{"id":6249,"date":"2023-08-18T22:13:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T02:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2023-08-18T22:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T02:13:17","slug":"news-from-velasco-friends-meeting-and-a-suggestion-for-world-quaker-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=6249","title":{"rendered":"News from Velasco Friends Meeting &#8212; and a Suggestion for World Quaker Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>News from our sister meeting in Velasco from the sister meeting committee, August 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yadira Cruz Pena, the pastor of Velasco Meeting was one of the representatives from Cuba Yearly Meeting (CYM) to New England Yearly Meeting (NEYM) last week.&nbsp; She shared this photo of Velasco Friends meeting outside this week in a service blessing a member\u2019s home.&nbsp; I sent her a photo of Portland Friends meeting outside at the Friends School. We agreed that in nature, God\u2019s presence can be easily felt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image.png 572w, https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-401x300.png 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She also shared this photo of her oldest daughter holding the \u201cChurch\u2019s baby\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"394\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-1.png 394w, https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-1-300x265.png 300w, https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-1-340x300.png 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We have begun planning how Velasco, Durham and Portland can have a joint or concurrent event on World Quaker Day on the first Sunday in October. We cannot be in person and probably cannot be on zoom together, but with creativity, we can feel each other\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are sending some spices and the photo album we shared with Durham and Portland to Yadira with a delegation traveling from New England to Cuba in September.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CYM and NEYM are beginning to explore ways that the two yearly meetings can be more closely connected even in these difficult times.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News from our sister meeting in Velasco from the sister meeting committee, August 2023 Yadira Cruz Pena, the pastor of Velasco Meeting was one of the representatives from Cuba Yearly Meeting (CYM) to New England Yearly Meeting (NEYM) last week.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=6249\">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-6249","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-1CN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249","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=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6252,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions\/6252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}