August 8, 2021

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

10:00 – 11:00 meeting for worship (semi-programmed): Barbara Ziegenhagen, speaker; care of meeting, Keitha Herron

11:00 – 12:15 worship with attention to business: John Kraft, clerk; Tom Ward, recording clerk

Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Friday for the link to Sunday worship in August.

It’s easy to be in worship for as long as you are able. Consider inviting the youth of the meeting to participate!

THINGS YOU MIGHT WANT TO KNOW

Several Friends have inquired about the section at Lakewood Cemetery owned by Minneapolis Meeting, where members of the meeting have been buried for 150 years. There are empty plots still available for members of the meeting if they wish to reserve a space as part of their end-of-life planning. Linda will lead a tour of the “Quaker section” at Lakewood Cemetery at 2PM on August 15th. She will have maps and information on the available plots. Those who are interested should meet in front of Lakewood Chapel just inside the cemetery entrance on 36th Street.

Yearning to gather even if we’re not yet worshiping at the meetinghouse? Come to an outdoor get-together, Mon night, August 23rd, 7PM at Beards Plaisance, the pavilion above Lake Harriet at Upton and 46th. Bring your own chair, snack, and drink (NOT a potluck!) and share with each other how we’ve been this past year. If it is raining or there is an air quality warning, gather on August 30th, same place, same time.

Planned vocal ministry: Take the opportunity to nurture and encourage each other! If you think someone has a message for the meeting community, recommend them to Ministry and Counsel Committee or encourage them to speak with someone from M&C themselves. Likewise, if you feel you have been given a message to share, contact Bill so a Sunday may be made available to you.

OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH MINNEAPOLIS MEETING FRIENDS

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, Aug 10th. Tools and exercises from My Grandmother’s Hands: Healing Racialized Trauma in Our Heart and Bodies are used. Come share your experience with implicit bias in your racial justice work. The group meets every second Tues. You are welcome, whether or not you have come before! Questions or link request, contact Nettie or Jimbo.

The Toward a Right Relationship with Indigenous People group will meet Friday, August 13th. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Thursday for the link.

Loaves and Fishes, Mon, August 30th: 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. Prepare dinner (2-4:30); pack up and hand out the meals (4:45-6:30,) or clean up (5:30-7.) Fruit donations needed. Covid-19 has created more need and fewer volunteers (and fruit donations.) Email Sue K. to sign up for a shift to make sure there is sufficient space or to arrange to drop off fruit. Masks, gloves, and hats required. This remains a COVID risk. Sign up to come if you can!

From Friends Committee on National Legislation: On Aug. 4 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted for repeal of the 1991 (Gulf War) and 2002 (Iraq) Authorizations for the Use of Military Force joint resolution! The measure will go to the Senate floor and has bipartisan support. Please send emails thanking Senators Smith (here) and Klobuchar (here) for their cosponsorship of the bill, and ask them to encourage the Senate leadership to bring it forward. Questions: Contact Jim H. More about the repeal and FCNL here.

OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH OTHER FRIENDS

Help prepare for the next cohort of Quaker Voluntary Service Fellows! Come help prepare the house for its new residents – cleaning shifts on August 14, 15, 22, 28 and 29! Email Marybeth to sign up. Contact Jane F or Carolyn V with questions. Meet this year’s cohort at https://quakervoluntaryservice.org/minneapolis/

Friends General Conference hosted a virtual consultation last spring to discuss best practices and strategies for organizing worship, first day school, accomplishing committee work, and creating community online. Something for everyone and some thought-provoking articles and concepts: https://www.fgcquaker.org/resources/fgc-consultation-spirit-and-community-online-resources .

Eau Claire Meeting invites Northern Yearly Meeting Friends to a Nonviolence Action Training workshop on August 20-21 (Fri night through all day Sat). By the end of the ten-hour workshop, participants will have begun to:
1) learn principles of nonviolence and how to apply them strategically in their lives
2) learn some verbal de-escalation techniques and
3) learn how to plan nonviolent protests and interactions.
Eau Claire Friends decided they needed this hands-on training to be effective anti-racist activists (and to do climate, equality, and other work), and are opening it to the wider community this opportunity. The full schedule, additional information, and registration can be found at http://ecquakers.org/article/nonviolence-training

Join the Friends for a NonViolent World Holiday Fair Planning Committee! The Holiday Fair, the first weekend of Dec at MFM, is FNVW’s biggest fundraising event of the year. The Holiday Fair includes a craft sale, café, used book sale, values board, photo booth, live music and more. Next year’s fair will also celebrate FNVW’s 40th anniversary! Join the Holiday Fair Planning Committee team to help FNVW raise the funds needed to move our mission forward. A variety of different roles are available. Your skills are needed. Contact Leah at leah(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)fnvw.org for more information.

Marcelle Martin is offering an online workshop, Exploring Spiritual Practices, Tuesday nights, Sept – Nov. More at: https://lu.ma/exploring-spiritual-practices?tk=oCGgUF . Marcelle, author and a member of Swarthmore Monthly Meeting (PA) has led workshops at Quaker meetings and retreat centers across the country, including Pendle Hill and School of the Spirit, with a call to help nurture the spiritual vitality and radical faithfulness of Friends and Quakerism today.

COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES

Winona LaDuke, Executive Director of Honor the Earth, (a recipient of MFM’s voluntary carbon tax last year,) and appointed guardian ad litem for Shell River by the Anishinaabe tribe and the 1855 Treaty Commission, was recently interviewed about the Line3 stand-off between Enbridge and water protectors. Line 3 directly violates treaties, preventing Indigenous communities from exercising their guaranteed rights to hunt, fish and engage in cultural practices. It’s also a climate disaster and a carbon bomb, threatening to release as much greenhouse gas emissions as 50 coal plants – every year for decades. Listen / read at: democracynow.org/2021/7/23/protests_line_3_pipeline_minnesota For more about Line 3, see: honorearth.org/stop_line_3

On August 25th (2-5PM,) water protectors will converge en masse with others on the State Capitol, demanding immediate cancellation of Line 3 from our elected officials. More at: https://www.facebook.com/events/148731610704832

OFFICE HOURS

Carolyn VandenDolder, Meeting Coordinator, will be in the office Wed and Thurs afternoons. Bulletin deadline, noon Thur. Phone bulletin items in to the office (612-926-6159), or email (office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org).