by WebPost | Jan 7, 2017 | Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Committees
This year, as in past years, Baltimore Yearly Meeting is asking each monthly meeting to write a Spiritual State of the Society report.
The queries below are from BYM and are offered to help us reflect on our experiences as a faith community.
Meeting member and attenders are invited to gather on 2nd Month/February 18 to reflect on these queries through worship sharing. We welcome every voice.
- What are your greatest joys as a Meeting? What leadings does your Meeting feel most strongly? What challenges and troubles are you facing? In what ways is the Meeting less than you might wish it to be?
- How does your Meeting nurture the spiritual life of members and attenders? How deep are your Meetings for Worship? Are Meetings for Business held in a spirit of worship?
- Is your Meeting as diverse as you would like it to be? How well do you attend to the needs of newcomers? Do Friends of all ages feel fully a part of the Meeting community?
- Do you engage with other Meetings through visitation or shared projects? What message would you like to share with others in Baltimore Yearly Meeting, and with Friends around the world?
- How do you put your faith into action for justice in the world? Are you aware of the encouragement of the Working Group on Racism within our Yearly Meeting? How has that awareness shaped your work for justice?
- Has your Meeting made any witness to your community or the wider world as a result of the recent Presidential elections?
by WebPost | Jan 7, 2017 | Adult Spiritual Education
Tomorrow’s session on Earthcare Witness, is cancelled due to the weather and will be rescheduled for next Sunday, January 15, 2017 at 9:30 am in the Community Room
We hope you can join us for this important session.
by WebPost | Jan 5, 2017 | Adult Spiritual Education
This coming Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 9:30 am in the Community Room
Please join us for this important session on Earthcare Witness.
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.
by WebPost | Dec 14, 2016 | Committees
The Ad Hoc Working Group on Welcoming and Growing Our Meeting is offering a workshop called, “The Quaker Practice of Spiritual Hospitality:  Nurturing a Welcoming Meeting”.  This workshop invites all of us to consider how welcoming is rooted in Quaker spirituality.  It’s something that stretches our hearts, whether we’re introverts or extraverts.  During the workshop we will share how we have felt welcomed in our lives and what kept us coming back to Meeting.  We’ll brainstorm on how Richmond Friends Meeting can be more welcoming to all.  We want everybody to come to this, old timers as well as new attenders.  Let’s hear from the whole range of perspectives!!  Contact Monica Shaw if you have questions, [email protected].
This happens Sunday, February 12 at 9:30am in the Community Room.