North Carolina Fellowship of Friends Spring Business Meeting (virtual) is March 20, 2021. For those interested in attending, please contact Frank Massey, Clerk to request a link. For advance materials go to: https://www.ncfriends.org/newsletters The materials needed are listed in the February 26, 2021 newsletter.
Sunday 11 a.m. Meeting for Worship livestream: Facebook Live: http://www.facebook.com/NewGardenFriendsMeeting Prepared messages are posted at: www.ngfm.org/media Reading: Mark 10:17-25 Message Title: Simplicity and Generosity
We have opened the Quaker Relations Survey back up for our community so that we can continue to gather feedback from those that did not participate in February. Please use this link to access the survey so that we can better understand the impact our wider Quaker community has on NGFM. The link is: https://tinyurl.com/42heh4v4 The survey will be open for several weeks.
History Lunch Break: Ella Baker- Six Decades in the Making As the Sit-in Movement that was launched in Greensboro expanded, Ella Baker of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference invited student leaders to gather at Shaw University on an April weekend in 1960. There, she would help those students organize the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Dr. Lea E. Williams, author of We Who Believe in Freedom: The Life and Times of Ella Baker, joins us…
Encouragingly, vaccination rates are increasing and hospitalization rates are slightly lower in NC this week. Friends are encouraged to continue their vigilant use of masks, physical distancing and frequent hand sanitation in public especially as we are in the Spring Break season and as we continue to hear about more infectious viral variants. Friends are encouraged to carefully read the new CDC guidelines issued last week; go to: https://tinyurl.com/yyvb9n4t These primarily open up guidelines for…
Friends Committee on National Legislation’s Annual Spring Lobby for young adults will be virtual, March 20-22. Join hundreds of students, recent grads, Quakers, and young adults who will gather to learn and lobby. This year, we’ll be calling on Congress to demilitarize the police and end police violence. There will be scheduled programming on Saturday, March 20 and Sunday, March 21, followed by a day of action on Monday, March 22. Learn more and register…
The Piedmont Friends Spring Retreat is coming up April 9, 10 and 11 and registration is now open! The theme of this free online event is “Cultivating the Garden of Diversity and Inclusion,” featuring a Saturday morning session with Niambi Jaha-Echols, author of “What Color is Your Soul?” An art activity for children and adults with childlike curiosity will be held on Saturday afternoon, followed by annual sessions of the Piedmont Friends Yearly Meeting. Friends…
Bring your foam to Foam Frolic, Saturday, March 13th, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Greensboro’s unique foam recycling site is open and receiving foam cups, trays and packaging at 1310 West Gate City Boulevard. Saturday’s Foam Frolic will be a COVID-safe, drive-through event to show off our convenient location and promote recycling this material that otherwise would go in the trash and take up space in a landfill. The foam recycling site is run by…
Improvements in the rate of positive COVID tests and the decrease in hospitalization rates in NC have stabilized at the lowest rates since November although now infectious disease doctors are concerned about increases that may happen around the spring break schedule. There continues to be concern about more infectious variant virus types known to be circulating in NC. Friends are encouraged to read new CDC guidance for vaccinated persons at: https://tinyurl.com/3cs446d8 These primarily open up…
NC Council of Churches will host a virtual screening of the film Braided Prayer, featuring former Council staff member, David LaMotte! The new short documentary from John Kennedy and David Saich tells the story of Abraham Jam, an interfaith folk/world music trio making the case that harmony can be even stronger than unity — that we don’t have to sing the same notes in order to create something beautiful together. Use the link below to…