Nominating Committee Focus

Community, News

This week we will highlight the two committees that oversee our facilities; the House Committee and the Grounds Committee. Some in our Meeting may remember when the two functions were combined into a single committee. It was changed to separate committees to better represent the difference in tasks, skills and interests involved. House Committee is responsible for the care of the Meetinghouse and the parsonage. The committee arranges for Meetinghouse janitorial service, oversees building maintenance…

Caring Friends Update

Community, Fellowship, News, Social Concerns, Volunteer

Caring Friends has been thrown a curve ball by this pandemic, but we didn’t let it stop us! Caring Friends has many volunteers who send cards, make calls, knit afghans, provide transportation, shop for groceries, and perform other acts of kindness for others in the New Garden Friends Meeting community. With the COVID-19 pandemic isolating us all, Caring Friends knew these circumstances would be particularly difficult for members and attenders who live alone. So we put…

Online worship comes to New Garden Friends Meeting

Community, Fellowship, News, Worship

Sunday, March 22, was another historic first for New Garden Friends Meeting. Margaret Webb, pastoral minister, led meeting for worship online. The format was quite familiar with a welcome, a reading, a hymn offered by music director Marc Alley, and a prepared message. But instead of gathering on benches in the Worship Room, members and attenders watched and listened from home, using the internet and Facebook to connect. The Worship Room was dark, and the…

Worship at New Garden Friends Meeting / March 22

Community, Fellowship, First Day, News, Worship

11:00 a.m. / The NG Covid-19 Working Group has discussed worship and has decided to close the Meetinghouse this Sunday and until it seems safe for us to gather again in person. You are invited to worship from home. Margaret Webb and Marc Alley will be providing a reading, song, and a prepared message via Facebook Live at 11 a.m. on Sunday. To see the video you should log into Facebook and go to the…

Changing Systems, Changing Ourselves / March 24

Community, News, Social Concerns

8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. / Online / Are You Interested in Exploring Anti-racism and Confronting Racist Systems? American Friends Service Committee is offering a five-session monthly online course, “Changing Systems, Changing Ourselves” starting January 28 and ending March 24, with interactive sessions running from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. each night. January 28, Intro session on anti-racist praxis in caucuses; February 25, Criminalization and immigration detention; March 24, Anti-Blackness and immigrant justice; April 28, Accompaniment…