Covid Advisory / November 9, 2021

Community, Covid-19, News, Social Concerns

The COVID  Advisory Group last  met 11/8/21, and protocols for New Garden Friends Meeting  will continue mostly the same through the Holiday season. Specifically, we will continue semi-programmed Meeting for Worship (MFW) outdoors and/or by Zoom and Facebook Live, now back to 11 am.   Friends will be notified if weather does not permit in-person outdoor worship.  Unprogrammed MFW may take place outdoors or indoors, in accordance with current masking and distancing protocols.  Other small…

Anti-Racism Work Group Query / November 9, 2021

Community, News, Social Concerns

The Antiracism Work Group is sharing queries to support our community in learning to view our processes and actions through an antiracism lens. Friends are invited to use these queries in their prayer, meditation, and contemplative practices, and may wish to share their responses and experiences of sitting with these queries in their interactions with other friends. Antiracism working group Query #1; How does the interior of New Garden Friends Meeting house — the pictures,…

Challenging Racism / November 9, 2021

Community, News, Social Concerns

A quotation from Amhara Powell, in “Discovering Fellowship among African American Friends,” Friends Bulletin, Vol. 74, No. 1, January 2003, pp. 3-4: “Unprogrammed worship spoke to my condition like no prior religious practice. I thought of myself as having always been a Quaker without ever having known it. . . When I joined the Religious Society of Friends. . . I had sensed early on that on some level, my African American culture might be…

Karin Heller, New Garden Friends Meeting

Religious Education News / November 9, 2021

News, Religious Education

Adult Forum *Now 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. on Zoom only. Join us as we continue our oral readings and discussion from the book, “Faithful Voices: Oral Readings Exploring Beliefs in Action”. On November 21, the Forum class will discuss the current selection for our whole city to read a book together: THERE THERE by Tommy Orange. This award-winning novel is about what life is like for Native Americans who live in cities, having moved from…

Semi-Programmed Meeting for Worship / November 14, 2021

First Day, Worship

11:00 a.m. / In-Person outdoors (weather permitting) on the grounds of our meeting house. Reading: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Message Title: Changing and Changing Again 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

Unprogrammed Meeting for Worship / November 14, 2021

First Day, Worship

9:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. / Those attending unprogrammed meetings for worship on Sundays 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 be using and do not exceed maximum…