Actors needed for October 31 / Opportunities to serve!

Community, Families, Fellowship, News, Volunteer, Youth

If Starbucks is offering pumpkin spice flavorings, it’s time to start thinking about the (day called) Hallowe’en graveyard tour! Last year more than a dozen New Gardeners dressed up and represented some of the fascinating people interred in our cemetery, and I almost remembered to stop at each of their graves (Sorry, “Mary Nicholson”!). One hundred people from around the community enjoyed the lantern-lit tour. Let me know if you’d like to reprise a role…

Meeting’s Wooden Bridge Needs a New Home

Community, News

Years ago, a bridge was installed across the drainage ditch that cuts across the yard between the Meeting House and the intersection of College Road and Friendly Avenue. The ditch, deep in places and lined with riprap, carries runoff from College Road into the city’s storm drain system. Now the city is about to make improvements to the waterway, and the bridge needs to go. If you or someone you know has a use for…

What Puts the “E” in “SPICES?” / October 21

Community, Fellowship, First Day, News, Social Concerns

Brotherhood Room / 12:15 – 2:30 p.m. The Lunch-and-Learn program will feature Life in the Sacrifice Zone, a documentary on health problems related to Duke Energy’s Belews Creek coal ash ponds polluting ground water near Walnut Cove.  Local artist Caroline Armijo and Walnut Cove residents are expected to join in the discussion to give witness to the problem.  Bring a bag lunch and discuss the personal impacts of coal ash.

Quaker Lake Family Camp / October 5 – 7

Community, Families, Fellowship, First Day, News, Worship, Youth

Family Camp is this weekend! We are scheduled to arrive at 5 p.m. on Friday and enjoy a “pitch-in” meal together. The rest of the weekend will be full of delicious food, fall crafts, baking, a pie-eating contest, bonfire and s’mores, and plenty of free time for walks, puzzles, and board games. Meeting for Worship is at the lake Sunday at 10 a.m. If you are interested in joining us Sunday morning, but are unable…

Social Concerns Committee Seeks Proposals / Apply before October 7th

Community, News, Social Concerns, Youth

New Garden Friends Meeting Social Concerns Committee provides small grants to organizations for projects addressing priority issues through our Broader Concerns budget. Priorities for 2018, drawn from a Fall 2017 survey of New Gardeners include: peace and conflict prevention/resolution; poverty, homelessness, and hunger; youth engagement; environment and clean energy; social, racial, and economic justice and refugee crisis and immigrant rights. Worthy organizations advancing any of these priorities through programming or projects, should send a one…

Volunteers Needed for the Greensboro Urban Ministry Food Drive / Oct. 6

Community, News, Volunteer

Want to Do Something about Hunger in Greensboro? Volunteers are needed for a food drive on October 6. You can help end hunger in a very practical way by collecting food for the Greensboro Urban Ministry food pantry on Saturday, October 6, at Harris Teeter, across Friendly Avenue from New Garden Meeting. Contact Bill McNeil ([email protected]) or Betsy Jenson ([email protected]) if you can work an hour or two between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Help…