May 17, 2020

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

9:00 – 10:00 meeting for worship (unprogrammed): care of meeting, Roger Miller

10:15 – 11:00 Tom Ward and Lin Butler, of the Death and Memorial Committee, will moderate a session on end of life planning. Discussion will include updates on visitation and memorial services, especially in hospitals and nursing homes; preparation of your health care directive; and your Provider’s Order for Life Saving Techniques (POLST).

11:15 – 12:15 meeting for worship (semi-programmed): Barbara Ziegenhagen – speaker; care of meeting, Carolyn VandenDolder

“Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to our awakening.”
~ Pema Chodron

“If we touch the immediate experience with an open heart it is a door to understanding.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“When our world is turned over and we feel disoriented, fearful, etc, we forget that we are already whole.”
~ Ute Arnold

HOLD IN THE LIGHT

Eli Philips and all the Quaker Voluntary Service Local Coordinators who are finishing interviews and matching for next year’s QVS Fellows.

Political leaders and other public workers who are trying to help the public safely navigate life in the current pandemic.

UPCOMING MEETING EVENTS

Opportunities to gather with MFM Friends (THERE WILL BE NEW LINKS WITH THE START OF EACH MONTH):
Friday drop-ins every Friday, 1-3PM through May: email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Friday for the link.
Mid-week worship this Wed, 7-8PM with joys and concerns following from 8-9PM: email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Wednesday for the link.
Sunday 9AM and 11:15AM worship and mid-morning program through May: email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Friday for the link.
By phone: you will lack video but will be able to hear and speak – 312-626-6799.
Because participants are muted unless speaking during online worship, consider inviting the youth of the meeting to participate!

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF THE SCHOOL YEAR SCHEDULE. The summer schedule – one worship each Sunday morning – will start May 24. On the 24th, Minneapolis Meeting will have an unprogrammed worship at 10AM. Friends are encouraged to join Northern Yearly Meeting’s memorial worship at the annual session at 8:45AM. Log in at 8:30AM so worship can begin promptly. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Friday for the NYM link.

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The Care and Counsel Committee has worked with volunteers to develop resources for members and attenders who have various needs during the Covid-19 era:

LISTENERS-CONVERSATIONALISTS for you to check in with:
Scott, Connie, Barbara, Roland, Jim L, Stephen, OR, email Sue.

CLEARNESS COMMITTEES for a sounding board and helping you find spiritual clarity if you are making big decisions, contact John S.

TELECARE for experienced folks to talk to about spiritual care and issues of all kinds, contact Judith for a referral.

COVID 19 EMERGENCY FUND for members or attenders facing financial hardships due to the virus, contact Nettie.

Do you have other wishes, questions, want to volunteer? Please call committee clerk, Nettie.
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A Minneapolis Meeting Zoom account has been set up. If your committee or meeting-related group wishes to make use of it, please contact office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org, W-F.

The Mid-Morning Program Committee wants to hear your expectations, needs, interests, and wishes for next year’s programming. Take a minute give your feedback. Responses confidential unless you indicate otherwise: Mid Morning Survey

This Wednesday, May 20th, and every Wed through June, Friends are welcome to join Mary and Stephen for a series of online worship sharing on Bible passages and writings that spoke to Early Friends. Log in at 11:25. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon the preceding Friday for the link.

The Northern Yearly Meeting middle school group is meeting online every-other Thurs at 4PM (next on May 21). Do you have a rising 6th graders? The NYM Middle School Group would love to welcome them with open arms. This is a group that gathers throughout the year for retreats, meets for zoom calls, chats online, and in general, supports each other in Friendly ways. Email the coordinator, Seres, with questions or for more.

Northern Yearly Meeting’s annual session will meet online this year. Registration still needed. Deadline, TODAY, May 17th. More at: fgcquaker.org/cloud/northern-yearly-meeting/announcements/2020-nym-annual-session-may-22-24-registration-now-open

Listen to the program Terry Hokenson hosted on the Indigenous Perspective on Regenerative Agriculture: sewardrooster.org/2020-04-26_KFAI-WaveProject.mp3

OTHER HAPPENINGS AMONG QUAKERS

The most recent Northern Yearly Meeting Journal, published quarterly, offers reflections, personal insights and testimonies from the work or experience of area Quakers. Find it at fgcquaker.org/cloud/northern-yearly-meeting/resources/nym-journal-13-winter/spring-2020. Submission deadline for the next issue is July 17th: nymjournal(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)gmail.com.

Friends for a NonViolent World
~People Camp, 2020; August 9-15 in (hopefully) Northern Pines near Park Rapids; registration is open. More here.
~ You are invited to enjoy a coffee break every Tues with the FNVW staff, M-F, 10-10:30AM here.
~ Miranda Dils (QVS Fellow at FNVW) will host Watcha Wed, May 20, on Exploring Disability – an interactive exploration into how society and the media perceive and present disability and ableism. Want to learn more prior to the discussion? Check out “Becoming Disabled” by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. Meeting ID – meet.google.com/rge-zviw-quu

OFFICE HOURS (email and phone only) Wed – Fri afternoons.