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…
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…
Tips for Social Distancing and Isolation
Click here to watch Margaret’s message March 22nd
If you are 65 or older and feel isolated or lonely, North Carolina Baptist Aging Ministry wants to help! Social Isolation and Loneliness; many of North Carolina’s aging go weeks without speaking to another person. Others lack quality connections and feel lonely even in a crowd. Health professionals link social isolation and loneliness with numerous adverse health conditions. If you are 65+ and experiencing loneliness or isolation, please call 866.578.4673 Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m.…
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…
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…
1:00 p.m. / Worship Room / Mark your calendar; New Garden will have a called meeting following a carry-in meal on Sunday, March 22. The purpose of the meeting is to discern members’ and attenders’ thoughts about the finances of the Meeting. Following a couple of short presentations from Finance and Stewardship and from Investment, we will enter into worship and speak out of the silence.
To help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the community, and in accordance with Gov. Cooper’s request to limit gatherings of 100 or more persons, semi-programmed Meeting for Worship has been cancelled on March 15 and March 22. This decision was reached on Friday (March 13) by New Garden’s COVID-19 Prevention Group. Religious Education activities, including meetings of Young Friends, also are cancelled for March 15 and March 22. Unprogrammed Meeting for Worship will take…
9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. / Parlor / You can be a part of the process of discerning key issues that Friends Committee on National Legislation will lobby our elected officials in the coming congressional year! A distinctive feature of Friends Committee on National Legislation is the practice of asking Quakers around the country to help shape their work. Every two years, Friends Committee on National Legislation asks Friends, meetings, churches, and other national groups…