MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

9:00 – 10:00 meeting for worship (unprogrammed): care of meeting, Bill Hendricks; Doug Herron (mic)

10:15 – 11:00 new member welcome for Carol and Tom. Hear more about them and their journeys and celebrate the MFM community over refreshments!

11:15 – 12:15 meeting for worship (semi-programmed): Napoleon Steele, speaker; Victoria VanSlyke, musician; care of meeting, Juliet Nail

Contribution statements for 2019 are available TODAY from Stewardship and Finance Committee clerk, Marilyn, or on the elevator table. Please save the meeting the cost of postage and take yours home with you today!

You are welcome at the potluck following second worship TODAY! Don’t forget to label ingredients – at the very least, to note vegan; vegetarian; gluten-free; contains peanuts. To regulars – please look for ways to help with this do-it-ourselves affair, especially clearing, washing, dyring and putting away dishes! Needed: decaffeinated coffee and booster seats.

UPCOMING MEETING EVENTS

Worship with attention to business is next Sunday, 9:45 – 11:15. On the agenda, preliminary committee nominations and 2020-21 budget. Come be part of the process!

Nominating Committee is at work to match Meeting needs with member / attender gifts and ministries. Please return phone calls from Nominating Committee members who reach out to you. NEEDED: individuals to serve on the Stewardship and Finance (S&F) Committee. S&F does such important work on behalf of all of us! Committee members have clear roles –
– Contributions: one or two individuals comfortable with working/learning Quick Books on the computer, logging donations, creating and making the deposit, (including, taking it to the bank). This takes about an hour a week – and need not be done on a Sunday. Schedule determined between the two volunteers.
– Long Range planning – investigating and making recommendations to S&F about socially and fiscally wise places for us to keep our reserve funds.
If you are interested in these roles or any other in the life of the Meeting, contact a member of Nominating Committee: Debbie, Doug, Annamary, and Jim.

The Nursery Committee, on behalf of the Meeting, seeks the right person to work with the little ones in the nursery. The work hours are Sundays during the school year, 8:45-12:30; and 9:45-11:15 during the summer months. The pay is $15 an hour. For more, contact office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org to be put in touch with a member of the Nursery Committee.

Save the date for the Northern Yearly Meeting Middle School Retreat, Feb 14-16th in Madison. Come for the sweetness of being with Friends – laughing, making art, playing games, getting outside, basking in Spirit, and delving into the discussion of institutionalized racism (with some climate considerations to boot!) More details to come. Reach out with any thoughts, concerns or ideas to office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org and they will be passed along.

Terry Kayser has two pastel paintings in a show of Minnesota Landscapes – paintings by Minnesota artists depicting scenes from across the state. State Capitol Building, Third Floor Gallery. Friends are warmly invited to a reception there on Wed, Feb 12th, 3 – 6PM.

At a mid-morning program last month, Phil Fishman offered to train people to do a lot of the grunt work of helping immigrants apply for asylum. Are you interested? If so, please email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org. If there is enough interest, we can explore having a training at the meetinghouse. If only a few are interested, we can find out how to join a training elsewhere.

OTHER HAPPENINGS AMONG QUAKERS

First Monday Friends invites you to a conversation with a Twin Cities Meeting member tomorrow, Feb 3rd at Twin Cities Meeting, 1725 Grand Ave, St. Paul. Potluck at noon, program at 1PM.

Pendle Hill’s livestreamed First Monday Evening Talk, tomorrow, 6:30 – 8PM: Marcelle Martin Creating Beloved Community by Supporting Faithfulness. Register for the link: pendlehill.org/events/creating-beloved-community-by-supporting-faithfulness/

Friends for a NonViolent World has an Everyday Nonviolence podcast. If you haven’t heard it yet, take a listen! The most recent episode features Mel Duncan and the Nonviolent Peaceforce.

A new, worship-based, spirit-led Northern Yearly Meeting working group is at work, looking at all the work on racism that has been done within the yearly meeting, to consider available resources, and to suggest ways forward to further the ongoing anti-racist work of the Northern Yearly Meeting faith community. If you feel led to participate in this committee or would like to learn more about it, contact office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org to be put in touch with a NYM co-clerk, Kat.

Second Chance Day on the Hill. Join Friends for a Nonviolent World at MN Second Chance Day on the Hill. Wed, Feb 19th, 10AM – 12PM, at the Minnesota State Capitol. Come advocate for criminal justice reform. Register: Eleanor(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)fnvw.org .

Friends World Committee for Consultation will host an online conference on sustainability Feb 22, 2020, with Friends around the world. Friends worldwide are urgently concerned with the human impacts of climate change and the issue of sustainability in relation to our faith and the underlying spiritual imperative prompting us to take action. See fwcc.world/sustainability/conference2020 for more.

The Elizabeth Ann Bogert Memorial Fund for the Study and Practice of Christian Mysticism Grants Program is soliciting proposals. Proposals and references for 2020 grants are due March 1; decisions made in May; grants distributed in June. See posted information for more or see: fwccamericas.org/docs/Bogert%20Fund%20Brochure%202019.pdf

COMMUNITY EVENTS

The Southwest Community Choir will host a community sing-a-long THIS Thurs, here at Minneapolis Meeting, 7 PM. All are invited to participate!

Come to the Women’s Prison Book Project annual pancake breakfast and book sale Sat, Feb 8th, 8AM-noon, Walker Church, 3104 – 16th Ave S, Mpls. All you can eat Buttermilk, gluten-free, and vegan pancakes available. Southern style grits, fresh fruit salad, and coffee and tea. The used book sale offers books in great condition for only $2 or $3; kids books available for only $1. Make a valentine for a political prisoner. Proceeds benefit Women’s Prison book project. Annamary is on the prep team!

OFFICE HOURS – Wed – Fri, 11:00-4. Phone messages checked daily. Bulletin deadline, noon Thur. Bulletin items can be phoned in to the office (612-926-6159), emailed (office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org), or written and put in the bulletin file of the blue box.