May 24, 2020

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

10:00 – 11:00 meeting for worship (semi-programmed): Dan Jensen, speaker; care of meeting, Carolyn
VandenDolder

11:00 – 12:30 worship with attention to business: John Kraft, presiding clerk; Stephen Snyder, recording clerk

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. ID and password above.)
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.

HOLD IN THE LIGHT

Young adults and students and the families supporting them as they try to navigate creating their future amid continuing uncertainty.

UPCOMING MEETING EVENTS

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

In response to the distress over racial injustice, the Peace and Social Concerns Committee is starting a discussion group on the book My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem. We will meet on Zoom on the first and third Tuesdays of the month, 7-8:30PM, beginning Tues, July 21st: email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon the preceding Friday for zoom information. The first session will be introductory. Try to get the book by the second session, Aug 4th. We will read the book and do the exercises on our own, then come together to discuss our experiences. You can get an e-book on Amazon, an audio book on Audible, a paperback book at Central Recovery Press, or a hardcover book at Menakem’s website, https://www.resmaa.com/books.

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.
THERE ARE MANY OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT THE LOCAL QVS PROGRAM: helping prepare the house for the new fellows, contributing items to the pantry, providing rides to or from the airport and more! Contact Tom or Ed (local support committee members) for more.

OTHER HAPPENINGS AMONG QUAKERS

Opportunities to worship with the wider family of Friends (collected by Northern Yearly Meeting): click here . In addition, Prospect Hill Friends Meeting worships on Sunday afternoons starting at 3:45 PM for settling in, with worship at 4. (Programs follow worship from 5 to about 5:30 PM.) Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org for the contact. AND Laughing Waters Friends Preparative Meeting is worshiping Sunday afternoons at 1:30. More at laughingwatersfriends.org

Three members of MFM will be attending the Healing Our City worship TOMORROW, 10AM at the prayer tent at Broadway and Bryant Ave N. Healing the Heart of Our City: 30 Days of Silent Prayer is a month-long, African American-led collaborative conceived to add a vital spiritual factor to all the strategic thinking, policy proposals and investments being considered. We will collectively grieve our losses, open ourselves to change, and pray for a new future. Friends are welcome. Call Annette or Debbie with questions or for more. Also visit: healingourcity.org.

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

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.

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/

MN Council of Churches Refugee Services is continuing its outreach to educate and support refugee families during the corona pandemic. Cloth face masks and Cub grocery gift cards are needed! Grocery gift cards can be mailed to our office and will be distributed directly to our most vulnerable clients. For more, please email rsvolunteers(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)mnchurches.org.

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