{"id":3964,"date":"2021-04-29T09:41:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T14:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2021-06-25T09:42:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T14:42:35","slug":"velsasco-friends-meeting-report-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=3964","title":{"rendered":"Velsasco Friends Meeting Report, February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Velasco, Durham and Portland Sister Meeting Committee  February 2021 Report&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/hCmSzrGo2X6mP28RexXhm1m8YIEjA_BYgpD55djNWZXaFAj187bqvvxk36r6b4kMe4HHBxODH5mSYbn_jCNA2fkF2hIsj820oe8iXYeVzQb9B-CA-llwO6u1iPbpgxrA3D15JpBm\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the fall of 2020 Portland Friends Meeting and Durham Friends Meeting approved Portland joining in the sister relationship with Velasco Friends Meeting in Cuba and the formation of a joint committee to care for and nurture the relationship. The new committee meets monthly. Nancy Marstaller and Fritz Weiss are co-clerks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Durham has noted and appreciated that there is new energy in the relationship with Velasco. Our two meetings in Maine are building a stronger relationship. Committee members are now receiving newsletters from both meetings and recognize that the first experience of intervisitation may well be Durham and Portland visiting each other.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>An invitation to Friends in Portland and Durham is to hold Velasco in Prayer as they gather.<\/strong> Velasco meets <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>on Sunday at 9:00 AM and<\/li><li>on Tuesdays at 7:30 pm for a service of prayer and preaching,<\/li><li>on Thursdays at 8:00 pm for house worship,<\/li><li>on Fridays at 7:30 pm the ladies meet,<\/li><li>on Saturdays at 8:30 pm the youth.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>They are in the same time zone as we are. We can hold them in prayer at those times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Communication with Velasco Meeting is via facebook messenger with Yadira Cruz Pena (Pastor) and email with Zoe Lazara (Clerk).&nbsp; Nancy Marstaller and Wendy Schlotterback from Durham and Hannah Colbert and Sydney McDowell from Portland are able to send messages; if you have messages you might like to send, please share with them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our meetings are open, if you are interested in being involved, please contact one of the co-clerks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Con amor, Nancy Marstaller, Wendy Schlotterback, Hannah Colbert, Doug Malcom, Ann Dodd-Collins, Sydney MacDowell, Fritz Weiss<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Velasco-Meeting-Sep-2020-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Velasco-Meeting-Sep-2020-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Velasco-Meeting-Sep-2020-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Velasco-Meeting-Sep-2020-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Velasco-Meeting-Sep-2020-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Velasco-Meeting-Sep-2020.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Velasco Friends Meeting (Cuba), September 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Velasco, Durham and Portland Sister Meeting Committee February 2021 Report&nbsp; In the fall of 2020 Portland Friends Meeting and Durham Friends Meeting approved Portland joining in the sister relationship with Velasco Friends Meeting in Cuba and the formation of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=3964\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-velasco-friends-meeting-cuba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rLvf-11W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3965,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions\/3965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}