Covid Advisory / September 28, 2021

Community, Covid-19, News

The COVID plans for New Garden Friends Meeting will remain the same this week in accordance with current policies and protocols for protecting friends/Friends from COVID.  Specifically we will continue semi-programmed MFW outdoors and/or by Zoom and Facebook live, un-programmed MFW outdoors or indoors and small group meetings indoors at the Meeting House, in accordance with current masking and distancing protocols. Our next meeting of the Covid Medical Advisory Group will be held October 11, 2021 so if…

Cleaning Up Greensboro / October 9 & 16, 2021

Community, Environment, News, Volunteer

In October, along with other congregations in the wider New Garden Guilford College community, we are mobilizing to clean up Friendly Avenue. Greensboro Beautiful’s Big Sweep will kick off this October. Our team of volunteers will clean up from New Garden Road to Chimney Rock Road on Saturday afternoons, October 9 and October 16, 2 – 4 p.m. To join the fun, contact Bill McNeil at 919-622-3303 or email: ([email protected])

Afghan Families Update / September 21, 2021

Community, News, Social Concerns, Volunteer

Afghan Families are Coming to Greensboro and NGFM is helping in a number of ways. We will be co-sponsoring a family. We will need a group of New Gardeners to love and support them as they begin their new lives in the United States. They will need to have friends who could help them feel welcome in their new home. They will need guidance as they make their way through an unfamiliar land. They need…

Challenging Racism / September 21, 2021

Community, News, Social Concerns

From Vanessa Julye, in her pamphlet entitled The Seed Cracked Open (2005) on p. 10: Henry Cadbury writes that the first African-American Quaker was permitted to join Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1784. He noted that Quakers of European descent took up the subject of African-American membership in their meetings after freeing the enslaved in 1785. But ten years later, Joseph Drinker, a Philadelphia Friend, wrote with regret that prominent Friends objected to admitting African-Americans: “Preferring…

FCNL and FCNCL News / September 21, 2021

Community, News, Social Concerns

Join with others and lobby for peace and justice in our community, in our state, in our country, and in our world. There are two upcoming opportunities to get involved with Quakers in North Carolina through Friends Committee on North Carolina Legislation. Join FCNCL’s Annual Meeting Friends Committee on North Carolina Legislation website: https://fcncl.org/ Saturday, October 2, 9:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., online Join us to discuss: how does my faith lead me in advocacy…

Covid Advisory Update / September 21, 2021

Community, Covid-19, News

The COVID plans for New Garden Friends Meeting will remain the same this week in accordance with current policies and protocols for protecting friends/Friends from COVID.  Specifically we will continue semi-programmed MFW outdoors and/or by Zoom and Facebook live, un-programmed MFW outdoors or indoors and small group meetings indoors at the Meeting House, in accordance with current masking and distancing protocols. Our next meeting of the Covid Medical Advisory Group will be held October 11, 2021…

Kendi Book Study / September 23, 2021

Community, News, Social Concerns

Kendi Book Study meeting on Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 7 p.m. via Zoom. We will be discussing queries written by Ibram Kendi this coming Thursday related to chapter 14, Gender, and chapter 15, Sexuality, from the book, How To Be an Antiracist. Kendi’s queries (which are found in his companion book, Be Antiracist) ask each of us to look within ourselves and question our long-held assumptions. Feel free to join us whether or not…

Peace & Social Concerns News / September 21, 2021

Community, News, Social Concerns

September Meeting of the St. James/Westminster/First Presbyterian Partnership; Last week Peace & Social Concerns announced a new social justice ministry partnership with St. James, Westminster, and First Presbyterian churches. If you want to see what this is all about, come to the September meeting of the partnership on Monday, September 27 at 6:30 p.m. under the tent in the parking lot of Westminster Presbyterian Church, 3906 W. Friendly Ave., Greensboro, NC. Please wear a mask.…

Alternatives to Violence Project / October 1 – 3, 2021

Community, News, Social Concerns

AVP/ NC Basic Workshop / Join us and/or share with others who may be interested! 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. Many of you have participated with us in one or more workshops – others have expressed an interest in our program. Here’s your chance to experience an AVP Basic Workshop online! Friday Night: October 1,…