June 21, 2020

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

10:00 – 11:00 AM meeting for worship (unprogrammed): care of meeting, Stephen Snyder

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Opportunities to worship with MFM Friends (links are changed each month):

Mid-week worship this Weds at 7PM (this is a one-time, new link): email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org before noon on Wednesday for the link.

Sunday 10AM worship: email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Friday 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.
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TODAY, Friends are asked to enter worship quietly and hold the impulse to visit with one another until after worship. Everyone will be muted upon entrance. 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

UPCOMING MEETING EVENTS

The memorial service for Louise White will be 2PM next Sunday, June 28th, via Zoom. Louise was a beloved member of Minneapolis Meeting for 69 years. Come celebrate her long, happy and beautiful life. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org before noon Friday for the link.

There will be a Meeting-wide discussion about our response to current events’ pull to act for racial justice and police reform. Hosted by the Peace and Social Concerns Committee, please come be a part of the discernment this Wed night, June 24th, 8PM. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org before noon Wednesday for 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!

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 or Mary Ellen, QVS Local Support Committee Clerk to find out more.

Birthdays, as well as many other celebrations, don’t have to be solo affairs! Happy birthday to Jacque (June 22,) Roy (June 24,) and Allen (his 75th on June 16)! If you would like to have your birthday acknowledged by meeting Friends, please send the month and date of your birth, (no year necessary,) to Judith.

The Writing Group will have an informal writing session this Tues, June 23rd, 7-9PM. This is a chance to connect with each other, writing with prompts and sharing what we write. ALL INVITED, whether or not you have participated before! Contact Jane to get the link.

Explore the foundations of Quaker faith and practice with Mary and Stephen with thirty minutes of worship sharing on a passage from George Fox and the Bible passage on which it is based: Zoom at 11:25AM Wed, June 24th. Contact Stephen for the link.

Interested in gardening? Meeting gardeners (currently Clifford, Betsy, and Rae Beth) meet at 11AM on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month, June – Sept, at the meetinghouse. Come when you can for satisfying fun playing in the dirt, fabulous people and lots of laughs. Questions? Contact Clifford.

OTHER HAPPENINGS AMONG QUAKERS

Opportunities to worship with the wider family of Friends (collected by Northern Yearly Meeting): click here

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. 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. ‬

Friends for a NonViolent World seeks a new Executive Director. Application deadline, June 30; details at fnvw.org/vertical/sites/%7B8182BD6D-7C3B-4C35-B7F8-F4FD486C7CBD%7D/uploads/Job_Announcement_FNVW_Exec_Director_6-12-20.pdf.

REGISTER NOW for Friends General Conference Annual Gathering, “Sink Down to the Seed Sown in the Heart”, June 28-July 4, online. The Gathering will include a daily Bible Half Hour on Jesus as a trickster and light-bringer, afternoon workshops on a variety of topics, morning and evening worship sharing, special presentations and readings, and more. 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

There is a Northern Yearly Meeting Anti-Racism discussion group currently meeting once a month. The first session focused on Turning the Lens, the first episode of the podcast, “Seeing White”, (http://www.sceneonradio.org/tag/season-2/.) To join the discussion in July or for more, contact antiracism(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)northernyearlymeeting.org

From the St. Paul Healing Justice program of American Friends Service Committee: AFSC condemns police killing of George Floyd and police violence against protesters.

Friends General Conference’s website presents a call to dismantle systemic racism and ways to take action in support of community-organized efforts.

Bring Friends General Conference Spiritual Deepening eRetreat: Understanding & Healing White Supremacy to Northern Yearly Meeting. The 4-6 wk program helps participants understand racism, white supremacy, and white privilege and how they are embedded in our society, Quaker meetings, and lives. We hope to get enough Northern Yearly Meeting interest to host a retreat for those in NYM. Contact Shel by June 30 at antiracism(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)northernyearlymeeting.org with interest. For more information on the eRetreat and to see other anti-racism resources, visit the Anti-Racism Working Group page on the NYM website.

OFFICE HOURS (email and phone only) Wednesday – Friday afternoons. Bulletin deadline, noon Thurs. Email (office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org) checked W-F; phone messages usually checked once daily.