Religious Education Update / November 30, 2022

Adult Forum, Community, Holiday, News, Youth

Simple Christmas Mark your calendars! Simple Christmas will take place on Saturday, December 10, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. There will be model trains, stories, crafts, music, fellowship, and general merriment. Would you like to lead a craft or activity and help make magic happen? Contact Karin Heller. [email protected] Children are Welcome at Meeting for Worship Childcare is available beginning at 9:30 a.m. until the rise of Meeting for Worship. However, all children are invited and encouraged to join us…

Art as a Spiritual Practice / Connecting Quakers to Each Other and to God / November 30, 2022

Art, News

In summer 2022, when I attended the Swannanoa Gathering annual music camp, I took a class in Flatfoot Dancing in addition to ukulele. It was there that I met a Quaker from Berea, KY, named Jennifer Elam, who wrote a series of pamphlets at Pendle Hill. At the end of our week, she gave me 3 of those for our New Garden Library: HILLBILLY QUAKER #475, ART AS SOUL’S SANCTUARY: Meditations on Arts and Spirituality…

First Day at New Garden Friends Meeting / December 4, 2022

First Day, Worship

9:45 a.m. Unprogrammed Meeting for Worship 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Adult Forum (Zoom) 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Spiritual Disciplines (Zoom) 11 a.m. Semi-Programmed Meeting for Worship* • Worshipful Music: Michael Greene • Welcome: Ashley Wilcox • Announcements: Karen Garraputa • Lighting the Advent Candle (Love) • Music Service, led by Marc Alley • Silent Worship • Holding in the Light 12:00 p.m. Carry-In Meal 1:00 p.m. Monthly Meeting for Business *Meeting for Worship livestream: Facebook…

Care Fair Held on November 20, 2022

Community, News, Volunteer

New Gardeners enjoyed fellowship at the Care Fair at the rise of meeting. Tables were staffed by volunteers explaining opportunities to care for each other organized through Caring Friends. Cookie give aways, fiddle music and a chance to enjoy each other’s company added to the fun! Thank you to all the volunteers who made the fair possible and to all the New Gardeners who signed up to become a Caring Friend. If you were unable to attend,…

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together / November 22, 2022

Community, News, Social Concerns

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee, mentioned in this space earlier, is a big book, which I am still reading, in advance of placing it in our Little Free Anti-racist Library. I am led to share this quotation from page 205 in the chapter entitled The Same Sky today: Perhaps it makes sense, if you’ve spent a lifetime seeing yourself as the winner of…

Religious Education Update / November 22, 2022

Adult Forum, News, Religious Education, Youth

Friends are reminded that all Religious Education updates and information will now be included in the newsletter. Karin will not send out an additional email later in the week. Zoom links for hybrid programming will be included in the same email as the Zoom link for Meeting for worship. Simple Christmas / Mark your calendars! Simple Christmas will take place on Saturday, December 10, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. There will be model trains, stories, crafts, music,…