July 5, 2020

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

10:00 – 11:00 AM meeting for worship: care of meeting, Carol Bechtel

Sunday worship in July: 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.)
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.

UPCOMING MEETING EVENTS

Mid-week worship on Weds in July at 7PM: email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org before noon Wed for the link.

Worship with attention to business is next Sunday, 11-12:30. On the agenda: creating a hardship fund; peace and social concerns next steps; annual committee reports and more.

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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, Stephen, OR email Sue.

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

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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Birthdays, as well as many other celebrations, don’t have to be solo affairs, even amid COVID! Happy birthday to Stephen (July 8th) and Sue (July 20th)! If you would like to have your birthday acknowledged, please send the month and date of your birth, (no year necessary,) to Judith. Want to send a card and don’t have a directory? Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org for an electronic copy and update sheet.

Quaker Voluntary Service Spiritual Nurturers 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 year is an important and unique aspect of the QVS program. Contact Lin, Spiritual Nurture Anchor, or Mary Ellen, QVS Local Support Committee Clerk, to find out more

Explore the foundations of Quaker faith and practice with Mary and Stephen with thirty minutes of worship sharing on a reading from George Fox and the Bible passage on which it is based via Zoom at 11:25AM on Wednesdays in July. Contact Stephen for the link.

Interested in gardening? Meeting gardeners (currently Clifford, Betsy, and Rae Beth) meet at 11 AM 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.

A highlight of the Friends General Conference Annual Gathering is the daily Bible half-hour. Carl Magruder presented an insightful, energetic series this year. Watch it at: https://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/gathering/schedule-glance/gathering-schedule-and-handouts/virtual-gathering-videos

OTHER HAPPENINGS AMONG QUAKERS

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

Check out the Zoom seminar on clerking this Tues, July 7, 1 – 2:30 PM (CT)! Friends World Committee for Consultation is hosting this panel discussion focused on ways to approach clerking annual sessions online and similar gatherings. Panelists from Northern Yearly Meeting and from the Europe and Middle East Section of FWCC will share their recent experiences of: discerning overall goals and planning, putting together a clerking team, handling logistics, attending to community and spiritual needs in this context, and other. Register at: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eh64sz2v7c3f6c1e&oseq=&c=530ac450-3294-11e3-ae22-d4ae527b895a&ch=2bc2f0b0-bc33-11e8-8176-d4ae528ecd49

American Friends Service Committee invites white people of faith to deepen our practice and to show up to support the movement for racial justice. Sign up for the new e-course, “Radical Acting in Faith for White People” starting July 9th.

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

The 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.

“Planting in an Earthquake: balancing patience and urgency in a time of change” is available from Pendle Hill at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWqBIcwxsTk. The speaker, Ricardo Levins Morales, is an artist and police abolition activist in Minneapolis.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

The state of Minnesota is making A Good Time for the Truth edited by Sun Yung Shin, available online. Each of the book’s sixteen authors contributes a chapter to share their perspective on life as a person of color in MN: https://library.biblioboard.com/module/one-book-one-minnesota/

The U of MN Press has made twenty-two racial justice books free through Aug: minnesotamonthly.com/lifestyle/books-to-read-for-racial-justice/

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