by WebPost | Feb 17, 2025 | Fundraiser, Peace and Social Concerns
Peace & Social Concerns Committee invites you to lunch on March 9, a fundraising event at rise of meeting to benefit ...
...The Healing Place, a long-term, peer-driven residential recovery program that helps individuals struggling with substance use disorders. It offers services 24/7/365 at no cost. The men’s program is the longest-running of such programs in the region, now 20 years, and has recovery rates that rival those of expensive private facilities. The women’s program opened in late 2020 to provide a similar long-term addiction recovery program for women in metro Richmond.
Here are a few ways our residents demonstrate success after their time at The Healing Place:
- 765 men and women found recovery and hope at The Healing Place in 2021.
- Nearly 70% of our alumni are sober after one year of completing the program.
- Participants find jobs within one month of completing the workforce development component of the program.
- An efficient and effective program model allows us to house and provides recovery services to one person for only $17 a day, compared to $500 a day for a night in traditional medical detox.
A representative from the Healing Place will give a brief presentation at the luncheon, and be available to answer your questions after. Lunch is provided by the Peace & Social Concerns Committee. You just bring you appetite and checkbook!! That’s ... First Day March 9 at Rise of Meeting.
by WebPost | Feb 17, 2025 | Announcement
Alice Paul and The Fight for Women's Rights, by Deborah Kops
- A narrative with details that help to show the atmosphere this Quaker worked in to help gain the vote and other rights for women
Peace, by Miranda and Baptiste Paul
- Thoughtful examples of large and small ways we can promote peace in our daily lives
Something Happened in Our Town, by Marianne Celano
- A best-selling child’s story about racial justice
Susanna and Alice, Quaker Rebels, by Leslie Denis
- Also about Alice Paul, a story of her and her cousin Susanna, who worked in very different ways to bring about change--reviewed in August, 2023 Friends Journal
by WebPost | Feb 17, 2025 | Adult Spiritual Education, Bible Study, Reading between the Lines
The Adult Spiritual Education committee will host a one-hour Reading Between the Lines (formerly Bible Workbench) on First Day (Sunday), March 2, through Zoom, from 9-10 am. We will discuss Mark 9: 2-9: when what we think we know becomes a question; when our perceptions are challenged; when what we have now experienced has to make a difference; when we try to “pin down”—too early—new vision; when we try to make “small dwellings” for a “larger life” (paraphrased from The Education Center, Charlotte, NC). The facilitator will send the Zoom link through the Newslist several days before the meeting.
by WebPost | Feb 15, 2025 | Activity
Are you interested in becoming a Faith & Play facilitator?
The Sandy Spring Friends Meeting Religious Education Committee is hosting a Faith and Play training taught by Melinda Wenner-Bradley, taking place at the Sandy Spring Meetinghouse, March 21-23. Faith and Play is a story-based spiritual formation curriculum for children. ALL members of the BYM community are welcome to register. Registration costs are covered by Adult Spiritual Education. Please let Kathryn Beaton or Elizabeth Price know if you are interested in attending. You may also reach out to [email protected]. Flyer with more detailed information can be found here: Playing-in-the-Light-flyer-SSFM-March-2025.pdf
Volunteer Opportunities Available:
The RE committee is looking for those interested in working with or in support of children in the following roles:
Background checks are required. Please contact Elizabeth Price if you are interested.
If your child attends Religious Education at RFM, look for the monthly email update. This is where you can find out what's being taught in classes, what's coming up, and other useful information about our children's program.
by WebPost | Feb 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
by Sharlee DiMenichi, Friends Journal
Opposing immigration enforcement in houses of worship, Friends General Conference (FGC) joined an interfaith lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and two of its enforcement agencies, the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Barry Crossno, the general secretary of FGC, said, “The suit asserts that subjecting places of worship to ICE enforcement actions without a judicial warrant substantially burdens our religious exercise in violation of the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. These enforcement actions at our places of worship interfere with our religious activities and our ability to fulfill our religious mandate to welcome and serve immigrants.”
There are 26 other Christian and Jewish denominations and community organizing associations among the plaintiffs, including Baptist, Brethren, Mennonite, Methodist, and Unitarian Universalist, representing 12 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, with some being national bodies. The suit was filed Tuesday, February 11, by the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Read the full article here.