February 28, 2021

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

9:00 – 10:00 worship (unprogrammed): care of meeting, Sandy Olson

10:15-11:00 Follow the Money, or Direct It: How the Meeting Determines its Budget.
Come hear a brief description of the process Stewardship and Finance Committee uses in planning the Meeting’s annual budget. There will be time for questions. We may also address broader questions like: Should we more actively encourage members and attenders to make and/or increase their contributions; Should we continue the practice of over-budgeting, (planning to spend more than we expect to receive in contributions); Should we keep a high balance in our checking account or elsewhere, etc.

11:15 – 12:15 meeting for worship (semi-programmed): Doug Herron – speaker; care of meeting, Carolyn VandenDolder

Worship in February: email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Friday for the link.

First day school for youth at 10:15: In order to better match first day school with student and family energy and zoom tolerance, we will have first day school / programming for youth on the first and third Sundays of the month. There is no programming today.

THINGS TO KNOW

THANK YOU to all those who worked to support the Opening to the Heart of Worship workshop (especially Marilyn, Bill and Carolyn for Zoom support,) and to all those who participated in it. Nurturing our individual spiritual lives enhance the Meeting’s spiritual life. Thank you for ministering to each other and to the Meeting.

Birthdays, as well as many other celebrations, don’t have to be solo affairs! Happy birthday to Ed (March 3rd) Tom (March 12th) and Lolly (March 17th)! Let Friends acknowledge and celebrate you! Send the month and date of your birth, (no year necessary,) to Judith.

Do you have a message yearning to be offered at second hour worship? As an experiment, the Ministry and Counsel Committee is inviting members and attenders who have a message pressing to be given, to contact Keitha or Stephen so a second worship in March can be made available to you. Meeting for worship will be unprogrammed on those Sundays when a planned message or reading is not waiting to be given.

Need to schedule a Zoom meeting for a committee meeting or Minneapolis Meeting activity? Please send a request, including date, time, and purpose to office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org to have it set up.

OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH MINNEAPOLIS MEETING FRIENDS

Mid-Morning Program next Sunday at 10:15: Finding Home with the Quaker Voluntary Service Fellows. Caro Carty (they/them) and Esther Hibbs (she/her), from this year’s Quaker Voluntary Service house, will talk about their relationships to home; how they have sought to find and feel home in their lives; and what home has looked like this year.

Experience thirty minutes of worship sharing on a Quaker reading; 11:25AM Wednesdays. Email Stephen for the link.

There is mid-week worship every Wed night, 7PM. There will be a brief reading at the beginning of worship on the first and third Weds. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Wed for the link.

Ministry and Counsel Committee will meet this Thurs, March 4th, at 7. Contact Bill with issues or for the link.

Mid-Morning Program Committee will meet next Sun, March 7th, at 1. Contact Ellen for the link.

An MFM group has completed a six-month exploration of Resmaa Menakem’s book, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Do we / how do we want to continue the work of facing and healing our implicit bias and white supremacy? The Peace and Social Concerns Committee welcomes members and attenders to Zoom on March 9 at 7PM to explore, through worship sharing and discussion, the next steps to take in this soul work. Please come whether or not you have participated in the past. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon the preceding Friday for the link; or contact Nettie. (A rich source of anti-racism information can be found on “Your Black Friends are Busy,” a website especially for white allies – books, videos, articles, and much more on the Black experience and antiracism initiatives around the country.)

Care and Counsel Committee seeks people willing to participate in a mid-morning program about a time when you asked for help from MFM and the outcome. Such requests could include a spiritual support request, food while you were sick, moving furniture . . . — or a time when you reached out with an idea for the Meeting, gave ministry, started a group. Maybe you got what you needed, maybe not. We’d like to know your story! Email Judith or John S.

Loaves and Fishes, Mon, March 29: Join other metro-area Friends, the Ismaili Community and the Mayim Rabim congregation to provide a meal at Holy Rosary Church in S Mpls, 2424 – 18th Ave S. One group will prepare chili burrito, fruit, and salad (2-4:30); another will pack up and hand out the meals (4:45-6:30,) and another, clean up (5:30-7.) Fruit donations, dropped off at Holy Rosary after 2:00, are needed. Covid-19 has put many people out of work and school creating a need for more meals to be served. At the same time, the number of volunteers and fruit donations have decreased. Email Christian at cbourdo(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)Loavesandfishesmn.org to sign up for a shift to make sure there is sufficient space. Masks, gloves, and hats required. This activity remains a COVID transmission risk so please be aware of your risk. Please sign up to come if you can!

OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH OTHER FRIENDS

Friends School of MN’s Plant Sale is gearing up! Volunteers are needed already! See more at https://mailchi.mp/a3ca331f2b01/fsm-april-20-2017-mission-moments-4904796

Pendle Hill’s first Monday Lecture tomorrow night, March 1, 6:30-8 (CT): Returning to Creative and Spiritual Playfulness with Jesse White. Creative play serves as a magnificent tool for returning to a comfortable and exploratory relationship with God. God will create with us the more we open ourselves to fascination, curiosity, and play. Come for a creative, playful, and Spirit-filled evening. All are welcome. Please have a space to work, and supplies for creative expression. A webcam is helpful too.

Other opportunities at Pendle Hill: The Inner Guide vs. the Inner Critic: The Journey from Judgment to Love – Mar 1, 3, 5; Pendle Hill’s Reading Group (A Testament of Devotion) – Mar 10; Facing Transitions Together: A Couple Enrichment Retreat – Mar 13-14 and Mar 20-21; Perfection of the Present Moment – Mar 24-28

Quaker Voluntary Service is accepting applications for next year’s Fellows (app deadline, March 15)! Share this news with your networks – Facebook, Linked In, Twitter, email, phone! More about QVS at https://quakervoluntaryservice.org/about-us/

Northern Yearly Meeting’s Spring Interim Session will be March 12-14 on Zoom. Watch for details here.

Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas meeting, March 12–21; registration deadline is TODAY, Feb 28th. Meet and worship with Friends from across geographic, cultural, and theological spectrums within the Americas. Our faith and our witness are strengthened through being in community with each other, reaching out across the differences that exist among us. The theme for this session is and the theme is Here…for just such a time as this. [Esther 4:14] More information here.

OFFICE HOURS

Carolyn VandenDolder, the Meeting Coordinator, will be in the office Wed – Fri afternoons. Phone messages checked daily; email checked W-F. Bulletin deadline, noon Thur. Bulletin items can be phoned in to the office (612-926-6159) or emailed (office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org).