Bring food to enjoy with Friends on the lawn at the rise of Meeting 9/18/2022. For the first carry-out let’s make it as simple as possible. We need help setting up and breaking down folding tables, chairs, and trash cans outside where we used to hold worship. We will be asking for volunteers at the rise of meeting. Please contact Valerie in the office if you are able to provide lemonade and/or iced tea.
NCFF (North Carolina Fellowship of Friends) met on August 20, 2022 for an Annual Meeting with the theme “Let Your Life Speak.” 47 attended either in person at Jamestown Meeting or via Zoom. Dr. Adrienne Israel, Professor Emerita of History at Guilford College, spoke about her Underground Railroad research and Dr. Meredeth Summers, Chief of Staff and Secretary to the Board at Guilford College, provided music virtually with her choir. There were worship sharing groups…
Many New Gardeners watched one or more of the films included in the Black Quaker Lives Matter Film Festival earlier this year and found them interesting and enlightening. The Black Quaker Project has just sent out a video of the highlights of that festival, which can be accessed here. ––Kate Hood Seel
Adult Forum / September 18 Hybrid Adult Forum went well! Moving forward, Friends may join us in the parlor, or on Zoom. Zoom links will continue to go out with Religious Education updates and information. Contact Karin Heller if you would like to receive links. [email protected] Children are Welcome at Meeting for Worship All children are invited and encouraged to join us for Meeting for Worship. Crayons and activity packets are available in the foyer…
Dear Piedmont Friends, Eno Friends Meeting gathers on Zoom each Thursday evening for worship sharing around a specific topic. This Thursday, September 15th at 7:30, we will be joined by Quaker House executive director, Wayne Finegar. Wayne will be leading us as we consider the queries posed by Quaker House for the International Day of Peace. We would like to invite all interested Friends to join us! Please email Sally at [email protected] if you are…
City workers had to remove our large Black Lives Matter sign located at New Garden Road in order to work on the new sidewalk. The plan was to put in back when they finished working. The sign has disappeared. We are hoping that someone removed it for safe-keeping. If you have any information on the whereabouts of the sign, please call the church office at 336-292-5487.
Adult Forum / September 11 This Sunday we will do a test run of hybrid Adult Forum in the parlor and on Zoom. The Zoom link will go out in Religious Education updates and information. Because this is a new format for us, we will have an open discussion, leaving space for potential technology mishaps. — Children are Welcome at Meeting for Worship All children are invited and encouraged to join us for Meeting for…
Join Friends in a Snow Camp Quaker tour of meeting houses and restored mills on October 22. This trip brings together our different Quaker branches who have expressed interest in our common roots at this time of celebration of our 350 years of originally being in North Carolina. Snow Camp, first settled by Quakers in 1749, and Cane Creek Friends Monthly Meeting, established in 1751, known as the “Mother of Meetings” in central N.C., as…
Bring food to enjoy with Friends on the lawn at the rise of Meeting 9/11/2022. For the first carry-out let’s make it as simple as possible. We need help setting up and breaking down folding tables, chairs, and trash cans outside where we used to hold worship. We will be asking for volunteers at the rise of meeting. Please contact Valerie in the office if you are able to provide lemonade and/or iced tea. Let’s…
A bit of history from AMERICAN ABOLITIONISTS KNOWLEDGE CARDS, created by the New York Historical Society: “. . . Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. This law, which extended a 1793 statute, endowed slave owners with extensive rights to reclaim escaped slaves and established punishments for any who interfered. Citizens who assisted fugitives could be imprisoned for 6 months and fined $1000; federal officials who failed to arrest alleged runaways faced the same…