American Friends Service Committee Annual Corporation Meeting / April 11 – 17, 2021

News, Social Concerns

Open to all Friends: Corporation programming will begin on Sunday, April 11 at 7 p.m. ET with a panel presentation, “Quakers, AFSC, and abolition: Then and Now,” featuring historians Marcus Rediker and Katharine Grebner and contemporary Quaker abolitionists. To Register; go to: https://www.afsc.org/corpprogram The workshops, which will be offered throughout the week, are listed below: Monday, April 12, 8 p.m. ET: FreeThemAll: How we are living into the call to free folks in the context…

News from Religious Education / March 30, 2021

Community, Fellowship, First Day, News, Religious Education

Friends are invited to join us for Easter Egg Hunt on Easter Sunday!!! Yes! You read that correctly! This coming Sunday, April 4, 2021, New Garden Friends Meeting will have our annual Easter egg hunt in the cemetery at 1 p.m.! However, we will have to do things a little differently this year and follow some simple guidelines. We will not use recycled plastic eggs this year. The Religious Education committee has purchased pre-stuffed eggs…

Peace & Social Concerns Notes / March 30, 2021

Community, Fellowship, News, Social Concerns

Anti-Racist Actions You Can Take Now: Read the article (in the link below) and consider how these characteristics of white supremacy culture are implemented within your own place of work or other organizations, or even your own personal organizational behavior. Go to: https://tinyurl.com/36fdnnf9 Reprinted from the Anti-Racism Daily e-newsletter, https://www.antiracismdaily.com/ March 19, 2021.

Covid-19 Vaccine Information / March 30, 2021

Community, Covid-19, News

Vaccination rates continue to increase but new cases of COVID have risen slightly this week in North Carolina and in the United States. This is believed to be due to more people starting to travel and relaxation of previous policies like mask mandates. Concern is also present about vaccine variants which may be more contagious or cause more severe illness. Continue to take the now familiar precautions to prevent COVID infections. A new study released…

Covid-19 Vaccine Information / March 25, 2021

Community, Covid-19, News

Vaccination rates continue to increase and new cases of COVID/hospitalization rates continue to fall this week in North Carolina. However, more persons have started to travel and state officials continue to be concerned whether this activity will result in a higher number of COVID cases thereafter as happened around the year end holidays. Continue to take the now familiar precautions to prevent COVID infections. CDC guidelines explaining what activities may now be safe were issued…

Quaker Relations Survey / March 25, 2021

Community, Fellowship, News

We have opened the Quaker Relations Survey back up for our community so that we can continue to gather feedback from those who did not participate in February. Please use this link to access the survey so that we can better understand the impact our wider Quaker community has on New Garden Friends Meeting. The link is: https://tinyurl.com/jm227897 The survey will be open for several weeks.