May 9, 2021

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

9:00 – 9:40 meeting for worship (unprogrammed): care of worship, Tom Ward

9:45 – 11:15 monthly meeting for business: John Kraft, presiding clerk; Tom Ward, recording clerk

11:15 – 12:15 meeting for worship (semi-programmed): Lolly Lijewski – speaker; care of meeting, Stephen Snyder

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

First day school for youth: Madison Meeting has invited young friends to join other Northern Yearly Meeting youth on Sunday mornings. Elementary youth (6-13), 10-10:45AM will explore how children can change their communities and world. The class will read Malala’s Magic Pencil, decorate magic pencils and reflect on challenges in the local community that they would change if they could (materials: scissor, new pencils, magazine pictures, glue.) Littles (ages 3-6), 10:45-11:15 will read Sometimes People March and talk about how we can stand with people who are treated unfairly. The class will learn about Mothers’ Day, founded to urge mothers all over the world to work together for peace, and make peace flowers as gifts (materials: tissue paper, pipe cleaners, scissors, tape.) Teens (ages 13-18), 11:15-12:15 will tie up loose ends from previous projects and hear and discuss a new story. Same link as last week. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Friday if you need the link.

THINGS TO KNOW

OFFICE HOURS THIS WEEK ARE UNUSUAL. The Meeting Coordinator will be in the office on Mon and Tues and out of the office the rest of the week. Bulletin deadline, noon, Tuesday.

Heads up! The summer schedule will begin May 30 and end September 12th; the return to the school year schedule will begin on Sept 19th. In the summer schedule, there will be one meeting for worship at 10AM. The first and third Sundays will be unprogrammed; the second and fourth will be semi-programmed.

Mayim Rabim’s Rabbi, Sharon Stiefel, will lead Minneapolis’s Healing Our City Reflection at the prayer tent, Thurs, May 13, 8 AM. https://www.healingourcity.org/ The daily prayer tent gathering will continue until Wed, May 26th.

OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH MINNEAPOLIS MEETING FRIENDS

Mid-Morning Program next Sunday at 10:15: Lighting each other’s candles, we can light the world. Northern Yearly Meeting is hopping with exciting initiatives, creative activities, and passion to make change in the world. Grounded in the Spirit and following God’s leadings, the current focus is on learning to be inclusive, anti-racist, and develop right relationship with People of Color (POC) and Native peoples. Becky Marty, co-clerk, and Connie Archbald, MFM’s rep. to NYM, will offer more about NYM, what is coming at the next Annual Session, and how you can be involved.

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.

The Deep Inner Work of Creating Racial Justice Group will meet 7-8:30PM this Tues, May 11. We will use tools and exercises from My Grandmother’s Hands: Healing Racialized Trauma in Our Heart and Bodies. Share a story about the outward racial justice work you are doing; come prepared to examine your experience with implicit bias in your work; and review last month’s assignment, “write a paragraph about a group or an individual doing racial justice work that you admire and talk about why you have been reluctant to join in.” This group meets every second Tues. You are welcome, whether or not you have come before. Questions to Nettie or Jimbo. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon on the 11th for the link.

CORRECTION: The group interested in working toward a right relationship with Native Americans will meet this Friday night, May 14th, 7PM. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon on the 11th for the link.

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 May 28th and June 11th.

The virtual launch of Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress, by Ranae Hanson will be at 7PM on Tues, May 18th. Ranae will be joined in conversation by Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Stephen Healey, and Amina Keinan; Ulla Nilsen will host the event. All are welcome. Register at z.umn.edu/hanson815

Ranae Hanson and four other water champions (Mayadhin Al Abri, Michala Zien, Pat Thompson, and Allie Rykken) will help you explore your nearest watershed, which may be under the street in front of your house; 10:30 – noon, May 15th. Free and family-friendly. Register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDNwwNVZOY-iGhnz451uaQ8nvyqYpTBJCFrPhgP12lS_DBOQ/viewform

OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH OTHER FRIENDS

Come learn how it felt to build community in a new Quaker Volunteer Service city; where the first cohort o Fellows from the MSP QVS House are today; and the importance of supporting young adults’ spiritual and vocational discernment at the QVS Spring fundraiser Thurs, May 13th 7-8:30PM! There will be music, storytelling, and an open Q&A with QVS MSP alumni. Register in advance to receive an email reminder and link on the day of the program: quakervoluntaryservice.org/events. A recording of the event will be available soon after. To make a gift in support of Quaker Voluntary Service, click here.

Friends for a NonViolent World:
* Bridging the Divides meeting, 6:30-8PM Tues, May 18 – ID: 957 8540 1714; passcode: 642111; https://zoom.us/j/95785401714?pwd=QmZuR3V6eFdOOExzK2h0NERveElkZz09
Two evidence-based policy papers for specific training, resources, and supports that improve relations between police and the community, reduce the use of excessive force and, ultimately, save lives are now available from this initiative: Militarization of Police and De-escalation Policy and Mental Health
* The Great FNVW Get-Together, Sat, June 26, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. In person at Midway Peace Park in St. Paul (right outside FNVW office)
* People Camp, “Seeking Justice in a Changing World,” will be at Northern Pines Retreat Center, August 8-14. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson is a People Camp 2021 Book Club selection; e-book copies available through the Hennepin County Libraries here. People Camp registration is open now. Sign up here: People Camp 2021 Registration Form

The most recent Northern Yearly Meeting Journal contains an insightful article by Stephen Snyder:
https://mcusercontent.com/e6cdd5b443496c6a7f02de01b/files/c560368c-0be8-4a49-99ca-4f4f8bd0cc4d/NYM_Journal_Spring_2021.pdf

Northern Yearly Meeting 2021 Annual Session, May 27-30: “Gonna Keep on Moving Forward.” Yearly Meeting will start Thurs night with a special plenary by the anti-racism working group, will have programming for children and youth as well as the not-to-be-missed talent show! More at: https://www.fgcquaker.org/system/files/cloud_attachments/2021%20NYM%20Annual%20Session%20Brochure.pdf

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 listed at: https://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/gathering/programs-and-events/workshops .

Opportunities to worship with the wider family of Friends :
~ Friends General Conference hosts a weekly worship, Sat nights, 8PM: https://www.tfaforms.com/4816591 For other opportunities, see: https://www.fgcquaker.org/resources/online-worship-opportunities
~ 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
~ Global meeting for worship is offered every Wed, 1 PM (CT). Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org to be put in touch.