Afghan Families are Coming to Greensboro and NGFM is helping in a number of ways. We will be co-sponsoring a family. We will need a group of New Gardeners to love and support them as they begin their new lives in the United States. They will need to have friends who could help them feel welcome in their new home. They will need guidance as they make their way through an unfamiliar land. They need…
From Vanessa Julye, in her pamphlet entitled The Seed Cracked Open (2005) on p. 10: Henry Cadbury writes that the first African-American Quaker was permitted to join Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1784. He noted that Quakers of European descent took up the subject of African-American membership in their meetings after freeing the enslaved in 1785. But ten years later, Joseph Drinker, a Philadelphia Friend, wrote with regret that prominent Friends objected to admitting African-Americans: “Preferring…
Do you have an idea that you want to bring forward to the New Garden Friends community but are not sure who to approach or how to bring it up? The New Ideas Group invites you to share ideas that you may have for our Meeting community. Our next meeting for ideas will take place on Zoom at 1 p.m. on September 26. All New Gardeners are welcome to attend. A zoom link will be…
Join with others and lobby for peace and justice in our community, in our state, in our country, and in our world. There are two upcoming opportunities to get involved with Quakers in North Carolina through Friends Committee on North Carolina Legislation. Join FCNCL’s Annual Meeting Friends Committee on North Carolina Legislation website: https://fcncl.org/ Saturday, October 2, 9:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., online Join us to discuss: how does my faith lead me in advocacy…
10:00 a.m. / In-Person outdoors (weather permitting) on the grounds of our meeting house. Miles Foy will be speaking. Reading: Ruth 1:14-18 Title: “Exclusion and Inclusion” Meeting for Worship livestream: Facebook Live: http://www.facebook.com/NewGardenFriendsMeeting Meeting for Worship on Zoom: Check your email for a Zoom link, or contact [email protected] to receive a link. Prepared messages are posted at: www.ngfm.org/media
9:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. / Those attending unprogrammed meetings for worship on Sundays from 9 – 9:45 a.m. are welcome to use Friendship Hall. Please follow the guidance below; Stay home if you have any symptoms of illness. Meet outdoors, if feasible, regardless of group size; please bring your own chairs. Reserve meeting room(s) in advance by calling the NGFM office at (336) 292-5487 or emailing [email protected] ; note the capacity of room(s) you will…
Sosa Tree Service has donated and delivered wood chips to our parking lot for our playground. The playground does not fall under the care of any committee at New Garden, so this is an appeal to members/attenders to help move the material around the play equipment. If you have a tractor with a scoop, wheelbarrows, pitchforks, rakes and a yearning for heavy exercise, contact Roger Seel at 336-681-6499 or email ([email protected]). We will schedule a…
The COVID plans for New Garden Friends Meeting will remain the same this week in accordance with current policies and protocols for protecting friends/Friends from COVID. Specifically we will continue semi-programmed MFW outdoors and/or by Zoom and Facebook live, un-programmed MFW outdoors or indoors and small group meetings indoors at the Meeting House, in accordance with current masking and distancing protocols. Our next meeting of the Covid Medical Advisory Group will be held October 11, 2021…
Kendi Book Study meeting on Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 7 p.m. via Zoom. We will be discussing queries written by Ibram Kendi this coming Thursday related to chapter 14, Gender, and chapter 15, Sexuality, from the book, How To Be an Antiracist. Kendi’s queries (which are found in his companion book, Be Antiracist) ask each of us to look within ourselves and question our long-held assumptions. Feel free to join us whether or not…
September Meeting of the St. James/Westminster/First Presbyterian Partnership; Last week Peace & Social Concerns announced a new social justice ministry partnership with St. James, Westminster, and First Presbyterian churches. If you want to see what this is all about, come to the September meeting of the partnership on Monday, September 27 at 6:30 p.m. under the tent in the parking lot of Westminster Presbyterian Church, 3906 W. Friendly Ave., Greensboro, NC. Please wear a mask.…