by WebPost | Nov 11, 2025 | Activity, Building and Grounds, Garden
This Saturday, 11/15 is your last chance to do some gardening at the Meetinghouse this year!!! The garden team will be planting bulbs, moving a couple of plants, doing some final weeding and tidying before we put the garden to bed until spring. Come anytime between 9-11 am and stay for as little or as long as you like. All ages and abilities welcome! Bring tools and/or gloves if you have them but we also have tools available. See you Saturday!
by WebPost | Nov 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Please consider donating food to help the growing numbers of people experiencing food insecurity, especially during the federal government shutdown. We offer two ways at Richmond Friends Meeting: You can support the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP) food drive for Feed More; and you can help stock the new food pantry at Redd Elementary School. Donation boxes for each are located in the anteroom behind the worship room at the meetinghouse. Each box lists the specific needs for each organization.
The list of items requested by FeedMore is in a different post on the website. Below is a list of nonperishable food items requested by Redd School. We will be delivering food to the school weekly for an indefinite time; the VICPP drive will go through November.
Redd School Pantry Needs
Canned vegetables and fruit
Canned soups, stews, and proteins (tuna, chicken, chili, etc.)
Rice, pasta, and pasta sauce
Boxed meals and shelf-stable sides
Peanut butter and jelly
Breakfast items (cereal, oatmeal, pancake mix)
Snacks appropriate for students
Shelf-stable milk or juice
As our Communities in Schools coordinator at Redd wrote to our team of mentors from RFM, “We know that when students lack access to nutritious food outside of school, it impacts their wellbeing, attendance, and academic success. Your support and generosity will help us create a close-to-home resource to provide stability and comfort when other resources may be limited.”
Already we delivered a good amount of food to Redd School, thanks to your big hearts and generosity! When RFM affirmed our commitment to racial justice last year, we strengthened our involvement in VICPP’s advocacy for economic, racial, and social justice in Virginia; and we began mentoring students at Redd Elementary School, where most of the students come from low-income Latino or African-American families. Thank you for supporting our community members in need!
by WebPost | Nov 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hello Friends! Perhaps you heard Rev. LaKeisha Cook, executive director of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP), interviewed on public radio about the need for food in Central Virginia. Richmond Friends Meeting (RFM) is a VICPP congregational partner. Yesterday, members of the RFM VICPP Working Group received an email appeal from Rev. Cook asking for VICPP congregations to collect food for a food bank.
The VICPP Working Group will collect food from the list below during November to donate to FeedMore. We will have a big box there shortly, but the collection area is in the foyer between the worship room and the education buildings. If you prefer a monetary contribution, please donate directly to FeedMore. Over 97% of your gift directly supports FeedMore's programs and mission.
We hope that you will support Virginia families who have lost jobs and food benefits, and children, persons with disabilities, and older persons who need help year-round. If you have questions, contact Diane Bowden at [email protected].
Please, no glass containers!
Nut butters like peanut butter
Canned proteins like tuna and chicken
Canned soup and vegetables
Canned fruits
Canned tomato products
Beans and lentils (cans or bags)
Cereal (hot or cold)
Pasta, rice, and whole grains
Healthy snacks, dried fruits, and nuts
Condiments, Oils & Spices
Thank you for your kindness!
by WebPost | Oct 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Adult Spiritual Education Committee will host a one-hour Reading Between the Lines (formerly known as Bible Workbench) on First Day—Sunday, November 2—through Zoom—from 9-10 am. We’ll talk about Luke 19:1-10: the story of Zacchaeus: stature, a turning-of-the-tables, a descent, hospitality, generosity, a possible “bankruptcy” (from “Grown up gratitude” by Diana Butler Bass) that leads to a different kind of wealth. The facilitator will send the Zoom link over the Newslist a few days before our conversation.
by WebPost | Oct 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
On November 9, at rise of meeting, Peace and Social Concerns Committee will sponsor a presentation plus a sale of Peruvian crafts to support native artisans, strengthen communities and promote forest conservation in the Peruvian Amazon.
Campbell Plowden is the Executive Director of Amazon Ecology – the non-profit organization he founded in 2006 to help create sustainable livelihoods for artisan families, promote forest conservation and strengthen traditional communities in the Peruvian Amazon. Campbell will discuss the progress and challenges of his group training artisans to make innovative fair-trade handicrafts, help them form effective organizations, and promote the sustainable harvest and reforestation of the trees used to make woven crafts. Amazon Ecology is a member of the FairTrade Federation and sells some of its partners crafts in the US to support its artisan training programs. It reinvests part of its sales to support health, education and conservation needs in its partner communities and conducts Alternatives to Violence Project workshops to help its partners improve their communication, cooperation and non-violent conflict resolution skills.
Come- do some early Christmas shopping and learn about an organization promoting alternatives to cutting down the rainforest.
Please visit http://www.AmazonEcology.org to learn more about Amazon Ecology or purchase fair-trade crafts made by their partners. Visit http://www.AmazonAlive.net to donate to support the organization’s work.