July 9, 2023

MEETING SCHEDULE AND PROGRAM

TODAY

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM meeting for worship (unprogrammed): Mary Gochnauer, speaker; Jacque Wiersma, musician; care of meeting, Napolean Steele; Zoom host – Marilyn

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM monthly meeting for business: Stephen Snyder, clerk; Jeannette Raymond, recording clerk

Email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolifriends.org by noon Friday for the link to worship.

NEWS FOR MINNEAPOLIS MEETING FRIENDS

WELCOME to Cathy N, MFM’s new Family and Children Coordinator! We are so fortunate that Cathy is willing and available to offer her ministry to the MFM community! Introduce yourself to her and consider how you can contribute to a children and families ministry. There is a meeting in the conference room for those interested in the developing work of the Children and Families Committee at the rise of business meeting TODAY.

Also today: Thanks to the formatting work of Bill Hendricks, you can pick up a new directory today! A stapler is available for those who wish to fold and staple theirs before they go home. See Bill.
The Minneapolis Meeting directory is for inter-personal Meeting use only and may not be used for solicitation or promotion outside of Meeting approved organizations and functions. Thank you Friends!

For monthly meeting today: Request from Detroit Monthly Meeting. Detroit Monthly Meeting is remodeling a recently purchased meetinghouse after being evicted from the previous meetinghouse to make way for a highway/bridge construction project. Monthly meeting will consider TODY if we want to offer financial support to them. Please watch this 14-minute video in preparation for the discernment: https://youtu.be/MIGlRbzhRNA

There is online mid-week worship every Wed night. Email office@minneapolisfriends by noon Wed for the link.

If you are on Zoom, please find a place in your home to settle in to worship, as if you were at the meetinghouse. In the meetingroom, you would probably stay in your seat for all of worship. At home, please do not move from place to place with your camera on. If you need to move location, turn your camera off, and back on once you are settled. Thank you!

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 Lolly L. 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.

Minneapolis Meeting is looking for an In-house Audio Visual Operator to support hybrid worship and programming, starting in August. Detailed job description and application information available from Marilyn J.

People who are interested and willing to learn / review how to work the meetinghouse AV system, a few sessions after worship are available: July 2, 23, and 30. Please let Terry K. or Roger M. know of your interest.

PASTORAL CARE: The Care and Counsel Committee facilitates pastoral care for Minneapolis Meeting members and attenders, understanding the Quaker tradition that Friends minister to each other. If you are dealing with illness, grief, a major transition, or a stressful personal problem, we would like to be there for you. Contact committee clerk, Sandy O.
If a confidential discussion would support you as you make a decision, we will set up a clearness committee with you. Email John S. to explore that opportunity.
Other committee members are Connie A, Mary G, and Ellen S.

Plan ahead to participate in Loaves and Fishes on July 31st: Join other metro-area Friends, the Ismaili Community and the Mayim Rabim congregation to provide a nutritious meal at Holy Rosary Church in S Mpls, 2424 – 18th Ave S. There are three shifts to cover the tasks of the meal: meal prep (2-3:30PM); burrito assembly and handing out the meals (4:15-5:30PM,) and clean up (5:15-6:30PM.) Fruit donations, dropped off at Holy Rosary after 2:00, are needed as well. Email Sue K. to sign up for a shift or to arrange to drop off fruit. Masks, gloves, and hats required.

Honoring the holiness of the earth and fostering sustainability is part of MFM’s approved vision of the future. An ad hoc group, in cooperation with the Property Committee, is investigating solar panels as part of minimizing our use of fossil fuels, contributing to healing our planet. Along with the meeting’s sustainability pursuits, individuals are also encouraged to consider subscribing to a community solar garden (CSG) for their personal dwelling electrical needs. Personal dwellings are occupied for a greater portion of time than the meetinghouse and shifting to solar-powered electricity would yield a great impact! Interfaith Power and Light suggests exploring Cooperative Energy Futures and Solar United Neighbors . There will be a meeting with Sunshare this Thursday evening, 7PM, for those interested: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84772737082?pwd=aW9wV2xzd0p2M01SYTByR1FvMkdaZz09; ID: 847 7273 7082; Passcode: 087201.

Please remember to schedule committee meetings, events, and visits to the meetinghouse with the office to help avoid conflicts: 612-926-6159; office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org .

SMALL GROUP OPPORTUNITIES AT MINNEAPOLIS MEETING

Come for thirty minutes of Lectio Divina and worship sharing at noon on Tuesdays. We hold a short reading from the Bible, Quaker, or other spiritual texts to see if and how it might speak to us today, followed by a time of worship-sharing. Email Stephen for the link.

The Right Relationship with Indigenous People group will meet this coming Monday night, July 10th, at 7PM. Open to all interested, this group meets every second Monday night.

OPPORTUNITIES AMONG FRIENDS

People Camp 2023, Caring for Our Future, offered by Friends for a NonViolent World (August 6-12) is a great summer adventure vacation at a very affordable cost! This is a great experience for parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren, couples, and singles. Take a look at a slide show here and an information page and video along with link to registration, here, to get a glimpse!

Friends for a NonViolent World is connecting with new people and communities this summer! Take a look and see if you’d like to join them at any of these events where they will be tabling: FNVW Community Events.

The snow is not yet flying, but it’s never too early to gear up for the Friends for a NonViolent World Holiday Fair!
~ Use those lazy, hazy days of summer to create crafts to be sold or preserve the bounty of your garden! Work on your own or parallel play with a group of friends! Jams, honey and salsa are popular sale items. And of course, it’s always a good time to teach one of your skills to a younger person!
~ Clean up those Quaker Treasures to prepare them for their next life. Items with special meaning and value to the Quaker community are most fun to have.
~ Donate books! (We would also love multi-gallon storage tubs, and a few bookcases!) Contact Caron Moore to donate at 651-308-9842.
~ Have ideas of how to make the Fair even better this year? Be part of the planning team! Contact Cindy Robinson (cstarkeyrobinson(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)hotmail.com) with questions or to volunteer. Serving on the Holiday Fair Planning Committee is a great way to volunteer with FNVW for a limited period of time.
~ Let us know what you’d like to donate to the sale using this FNVW Holiday Fair Donation Sign Up

Support the work of Friends for a NonViolent World (FNVW): (1) Walk for Peace & Justice: Challenged by our experiences of violence across the Twin Cities in recent years, FNVW is organizing a Walk for Peace and Justice on September 30th, 2023. The Walk for Peace and Justice is a fundraising event designed to bring together and support the people and organizations working to create a safe and healthy Twin Cities where we all can thrive. FNVW walkers will be raising funds to support FNVW’s advocacy work and the Alternatives to Violence (AVP) program. Find out more and sign up to participate here: fnvw.org/walk4peace. Register to walk or support a walker at this link.

OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY

Feel like it’s difficult to know what to do in the face of continued racial injustice? MN Council of Churches’ ACTION Program (A Commitment to Inclusion in Our Neighborhoods), developed, facilitated by and featuring BIPOC educators, is designed to give MN congregations the same grounding in our current reality (through the stories of experience from MN’s BIPOC); training in community organizing and working effectively with local government; and developing a reparations ministry. Think of what we could do together if our good intentions were systematically informed, prepared, and cooperatively directed! Designed for congregations to enroll together, the program is being made available to individuals without a congregational commitment. Learn more here. ACTION Project information opportunities are happening on Mon, July 10th, 7-8PM; and Wed, July 19th, noon-1PM. Zoom link for the sessions here.

OFFICE HOURS The Meeting Coordinator will be in the office as she can. She is dealing with a health issue. Phone messages checked daily. Bulletin deadline, noon Thur. Phone items in to the office (612-926-6159), email (office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org), or write and put in the bulletin file of the blue box.