Cookie Bake & Share / Rescheduled for December 12

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. / Friendship Hall / Due to the snow and ice, New Garden Friends Meeting annual cookie bake and exchange has been rescheduled to Wednesday, December 12. Please join us in Friendship Hall on Wednesday and bring your favorite Christmas cookie dough and a container to bring home cookies. We will bake and decorate our cookies together and at the end of the evening each person can take home a variety…

What Puts the “E” in “SPICES?” / December 16

Brotherhood Room / 12:15 – 2:30 p.m. The Social Concerns committee invites you to bring a bag lunch and join us monthly – every 3rd Sunday for movie and discussion series on our Quaker Testimony of Equality.  Let’s meet with our sandwiches right after worship, watch a movie on an aspect of equality (race, sex, gender, religion, class, for example) and finish with a discussion.

Simple Christmas / December 8

11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. / Fellowship Hall. Share in the longstanding New Garden Friends Meeting tradition of crafting hand-made holiday gifts. As always, both meat and vegetarian friendly chili will be served, and the Ukestra will be playing Christmas music beginning at 12:30. Friends often bring cash should they feel led to contribute. Also, there are occasionally craft items for sale. Join us for candle making, paper marbling, jewelry making, gift tag embossing, cookie…

Ukulele News / December 8

The main focus of the Peace & Love Ukestra, led by C.H. Holcombe, is to visit nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and memory care units to share our musical talents and stimulate residents who may be suffering from memory issues. By playing and singing classic folk songs, gospel tunes, and other genres of music, we encourage these residents to sing along, which many of them do. We’ve even had folks get up and dance to…

Christmas Honor Cards for Sale Thru December 16

The sale of the Christmas Honor Cards in support of local non-profits will take place each First Day, through Sunday December 16 (the day of the Alternative Christmas Event). At the rise of meeting, please find us at a table in the entryway by the kitchen We hope to expand our outreach in two ways this year: we’ll offer more days of the sale of the cards (for those of you who actually do get…

Alternative Christmas Rescheduled / December 16

9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. / Friendship Hall. We invite refugees and non-profits to display their valuable work and offer us ways to give to friends and family by buying gifts and honor cards. This then helps refugees support themselves and organizations to help others. Lunch and treats will also be available for purchase. Those participating include; Taste The World, Ten Thousand Villages, Nana’s Treats, Biz Kids, Gate City Quilt Guild, Quaker House,Turkish Crafts, Urban Ministry,…

Save the Date; Quaker House Project / September 21

Quaker House wants you to save this date: Saturday, September 21, 2019. We are working on exciting projects that will capture and share our unique history of peace advocacy and of our work towards healing the hidden wounds of war over the last half-century. These projects will culminate in a presentation, lunch banquet, and special visitors from our past coming together in Fayetteville. Won’t you plan on joining us? Please let Sara or Charlie White…

FCNL Annual Public Policy Institute and Annual Meeting / Nov 28 – Dec 2

Friends Committee on National Legislation will be holding its Annual Public Policy Institute and Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., November 28 to December 2. It is not too late register online at: fcnl.org. The Public Policy Institute will focus on the farm bill (H.R. 2) Why the farm bill? It is the largest source of food assistance for millions of struggling families in our country. The Senate and House have passed different versions of the bill…

Group Tickets for A&T Performance of “Dot” / December 1

The Friendship Community Partnership is organizing a group to attend the comedy Dot which is about a family whose mother has Alzheimer’s. The play will be presented at the Paul Robeson Theater on the campus of A&T State University on Saturday, December 1 at 3 p.m. If we get 10 or more folks to go, prices will be under $10. We want to attend the matinee at 3 p.m. on Saturday. Please call CH Holcombe ASAP…

Update from the NGFM Grounds Committee

We have currently received one bid on extensive tree work but we are hopeful that the past (preferred) tree person we used will soon place a bid. The City will repair the storm run-off ditch that crosses the front lawn where erosion has occurred. The repair work is backed up a couple of months, I’m told. The bridge that crossed this run-off ditch needs to be permanently removed so it is available, to be taken…