March 7, 2021

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

9:00 – 10:00 meeting for worship (unprogrammed): care of meeting, Roger Miller

10:15 – 11:00 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.

11:15 – 12:15 meeting for worship (semi-programmed): Stephen Snyder – reader; care of meeting, Mary Jean Port

Worship and mid-morning program in March: email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Friday for the link.

First day school for youth at 10:15: This Sunday, older youth are encouraged to tune into mid-morning program and hear from QVS participants. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Friday for the link for younger children. First day school / programming for children and youth is offered on the first and third Sundays of the month.

THINGS TO KNOW

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, Stephen or Bill so a second worship in March or April 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.

OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH MINNEAPOLIS MEETING FRIENDS

Next Sunday, 9:45-11:15, monthly meeting for business. On the agenda: the 2021-22 budget from the Stewardship and Finance Committee; the 2021-22 committee slate from the Nominating Committee; COVID update; anti-racism work update and more. Come be part of the discernment in this integral part of Meeting life.

Experience thirty minutes of worship sharing on a Quaker reading, 11:25AM Wed. 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.

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. Contact Nettie for the link.

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. Share 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!

Quaker Voluntary Service Fellows have a program day twice a month where they learn about different aspects of Quakerism and living in community. Area Friends willing to bring vegetarian lunch for the six Fellows are encouraged to sign up with Eli: eli(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)quakervoluntaryservice.org. Upcoming lunches needed on March 19, April 2, 16, and 30th .

OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH OTHER FRIENDS

Hear from Philadelphia Quaker Voluntary Service alumni at a Stories of Service presentation THIS AFTERNOON at 3-4:30 (CT). For more and to register: https://quakervoluntaryservice.org/events/

Friends School of MN’s Plant Sale is gearing up; ordering online is available: https://www.friendsschoolplantsale.com/seeds-bulbs. Volunteers are needed already! See more at https://mailchi.mp/a3ca331f2b01/fsm-april-20-2017-mission-moments-4904796

The Northern Yearly Meeting Winter 2021 Journal can be found here, packed with news of area Quaker communities and individuals, including a piece by Jim Lovestar about the book, Farming While Black – Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land and art by Bill Hendricks. The deadline for submissions to the spring Journal is April 2: nymjournal(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)gmail.com.

Opportunities from Pendle Hill: 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; The Gathered Meeting and Embodied Quaker Voices – Apr 5; Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons Online – Apr 9-11; Pendle Hill’s Reading Group (On Hallowing One’s Diminishments, PHP #292) – Apr 14.

Christopher Sammond is offering his Opening to the Heart of Worship workshop through Powell House, March 19-21. For more and to register, click here.

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

OFFICE HOURS

Carolyn VandenDolder will be in the office Wed – Fri afternoons. Phone messages checked daily; email checked W-F. Bulletin deadline, noon Thur.