June 14, 2020

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

10:00 – 11:00 meeting for worship: Julia Reimer, speaker; care of meeting, Heidi Flores

11:00 – 12:30 monthly meeting for business: John Kraft, clerk; Stephen Snyder, recording clerk

“In America, nearly all of us, regardless of our background or skin color, carry trauma in our bodies around the myth of race.”
~ My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

Opportunities to gather with MFM Friends (links are changed each month):
Friday drop-ins have been suspended for the time being.
Mid-week worship Weds through June, at 7PM: email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by Wed noon for the link.
Sunday 10AM worship for June: email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by Fri noon for the link.
It’s easy to be in worship for as long as you are able. Consider inviting the youth of the meeting to participate!
Bill is facilitating the worship on zoom this Sunday morning. He is available by phone or email if you have any trouble logging in.

TODAY, Friends are asked to enter worship quietly and hold the impulse to visit with one another. Everyone will be muted (except for phone people.) As usual, remember to unmute yourself if you are led to offer vocal ministry. (Hold down the space bar while speaking or click on the microphone icon to unmute yourself.)
~ Ministry and Counsel Committee

TODAY following monthly meeting – Meeting of Committee Clerks.

HOLD IN THE LIGHT

and CONGRATULATIONS students who have graduated and the families of graduates!

The communities most affected by the recent unrest; black individuals and families in Minneapolis and across the country; all those who are impatient for peace and justice.

UPCOMING MEETING EVENTS

The memorial service for Louise White will be 2PM on Sunday, June 28th, via Zoom.

Join Mary and Stephen on Zoom at 11:25AM Wed, June 17th for a half hour of worship sharing on a passage from George Fox’s writing. Contact Stephen fro the link.

Loaves and Fishes, Mon, June 29: Join other metro-area Friends, the Ismaili Community and the Mayim Rabim congregation to provide a nutritious meal at Holy Rosary Church in S Mpls, 2424 – 18th Ave S. Due to Covid-19 restrictions we have significantly altered how the event is handled. The first group will cook (2-4:30); the second group will pack up and hand out the meals (4:45-6:30,) and clean up (5-7:30.) Fruit donations, dropped off at Holy Rosary after 2:00, are needed as well. Email cbourdo(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)Loavesandfishesmn.org to sign up to make sure there is sufficient space for all the volunteers. Please sign up to come if you can!

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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 M, Roland, Jim L, Steve, 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 referrals.

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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Joining the MFM Google Group is one of the easy ways be engaged with the Meeting. It is also a good tool for committees to communicate with those members who participate. To sign up simply send an email request to Roland. For more about the MFM Google Group, go to minneapolisfriends.org/google-group. Also, to help keep abreast of Meeting news, bulletins, events, and monthly meeting minutes can be found on the website.

Quaker Voluntary Service Spiritual Nurturers for 2020-2021 sought. Do you feel called to help support and provide a listening ear and spiritual friendship to a Quaker Voluntary Service Fellow during their year of service and spiritual growth? This year-long commitment, meeting at least once each month (September through July) with the Fellow and participating with other Nurturers at least three times during the program year is an important and unique aspect of the QVS program. There will be a Spirit-led matching process later in the summer to identify a nurturer for each of the seven incoming Fellows. Contact Lin, spiritual nurture anchor for Minneapolis Meeting or Mary Ellen, QVS Local Support Committee Clerk to find out more.

In the interest of general health safety and the safety of the Meeting coordinator who still comes to the meetinghouse to work, Friends are encouraged to not enter the meetinghouse. If a visit to the meetinghouse is a necessity, Friends are asked to:
– refrain from entering the meetinghouse if you are sick;
– alert the coordinator about when you will be in (whether she is scheduled to be there or not) and what area of the building you will be visiting;
– bring brass-safe sanitizing wipes to use on the door handles before and after use as well as other handles and fixtures you touch;
– wash your hands upon entering the meetinghouse;
– consider wearing a mask for the duration of your stay and bringing your own pens / pencils to use and take away again;
– restrict movement through the meetinghouse as much as possible.

OTHER HAPPENINGS AMONG QUAKERS

Friends for a NonViolent World Watcha Wed at 10AM – How to be an ally as individuals and as an organization in the struggle for racial justice. Facilitated by FNVW Volunteer Engagement Specialist, Leah Robshaw Robinson and QVS Fellow, Miranda Dils. Want to learn more prior to the discussion? Check out this resource on the multi-layered approach in the fight for racial justice. See FNVW.org for the link info. ‬

REGISTER NOW for Friends General Conference Annual Gathering, Sink Down to the Seed Sown in the Heart, June 28-July 4, will be held online this year. The Gathering will include a daily Bible Half Hour on Jesus as a trickster and light-bringer, afternoon workshops on a wide variety of topics, morning and evening worship sharing, special presentations and readings, and opportunities to connect with one another. For workshops and more, see: https://mailchi.mp/fgcquaker/virtual-fgc-gathering-2020-workshops-and-worship-opportunities?e=2c750c377e . Register at https://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/gathering/registration-details/register-now

Quaker Voluntary Service staff and board is hosting a Supporter’s Briefing this Wed, June 17, 6:30 (CT) to give a bird’s-eye-view of programming and finances right now. You can register here: https://bitly.com/?QVSBriefing. Please sign on!

Pendle Hill Study and Retreat Center has daily worship, M_F, 7:30-8:10 AM (CT): https://pendlehill.zoom.us/j/432071090?pwd=aU5OOWk4ZGJkcWNUbzI5TXdjdVpSdz09

Quaker Voluntary Service has daily worship M–F, 10:30-11AM (CST): https://zoom.us/j/5702463400.

Friends General Conference has an online worship every Sat night, 8 PM (CT). Sign up here and you will be sent the Zoom login information. Various worship sharing groups are also meeting. More at https://mailchi.mp/fgcquaker/virtual-fgc-gathering-2020-workshops-and-worship-opportunities?e=2c750c377e

COMMUNITY EVENTS

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and O Cinema with Magnolia Pictures are offering documentaries Whose Streets? (TODAY) and Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (June 21st) for free across eight of the Knight Foundation’s communities. The films speak to systemic inequality and serve as blueprints for effecting change. Community partners will host virtual discussions about ways to support social justice and anti-racism work in their communities. Each file is available in a 24-hour window. Visit www.magnoliapictures.com/knightfoundationseries for more information and to register.

Friends are invited to join people of all faiths next Sun, June 21st, for the 25th World Peace and Prayer Day: All Faiths, All Nations, One Prayer, held at sites around the world. The observance arose from a vision of Arvol Looking Horse, Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe for the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations. A small fire will be lit near dawn/6AM and maintained at the location until 8PM. Come at any time to offer individual prayers and be in community at the fire, outdoors, on the grounds of St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 1405 Sibley Memorial Hwy in Mendota. Please wear a mask and maintain safe distance. Women, please wear a skirt. More at http://www.worldpeaceandprayer.com/wppd-2020.html

OFFICE HOURS (email and phone only) Wednesday – Friday afternoons. Bulletin deadline, noon Thurs.