Semi-Programmed Meeting for Worship / April 10, 2022

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 and also in person this First Sunday. Please observe Ministry & Council guidelines for Covid-safe in person worship. 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…

Religious Education News / April 6, 2022

You’re Invited! We will hold our Annual Easter Egg Hunt in the New Garden Friends Meeting Cemetery on Easter Sunday at the rise of 11 a.m. semi-programmed Meeting for Worship! Children are invited to bring a bag or basket and join the fun. All participants should remain masked, maintain appropriate social distance, and stay with their pods/family groups. Childcare on Sunday Morning Are you planning to attend in-person, Semi-programmed Meeting for Worship with a child/children…

Challenging Racism / April 6, 2022

Often I find inspiration from those who lived in the past – some who only recently have received appropriate recognition. One such person is Vina Curry, “free Black abolitionist, who risked her life as an operative on the Underground Railroad by providing her late husband’s ‘free papers’ to at least fifteen men escaping slavery. As a widowed mother, Curry lived and worked as the washerwoman at New Garden Boarding School beginning in the late 1830s.…

April Equity Calendar / April 6, 2022

April is National Poetry Month 4 – Dr. MLK, Jr assassinated 1968 9 – Marian Anderson, banned from performing indoors due to her race, sang from steps of Lincoln Center, 1939 22 – Earth Day 24 – End of Reconstruction, 1877 27 – Holocaust Remembrance Day 29 – Arbor Day – submitted by NGFM AntiRacism Working Group

Community Housing Solutions Report / April 6, 2022

Thanks to generous New Gardeners Community Housing Solutions reports that our contribution paid for energy-saving improvements in the homes of seven families. As part of our Solar+ Project, which paid for installation of solar panels on the Meetinghouse in late 2020, New Garden donated $30,000 to Community Housing Solutions (CHS) to help others save on energy bills as we helped reduce ours. CHS was able to stretch our donation further by partnering with an NCA&T…

“We Cry Justice” Zoom Meeting / April 7, 2022

You are invited to join “We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign,” weekly Zoom meeting this coming Thursday, 7:00 p.m. We will be talking about chapters in Part I, “Jubilee” this coming week. Scuppernong Bookstore has copies of the book in stock. Contacts for additional information: Sara White; Cathy Hamilton. Zoom link: Join Zoom Meeting https://tinyurl.com/d99p98cn Meeting ID: 854 6516 5432 Passcode: 830682

Medical Advisory Covid Update / April 6, 2022

The CDC has shifted to weekly metrics, updated every Thursday by 8 pm ET at CDC.gov or (800-CDC-INFO).  In Guilford County, community level risk of COVID transmission is currently LOW, though there are key spots in the world and the US that are experiencing surges with the BA.2 Omicron variant. The NC Health and Human Services Department has changed the COVID dashboard to reflect metrics more likely to reveal an imminent surge in different ways, since reported testing is not currently occurring as frequently as previously. The dashboard this…