunday morning. Pies will be sold for a suggested donation of $15.00. To order please contact Theresa Oleksiw at either 449-0700, or 865-6495. Types of pies available for order include Pecan, Apple-berry, Chocolate Cream, Banana Cream, or Blueberry. Other types of pie may be available upon request. This is a Woman’s Society fundraiser, and a portion of these funds will be earmarked for the Adopt-a-Nurse program.
Margaret Wentworth
Work has begun to sort and organize the documents that have been stored at the meetinghouse. Those of historical value for research will be deposited in the Maine Historical Society in Portland. Some records need to be kept as part of the records of the meeting. The library of the meeting will be storing the documents that have current historical value to the meeting.
By Angie Reed
Woman’s Society is coordinating efforts with Ann Ruthsdottir to send one or more packages of toiletry items to Japan. We will be collecting toiletries such as combs, tooth- and hairbrushes, toothpaste, soaps, shampoos, hand sanitizers, razors, and other basic items for men, women, and children. Please look for the labeled box at the meetinghouse. Items will be collected until Easter (April 24).
for all his work on the Durham Friends website! It is a work in progress but it’s really coming along. See what he’s been doing at https://www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org Thanks, Markus!
April 2011 THROUGH July 2011
April
3 Glenice Hutchins & Al Anderson
10 Macy Whitehead, Sukie Rice
17 (Palm Sunday) Patty Carton & John Newlin
24 (Easter) Jeannie Baker Stinson & family, Theresa Oleksiw & Abby Fortune
May
1 Sue Wood, Dorothy Curtis
8 Nancy Marstaller, Clarabel Marstaller
15 Betsy Stivers & family
22 David & Kathy Brown
29 Sarah Sprogell, Leslie Manning
June
4 Linda Muller & Jim McCarthy
12 Bee Douglas, Nancy Marstaller, Jo-an Jacobus
19 Helen Clarkson, Julie Krejsa
26 Margaret Wentworth, Phyllis Wetherell
July
3 Kitsie Hildebrandt, Clarabel Marstaller
10 Glenice Hutchins & Al Anderson
17 Brenda Masse, Wayne Hollingworth
24 Dotty DeLoach, Don Goodrich
31 Sukie Rice, Susan Wood
This is a repeat request. If anyone has a basic laptop they could donate to the Meeting, it would be gratefully received. It would be used for the Treasurer to keep the Meeting’s accounts, using Quicken. There would be no need for an Internet connection. This would also enable the Treasurer to bring the computer to Monthly Meeting, allowing immediate access to the Meeting’s financial information. Please contact Kitsie Hildebrandt if you can help in this matter.
Sukie Rice
People asking Lisbon Area Christian Outreach (LACO) asking Food Pantry for help has doubled this year. At the same time, sources of food donations are harder to find. Durham Meeting’s Peace and Social Concerns Committee is taking on this need as one of its high priorities. We hope each month to fill a box to overflowing with food for to LACO, concentrating on a couple of items. The items for April are tuna fish, peanut butter and pasta. Our goal is to fill our box to overflowing by Easter Sunday. Please bring in your donations to help us meet our goal. A big “Thank You” to the Meeting for reaching our goal in February with a huge amount of flour and sugar.
Thank You!
Adult Sunday School is 9:30 to 10:20 AM.
Children’s Sunday School is 1st and 3rd Sundays beginning in Meeting for Worship, then going to the Christian Education rooms after the Children’s Story.
Meeting for Worship starting at 10:25AM with a hymn sing until 10:35AM.
Jo-an Jacobus
At this time about one half of Durham Friends’ newsletters delivered go in hard copy, on paper, the rest via email. The impact on the meeting of sending out so many hard copies is more significant. Over the year, it is a major cost in paper, copier wear and tear, and postage. In this time of increasingly significant financial shortfalls this is something meeting has asked all members to address in as many ways as they are able.
With these things in mind, the newsletter committee asks that anyone who has email but has been receiving the newsletter in hard copy consider switching to email. If you decide you’d like to help the meeting in this way, please drop us a note at the return address on the newsletter, call 207.666.3213 or email jacobusj@gwi.net to let us know you’d like to switch. The meeting would appreciate your help.
By Angie Reed
The Durham Friends Woman’s Society met on February 21 at the home of Dorothy
Curtis. Twelve women attended. Theresa Oleksiw did a devotional reading. Susan Wood
presented the program. The topic was answering the call to do a new thing in life, and many of us shared times in our lives when that has happened.
In other business, we were asked to pray for Sylvia Graves who has just retired as the
General Secretary of FUM and for Colin Saxton who has just started in this position. The
Tedford meal for February was Beef Stew, Minestrone Soup, a green salad, rolls and apple
berry soup. Funds were allocated for the “Adopt a Nurse” program, and plans were approved for fundraisers for this and other programs supported by Woman’s Society. The annual Treasurer’s report, prepared by Margaret Wentworth, was distributed. Woman’s society received $6980.18 and distributed $5017.50.
The majority of funds were acquired through memorial donations, and the annual yard sale.
Money, $2000.00, is in reserve for the new Meeting Room sound system.
A silent auction will be held at the Meeting House at our next meeting on March 21. We will also be conducting an Easter Sunday Pie Sale. Please see separate article for details. Many of these funds will be earmarked for the Adopt-a-nurse program. Angie Reed requested and received support from Woman’s Society for our first intergenerational book discussion to be held on May 22. Please see related newsletter article. Kitsie Hildebrandt closed the meeting with a quote on peace. Our next meeting will be on March 21 at the Meeting House. All invited to attend.
By Angie Reed
Orders are currently being taken for pies of all types to be distributed Easter Sunday morning. Pies will be sold for a suggested donation of $15.00. To order please contact Theresa Oleksiw at either 449-0700, or 865- 6495. Types of pies available for order include Pecan, Apple-berry, Chocolate Cream, Banana Cream, or Blueberry. Other types of pie may be available upon request. This is a Woman’s Society fundraiser, with a portion of these funds earmarked for the Adopt-a-Nurse program.
By Angie Reed
On Monday, March 21st there will be a Silent Auction at the Meeting House at 6:30PM
before the start of our Woman’s Society Meeting at 7;00 PM. Please contribute home
baked goodies, fudge, your gently used items, and hand made items for our silent auction. We would like items to be available for a preview on Sunday, March 20. Early bids accepted at that time.
Because of the concert Young Friends are hosting on Saturday night, we ask that you do
not bring your items earlier than Sunday. If this is inconvenient, please see a Woman’s Society Member so storage arrangements can be made.
A portion of these funds goes to the Adopt-a- Nurse program.
Directions are posted in the kitchen. Supplies need to be donated- check what is already available in the kitchen. “Basic” refreshments are coffee, milk and/or half & half,
tea, juice, and crackers. People appreciate having cheese, sweets, veggies, or fruit, but it can be as simple as you like.
The Woman’s Society makes this schedule with people who
come to Meeting regularly and have been willing to prepare
refreshments in the past. We have not checked with each person
regarding dates. If you would like to be added to or taken off
this list, please see Nancy Marstaller. Thanks!
AFTER MEETING REFRESHMENTS
SCHEDULE
March 2011 THROUGH August 2011
March
6 Dorothy & Ed Hinshaw
13 Don Goodrich, Brenda Masse
20 Angie Reed & family
27 Joe & Alex Godleski
April
3 Glenice Hutchins & Al Anderson
10 Macy Whitehead, Sukie Rice
17 (Palm Sunday) Patty Carton & John Newlin
24 (Easter) Jeannie Baker Stinson & family, Theresa Oleksiw & Abby Fortune
May
1 Sue Wood, Dorothy Curtis
8 Nancy Marstaller, Clarabel Marstaller
15 Betsy Stivers & family
22 David & Kathy Brown
29 Sarah Sprogell, Leslie Manning
June
4 Linda Muller & Jim McCarthy
12 Bee Douglas, Nancy Marstaller, Jo-an Jacobus
19 Helen Clarkson, Julie Krejsa
26 Margaret Wentworth, Phyllis Wetherell
July
3 Kitsie Hildebrandt, Clarabel Marstaller
10 Glenice Hutchins & Al Anderson
17 Brenda Masse, Wayne Hollingworth
24 Dotty DeLoach, Don Goodrich
31 Sukie Rice, Susan Wood
August
7 Margaret Wentworth, Dotty DeLoach
14 Dorothy Curtis, Charlotte Anne Curtis
21 Eileen Babcock, Mildred Alexander
28 Phyllis Wetherell, Pam & Leonard Rainey
