9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. / Those attending un-programmed meetings for worship on Sundays are welcome to use Friendship Hall. Please observe Ministry & Council guidelines for Covid-safe in person worship.
Valerie Harris is our new office manager. Our long time office manager, Sharon Burton, stayed on to train Valerie. Valerie is a graduate of Penn State University and resides near the meetinghouse. She has a long and extensive background in accounting, management, sales, and account reconciliation. Valerie also has 15 years of experience proctoring high stakes exams. Many thanks to Bill McNeil, Danny Finnegan, Janet Inmon, and others on the Personnel Committee for their careful…
Weekly metrics by the CDC are still updated every Thursday by 8 pm ET at CDC.gov or (800-CDC-INFO). In Guilford County, community level risk of Covid transmission continues to be Low with cases reported to the NC HHS slightly decreased /stable , hospitalizations slightly increased and early warning indicators ( like wastewater viral particle numbers) stable at a relatively low level. A couple of surrounding counties though, have HIGH transmission risk. The NC Health and Human Services Dashboard is updated weekly on Wednesdays. Vaccines are…
Volunteers at the July 16 workday on the parsonage included (from left to right) John Coffman, Ron Pudlo, Tim Lindeman, Charlie Cameron, Marie Brown, Nancy Walker, Sara Wright , Kate Seel, Pat Adelberger. Not pictured: Mary Louise Smith & Roger Seel.
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It was a nice evening stroll with Jane and the mutt on July 12 to the Heritage Community sign dedication on West Friendly Avenue. The one-mile walk from our house to the sign on the western edge of the Guilford College/New Garden community had us walking through land once inhabited by the Occoneechee, Saura, and Keowah; farms settled by Pennsylvania and Nantucket Quakers; fields where soldiers fell during the Revolutionary War; areas where “free Blacks”…
It is time to VOTE in our local elections – for mayor, city council and five bond issues. Election Day is July 26; early voting ends July 23. Hopefully all readers will exercise that right and privilege, and in doing so, think about African Americans like Henry Frye, who was denied the right to vote upon returning from military service, due to a failure to pass the “literacy test” (given to Black citizens only) prior…
Reading from Meeting for Worship on July 3, 2022 / Britain Faith and Practice / Carl Heath, 1922 Social problems, like religions, when we do our best and earnestly desire the highest, are often seen in the wrong perspective due to limited horizon, the lack of essential knowledge, the impossibility of dealing with them in any genuinely detached sense, or of seeing the wood for the trees. Such conditions present no case for a stern…
From an AMERICAN ABOLITIONISTS Knowledge Card by the New York Historical Society: “Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) ‘He told me that I was made for his use, made to obey his command in every thing; that I was nothing but a slave.’ When Harriet Jacobs published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in 1861, readers were shocked by its brutality. Jacobs told of enslaved women with no control over whose children they bore. She described…
Childcare on Sunday Morning Are you planning to attend in-person, semi- programmed Meeting for Worship with a child/children this week? Childcare is available for children ages 4 and under in the nursery beginning at 10:30 a.m.. Because this age group is currently not eligible for the vaccine, we ask that families enter the building through the porch door (next to the kitchen and Fellowship Hall) and take their children directly to the nursery. The capacity…