September 27, 2020
MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM
TODAY
9:00 – 10:00 meeting for worship (unprogrammed): care of meeting, Dan Jensen
10:15 – 11:00 Caring for Care-givers. Small groups will explore issues such as how giving and receiving care has been affected by current events and how the Meeting can support us as care-givers and care-receivers. Facilitated by the Care and Counsel Committee: Judith James, Sandy Olson, Nettie Smith, John Stuart.
11:15 – 12:15 meeting for worship (semi-programmed): Dave Bostrom- speaker; care of meeting, Stephen Snyder
Worship and mid-morning program through October’s end: email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Friday for the link.
Bill is facilitating the worship on zoom this Sunday morning. He is available by phone or email if you have any trouble logging in.
First day school for youth: email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Friday for the link.
“Wonder is where love begins, but the failure to wonder is the beginning of violence.”
– Valerie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
THINGS TO KNOW
Friends who must visit the meetinghouse or who want to meet on the meetinghouse grounds are asked to schedule those visits with the office to help avoid conflicts and make sure you are aware of COVID safety precautions: 612-926-6159; office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org .
OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH MINNEAPOLIS MEETING FRIENDS
Mid-Morning Program next Sunday at 10:15: Truthsgiving through Story, Not Facts with Liz Oppenheimer (tentative)
As a follow-up to the truthsgiving remarks offered last November, Liz will share experiences from her life that have shaped her practice of using stories from her life to address issues that matter to her family, to her friends, and to the Black, indigenous, Latinx communities and other people of color (BIPOC)
Mid-week Worship on Weds at 7PM (the link will change next week): email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Wed for the link.
First day school has begun! All school-age children and youth are invited to zoom together at 10:15 for a story. After the story, younger children will sign off and older youth will stay online for further discussion, relating the story to their own experiences or current events. The theme for this year is the testimony of equality. Do you have a story (Bible, Quaker, or other,) that you think every child of the Meeting should know? YOU ARE NEEDED! Teachers can facilitate or help facilitate the discussion afterward. For more or to get on the schedule to offer your story to the youth and young families of the meeting, contact Linda. A successful program depends on all of us!
Experience thirty minutes of worship sharing on a Quaker reading: 11:25AM Wed. Email Stephen for the link.
OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH OTHER FRIENDS
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
~ Quaker Earthcare Witness, in partnership with Friends General Conference, has monthly worship-sharing: Sept 30, Oct 28, Nov 25; 7PM (CT). Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvdeisrz4pGNwWVargRTQxR5W6NCPzFjHU%20
~ Global meeting for worship is offered every Wed, 1 PM (CT). Contact office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org to be put in touch with the Universalist Quakers who host the worship.
Friends for a NonViolent World is starting a new Watcha Wednesday series, Strategic NonViolent Action, every Wed from Sept 30-Nov 11, 10-11:30AM. The 30th is an introduction to nonviolence, the other sessions will focus on the practice of nonviolence at two levels: individual and relational; and organizing and movement-building. More and link at https://www.womenagainstmilitarymadness.org/new-events-1/2020/9/30/introduction-to-nonviolence-wednesday-watcha-jndkp-anjys-ff4ah-7xyhl
George Lakey and Zein Nakhoda are offering non-violent training (Oct 1 and 6 – attendance at both required) in the event there is disruption following November’s election. For more, see https://choosedemocracy.us/training/#.X2UJ04tOm70 The choosedemocracy.us site has actions you can do, outside the training , to protect democracy. FYI: The Transition Integrity Project report, Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition (August 3, 2020) is based on extensive exercises and discussions by a group of 100+ experts in law, politics, the media, etc on election risks this year.
Pendle Hill offers Can Quakers and Others Help Prevent an American Slide Into Dictatorship? (Hint: Nonviolence Will Be Key,) a First Monday Lecture with George Lakey, Oct 5th, 6-8PM (CT) via Zoom. How can Quakers join others in creating a Plan B should election results and procedures be questioned or dismissed? George will bring a lifetime of nonviolent research and action to this question. Free to the public! Registration required: https://pendlehill.org/learn/workshops-courses-events/event-registration-first-monday-lecture-10-05-20/
Right Sharing of World’s Resources is offering The Power of Enough, an online workshop exploring new perspectives of a right relationship with our world through queries, storytelling, sharing and singing; Oct 22 – Nov 19. Limited to 24, more at https://www.rswr.org/project/power-enough
OFFICE HOURS
Carolyn VandenDolder, the Meeting Coordinator, will be in the office Wed – Fri, 11:00-4. Phone messages checked daily. Bulletin deadline, noon Thur. Bulletin items can be phoned in to the office (612-926-6159), emailed (office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org), or written and put in the bulletin file of the blue box.