December 25, 2022

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

10:15 – 11:00 Feel the Love Join in song, conversation, refreshments, (and movement if you wish!) Bring finger foods and musical instruments. Coffee and tea provided. Zoom host – Mary

11:15 – 12:15 meeting for worship (unprogrammed): care of meeting, John Dunham; Zoom host – Sandy

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

HOLD IN THE LIGHT

Those who are alone or feel alone during the holidays.

the Nominating Committee as it discerns who to approach to serve as the next presiding clerk. This position can be an invitation to a deeper relationship with Minneapolis Meeting, with Quakerism, with the Divine.

NEWS FOR MINNEAPOLIS MEETING FRIENDS

Mid-Morning Program next Sunday at 10:15: Opportunities for Spiritual Growth in Small Groups at MFM. Why not begin the New Year by learning more about the rich offerings for spiritual growth and deepening friendships at the Meeting? Participants from Experiment with Light, Spiritual Nurture, Lectio Divina, and mid-week worship groups will share their experiences, with invitations to join-in during the coming year.

BAG LUNCH / POTLUCK FINGER FOOD at the rise of second worship NEXT SUNDAY, Jan 1st! The kitchen is off-limits, but folding tables will be available so Friends can eat and visit upstairs over bag lunches, brought from home, or share potluck finger food. Coffee / hot water provided.

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.

Every winter, Minneapolis Meeting takes a special collection, outside the regular operating budget, to benefit organizations approved at monthly meeting. The Peace and Social Concerns Committee will bring the recommendation to monthly meeting that the recipient of this year’s Winter Gift be the Minnesota Council of Churches Refugee Services (http://www.mnchurches.org/what-we-do/refugee-services). You may make a contribution now by making checks out to Minneapolis Meeting with “Winter Gift” in the memo line.

Monthly Meeting approved a Trustee’s matching gift for individual contributions made to Thee Quaker Project, an exciting new podcast, by January 30th. Make checks out to MFM Trustees and put Thee Quaker Project in the memo line. Thee Quaker Project has a matching gift opportunity through this spring. So for every $10 you give, $40 will go to Thee Quaker Project, building a 21st century Quaker media project dedicated to authenticity, spiritual courage, and speaking out of silence.

SMALL GROUP OPPORTUNITIES THIS WEEK AT MINNEAPOLIS MEETING

Join Lectio Divina at noon this Tues, Dec 27th. Hold a short reading from the Bible, Quaker, or other spiritual text to see if and how it might speak to us today. Rather than reading for information, in Lectio, read for insight – open to the Divine and allow the text to speak to our life and times. Followed by a time of worship sharing. Contact Stephen for the link.

OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WIDER WORLD OF FRIENDS

WORSHIP

There will be an in-person New Year’s Eve celebration at Twin Cities Meeting on Dec 31 (1725 Grand Ave, Saint Paul.) Come for any part or all of the evening: potluck at 5:30; worship at 6:30; games, conversation, fun, maybe singing, maybe a discussion of hopes and inspirations for the new year at 7:00. Bring your favorite games, or a “Rise Up Singing” songbook if you have one. Child-friendly, alcohol-free – coffee and tea provided. Ends by 10:30.

There will be a candlelight meeting for worship with care for the New Year online and at Pendle Hill, Dec 31, 10-11PM (CT). Join at: https://pendlehill.zoom.us/j/432071090?pwd=aU5OOWk4ZGJkcWNUbzI5TXdjdVpSdz09

WORKSHOPS, FILMS, RETREATS, PROGRAMS, PRESENTATIONS

Pendle Hill will offer Speaking with Spirit, an online poetry immersive, with Jesse White, on Tuesdays in January, the 3rd – 31st, 2023, 5:30-7(CT) via Zoom. More and to register – https://pendlehill.org/events/speaking-with-spirit/

VOLUNTEER

Truth and Healing Commission on Indian boarding schools: The opportunity to establish the commissions and begin to right the historic, devastating wrong of Indigenous boarding schools will end Jan. 3. Minneapolis Meeting has approved a minute encouraging support of establishing this commission, Legislation S. 2907/H.R. 5444. The minute is available online (item 10 at https://minneapolisfriends.org/category/business-minutes/) Friends Committee on National Legislation also has resources for conveying your support of the commission to your elected officials: https://fcnl.quorum.us/campaign/35660/

OFFICE HOURS

Carolyn VandenDolder, the Meeting Coordinator, will be in the office Wed and Fri afternoons. Phone messages checked daily; email checked during office hours. 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).