The request for new and gently used blankets continues, but only through the month of March! We have collected 14 blankets so far, and they have been delivered to New Arrivals Institute as they come in. Please leave blankets in the designated bin in the connector. Thanks to those who have already contributed! –– Social Concerns Committee
Many Quaker meetings are changing. A lot of our numbers are smaller. What are some of the ways we might adjust? What does it look like to have faith and cherish our communities while also recognizing that our energy levels are getting low? Since summer 2021, Emily Provance (New York Yearly Meeting) has been working with a group of Friends from multiple yearly meetings, countries, and theological branches of Quakerism. The group has been exploring…
Waseem Shahzad and Hena Aimaq and their four children are the most recent (and ninth!) family under New Garden’s care. In Afghanistan, Waseem and Hena worked toward a free economy and social democracy. When this dream collapsed, the lives of the family suddenly were endangered. They fled to Pakistan. Two years later they were allowed to emigrate to the U.S. The children are learning English, adapting to our culture, and taking advantage of educational opportunities.…
Tuesday, March 14th, 7pm Eastern/ 4pm Pacific / Join Quaker ecotheologian, Cherice Bock in sharing about her newest book, A Quaker Ecology: Meditations on the Future of Friends. In our best moments, Friends have been in the middle of the action around the social justice issues of each time period, discerning to the best of their abilities the direction the Inward Light leads and speaking truth to power. In our own time, climate justice can…
There was a book in our Little Free Antiracist Library entitled, “Black Rednecks and White Liberals” by Thomas Sowell. I’d never heard of Thomas Sowell and there was no picture of him on the book jacket. There was, however, a short review, praising the book, by a Fox News commentator, so I suspected it was probably not conducive to our antiracist purposes. Before recycling it at McKays though, I did my homework and was, yet…
Southern states, including North Carolina, largely ignored their responsibility to provide an education for rural Black children in the early 20th century. But then a plan hatched by a famous black educator and a Jewish philanthropist broke Jim Crow’s grip on funding for black schools. The resulting schools helped change the South and the nation, one student at a time. Tom Lassiter produced and wrote “Unlocking the Doors of Opportunity / The Rosenwald Schools of…
Spring Break at Guilford College will be from March 4th-March 12th–there will be a handful of mostly international students staying on campus who are feeling nervous about food security over the break. Our wonderful Global and Off Campus Initiatives (GOCI) Director, Cathryn Bennett, is hoping to organize some opportunities for students to have occasional meals with local Friends, or to invite local Friends to make meals we can leave in the Friends Center fridge that…
Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria have created a huge humanitarian crisis with over 45,000 fatalities to date, and many thousands more displaced from their homes and livelihoods. You can help survivors of these earthquakes and enjoy a good meal provided by the Divan Center of Greensboro in New Garden Friends Meeting Fellowship Hall on March 5, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. This benefit will take the place of our normal First Day meal…
You are cordially invited to become part of the New Garden Friends Meeting Meals on Wheels Team, which delivered its first meals on Monday, February 13. Afterwards, our team members talked about the fun they had, the interesting and appreciative people they met, the parts of Greensboro they learned about and their feeling that they were performing a valuable service. Recipients of the meals are Greensboro residents who are unable to procure or prepare meals…
