November 13, 2022

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

9:00 – 9:40 meeting for worship (unprogrammed): care of meeting, Sandy Olson; Zoom host – Nick

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

11:15 – 12:00 meeting for worship (semi-programmed): no planned speaker; care of meeting, Linda Ferguson; Zoom host – Mary

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

There will be a meeting for committee clerks TODAY at the rise of semi-programmed worship. If you are a committee clerk and cannot attend, please let John. You may join via Zoom. Link from John K.

NEWS FOR MINNEAPOLIS MEETING FRIENDS

Mid-Morning Program next Sunday at 10:15: a facilitated discussion about the question, What is Quakerism to you? John Kraft and Lolly Lijewski facilitating.

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

First Day School for families and children ages 6-11 in Northern Yearly Meeting: Growing Gratitude—Living Thankfully, will be offered on Sun, Nov 20th, 10:30-11:45 online. Through conversation, art, movement, story, food, and song, we will explore living thankfully, treasuring the moment, and growing gratitude in daily life. We will read Our Table, by Peter Reynolds, about a girl who helps her family appreciate their time together. Children will make gratitude jars to place at home and banana sushi to share with their families. We will close with centering on a children’s version of the Haudenosaumi Thanksgiving Address. Registration is required to get the link: https://forms.gle/KvjZSJGNUwVEvkhC9

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 send an email to Deborah J.

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

Minneapolis Meeting Committees can be a vehicle for getting to know, and being better known by, each other. They can offer us an opportunity to work together, learning the joy of companionship, the lessons of patience, the benefits of multiple perspectives. They can be a place to develop and employ our gifts and to learn how we accomplish tasks and bring leadings to life together. They are a means to being in community with each other. Talk with a member of the Nominating Committee about if the time is right for you to find a home on an MFM committee: Connie A, Bill H, Jim L, or Carolyn V. A description of committees and their area of focus can be found on the website: https://minneapolisfriends.org/committees/

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.

Need to schedule a Zoom meeting for a committee meeting or Minneapolis Meeting activity? Please send a request, including date, time, and purpose to office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org to have it set up.

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 for the link.

The Right Relationship with Indigenous People group will meet this coming Monday night, Nov 14th, at 7PM. Open to all interested, this group meets every second Monday night.

Meet with the Deep Inner Work of Racial Justice Group via Zoom this Tues, Nov 15th, 7 – 8:30PM. YOU ARE INVITED TO COME AND EXPLORE WHETHER YOU WANT TO JOIN IN OTHE GROUP’S NEXT PHASE: Reading and doing the body practices in the book, The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning by Resma Menakem. The approach is non-violent and focuses on preparing our bodies, minds and spirits for what we are facing in this country. And to create a non-racist culture (a world of feeling and seeing no strangers.) We will incorporate Quaker practices as we go to our deep inner resources to find connection and strength. Another opportunity to explore with us will be December 13, 7-8:30PM on Zoom. Email or Call Nettie or Jimbo if you’d like to receive a link to attend .

OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WIDER WORLD OF FRIENDS

WORSHIP

Quaker Earthcare Witness hosts monthly online worship sharing groups. In worship sharing, Friends gather in small groups to focus on a particular question (or questions) to explore our own experience and share with each other more deeply than we would in normal conversation. Worship sharing seeks to draw us into sacred space, where we can take down our usual defenses, and encounter each other in that which is eternal. Register at this link.

VOLUNTEER

The Friends for a NonViolent World Holiday Fair is a special opportunity to embrace the holiday spirit of peace, gratitude, giving back, and loving your neighbors. It’s a craft sale and social event you won’t want to miss! It’s also FNVW’s biggest fundraiser of the year. A wide variety of holiday gifts, unique craft items, candles, soaps, handmade winter accessories, discounted gift cards to local businesses, used books, desserts, Quaker Treasures, Christmas trees, wreaths, delicious home-cooked meals and much, much more will be for sale at the fair. Proceeds support local artisans and FNVW’s violence prevention work. Fri, Dec 2nd, 1-9PM and Sat, Dec 3rd, 10AM – 4PM. Select items will be available for purchase through the 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. A whole variety of volunteer opportunities are available. Find the one that fits you and sign up here: https://bit.ly/FNVWvolunteer2022. For more about FNVW and its programs, see http://www.fnvw.org/

WORKSHOPS, FILMS, RETREATS, PROGRAMS, PRESENTATIONS

Friends for a NonViolent World will work with students from the Friends School of MN and the seniors who live in the nearby Hamline Hi-Rise, facilitating a two-part intergenerational art project that explores ways we can use our hands to build peace in our community on Tuesdays, Nov 15th and 22nd. Would you like to join? Contact donna(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)fnvw.org for details and to sign up.

Friends with Nature meets monthly for a walk in a local natural area or a Zoom conversation. Nerd out about nature, with spiritual interjections as inspired. Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org to be put in touch with Dave about RSVPing, getting details for the gathering on Nov 19 and Dec 17, or asking additional questions.

Employment Opportunity: Friends for a NonViolent World Volunteer Engagement Specialist. This part-time position helps grow FNVW’s capacity and impact by recruiting, training and supporting new FNVW volunteers and student interns, developing opportunities for volunteers to be deeply engaged in every facet of FNVW’s work. They also play a key role in planning, implementing, organizing and coordinating the volunteer and community engagement opportunities that drive FNVW’s mission forward. FNVW is eager to hire that dynamic person who can build on the organization’s strong volunteer program and help it realize its full potential. Send resume and cover letter to Leah Robshaw Robinson at leah(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)fnvw.org. Please put “Application for Volunteer Engagement Specialist” in the email subject line. Learn more at fnvw.org/jobs

Friends for a NonViolent World’s most recent Everyday Nonviolence Podcast features the work of St. Paul-based Women’s Advocates which has been providing shelter and other services for victim-survivors of domestic violence for fifty years. Women’s Advocates use the tools of radical hospitality, advocacy, and collective action to work toward a community free from violence, where all are safe and can live productive and healthy lives. Listen here.

OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY

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.