The Ad Hoc Working Group on Welcoming and Growing our Meeting asks Friends to volunteer to serve coffee at rise of Meeting on Sundays through April, unless there is a pot-luck or an event scheduled after Meeting for Worship. A sign-up sheet is posted in the hallway near the side entrance.
It is hoped Friends will stay for coffee and conversation, and get to know newcomers and visitors.
In addition to the monthly Bible Workbench, Bible Study takes place each month on the 3rd Sunday at 9:45–10:45, using these questions from the Friends General Conference pamphlet Friendly Bible Study: What is the author’s main point in the passage? What new light do I find in this reading of the text? Is the passage true to my experience? What are the implications of the passage for my life? What problems do I have with the passage?
We meet in classroom #1 (next to the library). The meeting newslist publishes the passages for each month’s study.
This coming Sunday, January 15, 2017 at 9:30 am in the Community Roomplease join us for this important session on Earthcare Witness. This is the session that was cancelled last week due to the snowstorm.
Barb Adams is our Meeting’s representative to Quaker Earthcare Witness, and in this session she will help us explore our intimate relationship with the earth. Through interactive experiences, personal discussion, and sharing, we will examine our emotional connection to our planet and the larger cosmos. Barb will guide us in using our own experiences of nature to understand the vital importance of living within the earth’s carrying capacity. Barb will bring some essence of Joanna Macy’s teachings from her presentations at this year’s Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology.
A group of Quakers and friends of Quakers sponsored by Richmond Friends Meeting is planning a trip to help our friends in West Virginia recover from the June 2016 floods. The local sponsoring group is the United Methodist UMCOR program, which has been the sponsor for each of the previous nine trips. They will direct the work assignments and coordinate the housing in local churches.
The workweek is April 10 – 15. If you are interested in this event, please contact Ada Hammer.
A fundraiser chili luncheon is planned for the rise of meeting on March 12. If you would like to help with event, please contact Barbara Myers or Ada Hammer.