{"id":8066,"date":"2025-09-14T16:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=8066"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:25:04","slug":"250th-anniversary-celebration-october-4-and-5-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=8066","title":{"rendered":"250th Anniversary Celebration &#8211; October 4 and 5, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our Meeting is celebrating\u00a0its 250th\u00a0year as a worshiping community on the weekend of October 4 and 5.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday<\/strong> (October 4) will feature a Tribute to Quaker Activism, featuring the film &#8220;Citizen George&#8221; which presents the life and work of Philadelphia-based contemporary Quaker activist George Lakey,\u00a0a\u00a0nonviolent revolutionary who has worked his entire life for justice and peace, guided by his ideal of societal transformation, with community singing to open our time beginning at 6:30 PM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday<\/strong> (October 5), which is also <a href=\"https:\/\/fwcc.world\/event\/wqd-2025\/\">World Quaker Day<\/a>, will open with worship at our usual time of 10:25 AM and will also be available on Zoom. Our prepared message will be given by Doug Bennett, a member of Durham Friends and President Emeritus of Earlham College, a Quaker institution in Richmond, IN. This will be followed by a luncheon and celebration (and possibly more singing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All are welcome<\/strong> to any and all of this celebration. Instructions for attending Sunday Worship via Zoom are available from our website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fdurhamfriendsmeeting.org&amp;c=E,1,t0V2gnD2OfrfGCngIPyYEOSCn0y5-rN7qu6izT6eZw_72FCM6W6jk5yqO78ZlcDQN1oWSYcw_ON2nZeQpB4YjJgB3KyBha-cZZwLAu-f7gcL_pJeqw,,&amp;typo=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">durhamfriendsmeeting.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For questions or more information, please contact&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:durham@neym.org\">durham@neym.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image.png 695w, https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-232x300.png 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Meeting is celebrating\u00a0its 250th\u00a0year as a worshiping community on the weekend of October 4 and 5.\u00a0\u00a0 Saturday (October 4) will feature a Tribute to Quaker Activism, featuring the film &#8220;Citizen George&#8221; which presents the life and work of Philadelphia-based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=8066\">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":[197,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-250-anniversary","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rLvf-266","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066","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=8066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8075,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions\/8075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}