November 6, 2022

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

9:00 – 10:00 meeting for worship (unprogrammed): care of meeting, Keitha Herron; Zoom host – Nick

10:15 – 11:00 The Quaking of American: An Embodied Guide to Navigating our Nations Upheaval and Racial Reckoning. Come learn about this challenging and profound book and what the on-going Deep Inner Work of Racial Justice group is doing as they work through the book together and confront the racism present without and within. Zoom host – Rae Beth

11:15 – 12:15 meeting for worship (semi-programmed): there is no planned speaker today; Jacque Wiersma – musician; care of meeting, John Dunham; Zoom host – Rae Beth

For the link to worship and mid-morning program, email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org.

HOLD IN THE LIGHT

The United States and all its inhabitants as we work to live constructively with each other.

NEWS FOR MINNEAPOLIS MEETING FRIENDS

Monthly meeting for business is next Sunday, 9:45-11:15. Come participate in this integral aspect of Minneapolis Meeting life.

There will be a meeting for committee clerks NEXT SUNDAY at the rise of semi-programmed worship. If you, a committee clerk, cannot attend, please let John K know beforehand.

There is mid-week worship every Wed night, 7PM. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org by noon Wednesday for the link.

The Peace and Social Concerns Committee receives nominations, then reviews and recommends recipients for the meeting’s Winter Gift in December. If you would like to nominate an organization to be a recipient, please email or phone Deborah J.

The celebration of the life of Mary Jean Port will be Sat, Dec 3rd, at 1PM, in-person and online via Zoom.

Meeting life is starting to hit its stride. With our new integrated worship, there are even more roles needed to allow MFM life – worship, member care, mid-morning program, first day school, outward witness – to unfold. One important way to get to know others and become known in Meeting, (and to ensure that MFM continues to offer spiritual support, challenge, and nurture,) is to labor with others through committee work. A description of committees and their area of focus can be found on the website: https://minneapolisfriends.org/committees/. Need help discovering where you might flourish? Contact anyone on the Nominating Committee: Connie A, Bill H, Jim L, or Carolyn V.

Ministry and Counsel Committee (M&C) asks individuals who feel led to share a prepared message or a reading during semi-programmed worship, to contact John C or other members of M&C. M&C is also looking for closers for both worships. Serving as a closer is a ministry of service to the meeting.

Thank you to those who helped host Northern Yearly Meeting’s Fall Interim Session here last weekend. The sessions were rich and the opportunity for visiting Friends to experience our zoom system was important and timely.

Quaker Voluntary Service has two program Fridays each month. Could you provide a vegetarian lunch for three on Nov 18th? Sign up with Miranda, QVS Local Coordinator: miranda(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)quakervoluntaryservice.org. THANK YOU, Friends, for this gesture of care and support.

SMALL GROUP OPPORTUNITIES AT MINNEAPOLIS MEETING

Join Lectio Divina for thirty minutes at noon this Tuesday. Hold a short reading from the Bible, Quaker, or other text to see if and how it might speak to us today, followed by worship-sharing. Contact Stephen to get the link quickly or email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org

Established writers as well as dabblers will have an informal writing session tomorrow night, Nov 7th, 7-9PM. This is a chance to connect with each other, writing with prompts and sharing what we write. ALL INVITED, whether or not you have participated before! Contact Jane D. with questions or interest.

OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WIDER WORLD OF FRIENDS

VOLUNTEER

Find unique craft items, used books, handmade soaps, Quaker Treasures, Christmas trees, jewelry, discounted gift cards to local businesses, and much more at the Friends for a NonViolent World Annual Holiday Fair, held at The Friends School of Minnesota, 1365 Englewood Ave, St. Paul, MN 55104. Once again, you can come enjoy a home-cooked meal, Fri 6-8PM or Sat 11AM-2PM. Proceeds support FNVW’s violence prevention work, including the Alternatives to Violence (AVP) program for people incarcerated in Minnesota Prisons. The Fair will run Fri, Dec 2nd, 1-9PM and Sat, Dec 3rd, 10AM – 4PM. Select items will be available for purchase through the FNVW Holiday Fair Online Pre-Sale Nov. 18-27 (the link will be published closer to the time.) Online purchases will be available for pick-up at the Friends School of MN on the 2nd and 3rd. Sign up to donate an item at https://bit.ly/FNVWdonate2022. Sign up to volunteer at https://bit.ly/FNVWvolunteer2022.

Have books that you would like to donate to the Holiday Fair? Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org to be put in touch with book sale coordinator, Caron.

WORKSHOPS, FILMS, RETREATS, PROGRAMS, PRESENTATIONS

Embracing Spiritual Gifts, a Pendle Hill first Monday lecture will be offered Nov 7th, 6-8PM (CT) by Adria Gulizia. Friends often claim say that we are all ministers, but too rarely do we prepare ourselves to recognize, welcome, and nurture gifts of ministry. Explore the connection between spiritual gifts and ministry, reflect on how spiritual gifts function in community, and celebrate what the Spirit is doing in each of us and in each other. More and register at https://pendlehill.org/events/embracing-spiritual-gifts/.

Registration now for the Friends Committee on National Legislation Annual Meeting and Quaker Public Policy Institute, “Brave and Constant,” Nov 16-20. Help make decisions that will guide FCNL’s work during the coming Congress and to connect with people who share like values. Underlying this whole experience is the worship that anchors and strengthens our connections. In-person (in DC) and via Zoom. Schedule and more here. Reg deadline, Nov 9th.

Northern Yearly Meeting has an Anti-Racism working group which is hosting two remaining evening discussion (7PM CT):
– Thurs, Nov 10: Discuss the Paula Palmer video interview with Jerilyn DeCoteau about Quaker Indian Boarding Schools. Watch the interview beforehand at: https://act.fcnl.org/go/125381
– Thurs, Dec 8: Discuss the film “Two Rivers” (Watch the film beforehand.) Find the trailer here: http://tworiversfilm.com/2riv_film.htm
Join both at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85615929757?pwd=L1lFTS9FZkxQajBxVDd4bXhkRWpMZz09; Meeting ID: 856 1592 9757; Passcode: 924914

OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY

Overcoming Racism: The Power of Truth-Telling will be held Nov 11-12 at Metro State University, St. Paul. The conference features keynote speaker Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer, and entertainment keynote JUSTMove. Registration deadline TODAY, Fri, Nov 4. Learn more and register here.

The Minnesota Council of Churches has commenced a program on Minnesota’s Racial Legacy, Finally Telling the Truth. White Church Truths will be offered at Westminster Presbyterian Church, THIS SAT, Nov 5 9AM-3PM, and will focus on identifying and facing the truths hidden in our own beliefs. With open eyes, we will more clearly look to the future – and our role in creating it. The first EXCELLENT MN’s Racial Legacy series of speakers is available online: http://www.mnchurches.org/what-we-do/minnesotas-racial-legacy.

Breaking the Cycle of White Supremacy, offered online by the MN Council of NonProfits, will be Nov 7, 14 and 21, 1-3:30PM. During this highly interactive multi-part training, participants will collectively look at how to break the cycle of white supremacy and take practical and sustained action toward equity. Participants will dig deep into how white supremacy shows up in people, organizations, systems, and self. In-between sessions, participants will put into practice what they are learning and connect action to personal experience, including their work environment and relationships. Learn more and register.

Middle East Peace Now will host Tarek Al-Zoughbi, a Christian Palestinian-American who grew up in Bethlehem. Since 2016, he has worked as the Project and Youth Coordinator at Wi’am: The Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center. Tarek is active in Civil Society and has served on the Executive Board of the National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine. Come hear about the reality of life and activism under occupation, with focus on policies, peace-building processes, and Palestinian leadership. The conversation will also include lessons learned from engagement with the Palestinian/Arab traditions of Sulha (Conflict Mediation) as well as some of the challenges and needs of practicing conflict transformation. Sat, Nov 12th, 10-11:30. Register here to receive the link.

The Land is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery, Nov 16, 7 – 8:30PM at Calvary Baptist, 2608 Blaisdell, Minneapolis and online. Going beyond identifying the problems of racism, colonialism, hate and discrimination, Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition’s Sarah Augustine will focus on strategies to take a decolonized approach to anti-racism. Sarah’s work challenges those inside and outside the church to take responsibility for the multi-generational harm that has been caused to Indigenous people and take action for love of neighbor, seeking right relationship and reconciliation through active nonviolent structural transformation. Offered by The Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute. Learn more and register.

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).