August 22, 2021

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

10:00 – 11:00 AM meeting for worship (unprogrammed): Lolly Lijewski, planned reader; care of meeting, Diane Barrett

How does Minneapolis Meeting support families bringing children into the community?
In what ways do we nurture children in an understanding of the Divine?
How do we nurture an understanding of the process of listening to the Spirit as children grow?

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

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

Yearning to gather even if we’re not yet worshiping at the meeting house? Come to an outdoor get-together, TOMORROW night, 7PM at Beards Plaisance park, on the hill above Lake Harriet at Upton Avenue and 46th. Meet near the “Picnic Ground number 2” and “no parking in the park” sign. Bring your own food 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 Mon, Aug 30th, same time and place.

Police Reform group will meet this Tues, August 24th, at 7PM. We will discuss what we can DO to achieve police reform in Minneapolis. All are welcome. We know some support the Charter Amendment, some have reservations about it. We will hear from everyone. Email John S. or Nettie 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)minnneapolisfriends.org by noon Tues 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!

OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH OTHER FRIENDS

Opportunities to worship with the wider family of Friends :
~ Friends General Conference hosts a weekly worship, Sat nights, 8PM: Sign up here to be sent the Zoom link. 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; password: worship
~ Quaker Center in California has a Wed worship sharing at noon (CT) with Friends from around the world responding queries based on short readings. JOIN HERE; password, email: BobFisher(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)QuakerCenter.org
~ Global meeting for worship is offered every Wed, 1 PM (CT). Contact office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org to be put in touch with the link-holder.

Help prepare for the next cohort of Quaker Voluntary Service Fellows!
Sign up to clean and prep the house TODAY and August 28 and 29 – Mary Ellen (TCFM);
Sign up to bring a vegan meal for seven for the first week of September – Mary Ellen (TCFM);
Meet this year’s cohort at https://quakervoluntaryservice.org/minneapolis/
Come to the open house on Aug 29, 1-5PM! Visit 3241 Park Ave S to see the house, bring items for the Fellow’s welcome baskets (seven identical small items) and visit with Local Support Committee members. Fellows arrive September 2nd.

Friends School of MN seeks a middle school science teacher. Rolling interviews; more at: fsmn.org/about/employment

Friends for a NonViolent World seeks a new part-time Volunteer Engagement Specialist! This dynamic role develops opportunities for volunteers and is deeply engaged in every facet of FNVW’s work, recruiting, training and supporting new FNVW volunteers and student interns. Also collaborates in planning, implementing, organizing and coordinating the volunteer and community engagements that drive FNVW’s mission forward. Come help build on the organization’s strong volunteer program and help realize its potential for growth. Job description and application here.

Pendle Hill offers workshops and retreats throughout the year. Check out pendlehill.org to keep abreast of opportunities. Upcoming events include: Pendle Hill’s Reading Group (Worship: The Gathered Meeting Revisited) Sept 8 and Quaker Caregiving In Times of Crisis Sept 10-12

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 is author of Our Life is Love: the Quaker Spiritual Journey and a member of Swarthmore Monthly Meeting (PA). She has led workshops across the country, including at Pendle Hill and School of the Spirit, with a call to help nurture the spiritual vitality and radical faithfulness of Friends and Quakerism today.

Join the Friends for a NonViolent World Holiday Fair Planning Committee! The Holiday Fair is FNVW’s biggest fundraising event of the year and includes a craft sale, café, used book sale, values board, photo booth, live music and more. Join the Planning Committee and 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 .

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Enbridge’s Line 3 is expected to be completed by the end of this month. Environmental organizations in Minnesota and around the country urge action before completion. Tremendous environmental destruction and disregard of treaties have occurred constructing Line 3. Use of Line 3 puts in jeopardy one fifth of the earth’s freshwater and risks contaminating key waterways. THIS WEDNESDAY (2-5PM), gather with water protectors at the State Capitol to demand the immediate cancellation of Line 3. More at: https://www.facebook.com/events/148731610704832 . Quaker Earthcare Witness has more at: https://quakerearthcare.org/stop-the-line-3-pipeline/.

OFFICE HOURS

Carolyn VandenDolder, Meeting Coordinator, will be in the office TUES (this change is for this week only), Thurs and Fri, afternoons. Phone messages checked daily; email checked during office hours. Bulletin deadline, noon Thur. Phone items in to the office (612-926-6159), or email (office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org).