Sunday, November 16, 2025

TODAY’S WORSHIP AND PROGRAM

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9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Unprogrammed Meeting for Worship
Care of meeting: Mike Finley
Zoom host: John K

10:15 AM – 11:00 AM Asking for Help
Care and Counsel Committee is presenting the mid-morning program “Asking for Help.” Program includes speakers with personal stories, an introduction to the “6 C’s of Caring,” and small-group discussion.
Zoom host: John K

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM Semi-programmed Meeting for Worship
Speaker: Kate Wolfe-Jenson, Care of meeting: Lin Butler, Musician: Dave Bostrom
Zoom host: John K

Children’s First Day School takes place every week in the lower level during 11:15 AM meeting for worship.

MORE WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

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; use ID 859 3925 1575, passcode 251345; or paste the following into your browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85939251575?pwd=1aHrNcUclfw3o99kyDnc9nAwzwkYGU.1

HOLD IN THE LIGHT

Please hold Betsy R-G and Richard F, of TCFM, in the light. Richard moved to The Pillars residential hospice on November 7.

MFM ANNOUNCEMENTS

Hospitality Needed for QVS Director, November 20-24. Greg Stefanski, the new national Executive Director for Quaker Voluntary Service, will be in town November 20 – 24 to visit local supporters and to host the November 23 QVS Social (held at Twin Cities Friends Meeting from 1:00 – 3:00 PM). We are seeking hospitality for Greg. If you can help, please contact Mary Ellen S.

Support Minneapolis Friends during the FNVW Holiday Fair. Minneapolis Friends is looking for a few folks to help. If you wish to volunteer for any of these roles, click here for the volunteer schedule. Or, you can contact John K. Needs include:

Distribute posters and postcards in the neighborhood. The posters can be put in local shops or coffee shops, and postcards can be given out to your friends and put in neighborhood mailboxes. The posters and postcards are on shelf next to the elevator. Please take only what you will distribute.

Move chairs in the Meeting Room and furniture from the Conference room on Sunday, November 30 in preparation for the FNVW Holiday Fair set up.

Be present during the FNVW setup and the Fair. You would fill a 4-hour slot as a direct contact for the FNVW folks to answer questions and make sure the FNVW folks are careful with the Meeting House.

Bus route changes. On December 6, route 6 will be replaced by the new route 6 and the new METRO E line. Click here for MetroTransit’s webpage about these changes. Click here for a PDF of route 36, which will travel between Edina and Uptown Transit station, stopping near the meetinghouse on Xerxes Avenue. Click here for a PDF of METRO E line, a north/south express bus that makes stops along France Avenue.

Volunteer needed for an errand. There are a few small trash items in the office that shouldn’t go in city trash or recycling cans. If you plan to bring your own household trash to a recycling center this fall or winter, Ariel would appreciate your taking the office’s items along. Repowered, a recycling service in St. Paul, would accept some of the items. Click here for Repowered’s website. Hennepin County recycling center, which has a location in Bloomington and another in Brooklyn Park, would accept other items. Click here for the Hennepin County’s webpage about its drop-off location. Please contact the office to help. This is not time-sensitive.

Paul K, husband to member Wina M, will be talking with Larry Meiller about astronomy this Thursday, November 20, from noon — 1:00 PM on Wisconsin Public Radio’s News station. Click here for a link with all the ways you can listen. If you miss it, you can listen to archived episodes (click here).

Curious about the membership process? Any attender is invited to talk about membership with a member of the Ministry and Counsel Committee or anyone who’s been around a while! It can be an informal one-on-one conversation or a more formal request for a clearness committee.

MFM EVENTS

Read on for new and one-time events held by Minneapolis Friends Meeting. There are also ongoing groups in the meeting. Email the office to request a flyer about ongoing groups, or pick up a copy from the information table in the meetinghouse hallway.

November 21 (in person; LOCATION CHANGE). Joyful Aging’s coffee hour will be on the third Friday at 10:00 AM as usual. Instead of Turtle Bread, which is pretty noisy, folks will meet at Bruegger’s Bagels at 44th Street & France Avenue. Bruegger’s has a big room that is quieter.

November 23 (hybrid). Come dialogue with the Peace and Social Concerns Committee on Sunday, November 23, 10:15 – 11:00 AM, during mid-morning program. They’ll bring up questions: Who is on the committee? What does the committee do? What do you want them to do?

November 27 (hybrid). Thanks/Friends-Giving potluck. Sign up for the Friendsgiving potluck at the meetinghouse! The sign-up sheet is on the table to the left of the elevator. All are welcome to the warmth and support of this Friendly feast and worship. On Thursday, November 27, we will gather for silent worship in the meeting room at 4:00 PM, then downstairs at 4:30 PM to finish preparing delicious food that people have brought to share. At 5:00 PM, we will sing a short song, grab a plate and dig in. Feel free to bring your favorite board game for fellowship after eating. Please bring your questions to Jimbo L.

November 30 (hybrid). Postcard writing with the Peace & Social Concerns Committee will be back Sunday, November 30, at 12:30 PM in the conference room. Come write thank-you cards and appeals to our members of Congress and other leaders. We will discuss topics for group and individual leadings. Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) continues to work for relief in Gaza, and restoration of democracy in the US. Some postcards and postcard stamps will be available, or bring your own.

WIDER COMMUNITY

Here you’ll find events outside MFM that may interest meeting members and attenders. For more events among Friends that meet on a regular schedule in the wider community, email the office to request a flyer, or pick up a copy from the information table in the meetinghouse hallway.

November 17 (online). The Anti-Racist Working Group of Northern Yearly Meeting is sponsoring a presentation by Kat Griffith (Winnebago Worship Group) on “Immigration: How We Got Here, A Better Path Forward.” Click here to join by Zoom.

November 23 (in person). You’re invited to a QVS Social with chocolate, cider, popcorn, and conversation. QVS is excited to introduce the new Fellows to the Minneapolis/St. Paul community of Quakers and QVS supporters. Greg Stefanski, new Executive Director of the national QVS program, will be here to get to know our local community, along with Ray Hommeyer, Local Coordinator, and members of the Local Support Committee. Come to the Twin Cities Friends Meeting building (1725 Grand Avenue, St. Paul) from 1:00 – 3:00 PM on Sunday, November 23.

December 5-6 (in person). Friends for a NonViolent World (FNVW) Holiday Fair will be at our meetinghouse Friday, December 5 from 1:00 – 9:00 PM and Saturday, December 6 from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Enjoy live music, tasty café food, and an array of local treasures from pottery, jewelry, and handmade crafts to holiday wreaths, books, and Quaker Treasures. Proceeds support FNVW’s mission of promoting nonviolence and peacebuilding. We have many volunteering opportunities to choose from like planning, set-up to clean-up, book sorting and transporting, decorating, table moving, and plenty of jobs for folks in the kitchen including cooking, washing, serving, and many more. Click here to see all the different roles and shifts available at tinyurl.com/HolidayFairVolunteer, and choose one or two that suit you best! For updates about the Fair, click here. To donate books or Quaker Treasurers, contact the office manager, who will put you in touch with FNVW volunteers. Questions: info(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)fnvw.org. We invite you to celebrate community, creativity, and the spirit of nonviolence this holiday season, and can’t wait to enjoy this beloved community event.

December 13 (in person). Agenda Launch & Anti-Authoritarianism Strategy Training. The TCFM ISAIAH Connectors group aims to organize 60 people from the TCFM and wider community to attend this upcoming organizing event. ISAIAH is a multi-faith community organizing coalition in Minnesota. Click here to learn more and register. ISAIAH connectors will contact those registered to attend together.

OFFICE HOURS

The Office Manager, Ariel Edes, will be in the office Tuesday, November 18, 11:30 AM – 4:30 PM, and Friday, November 14, 12:30 – 5:30 PM. Is there something you’d like included in upcoming bulletins? Weekly deadline for bulletin items is noon Thursdays. Please call the office (612-926-6159) or send the information to Ariel by email (office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)minneapolisfriends.org).

The Children and Families Coordinator, Cathy Nagler, is typically in the meetinghouse on Fridays 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM. She is also available by phone or email, working remotely, on Wednesdays 2:30 – 5:00 PM and Thursdays 3:30 – 5:00 PM.