June 15, 2025
WORSHIP AND PROGRAM SCHEDULE TODAY
10:00 – 11:00 AM meeting for worship (unprogrammed): Diane Barrett, care of meeting; Rae C, Zoom host
For the link for worship this Sunday, email office@minneapolisfriends.org.
Friends are reminded to silence your cell phone before entering the meetingroom.
Following the closing handshake, we will take time for introductions and there will be 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.
HOLD IN THE LIGHT
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.
People who are attending the No Kings demonstrations on Saturday.
NEWS FOR MINNEAPOLIS MEETING FRIENDS
Additional worship opportunities:
Sharing the Spirit, open to everyone, every Mon, Wed, and Fri AM on zoom, cameras off. Join this brief centering time, gathering at approximately 8:57; ten-minute worship beginning at 9:02. ID: 859 3925 1575; passcode: 251345; https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85939251575?pwd=1aHrNcUclfw3o99kyDnc9nAwzwkYGU.1.
There is mid-week worship every Wed night, online, 7PM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84938257185; ID: 849 3825 7185; by phone: +1-651-372-8299.
A memorial service for Jim L will be held at 3 PM on Saturday, July 12 at the Minneapolis Friends Meeting. Jim was married to Kate C, a long-time member of our Meeting. The service will be Zoomed at
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87689080132?pwd=naMwyyzpx6KsQVMbSOUEtTZ1Hej1QF.1; meeting ID 876 8908 0132; passcode 135701
No Kings Day is a national day of action and mass mobilization. The Peace and Social Concerns committee is coordinating MFMers and members of Mayim Rabim who plan to attend the No Kings Day march and rally together at the Minnesota State Capitol on Saturday, June 14 under the group name Friends of 4401. There are two locations to meet up: one at St. Paul College between 10 AM and 10:15 AM. The college parking lot can be accessed on Marion Street. The second meeting place is the home of Rae C and Tom W at 929 Selby Avenue, St. Paul. That is a good place to park and ride a bike down, walk (30 minutes), or bus a 10-minute bus ride on the 21A to St. Paul College. Those meeting at the College will meet at the corner of Marshall Avenue and John Ireland Boulevard, the John Ireland & Marshall Station. The march is scheduled to depart from St. Paul College at 11 AM. Bill H is collecting phone numbers to make a phone list to help people find each other.
A group will gather online to support No Kings Day rally attendees. Kate W-J and Nettie S will host a Zoom gathering on Saturday, June 14, 1:30-2:30 PM. The purpose will be to support, pray for, and hold in the Light those from Minneapolis Meeting and Mayim Rabim who are attending the No King’s Day demonstrations at the capitol and other sites. And to offer the same to our nation and world – for peace and justice. We hope to support attendees and ourselves to be settled and grounded in Spirit as we stand up for justice. Please call or email Nettie if you would like the Zoom link.
The Peace and Social Concerns Committee meets on fourth Mondays, 7 PM via Zoom (next meeting June 23). If interested in Minneapolis Meeting’s peace and justice focus and witness, you are warmly welcome! ID: 899 1439 1038;
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89914391038?pwd=WE1JOE9VdmpHWWJlSlVEMkFvSUprZz09; Passcode: 455959.
Loaves and Fishes will take place 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 (2PM); assemble the meals (4PM) or serve meals and clean up (5:15). 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!
The Shepherd Scholarship, created in 1977 by Roland and Zephra Shepherd, offers educational scholarships for members of a Quaker Meeting of at least five years standing, or their children. Interested adults and young adults can apply by filling out an application (available on the long table in the hall or on the website: https://minneapolisfriends.org/shepherd-scholarship-fund/). Application deadline, June 30. Return applications to the Shepherd Scholarship file in the blue box (on the long table) or email to Betsy S.
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 the committee. M&C is also looking for closers for both worships. Serving as a closer is a ministry of service to the meeting.
Need to schedule a Zoom meeting for a committee meeting or Minneapolis Meeting activity? Please send a request, including date, time, and purpose to office@minneapolisfriends.org to have it set up.
Please remember to schedule committee meetings, events, and visits to the meetinghouse with the office to help avoid conflicts: 612-926-6159; office@minneapolisfriends.org.
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 the meeting website at this link: https://friendsfiduciary.org/minneapolis-friends-meeting/. If you would like to set up automatic contributions to the meeting, contact Carolyn V, clerk of Stewardship and Finance Committee.
INTEREST GROUPS / SMALLER GATHERINGS AT MINNEAPOLIS MEETING
LGBTQ Group meets monthly, every third Wednesday in person. On June 18, we’ll meet at East River Flats at 7:30. The group requests that attendance be limited to those who are part of the LGBTQ community at this time. Text or email Bill H for more information. We hope to see you there!
Lectio Divina, on Tuesdays at noon, is on break this summer.
Conflict Soiree, on last Tuesdays at 3:30 PM, is also on summer break.
Smaller gathering schedule: Lectio Divina, on summer break; Writing Group, first Monday night; Deep Inner Work of Racial Justice Group, second Tuesday night; LGBTQ Support Group – third Wednesday night; Reading Group, fourth Tuesday night; Conflict Soiree, on summer break.
OPPORTUNITIES AMONG FRIENDS
A monthly worship for Friends of Color, offered by Friends General Conference, is held on third Sundays, 7 PM (next June 15). These worships offer a place for Friends of Color to come together in community and worship. For more and to request the link, go to https://www.fgcquaker.org/event/virtual-worship-for-friends-of-color-monthly-worship
Friends seeking community, spiritual guidance, and nurture are invited to the monthly worship-sharing opportunity offered by Northern Yearly Meeting’s Ministry and Nurture for in this time of social, climate, and political instability. Come every third Thursday, starting on June 19, 7-8 PM: ID: 824 8501 6662; passcode: 929041; https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82485016662?pwd=8pa2aXnXRdLGphpOeHB3sDv6FnVfFM.1
Be part of People Camp, August 10-16 in Park Rapids! The theme will be How We WIN! Non-violent, direct action campaign planning. Author and activist George Lakey will be at camp to share his experiences as we investigate non-violent, direct-action campaigns and how to apply them to the work for today. People Camp is a week-long transformative experience of cooperation, community living, peacemaking , and the exploration of ideas and issues. For more, see https://www.fnvw.org/peoplecamp. Financial help to attend may be available from the Peace and Social Concerns Committee. Contact Nettie S for more.
Gen Xer Quaker Discussion Group to explore Quaker spirituality, share personal experiences, and engage in meaningful conversations about faith, community, and social issues in a supportive and open environment is starting through Friends General Conference . The group hopes to meet monthly (virtually). If you are interested in hearing about future get-togethers, sign up at https://fgc.tfaforms.net/5109858.
Quaker Earthcare Witness: Daniel Hunter presented “Rising Together: Resilience & Action for Trying Times,” providing tools to build trust and resilience within our communities and organize powerfully. Along with other QEW videos, it is available on Vimeo at this link: https://vimeo.com/1047548935.
QUAKER ADVOCACY and GROUNDING
What can we do for Palestine? Learn from organizers building apartheid-free cities. On Monday, June 16, 7-8pm CT, American Friends Service Committee is hosting a webinar. In Vermont, organizers used the Apartheid-Free Communities network’s pledge language in a ballot measure campaign, taking their work to the streets and successfully declaring five Vermont towns Apartheid-Free. In British Columbia, organizers have gotten more than 80 local communities to take the pledge and aren’t stopping there. Come to hear what made the work of these organizers successful, and leave with more information on how you can build an anti-apartheid movement in your community! Register here for the zoom link: https://www.mobilize.us/afsc/event/798682/
Learn about the lives of the earliest freed Black Americans. Friends of Peace & Justice from the Milwaukee Friends meeting will hold a webinar on Zoom on Thursday, June 19, 7-8:30 PM. Avis Wanda McClinton and Dennis Gregg of The 339 Manumissions and Beyond Project will introduce research on the early manumission (formal emancipation from slavery) of enslaved African people in Pennsylvania. The project team seeks to recover personal histories of individuals released from slavery, and the role played by Quakers in the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Join online at this link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86924994982?pwd=vBKByRXFXPSEaPiEDLmJELHkK7vyX2.1; meeting ID 869 2499 4982, passcode EFKN2g (7107758).
OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY
Clueless Addiction: Disengaging from Racism in White and Black Churches, a Minnesota Council of Churches webinar, will be Monday, June 16, noon-1 PM. Addiction to white supremacy is present in not only white but also Black churches, yet people can be as unaware of the addiction as a fish is of water. There are ways that faith communities can open their eyes and disengage from it. Hear research and analysis on this addiction, our cluelessness, and how the bodies of Christ can overcome it. Register to receive the Zoom link at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/26rV1Z9EStacT2ZvhJDvMA#/registration
Breaking the Cycle, Justice and Healing for Palestinian Children and Caregivers rally with Anar founder and speaker, Rami Khader will on Friday, June 20, 4-5 PM at Summit and Snelling, St Paul MN. Sponsored by WAMM and Healing to Hope. Info at https://www.healingtohope.org/breaking-the-cycle-tour
Join Song Circle with a few MFM Friends on Saturday, June 28, 5 PM to sing under the trees, and picnic, on the grassy area of the parkway, facing Vincent Ave N, between N. 26th Ave. and N. 27th Ave. Hosted by Jimbo L. Potluck snacks or food to share, after we sing, if you wish. Bring your own eating and serving utensils, and lawn chairs or blankets. If you have one, please bring a folding table. As usual, bring your voices, song books (e.g., Rise Up Singing or Rise Again or your favorite) and/or song sheets, guitars, ocarinas or what you like.
OFFICE HOURS
Asher Edes, 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@minneapolisfriends.org).
Cathy Nagler, Children and Families Coordinator, can be reached: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30-5 PM; Thursdays 3:30-5PM; Sundays 9 AM – 2 PM at the meetinghouse.