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BYM Group on Racism: Thinking About Race (June 2015) – Continuum On Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization
In March 2015 the Clerks of Baltimore Yearly Meeting and of BYM Interim Meeting announced that the Yearly Meeting had accepted a grant of $250,000 from the Shoemaker Fund to address, in part, “…how can our Meetings at all levels be more inclusive and welcoming to all...
Thrifty Quaker Chosen for Richmond Peace Education Center Peacemaker of the Year Award
The Richmond Peace Education Center is pleased to announce it has chosen to honor both a special individual and a unique group as its 2015 Peacemakers of the Year. This year’s Peacemaker award recipients are Dr. John Moeser and The Thrifty Quaker. Dr. John Moeser is...
Meeting for Chanting!
May 18 at 7:30-8:30 PM in the Meetinghouse Chanting is a way of centering into awareness of Spirit. We sing short songs out of the silence, and repeat them until the sense of the group ends the chant. Friends will gather into silence in the mode of worship...
Minutes of Business Meeting, Fourth Month 19, 2015
Meeting began with silence at 11:00 am. Fifty-four (54) members and attenders were present. Clarisse Harton was greeter. Julia Hebner from Ministry and Worship sat on the facing bench to hold Meeting in the Light. Nick Martina read the Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM)...
Final Report of the Working Group on The New Jim Crow
April 19, 2015 Starting in February, 2014, the Adult Spiritual Education and Peace and Social Concerns committees of Richmond Friends Meeting began a series of sessions to read and discuss The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander, and to feature guest speakers on the...
How do you become a member of Meeting?
The applicant submits a letter of intent to the Clerk of Meeting. It is suggested that the applicant become familiar with BYM Faith and Practice and Friends for 300 Years if they have not already done so. The Clerk then submits the letter to Care and Counsel and a...
Thinking about race (May 2015) – Unconscious bias: an example
“The Hero’s Fight: African-Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State,” by Patricia Fernández-Kelly, was published Feb. 1, 2014, by Princeton University Press. See http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10328.html#.VPHv1BBwbLw.gmail. If you click on the link,...
Peace and Social Concerns Committee on Race
There have been several celebrations and ceremonies marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and the freeing of slaves in the south. These events note an important milestone as a step toward greater racial equality, and Virginia Friends were allies in...
Parking Request for Events at the Meetinghouse
Please Park as a Good Neighbor. The Meeting recently has been reminded that we are located in a residential community, and that our activities can disturb our neighbors. Parking is one of the primary issues. Please do not park in front of any neighbors’ homes. If...
Richmond Friends Meeting 2014 Spiritual State of the Meeting Report
Richmond Friends gathered for a half-day on 21st day, 2nd month, 2015 to consider the spiritual state of our meeting in a worship sharing format, centered around queries provided by Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Approximately twenty Friends participated. Richmond Friends...
There are still openings for campers at Shiloh and Opequon this summer!
An update on BYM summer camps: there are still openings for campers at Shiloh and Opequon this summer! In particular, there are may openings in the last session at Shiloh and the middle session at Opequon, There are even some work grant spots available! Please...
2015 FGC Gathering
2015 FGC Gathering The FGC Gathering is a week of Quaker worship, workshops, and community for all ages. Quakers will gather from throughout North America and across the world to live for a week immersed in Quaker experience. In 2015, we begin our week on July 5 in a...
Meeting for Business Minutes, March 2015
Richmond Friends Meeting Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business Third Month 15, 2015 Meeting began with silence at 11:00 am. Forty-four (44) members and attenders were present. Mary Graham-Landau was greeter. Michael Pierce from Ministry and Worship sat on...
Worship Sharing Circle on “Spirit and the Environment”
On Sunday, April 12, at 9:30 in the Community Room, Adult Spiritual Education and Peace and Social Concerns will hold a Worship Sharing Circle on "Spirit and the Environment" using Joanna Macy's essay "The Greening of the Self" (found in the anthology Spiritual...
Spring Equinox Bible Workbench
The Adult Spiritual Education committee will hold a one-hour Spring Equinox Bible Workbench, on Sunday, March 22, at 9:30 in the Community Room. We will discuss Jeremiah 31: 31-34. You don't need to read the scripture in advance, or be Christian or knowledgeable about...
March is Quaker House Month at the Thrifty Quaker
March is the month that Thrifty Quaker will donate sale proceeds to Quaker House. You can drop off items yourself at Thrifty Quaker in early March. Or you can bring them to meeting on Sunday, March 1 and Sunday, March 8 and we will deliver them to the store for you....
Food Drive for the Fan Free Clinic in March
Employment numbers are up. Gas prices are down. Stock market is up. It seems like the hard times are over… for me maybe, or you. But, in Richmond, where 26.3 % of its residents live below the poverty line, many go to bed hungry and many children go to school...
Meeting for Business Minutes for February 2015
Meeting began with silence at 11:00 am. Forty-four (44) members and attenders were present. Barbara Myers was greeter. Mary Julia Street from Ministry and Worship sat on the facing bench to hold Meeting in the Light. Doug Reed, Shea Allen Moore, Laura Wead, Kaylee...
Legislative Update from Peace & Social Concerns regarding Virginia General Assembly Bills being tracked by Virginia Interfaith Center (VICPP), Environmental Groups and CURE
There were 14+ Quakers at the VICPP Day for All People on January 20th from 7 different Monthly Meetings in Virginia - Alexandria, Herndon, Hopewell Centre-Winchester, Maury River - Lexington, Midlothian, Richmond, and Virginia Beach. The following attended from...
Due to The Thrifty Quaker and Friend$hare, local Quakers are:
Creating a public “information center” about Quakers; a public outreach by Quakers to seekers Providing our locality a Quaker place for community service and volunteering Encouraging recycling by providing donated thrift items at very low prices Helping provide food...
Scholarship Funds and Guidelines for Adult Spiritual Education
Jean Jones Andersen's passion for spiritual education led her to leave our community funds to support adults in taking classes, retreats, workshops, etc. to further their spiritual education. If you have an idea, vision, or leading towards some kind of spiritual...
Upcoming events sponsored by Peace and Social Concerns Committee
From P&SC, Upcoming Events 1. On Sunday February 22nd the same co sponsorship will present the film Five Broken Cameras at RFM. Refreshments will be available at 5:30 and the film will follow at 6PM. 2. On Sunday February 1st at 9:30, P&SC will present a PVS...
Meeting for Business Minutes January 2015
MWB Minutes, January 2015
Bible Study Schedule for 2015 (through June)
Bible Study will meet in one of the upstairs classrooms on the following dates/times. Schedule for 2015 (through June): January 4 9:45 am -10:45 am February 22 9:45 am - 10:45 am March 22 9:45 am - 10:45 am April 26 9:45 am - 10:45 am May 24 9:45 am - 10:45 am...
BYM Faith & Practice review: ad hoc Committee report to RFM
Editor’s Note: The following report was accepted at business meeting on 16 November, 2014. Following 2013 Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM) annual session, Richmond Friends Meeting (RFM) learned that the BYM Faith & Practice draft was not approved and the committee...
ASE presentation on Humans in the Natural World – January 11th
Humans in the Natural World will be the subject of a presentation by Dr. Harry Wistrand, Professor of Biology, Emeritus, Agnes Scott College on January 11 at 9:30-10:45. The talk/discussion is part of the environmental series being sponsored by Adult Spiritual...
Scholarship Funds for Adult Spiritual Education
Jean Jones Andersen's passion for spiritual education led her to leave our community funds to support adults in taking classes, retreats, workshops, etc. to further their spiritual education. If you have an idea, vision, or leading towards some kind of spiritual...
RFM Winter Retreat at The Clearing: Writing Your Spirituality
The committees of Ministry and Worship and Adult Spiritual Education invite you to.... ....Save the date! Saturday, February 28th 2015......for a Winter Retreat day at The Clearing! Lynn Domina, poet and teacher, will lead us in a day of finding spiritual and creative...
Child Safety Policies (approved in 12th Month, 2014, Meeting for Business)
Child Safety Policy—Approved Final Policies Ad hoc committee members: Trustees: Ada Hammer, Gordon Davies, Sanford Hostetter Nursery: Janet Thoroman RE: Catherine Roseberry, Diane Bowden, Barb Adams Advising: Steve Bricker Background The RE committee and Nursery...
Invitation to a Fall Men’s Retreat at The Clearing
Several men in our Meeting have expressed an interest in having another Men's Retreat at The Clearing this fall. The retreats are held under the broad oversight of Ministry and Worship. A small committee plans and facilitates the retreat. This is an invitation to all...
An Invitation to Remember Jean Jones Andersen
Jean Jones Andersen was a lifelong student of the Bible, world religions and spirituality. In her later years, she initiated and facilitated many spirit-led groups in her home which she called “Questers Lodge”, including dream work, Jungian studies, Islamic studies,...
Peace and Social Concerns announcements (September 2014)
Announcements from Peace & Social Concerns Committee A climate change summit is being held at the United Nations in New York City on Saturday and Sunday September 20-21. The organizers of a rally planned for Sunday are hoping to have massive, record-breaking...
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
WHITE PRIVILEGE: UNPACKING THE INVISIBLE KNAPSACK by PEGGY McINTOSH (Introduced by Marilyn Gilmore) (Edited by Pat Schenck) Peggy McIntosh, a White feminist scholar, identified a long list of societal privileges that she received simply because she was White. She did...
Currently featured in the library:
The Library Committee plans to feature periodically books that may be of particular interest to Friends. Currently featured are two books about Margaret Fell: Undaunted Zeal: The Letters of Margaret Fell, editor and introduction by Elsa F. Glines Margaret Fell and...
Query and Voices for 7th Month
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Proposed Queries on Diversity Does your vision of a just society include people living their lives without fear of discrimination based on who they are, what they believe, and whom they love? Are we willing to be in communion with each other,...
Child Safety Policy: Criminal Background Checks
Child Safety Policy: Criminal Background Checks Adopted by Richmond Friends Meeting on June 15, 2015 The purpose of this policy is to ensure child safety. BYM encouraged such a policy and the insurance company required it. One aspect of a child safety policy is...
MWB Minutes for 2014
Richmond Friends Meeting Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business First Month 19, 2014 Meeting began with silence at 11:00 am. Fifty-five (55) members and attenders were present. Barbara Myers was greeter. Ted Heck from Ministry and Worship sat on the facing...
Friends, Unitive Justice, Ending Mass Incarceration
On June 1, Sylvia Clute gave a talk at RFM on "Friends, Unitive Justice, Ending Mass Incarceration." Below is a brief introduction to her talk and a description of unitive justice. Common phrases, like “the punishment must fit the crime,” “I want to get even,”...
Religious Education Announcements June 2013
Religious Education Announcements Summer RE – There will be no RE on Sunday, August 31st, during the Labor Day holiday. June 1st to end of summer – Young Friends Book Sale Young Friends will be collecting book donations for their Book Sale, which begins June 1st and...
Adult Spiritual Education Committee Guidelines for Funding Scholarships
The following are the guidelines established by the Adult Spiritual Education Committee for funding scholarships to Quaker programs. Adult Spiritual Education Committee Guidelines for Funding Scholarships The Scholarship Fund intends to facilitate RFM’s adult...
The Baltimore Yearly Meeting Spiritual Formation Program: Deepening the Spiritual Experience of Modern Friends
The Baltimore Yearly Meeting Spiritual Formation Program
Spiritual State of the Meeting report for 2013
Each year Meeting sends a report to Baltimore Yearly Meeting that addresses the spiritual state of Meeting. The report is developed as a proposal by the Ministry and Worship Committee after a morning retreat with all members and attenders who choose to participate....
RFM Financial Policies and Guidelines
Follow this link to thee RFM Financial Stewardship Committee's document that guides how Meeting deals with financial issues. Meeting Electronic File and Document Repository (Committee Files/Financial Stewardship)
Responsibilities of Committees and Position Holders and Current Assignments
Richmond Friends Meeting operates with no paid staff. The work of the Meeting is done by committees and position-holders staffed by volunteer members and attenders. The staffing of committees and position-holders changes each calendar year. Click here to see a...
Marriage Equity Minute
The following marriage equity minute was approved in Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business on 3/16/2014: In keeping with our Quaker testimonies of integrity and equality, Richmond Friends Meeting offers the same marriage under the care of Meeting to all...
RPEC dinner and auction is November 8
Meeting House – Usage Information
The Richmond Friends welcome your use of our Meetinghouse and ask that you adhere to the procedures delineated below. Please note that these policies apply not only to Richmond Friends but to all who utilize the Meetinghouse. It is important that each group using...
Categorizing Books in the Library
Because of generous donations from you, and from the collection of Jean Jones Andersen, our stock of books has mushroomed. Many more categories have been added to assist you in your search for the book you are looking for, or for the book that is looking for you! A...
Tour of the Meeting House
This is the entrance to the Meeting Room for Worship, located at 4500 Kensington Avenue. We began worshiping here in 1957 and most people find our Meetinghouse timeless, quaint, and charming in its simplicity. Our facility is comprised of two buildings, the Meeting...
MWB minutes for 2013
MWB Minutes for 2013