North Carolina Fellowship of Friends Antiracism Discussion / April 27, 2021

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North Carolina Fellowship of Friends will host an antiracism discussion group. Mark your calendars for Tuesday, April 27 at 7 p.m. when the NCFF antiracism discussion group will look at how the elements of our country’s racial caste system have appeared in Quaker history and in modern-day Quakerism. Kate Seel and CH Holcombe will be presenting the background material. For this discussion, if you have the book Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African…

Adult Forum / April 18, 2021

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April 18 / 9:45 a.m. / How to Be An Anti-Racist, by Ibram X. Kendi / Peace & Social Concerns is leading the second session of a book study of “How to Be an Anti-Racist”. During the second session on April 18, we will discuss Chapter 2, “Dueling Consciousness”, Chapter 3, “Power” and Chapter 4, “Biology”. If there is enough interest, we will arrange further sessions of Kendi’s book at mutually agreeable times other than…

News from Religious Education / April 7, 2021

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Upcoming Adult Forums / Zoom Meeting @ 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. / For more information or to receive the zoom link, please contact the Meeting Office, or  Karin Heller April 11: A Conversation With Kathy Manning Rep. Manning represents North Carolina’s Sixth Congressional District, which includes all of Guilford County and part of Forsyth County. The meeting with her has been organized with the assistance of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), and…

Alternatives To Violence Project Workshop / Friday, April 30 through Sunday May 2, 2021

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Online Training for Facilitators April 30 – May 2, 2021. Join us if you’ve already taken BOTH a Basic and Advanced Workshop and are interested in facilitating workshops for others! While we aren’t able to offer traditional weekend workshops in person, we’ve come up with a way to offer a similar experience online using Zoom. When: Friday, April 30 through Sunday May 2 Where: Zoom! Here’s how it works! Friday Night: 6 – 8:30 p.m.…

Covid-19 Vaccination Information / April 7, 2021

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NC Vaccination rates continue to increase, now fully 25% of adults in NC are fully vaccinated and up to 38% are partially vaccinated. New cases of COVID and hospitalizations were slightly increased this past 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…

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

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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

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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

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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.