August 23, 2020

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

10:00 – 11:00 AM meeting for worship (semi-programmed): Diane Barrett, speaker; care of meeting, Allen Gibas

Return to the most human, nothing less / Will nourish the torn spirit, the bewildered heart,
The angry mind: and from the ultimate duress, / Pierced with the breath of anguish, speak for love.
~ May Sarton, “Santos: New Mexico” (Quoted by Parker Palmer in On Being Podcast, “What’s An Angry Quaker To Do?”, 3/29/17)

“There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.” ~ Barry Lopez, “Arctic Dreams”

Sunday worship in August:email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.orgby 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.

Yearning to visit with Friends but not necessarily all Friends at the same time? Stick around after worship today for smaller-group visiting.

THINGS YOU MIGHT WANT TO KNOW

There is an ad hoc committee considering what the “new normal” of Meeting life will look like and how we will accomplish it –safety protocols and inclusivity are priorities. Ideas? Contact clerk, John Kraft.

The Zephyra and Roland Shepherd Shepherd Scholarship, created in 1977, is still administered by members of Minneapolis Meeting. Available to active MFM members, of at least five years’ standing, or children of active members, of five years’ standing, who have been accepted into a post-secondary educational institution, college or trade school. Applications available from the office: office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org

The American Friends Service Committee has recently posted the sessions it hosted on Radical Faith in Action for White People. Go to www.afsc.org and click on “radical faith in action”. A number of MFM Friends participated in the sessions and recommend them, finding the series challenging and deep. The sessions are one and a half hours each.

OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH MINNEAPOLIS MEETING FRIENDS

Mid-week worship on Wednesdays in August at 7PM: email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Wed for the link. FOLLOWING worship at 8PM on Aug 26th – Something FUNNY! Care & Counsel Committee is presenting YOUR best jokes from childhood. For this, we need you! So please remember a joke and come have a laugh.

Explore the foundations of Quaker faith and practice with Mary and Stephen with thirty minutes of worship sharing on a passage from the writings of Friends or the Bible. Zoom at 11:25AM on Wednesday’s through September 23rd: email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon the preceding Friday or contact Stephen.

Another Quaker Voluntary Service year will begin in late August! THERE ARE MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT THE LOCAL QVS PROGRAM: pair up with a friend and adopt a room or two at the house to clean and prepare for the new Fellows (Aug 24 plus other days as needed); contribute needed items (to the pantry, sheets, towels); sign up to provide rides from the airport; donate items to put in welcome baskets for the Fellows, (including face masks,) sign up to provide meals during orientation (Sept 1-4,) and more! Contact Marybeth or Carolyn for more. You can read about this year’s Fellows at https://quakervoluntaryservice.org/minneapolis

Loaves and Fishes, Mon, August 31: 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. Cook (2-4:30); 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 Christian at cbourdo(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)Loavesandfishesmn.org to sign up to make sure there is sufficient space for all the volunteers. Masks required. Please sign up to come if you can!

OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH OTHER FRIENDS

PEOPLE CAMP, Nonviolence in Action, is underway until Aug 29 with: Book club discussion, (on Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle and This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the 21st Century by Mank Engler and Paul Engler;) Cook with the Chef, (receive a recipe and cook together;) Games; a four-part WORKSHOP (investigating social media as a medium for change;) Alternatives to Violence sessions; Friday night sing-a-long; interest groups; and the Talent Show! All this and more at Zoomed People Camp. Schedule can be found here. Rolling registration here.

Non-Sunday morning opportunities to worship with Friends :
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 Michael for the link.
Laughing Waters Friends Preparative Meeting is worshiping Sunday afternoons at 1:30. More at laughingwatersfriends.org
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.

Young Friends Worldwide for Climate Action, Peace and Justice, a ten-week series (August 29 – October 24) of five online, Sat workshops based on Quaker Testimonies created to build a community of Young Quakers (ages 16-35) around the world who are interested in Climate Action, Peace, and Justice. Initiated and designed by Young Friends from each of the four Friends World Committee for Consultation sections, these workshops are by young Friends, for young Friends. More here.

Upcoming Friends General Conference’s Spiritual Deepening e-Retreat topics include:
Aging, Death, & Dying – September 13-October 9 / Weaving a Wider Welcome – September 27-October 23
Learn more and register at www.FGCquaker.org/eretreats.