Sunday, June 29, 2025

TODAY’S WORSHIP AND PROGRAM
10:00 – 11:00 AM Meeting for Worship – semi-programmed (hybrid)
Care of meeting: Rae Beth Cornelius, musician: Tom Wells, Zoom host: Sandy O. For the Zoom link for worship this Sunday, email office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org.

Children will be leading worship sharing in the worship room with music, a queried activity, and sharing.

Please silence your cellphone before entering the meetingroom.

Following the closing handshake, we take time for introductions and there are a few moments for worship sharing and joys and concerns, followed by pre-arranged announcements. Preferred practice is to put announcements in the bulletin. After-worship announcements, when needed, should be brief so Friends can be released.

More Worship Opportunities at MFM
Sharing the Spirit, held every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning, is a brief centering time that is open to everyone. We gather at approximately 8:57 AM for ten-minute worship (online, cameras off) beginning at 9:02 AM. Click here for zoom link or use ID 859 3925 1575, passcode 251345.

Mid-week worship is on summer break in July and August. Watch the bulletin in September for an announcement of the date it will restart.

HOLD IN THE LIGHT
Happy birthday Jim B (July 4), Stephen S (July 8), Sue K (July 20), Xavier S (July 23), Andrea S (July 24), and Wina M (July 25)! Let Friends celebrate YOU! If you would like to have your birthday acknowledged by meeting Friends, please send the month and date of your birth (no year necessary) to Judith J.

People who are grieving or suffering from injustice, conflict, racism, colonialism, displacement, loss, and the climate crisis, and all those who are aiding victims and the dispossessed.

MFM ANNOUNCEMENTS
A memorial service for Jim L will be held on Saturday, July 12 at 3:00 PM at the Minneapolis Friends Meeting. Jim was married to Kate C, a long-time member of our Meeting. The service will be Zoomed (click here for zoom link, or use ID 876 8908 0132, passcode 135701).

The Shepherd Scholarship offers educational scholarships for members of a Quaker Meeting of at least five years standing, or their children. Interested adults and young adults can fill out an application, available on the long table in the hall or on the MFM website (click here). Application deadline is TOMORROW, June 30. Return applications to the Shepherd Scholarship file in the blue box (on the long table) or email to Betsy S.

Summer school for children is offered every Sunday at 10:00 AM worship. Contact Cathy Nagler for details.

Peace and Social Concerns Committee (P&SC) invites you to get involved with their initiatives. To join a group forming around immigrant rights, or participate in a letter-writing get-together, speak with Nettie S. To learn about Southwest Alliance for Equity, reach out to John S. See below for info about mentoring homeless MCTC students.

Do you feel called to walk alongside others in a spirit of deep listening and mutual growth? Hennepin Connections is looking for dedicated mentors to accompany Minneapolis College (MCTC) students during the next school year as they grow personally and professionally. Learn more and sign up on the website of Hennepin Connections’ partner organization The Basilica of St. Mary (click here). Whether you’re rooted in a particular faith tradition or simply led by a spirit of service, all are welcome. You can also contact Lynda G for more information.

Contributions update: $11,500 in monthly contributions is needed to meet this year’s budget. Contributions to general funds in April totaled $12,390; in May (sans EFTs), $8527. Thank you, Friends, for your generous support of the meeting! There is now a donate tab on MFM’s website (click here). If you would like to set up automatic contributions to the meeting, contact Carolyn V, clerk of Stewardship and Finance Committee.

UPCOMING MFM EVENTS
June 30 (in person). Loaves and Fishes will take place Monday, June 30. 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. Prepare dinner (2:00 PM); assemble the meals (4:00 PM) or serve meals and clean up (5:15 PM.) Fruit donations needed. Contact Sue K to sign up for a shift or to arrange to drop off fruit. Volunteers wear hair covering/hats, closed-toe shoes; food is served to-go. Sign up to come if you can!
 
July 6 (in person). All-Meeting Potluck is once a month on first Sundays. In the summer, it takes place 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM. Linger after worship for friendly food and conversation at the potluck downstairs! New attender or seasoned member – all are welcome whether you brought anything or not! (If you brought a dish, please label ingredients so everyone can participate without worry!)

July 7 (online). Writing Group: Established writers and dabblers will have an informal writing session on Monday, July 7, 7:00 – 9:00 PM. This is a chance to connect with one another, writing with prompts and sharing what we write. Serious, whimsical, beautiful and quirky – we enjoy it all! You are welcome to come laugh, ponder, and create together, whether or not you have participated before. Contact Jane D with questions. Click here for zoom link or use ID 882 1594 6063, passcode 573695.

July 8 (online). Deep Inner Work of Racial Justice group meets every second Tuesday night, 7:00 – 8:30 PM and is exploring and practicing the inner and outer work of direct action using Resmaa Menakem’s book The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning. There is a core group; visitors / newcomers are warmly welcome. Contact Nettie S for the link.

July 12 (in person). MFM youth ages 10-18 are getting together with the International Friends Church youth for a Challenge celebration that also discusses how peer pressure is handled. Lunch, snacks, and T shirts provided for this all-day event on Sunday, July 12, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Contact Cathy Nagler with questions.

August 31 (in person). Children will lead semi-programed meeting again, celebrating our summer ending. Families will bring kites to MFM that day to fly one block away at our closest park.

October 11 (in person). Save the date for Fall Together, an annual retreat held by MFM. This is a wonderful opportunity to gather with Friends and rest, relax, renew, re-connect and relish time together in the great outdoors. This year’s retreat will be at Fish Lake Regional Park in Plymouth, MN, a beautiful setting familiar to those who have attended Fall Together in recent years.

Mark your calendar for other upcoming MFM interest groups / smaller gatherings: Writing Group meets first Monday night at 7:00 PM. Deep Inner Work of Racial Justice Group meets second Tuesday night at 7:00 PM. LGBTQ Support Group meets third Wednesday night at 7:30 PM. Reading Group meets fourth Tuesday night at 7:00 PM. Conflict Soiree and Lectio Divina are on summer break.

QUAKER RESOURCES
August 10 – 16 (in person). People Camp is a week-long transformative experience of cooperation, community living, peacemaking, and the exploration of ideas and issues. This year’s camp will be held in Park Rapids, MN on the theme How We WIN! Non-violent, direct action campaign planning. Author and activist George Lakey will share his experiences. You can find more on Friends for a NonViolent World’s website (click here). MFM’s Peace and Social Concerns Committee has funds for nonviolence resistance training. Contact Nettie S about P&SC helping finance your participation.
 
Ongoing advocacy opportunities:
* Witness Wednesdays, a time for silent reflection, is held every Wednesday, 4:00 – 5:00 PM. For more and to register, go to Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)’s website: click here.
* Worship with attention to peace in Palestine and Israel with Friends across the United States every Thursday at 4:30 PM. Sign up for the link on American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)’s website: click here.
* Action Hour for Palestine provides weekly updates on what’s happening in Gaza and an invitation to take action by calling Congress, every Friday at 11:00 AM. Register on ASFC’s website: click here.
* Rise, Resist, and Build, a monthly webinar, brings together AFSC constituents every third Tuesday, 7:00 – 9:30 PM (CT). Learn how to support just peace, just migration, and just economies. Register on Mobilize’s website: click here.
* FCNL continues to advocate for relief for Gaza throughout the Israeli blockade of food, fuel, and medicine. Representatives Angie Craig, Betty McCollum, Kelly Morrison, and Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith have signed Congressional letters calling for immediate relief. Thank these members of Congress with emails or phone calls, and ask them to speak out now and often.

OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY
June 7 – July 12 (in person). Cutting through the Noise, an initiative of Minnesota MultiFaith Network, will take place every Saturday from June 7 – July 12, 10:30 – 11:30 AM, at George Floyd Square (38th Street & Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis). Come together with a commitment to practice justice, embody peace, and bear witness in shared public places. Each week, a facilitator will provide reflections on the value of collective spiritual practice as a means to counter violence and oppression. Attendees will be invited to pray, reflect, meditate according to their own faith tradition, or simply rest in the present moment. People of all and no faiths are invited to participate! Suggested donation of $10; no one turned away.

July 16 (in person). The documentary film Zurawski vs Texas will be screened by AAUW (think Rae C and Sue K) on Wednesday, July 16 at 3:30 PM and 7:00 PM. Women denied abortions under Texas’ abortion bans come together with a fearless attorney to sue Texas. While battling in court against the state and its immovable Attorney General, they wrestle to regain their reproductive futures. Tickets are available on Women Foundation of Minnesota’s Website (click here).

OFFICE HOURS
The Office Manager will be in the office Thursday and Friday afternoons. Bulletin deadline: noon Thursday. Phone items in to the office (612-926-6159) or email (office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org).

Cathy Nagler, Children and Families Coordinator, can be reached at the meetinghouse this Thursdays 3:30 – 5:00 PM and Sundays 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM.