Backpack Beginnings Donation Boxes Help Local Children in Need / August 24, 2022

Community, Families, News, Social Concerns, Volunteer

There will be a donation box for Backpack Beginnings on the porch this week through Sunday. Friends are invited to bring contributions. Please find a list of needed items below. Greatest need items are in italics. FOOD PROGRAM: (please check expiration dates) Pop Top Spaghettios, Canned Chicken, Squeeze Jelly, Plastic PB Jars, Individual Cereals, Individual Oatmeal packets, Individual sized proteins (Chef Boyardee microwaveable meals), fruit cups, cereal and nut-free individually wrapped snacks, Especially need Chicken…

Are You a Student, Teacher, or Parent Who Cares About the Climate Crisis? / August 2022

Community, Environment, News, Social Concerns, Volunteer

Are you a student worried about the Climate Crisis? Are you a teacher in Guilford County Schools who knows students concerned for the environment, for the planet? Are you a parent or grandparent who shares these concerns with students in your family? Greensboro EarthQuakers and their Solar Power Now allies are pushing the Guilford County Board of Education to commit to a goal of 100% clean, renewable energy. We are asking the School Board to…

Religious Education Update / August 24, 2022

Fellowship, News, Religious Education

Summer Adult Forum Series This Summer we have been using Quakerspeak videos and discussion questions to learn more about Quakerism. All are welcome. Video links are included. We will watch the videos together, but Friends may choose to watch them independently as well. August 28: Envisioning a Strong Future for Quakerism https://bit.ly/3QyiHII Adult Forum remains on Zoom for the time-being. Email Karin Heller if you would like to receive Religious Education Updates and/or Zoom links.…

Invitation to New Garden Friends Meeting from Persimmon Grove

Community, Fellowship, News

It is HOMECOMING and REVIVAL time! Our revival theme is: “Be Revived, Be Renewed, Be Restored” – Psalm 85:6. So, family, friends and all, come worship, fellowship and celebrate God with us as we rejoice in his many blessings! Annual Homecoming and Revival services will begin at Persimmon Grove A.M.E. Church in Greensboro, N.C. on Sunday, August 28, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. worship service, with our very own Pastor, Reverend Dr. Debora Lawson Smith, rendering…

Approvals from Called Business Meeting on COVID Procedures and Protocols 8/21/2022

Covid-19, News

• Increase Capacity of Meeting Room to 125. • Continue to publish and post CDC Guilford County hospitalizations, deaths, and transmission levels (high, medium, low) weekly. • Start offering coffee, tea, and cookies weekly on porch before meeting. • Start Having ‘Carry-Out’ meals on the grounds September 11th. • Start Holding hybrid Monthly Meetings on September 11th, or thereafter, contingent on technical staffing. • Unlock building weekdays from 9 to 5. House will investigate installing…

Antiracism Group Seeks Volunteers for 2 Projects / August 24, 2022

Community, News, Social Concerns

The New Garden Friends Meeting Antiracism group would is asking for volunteers from our community to develop the following ideas: • Create an annual date for memorial/recognition service honoring a significant events in New Garden Friends Meeting racial justice history • New Garden Friends Meeting Quaker history room If you are interested in bringing these items to life, please email [email protected]

Help Start a New Garden Friends Meeting Musical Playlist / August 24, 2022

Music, News

Many of us create playlists, adding tunes for personal use and to exchange with others. Some playlists remind us of who and where we are this time of our lives, filled with songs that we listen to over and over again. Other playlists we create to send our friends, family, and loved ones. I’d like to know what songs are on your playlists right now. What lyrics or tunes move you or inspire you? What…

New Zealand Lord’s Prayer

News

Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver, Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, Loving God, in whom is heaven: The hallowing of your name echo through the universe! The way of your justice be followed by the peoples of the world! Your heavenly will be done by all created beings! Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth. With the bread we need…