March 14, 2021

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

9:00 – 9:40 meeting for worship (unprogrammed): care of meeting, Terry Kayser

9:45 – 11:15 monthly meeting for business: John Kraft, clerk; Stephen Snyder, recording clerk

11:15 – 12:00 meeting for worship (semi-programmed): no planned speaker; care of meeting, Mary Jean Port

Worship and mid-morning program in March: contact 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, there will be first day school / programming for youth on the first and third Sundays of the month. There is no programming today.

THINGS TO KNOW

Do you have a message yearning to be offered at second hour worship? 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.

Ranae Hanson’s new book, Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress is described at https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/watershed. There you could also pre-order the book (to be delivered in April or early May). The book includes stories offered to you by some of Ranae’s former students at Minneapolis College.

A Rosalie Wahl documentary, “Minnesota Experience: The Girl from Birch Creek” will be aired on Channel TPT 2 at 8PM on March 29. Rosalie Wahl, the first woman MN State Supreme Court member, was an early member of Twin Cities Friends Meeting. Also available online at https://www.tpt.org/.

OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH MINNEAPOLIS MEETING FRIENDS

Mid-Morning Program next Sunday at 10:15: Police Reform—What We Have Done and What’s Next? Hear from a variety of members and attenders who have been working on this issue and consider together, What comes next?

Experience thirty minutes of worship sharing on a Quaker reading: 11:25AM Wednesdays. Contact 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. Contact office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Wednesday for the link.

An Introduction to Quakerism through the Testimonies, a series offered by the Welcoming and Outreach Committee, will begin Wed night, March 24th, 8PM following mid-week worship. Come explore Quaker faith through the testimonies: simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship. For everyone – newcomers and old-timers alike! Contact office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Wednesday for the link!

Welcoming and Outreach Committee will hold a Friendly Meal on Fri, March 26th at 6PM over zoom! Link sent on Wed, the 24th to those who have contacted Keitha and signed up. Singles, significant-other couples, families, youth – all are welcome. Have your meal ready to go and your computer on the table and logged in to zoom at 6 – break-out rooms when everyone arrives, (hopefully with no late-comers.) Gather around one computer – or, if using two, please have them in separate rooms. Join this time of fellowship and informal conversation, enriching our community, hopefully bringing new life to our pandemic-ordered routines, as well as a laugh or two.

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. 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. Lunches needed on March 19, April 2, 16, 30th

OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH OTHER FRIENDS

Northern Yearly Meeting’s middle school group has a monthly Zoom call. exploring religions with guest speakers. Rabbi Bonnie will join our call THIS THURS, Mar 18, 7PM to talk about Judaism. Do you have questions in advance? Feel free to send them to me and we will get them answered! Contact office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org to be in touch with Series for more.

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

Friends for a NonViolent World’s annual meeting will be on March 27th from 10-11:30AM. Come celebrate what FNVW accomplished during 2020, welcome new Board Members and appreciate outgoing Board Members, too. You’ll also learn what’s on the horizon for FNVW in 2021. Link: http://bit.ly/fnvw2021; ID: 982 9223 3824

The Friends General Conference Gathering will be virtual and pay-as-led this year, June 27-July 3. This is a low-barrier opportunity to check out all or parts of the Gathering. More at: https://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/gathering. Workshops offered at: https://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/gathering/programs-and-events/workshops .

Opportunities from Pendle Hill: The Gathered Meeting and Embodied Quaker Voices – Apr 5; Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons Online – Apr 9-11; Fierce Biblical Women Speak Power Today – Apr 11, 18, 25 and May 2, 9; Pendle Hill’s Reading Group (On Hallowing One’s Diminishments, PHP #292) – Apr 14.

Did you miss the Quaker Voluntary Service Philadelphia alumni Stories of Service program last week? Watch it here: https://quakervoluntaryservice.org/stories-of-service/

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.

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).