Meeting for Business / July 17, 2022
The July Monthly Meeting for Business has been moved from July 10 at 1 p.m. to July 17 at 1 p.m. This is a ZOOM meeting. Check your email for an invitation.
Join New Garden’s Quaker Relations Committee on a “Quaker Pilgrimage” / September 16-18, 2022
We invite Friends to join us in celebrating 350 years of Friends in North Carolina on a pilgrimage to eastern North Carolina and Virginia where the first Friends meetings in NC were established. We will explore early Quaker sites and meetings in Pasquotank and Perquimans counties, NC, including Up River, Piney Woods and Little River Meetings, visit the Newbold-White House, and, not to be forgotten, Wolfman Jack’s grave! We will wrap up with Meeting for Worship and…
Volunteers Needed to Help Prepare Our Parsonage / July 16, 2022
Sat. July 16, 2022 / 9am – 1pm. (or later) will be an outside workday for our Parsonage. The Meeting is investing thousands of dollars to prepare the Parsonage for its next use. You can help reduce costs, enjoy some social time with Friends and a picnic. The work part is staining the wooden deck (prep has been done), clearing debris from the back yard and trimming some plants near the house. Bring your own…
Help to End the Devastating War on Yemen: Reach out to your Members of Congress / July 2022
Email and call Rep. Kathy Manning’s office and urge Rep. Manning to be a co-sponsor of the Yemen War Powers Resolution. The resolution will end U.S. participation in the Saudi-led coalition war and blockade in Yemen. The U.S.’s role has exacerbated the devastating and growing humanitarian crisis. The Triad FCNL Advocacy team met with Rep. Manning at the end of April. While Manning is in agreement that the war in Yemen is horrible, and the…
Books for Anti-Racism Library / July, 2022
We are accepting book donations for the upcoming Little Free Anti-Racism Library! As many of you know, Peace & Social Concerns is working on setting up a Little Free Anti-Racism Library at NGFM. The committee is accepting book donations that would be appropriate for an anti-racism library. As you come into the Connector/breezeway of the Meeting house, there is a table with pamphlets to the immediate left. There will be a big box underneath that…
New Email Address for Submitting Announcements to Newsletter & Website / July 2022
• Please email all articles and attach original photos to [email protected] • Please include start date/end date, start time/ end time and location of the event • Questions? Call the Meeting Office at 336-292-5487
Update from the Meeting on Ministry & Counsel / July 6, 2022
Volunteer Needed to Lead Worship July 17th. The Meeting on Ministry and Counsel is working with members of our community to support the needs of the meeting. We have speakers lined up for July with the exception of July 17th. We are working to fill this date. Please feel free to contact me directly if you have suggestions on speakers. I can be reached at [email protected] Deborah Suess continues to offer pastoral care, along with members…
Seeking an Interim Pastor / July 12, 2022
New Garden Friends Meeting is seeking an Interim Pastor. The primary duties of the Interim Pastor are to deliver First Day messages and provide pastoral care to the Meeting. The Interim Pastor will also participate in the governance of the meeting by attending Monthly Meeting for Business and other committee meetings as needed. Other duties may include weddings, funerals, and other meeting events. The position offers individual health insurance, paid time off, and use of…
Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly / June 18, 2022
Several New Gardeners met in the middle of the night at Shiloh Baptist Church to pile into buses headed towards Washington DC. Their mission: to participate in a June 18th powerful and passionate march and moral assembly of poor and low-wage workers and faith leaders. The Poor People’s Campaign gathering drew thousands of people from every state in the nation, all committed to a visible witness against injustice that robs people of human dignity. Tens of thousands…
Challenging Racism / July 6, 2022
From the Black Quaker Project – INDEPENDENCE DAY, RETROSPECTIVE JUSTICE, & QUAKERS: REMEMBERING THE WORDS OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS Dear F/friends, For this Independence Day, the Black Quaker Project invites you to reflect on the words of Frederick Douglass, whose tireless advocacy for African American liberation and Women’s Rights as an abolitionist, orator, author, and statesman often goes overlooked by historians and remains unknown to the general public. Among Douglass’s most famous words was his speech,…