11:00 a.m. / Please join our Facebook live stream here or our interactive Zoom session. A link for Zoom will be sent by email, or it can be requested from the Office through Friday. We look forward to seeing you online. For those interested in gathering in the Worship Room, Ministry and Counsel decided that we will use the same configuration this coming Sunday as we did last week (the so-called “Online with a Zoom station in the 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…
March is Women’s History Month; March 2 – 1889 Sioux Act reduced Reservation to present size March 2 – Read Across America Day March 8 – International Women’s Day March 17 – St. Patrick’s Day March 21 – International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination March 22 – World Water Day
We just learned of a Quaker ZOOM Meeting for Ukraine. This is a global, daily, virtual Meeting to hold Ukraine in the Light. The Meeting will occur at 12 noon EST daily. Click this link to open the Zoom Meeting.
Daily case positivity (the number of positive tests of all the test results reported not including in-home tests) has decreased slightly in the last week to 6.9 %, still higher than the previously used statewide goal though much less than the omicron peak. The 14 day average case positivity for Guilford County is about the same, 7.7 %. The number of COVID hospitalizations remains high but falling. Guilford County has lifted it’s mask requirement for public buildings and businesses and Guilford…
On June 29, 2021 I shared in this space that it seemed appropriate to me to capitalize both Black and White in our writing. My reasoning was that it is so easy to have White be the default race, and to have the words parallel was a reminder that all are equal. I am looking at this again. Our own Friends Journal capitalizes both. But the pamphlet by Harold D. Weaver, Jr. that New Garden…
The New Garden Friends Meeting Anti-Racism Committee sent Meeting members and attenders the Pendle Hill pamphlet, “Race, Systemic Violence, and Retrospective Justice: An African American Quaker Scholar- Activist Challenges Conventional Narratives” by Harold D. Weaver Jr. Friends were asked to read the pamphlet, and were invited to a discussion of the pamphlet last Sunday during Adult Forum (9:30-10:30 a.m.). Next Sunday, March 6th, we will continue our discussion with a specific focus on the queries…
The Meeting on Ministry and Counsel continues to work with the COVID Advisory Group and our Communications Committee/Tech crew to determine a date to begin indoor hybrid semi-programmed Meeting for Worship, following the plan that was developed at the called meeting on December 12, 2021. The tech crew is is very close to full implementation of the means necessary to carry out our plans. Our current practice for outdoor worship and by Zoom when weather…