Caring Friends Volunteer Opportunity / April 2021
Caring Friends is looking for one or more people who would like to do some yard work for one of our members. If you are interested, please contact Jane Carter at 336-402-2127 or ([email protected]).
Caring Friends is looking for one or more people who would like to do some yard work for one of our members. If you are interested, please contact Jane Carter at 336-402-2127 or ([email protected]).
Upcoming Adult Forums / Zoom Meeting @ 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. / For more information or to receive the zoom link, please contact the Meeting Office, or Karin Heller April 11: A Conversation With Kathy Manning Rep. Manning represents North Carolina’s Sixth Congressional District, which includes all of Guilford County and part of Forsyth County. The meeting with her has been organized with the assistance of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), and…
Online Training for Facilitators April 30 – May 2, 2021. Join us if you’ve already taken BOTH a Basic and Advanced Workshop and are interested in facilitating workshops for others! While we aren’t able to offer traditional weekend workshops in person, we’ve come up with a way to offer a similar experience online using Zoom. When: Friday, April 30 through Sunday May 2 Where: Zoom! Here’s how it works! Friday Night: 6 – 8:30 p.m.…
NC Vaccination rates continue to increase, now fully 25% of adults in NC are fully vaccinated and up to 38% are partially vaccinated. New cases of COVID and hospitalizations were slightly increased this past week in North Carolina and in the United States. This is believed to be due to more people starting to travel and relaxation of previous policies like mask mandates. Concern is also present about vaccine variants which may be more contagious…
Open to all Friends: Corporation programming will begin on Sunday, April 11 at 7 p.m. ET with a panel presentation, “Quakers, AFSC, and abolition: Then and Now,” featuring historians Marcus Rediker and Katharine Grebner and contemporary Quaker abolitionists. To Register; go to: https://www.afsc.org/corpprogram The workshops, which will be offered throughout the week, are listed below: Monday, April 12, 8 p.m. ET: FreeThemAll: How we are living into the call to free folks in the context…
Friends are invited to join us for Easter Egg Hunt on Easter Sunday!!! Yes! You read that correctly! This coming Sunday, April 4, 2021, New Garden Friends Meeting will have our annual Easter egg hunt in the cemetery at 1 p.m.! However, we will have to do things a little differently this year and follow some simple guidelines. We will not use recycled plastic eggs this year. The Religious Education committee has purchased pre-stuffed eggs…
Anti-Racist Actions You Can Take Now: Read the article (in the link below) and consider how these characteristics of white supremacy culture are implemented within your own place of work or other organizations, or even your own personal organizational behavior. Go to: https://tinyurl.com/36fdnnf9 Reprinted from the Anti-Racism Daily e-newsletter, https://www.antiracismdaily.com/ March 19, 2021.
Vaccination rates continue to increase but new cases of COVID have risen slightly this week in North Carolina and in the United States. This is believed to be due to more people starting to travel and relaxation of previous policies like mask mandates. Concern is also present about vaccine variants which may be more contagious or cause more severe illness. Continue to take the now familiar precautions to prevent COVID infections. A new study released…
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: John 20:19-31 Message: Faith and Doubt
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: John 20:1-18 Message: Where, O death, is now thy sting?