10:00 a.m. / In-Person outdoors (weather permitting) on the grounds of our meeting house. Meeting for Worship livestream: Facebook Live: http://www.facebook.com/NewGardenFriendsMeeting Meeting for Worship on Zoom: Check your email for a Zoom link, or contact [email protected] to receive a link. Prepared messages are posted at: www.ngfm.org/media
9:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. / Those attending unprogrammed meetings for worship on Sundays from 9 – 9:45 a.m. are welcome to use Friendship Hall. Please follow the guidance below; Stay home if you have any symptoms of illness. Meet outdoors, if feasible, regardless of group size; please bring your own chairs. Reserve meeting room(s) in advance by calling the NGFM office at (336) 292-5487 or emailing [email protected] ; note the capacity of room(s) you will…
Adult Forums Sunday, September 5, 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.(Zoom only): Over the past several months, there has been much discussion around the idea of taking Sabbath as a holy act of resistance. Friends are invited to read the attached interview with Old Testament scholar and theologian, Walter Brueggeman, and join us for discussion https://tinyurl.com/tkax65ec Looking ahead to the remainder of September (and possibly part of October), we will use a book entitled, “Faithful Voices:…
Quakerism is so comfortable for me. I found a warm and welcoming spiritual home among Friends as a young adult and have remained happily in the fold. But for people of color, joining our faith can be a different experience. From an African-American general secretary of Friends General Conference: “. . . I also feel isolated because as I have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles. . . I haven’t seen seventy-five black Quakers yet.…
Community – It is sacred. It is Holy. It is real. I was moved by those words that Karin Heller shared while describing her experience of this beloved community, New Garden Friends Meeting. As I begin my fourth week serving as your Interim, I too am giving thanks for the welcome and care you all have extended to me as I find my way among you. Please know that if you have pastoral concerns or…
Based on the increases in COVID cases, hospitalizations and Delta variant we cannot hold the flea market in 2021. And in the effort to maintain both safety and equity for all of us at New Garden, we are not accepting donations at this time. When we have a clear timeline for holding our next flea market we can begin to accept donations.
A called meeting for NGFM was held 8/21/21 to discuss policies and protocols for protecting friends/ Friends from COVID. A summary and review of protocols followed by a number of questions were discussed. Friends were generally supportive of our current course. If COVID cases stay the same, we plan to continue meeting for semi-programmed worship out of doors until the weather becomes less hospitable. All are also reminded that our COVID subgroup will continue to…
9:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. / Those attending unprogrammed meetings for worship on Sundays from 9 – 9:45 a.m. are welcome to use Friendship Hall. Please follow the guidance below; Stay home if you have any symptoms of illness. Meet outdoors, if feasible, regardless of group size; please bring your own chairs. Reserve meeting room(s) in advance by calling the NGFM office at (336) 292-5487 or emailing [email protected] ; note the capacity of room(s) you will…
10:00 a.m. / In-Person outdoors (weather permitting) on the grounds of our meeting house. Karin Heller will be speaking. Reading: An excerpt from the book, “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, by Parker Palmer. Title: Being in Community When We Can’t be with Community Meeting for Worship livestream: Facebook Live: http://www.facebook.com/NewGardenFriendsMeeting Meeting for Worship on Zoom: Check your email for a Zoom link, or contact [email protected] to receive a link. Prepared messages are posted at: www.ngfm.org/media
On Thursday, August 26 at 7 p.m. we will continue with Kendi’s “How to be an Antiracist” book discussion Chapter 13 called “Space.” Our Zoom host will be Mary Stolberg. Janet Inmon will be discussion leader. If you have been participating in this discussion, you will be receiving a Zoom invitation from Mary. If you would like to join us for the first time, you are welcome! It is not necessary for you to have…