Covid-19 Vaccine Information / March 25, 2021

Community, Covid-19, News

Vaccination rates continue to increase and new cases of COVID/hospitalization rates continue to fall this week in North Carolina. However, more persons have started to travel and state officials continue to be concerned whether this activity will result in a higher number of COVID cases thereafter as happened around the year end holidays. Continue to take the now familiar precautions to prevent COVID infections. CDC guidelines explaining what activities may now be safe were issued…

Quaker Relations Survey / March 25, 2021

Community, Fellowship, News

We have opened the Quaker Relations Survey back up for our community so that we can continue to gather feedback from those who 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 New Garden Friends Meeting. The link is: https://tinyurl.com/jm227897 The survey will be open for several weeks.

New Ideas Committee Updates / March 24, 2021

News

Here are the New Ideas Committee Update Reports; A committee to support the Friendship Community Partnership will be considered as a responsibility of Quaker Relations and be included in the ongoing evaluation of support for that committee. In support of animal welfare Peace and Social Concerns is planning a food collection activity when we have resumed use of the Meeting House. Religious Education will be considering the NY Prayer for Peace, information about other Peace…

Share Your Proposal for Funds Before April 5, 2021

Community, Environment, Fellowship, Finance & Stewardship, News, Social Concerns

The Peace and Social Concerns Committee (PSCC) is seeking proposals for funds. Each spring and fall, New Garden provides small grants to organizations for projects that address the meeting’s priorities of peace, simplicity, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship of Earth. PSCC looks at all proposed organizations and projects for their antiracist value. If you know of an organization or project that could benefit from a small grant ($200 – $500), please have a representative of…

News From Religious Education / Forum on March 28, 2021

Community, First Day, News, Social Concerns

Peace & Social Concerns is leading a book study of How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi. To quote from Mr. Kendi’s website: “In his memoir, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science–including the story of his own awakening to antiracism–bringing it all together in a cogent, accessible form. He begins by helping us rethink our most deeply held, if implicit, beliefs and our most intimate personal relationships…

Friends Committee on North Carolina Legislation Recommends/ March 25, 2021

News, Social Concerns

Friends Committee on North Carolina Legislation recommends the following online program. For registration link contact Dot Mason at: ([email protected]) Program: Eco-Justice is Anti-Colonial Thursday, March 25, 12 to 1 p.m. Join NCIPL & NC Council of Churches Intern for Climate and Environmental Justice, Noely Bernier, for a discussion on the impacts of colonialism (on our lives and the environmental movement), the importance of decolonization to the work of social and ecological justice, and ways to…

Adult Forum / March 28, 2021

First Day, Religious Education, Social Concerns

Peace & Social Concerns is leading a book study of How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi. To quote from Mr. Kendi’s website: “In his memoir, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science–including the story of his own awakening to antiracism–bringing it all together in a cogent, accessible form. He begins by helping us rethink our most deeply held, if implicit, beliefs and our most intimate personal relationships…

Upcoming Forums & Studies / March 16, 2021

News, Religious Education, Social Concerns

Sunday, March 21 – “The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2 / Discussion continues on the “The 1619 Project”. The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative. You can…