January 15, 2023

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

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

10:15 – 11:00 What’s the Difference Between a Welcoming and an Inclusive Space? What does inclusivity mean to you? Has the meeting taken steps to not just welcome people, but to embrace them into the community? A QuakerSpeak video and small group discussions – offered by the Welcoming and Outreach Committee. Zoom host – Mary B

11:15 – 12:15 meeting for worship (semi-programmed): Wina Mortenson – speaker; care of meeting, Nettie Smith; Zoom host – Mary B

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

”Aloha” means mutual regard and affection and extends warmth in caring with no obligation in return. “Aloha” is the essence of relationships in which each person is important to every other person for collective existence. ”Aloha” means to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen and to know the unknowable. –from the state of Hawai’i statutes Hawaiʻi Law of The Aloha Spirit

NEWS FOR MINNEAPOLIS MEETING FRIENDS

Mid-Morning Program next Sunday at 10:15: Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery: Hear from some of the Right Relationship with Indigenous People group about their experience, learning, and thoughts around the Doctrine of Discovery and discuss what the Meeting needs in order to consider a minute repudiating the Doctrine – the original validation for subjugation, theft, de-humanization, and extermination of non-White, non-Christians.

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.

The Meeting Coordinator will be out of the office from Jan 20 – Feb 10. If you need to schedule a Zoom meeting or reserve meetinghouse space for a committee meeting or Minneapolis Meeting activity during that time, please send a request, including date, time, and purpose to office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org BY THIS FRIDAY to have it set up.

Every winter, Minneapolis Meeting takes a special collection, outside the regular operating budget, to benefit organizations approved at monthly meeting. 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). To make a contribution, write checks to Minneapolis Meeting with “Winter Gift” in the memo line. Contributions can be made through the end of Jan.

Monthly Meeting approved a Trustee’s matching gift for individual contributions made to Thee Quaker Project, an exciting new podcast. Make checks out to MFM Trustees and put “Thee Quaker Project” in the memo line until Jan 30th to get the match. Thee Quaker Project has a matching gift opportunity of its own through this spring. So for every $10 you give, $40 will go to Thee Quaker Project, building a 21st century Quaker media project.

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.

Loaves and Fishes: 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. on Jan 30th. 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.) Contact Sue 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. Sign up to come if you can!

SMALL GROUP OPPORTUNITIES AT MINNEAPOLIS MEETING

The Welcoming and Outreach Committee will arrange Friendly Meals fellowship if there is sufficient interest. There could be two kinds of Friendly Meals:
1. In person – those who sign up are grouped and meet for a potluck meal in the home of an assigned host in February, March and April. Each meal in the three months would have different people and different hosts. If you sign up for this choice of Friendly Meals, you agree to be a host for one of the 3 meals on a date of your choosing, but preferably in February, March or April. We need to have at least 10 – 12 people participate (couples or significant others would be counted as 1 for the numbers needed, but as 2 people if we can organize the meals).
2. Friendly Meals via Zoom would be arranged in groups of 5 or 6. Participants would each make their own meal and eat and converse on Zoom at a specified time. We need to have at least 10 to 12 participate.
More information will be sent to you if you are interested in signing up. Please contact Keitha if you are interested in one of the versions listed above, stating which version you are interested in.

OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WIDER WORLD OF FRIENDS

VOLUNTEER

Friends for a NonViolent World is fueled by Volunteers. If you are looking to join a team of engaged and passionate people working to make real change, there is a place for you at FNVW! Especially sought: Everyday Nonviolence Podcast Producer; Everyday Nonviolence Podcast Editor, Event Planner, Volunteer Engagement Team Member, Alternatives to Violence Workshop Facilitator, Advocacy and Outreach Team Member. Complete the online interest form so someone from FNVW can follow-up with you: https://default.salsalabs.org/T5a4f5d6e-588e-4e08-a251-92c0f62c2f79/b2dba806-8d6b-4084-9ed3-ac3e130b83ae

WORKSHOPS, FILMS, RETREATS, PROGRAMS, PRESENTATIONS

Martin Luther King, Jr Day is tomorrow! Come to an event dedicated to MLK’s vision of equity and justice TOMORROW, 11AM – 2PM, at Powderhorn Park. Performances, art activities, lunch, giveaways for kids and more; free and for all ages. More at https://www.ppna.org/mlkcelebration Friends for a NonViolent World is one of the sponsors of the event!

Join Friends for a NonViolent World at a rally and press conference with elected and community leaders to support the We Choose Us pro-democracy agenda – a host of measures that will protect and expand democracy in MN including pre-registration for 16 and 17 year old, and voting rights restoration for people on probation and parole. Tues, Jan 17th, 9:30AM – 12PM, the State Capitol Rotunda, 75 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, St. Paul.

Friends Committee on National Legislation Quaker Changemaker event, Jan 18, 5:30-6:30 pm CT online. As Congress continues to consider changes to the Selective Service System—including proposals to expand draft registration to women—FCNL will host a conversation on conscientious objection among Friends, from Vietnam to today. Register at this link. We will hear from Lenore Yarger, who works for the GI Rights Hotline and Quaker House in Fayetteville, NC, and FCNL Executive Secretary Emeritus Joe Volk, who was a conscientious objector after being drafted during the Vietnam War.

Northern Yearly Meeting’s Anti-Racism Working Group will offer a program on Multicultural Learning, the work of James Banks, led by Yvonne Banks, on Thurs, Jan 19th at 7PM. James Banks’ work has challenged the normative white outlook in our education system and has helped reshape pedagogy to address the multiple ways the American education system privileges white children and fails children of color. His work and has had a transformative impact. Participants will benefit from some prior on-line research – a hand-out on the work of James Banks is available to those participating in the zoom program.
The link for the program is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85615929757?pwd=L1lFTS9FZkxQajBxVDd4bXhkRWpMZz09

Twin Cities Meeting invites Friends to an in-person showing of the film Indian Horse, Sat, Jan 21st, 1:30PM. Indian Horse, based on the novel by Richard Wagamese, is the story of a young Native boy in Canada who is taken from his family to a boarding school. It is a difficult story that offers a glimpse into the lives, culture and painful history common to Indigenous people in the US and Canada.

Friends Peace Teams will offer Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change – toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples, an interactive online workshop on Sun, Jan 22, 1-3(CT) for high school students and adults. Learn the real history of this country through the voices of Indigenous people, Euro-American colonists, and historians and understand why this history matters to all of us today. Learn to build relationships based on truth, respect and justice. Register at https://friendspeaceteams.org/upcoming-events/ .

Friends Committee on National Legislation will host Welcome the 118th Congress with Action on Tue, Jan 24th, 7PM(CT). Join FCNL’s advocacy experts to discuss strategy to advance key bills this year and how to use the Feb congressional recess when lawmakers return home to their districts and states. Despite partisanhsip and division, there are real opportunities for progress on peace and justice legislation in 2023. Come be a participant! RSVP at https://act.fcnl.org/go/135858?t=22&akid=28997%2E80270%2EOFJj4e

Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) invites Friends to learn about FWCC – how it is relevant to modern Quakers and global Quakerism, and how you could be a part of that, Jan 28th, 3-4:30PM(CT). Hosted by Chuck Schobert (Madison Meeting) and Marybeth Neal (recently of Twin Cities Meeting) for Northern Yearly Meeting Friends. Learn more and register here.

OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY

National Day of Racial Healing Virtual Community Event online, Jan 17th, 6PM. Local governments in the Twin Cities are bringing a community event to recognize the National Day of Racial Healing. Racism impacts all of us and we believe we need to create more safe spaces for our collective healing. This year’s event will feature Dr. Eddie Moore Jr, Founder and Director of the White Privilege Institute and the White Privilege Conference. Dr. Moore will share insights on how we feel, deal, and heal from the three evils of society (racism, poverty, and war) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, shared in speech on August 31, 1967. Register for the Zoom event here.

One Voice Mixed Chorus presents Generation, a concert exploring intergenerational relationships across our LGBTQ+ community. From AIDS to Instagram, the concert weaves together songs and stories of identity, change, and resilience. The concert also premieres a new composition by McKnight composer, Nathan Hall. “Love, Death, What Else?!” based on stories from elders at the Spirit on Lake LGBTQ elder apartments. Jan 22nd, 3:30PM. Reserve Tickets; Ordway Concert Hall – St. Paul. Use the promo code FAITH for 15% off ticket price

OFFICE HOURS

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).