As we continue our celebration in 2022 of 350 years of Friends in North Carolina, we have easy access to a timeline on the Underground Railroad Tree at Guilford College website, which gives us a glimpse of how Friends dealt with slavery. A few entries of interest: • [1754 – New Garden Meeting was established.] • 1770 – New Garden Meeting urges Friends not to be involved with slavery. • 1776 – Slave ownership becomes…
The Rev. Dr. Jennifer Copeland, Executive Director Prior to the 2020 elections, a representative from the Carter Center’s Conflict Resolution team reached out to the North Carolina Council of Churches. For the first time in its 40-year history of resolving international conflicts, their research showed the conflicts might come home. North Carolina, along with a few of other states, showed a high probability for election related violence. While N.C. did have a few minor skirmishes…
August 2022 08 International Day of World’s Indigenous People 21 Nat Turner Slave Revolt (1831) 26 Women’s Equality Day
There will be a donation box for Backpack Beginnings on the porch this week through Sunday. Friends are invited to bring contributions. Please find a list of needed items below. Greatest need items are in italics. FOOD PROGRAM: (please check expiration dates) Pop Top Spaghettios, Canned Chicken, Squeeze Jelly, Plastic PB Jars, Individual Cereals, Individual Oatmeal packets, Individual sized proteins (Chef Boyardee microwaveable meals), fruit cups, cereal and nut-free individually wrapped snacks, Especially need Chicken…
Are you a student worried about the Climate Crisis? Are you a teacher in Guilford County Schools who knows students concerned for the environment, for the planet? Are you a parent or grandparent who shares these concerns with students in your family? Greensboro EarthQuakers and their Solar Power Now allies are pushing the Guilford County Board of Education to commit to a goal of 100% clean, renewable energy. We are asking the School Board to…
Summer Adult Forum Series This Summer we have been using Quakerspeak videos and discussion questions to learn more about Quakerism. All are welcome. Video links are included. We will watch the videos together, but Friends may choose to watch them independently as well. August 28: Envisioning a Strong Future for Quakerism https://bit.ly/3QyiHII Adult Forum remains on Zoom for the time-being. Email Karin Heller if you would like to receive Religious Education Updates and/or Zoom links.…
Join Rev. Dr. William Barber Saturday, August 27, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. for a “Get Out The Vote! Rally & Training” session at New Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 408 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Greensboro, NC.
It is HOMECOMING and REVIVAL time! Our revival theme is: “Be Revived, Be Renewed, Be Restored” – Psalm 85:6. So, family, friends and all, come worship, fellowship and celebrate God with us as we rejoice in his many blessings! Annual Homecoming and Revival services will begin at Persimmon Grove A.M.E. Church in Greensboro, N.C. on Sunday, August 28, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. worship service, with our very own Pastor, Reverend Dr. Debora Lawson Smith, rendering…
City of Greensboro work to build a more pedestrian friendly community made progress last week in front of our Meeting with the erection of a retaining wall and, unfortunately the felling of a giant oak marking the corner of Guilford College Road and Friendly Avenue.
• Increase Capacity of Meeting Room to 125. • Continue to publish and post CDC Guilford County hospitalizations, deaths, and transmission levels (high, medium, low) weekly. • Start offering coffee, tea, and cookies weekly on porch before meeting. • Start Having ‘Carry-Out’ meals on the grounds September 11th. • Start Holding hybrid Monthly Meetings on September 11th, or thereafter, contingent on technical staffing. • Unlock building weekdays from 9 to 5. House will investigate installing…