7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. / Friendship Hall / Due to the snow and ice, New Garden Friends Meeting annual cookie bake and exchange has been rescheduled to Wednesday, December 12. Please join us in Friendship Hall on Wednesday and bring your favorite Christmas cookie dough and a container to bring home cookies. We will bake and decorate our cookies together and at the end of the evening each person can take home a variety…
Rm. 111 / 9:45 – 10:50 a.m. The Brotherhood Class is made up of men and women of New Garden Meeting who are interested in Bible study. Anyone can be a part of this class, and we invite you to come and see if you are interested. In December, the Brotherhood Class is starting a new unit on the gospel of Luke. I find that spending three months on one book of the Bible is rewarding,…
Rm. 109 / 9:45 – 10:50 a.m. Karen Garraputa leads this book discussion group. Feel free to join us as we discuss the spiritual discipline of meditation.
Brotherhood Room / 12:15 – 2:30 p.m. The Social Concerns committee invites you to bring a bag lunch and join us monthly – every 3rd Sunday for movie and discussion series on our Quaker Testimony of Equality. Let’s meet with our sandwiches right after worship, watch a movie on an aspect of equality (race, sex, gender, religion, class, for example) and finish with a discussion.
Due to snow and winter weather advisories, 9:00 a.m. Unprogrammed Worship has been cancelled. 11:00 a.m. Meeting for Worship will be unprogrammed, All other activities have been cancelled. Please stay safe.
11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. / Fellowship Hall. Share in the longstanding New Garden Friends Meeting tradition of crafting hand-made holiday gifts. As always, both meat and vegetarian friendly chili will be served, and the Ukestra will be playing Christmas music beginning at 12:30. Friends often bring cash should they feel led to contribute. Also, there are occasionally craft items for sale. Join us for candle making, paper marbling, jewelry making, gift tag embossing, cookie…
The main focus of the Peace & Love Ukestra, led by C.H. Holcombe, is to visit nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and memory care units to share our musical talents and stimulate residents who may be suffering from memory issues. By playing and singing classic folk songs, gospel tunes, and other genres of music, we encourage these residents to sing along, which many of them do. We’ve even had folks get up and dance to…
The sale of the Christmas Honor Cards in support of local non-profits will take place each First Day, through Sunday December 16 (the day of the Alternative Christmas Event). At the rise of meeting, please find us at a table in the entryway by the kitchen We hope to expand our outreach in two ways this year: we’ll offer more days of the sale of the cards (for those of you who actually do get…
9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. / Friendship Hall. We invite refugees and non-profits to display their valuable work and offer us ways to give to friends and family by buying gifts and honor cards. This then helps refugees support themselves and organizations to help others. Lunch and treats will also be available for purchase. Those participating include; Taste The World, Ten Thousand Villages, Nana’s Treats, Biz Kids, Gate City Quilt Guild, Quaker House,Turkish Crafts, Urban Ministry,…
4:45 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. / Meet at Fellowship Hall at 4:45 p.m. / Walk to Friends Home to share holiday melodies with Friends. After caroling, everyone is welcome to come back to Fellowship Hall for a free pizza dinner and cookies.