Martin Luther King Holiday / January 16, 2023
Please Note: The Office will be closed on Monday, Jan. 16th in honor of Martin Luther King Day.
Quaker Cupboard Seeking Food & Hygiene Donations for Guilford College Students / January 13, 2022
Hi friends, this update comes from Jack and Quinn Finnegan in relation to our efforts to help those experiencing food shortage at Guilford College. Through our Quaker cupboard program we are asking for donations of items such as Ramen, pasta and sauce, nut butter, dried fruits, pop tarts, Gatorade, tortillas, chips, KIND bars, alternative shelf stable milks, other non perishable food items and hygiene products.
Quaker Activist George Lakey Coming to North Carolina / January 2023
This January longtime Quaker activist George Lakey is coming to North Carolina to promote his new memoir Dancing with History: A Life for Peace and Justice. He will also be sharing from his last book How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning. We invite you to join us for two virtual and in-person opportunities in the piedmont. • Tuesday, January 17 at 6pm Durham Friends Meeting 404 Alexander Dr. ––Registration required for attending in-person:…
Notes from Pastor Ashley / January 4, 2023
Dear Friends, Happy New Year! This is a time for new beginnings and resolutions. I am looking forward to all of the things we will do together at New Garden Friends in 2023. In particular, I am excited to start work with the Transition Team. I will be meeting with them this week to finish up our orientation, and then we will begin working on the first focus point of the process, Heritage. This focus…
Carry-In Meal / January 8, 2023
There will be a carry-in meal at the rise of Meeting this coming First Day, January 8th, followed by Meeting for Business at 1:00 p.m.
Parsonage Workday This Saturday, January 7, 2023
Saturday, January 7, from 9:00 a.m. till 4:00 p.m. will be a workday at the Parsonage! Our temporary refugee housing ministry is starting to take shape. Bring a lunch and a drink and join your Friends for a day of fellowship and service. We need able bodies to ride with a truck and move furniture and persons with some interior design sense to help arrange items in the parsonage rooms and kitchen. We will be…
Donations Needed for the Refugee Parsonage Project / January 4, 2023
On January 7th volunteers will be readying the parsonage for temporarily housing newly arrived refugee families. Thank you to all of you who have donated to this project. Below is a list of items that we still need and hope to collect by Saturday, January 7th. For large furniture donations, please contact Roger Seel at [email protected]. He’ll be doing furniture pick ups on Saturday. For all other items, please place them on the first two tables at…
Challenging Racism / January 4, 2023
I am sure that many of you join me in gratitude to Kate Seel for her informative weekly articles in the newsletter. I personally learned a lot from her reflections and appreciated her “non-preachy” style of relaying information. It is my hope that Kate may feel led to return to penning this article after her new advocacy duties are no longer as demanding. In the meantime, I will try to follow in Kate’s footsteps. If…
Fallen Tree Barely Misses Parsonage / January 4, 2023
Pelting rain, followed by 40 mph wind brought down a giant poplar tree December 23, 2022, barely missing the parsonage and blocking the unpaved drive thru the woods to Friends Homes, Guilford Campus. The tree knocked down the fence but thankfully did not damage the parsonage.
Religious Education / January 4, 2023
Children are Welcome at Meeting for Worship and Meeting for Wiggles is BACK! All children are invited and encouraged to join us during Meeting for Worship. There is a blanket in the back corner of the meetingroom for children to sit on for Meeting for Wiggles. They are welcome to bring small, quiet toys to play with. Crayons and activity packets are available in the foyer outside the Worship room. Childcare is available beginning at 9:30…