Celebrate Quaker history and heritage with friends at Quaker Lake Camp, New Lodge, November 5 from 10:a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Delicious lunch will be served. To assist with meal planning, please RSVP by 10/22/22 to: Kevin Smitherman, [email protected] (See flier attached to newsletter.)
Come in person or on Zoom to the Adult Forum on October 16 th (9:30) to hear Gene Brown, director of Community Housing Solutions. Friends may remember that we donated $30,000 to this organization as a part of our Solar Panel project. Learn about the work this organization does for people in our community who need assistance remaining safely in their own homes. Karin Heller will send out the Zoom connection in an upcoming “Religious…
World Quaker Day took place on 2 October, 2022 with the theme “Becoming the Quakers the World Needs.” World Quaker Day is an annual event where we celebrate the diversity of Quakerism around the world and build connections to make our community stronger. This year, every Friends Church and Quaker Meeting was encouraged to send or receive visitors to or from another Quaker group, to bring greetings, build relationships and share ideas. Quaker groups in…
A committee is forming to investigate how to reintegrate singing at our Meeting House. Please let Marc Alley know if you would like to assist in the discussion of how we can do this in the safest and most inclusive way. ([email protected])
Friends are advised that Bivalent Covid vaccines are now available to improve immunity to Covid including variants which have been recently more predominant. These vaccines are available with little or no wait at your local pharmacy and can be given at the same time as your annual Influenza booster. Vaccinated persons, according to recent studies, are ten times less likely to suffer severe repercussions from Covid. Influenza is unfortunately anticipated to be more severe this…
Did you know you can recycle foam (better known by its trademark Styrofoam) in Greensboro? Since mid-2020 the Triad Foam Recycling Coalition has been working to keep foam out of our landfills where it lasts hundreds of years. Coalition partners (Greensboro Beautiful, Tiny House Community Development, Emerging Ecology, and Environmental Stewardship Greensboro) opened a drop-off site at 1310 West Gate City Boulevard near UNCG. Since then the coalition has added trailers at 4 more sites…
Matthew Armstrong, Director of the Institute for Regenerative Design and Innovation is launching Renew Forsyth, a campaign sponsored by Dream.org to bring regenerative agriculture to underserved communities in the Triad. Long story short, we’re trying to address poverty and climate through education (living labs) and by creating “food innovation districts” in Winston-Salem and Greensboro. Much of our work has already begun. If you’d like an introduction through an essay I recently published, check out “Renew…
Friends interested in seeing photos of the recent eastern North Carolina/Virginia Quaker Pilgrimage tour can view or download pictures at the following link; https://bit.ly/3CAbX9b
Adult Forum Friends may join us in the parlor, or on Zoom. Zoom links will continue to go out with Religious Education updates and information. October 9: New Garden’s own version of “heART journaling”. Art supplies (paper, markers, crayons, scissors, etc.) will be provided for Friends joining in person, but you are welcome to bring your own. We will continue working with the theme of grief and will begin with a blessing or query, and…
This is a friendly reminder. Please remember to turn off the lights and make sure all doors are locked when leaving the meeting after hours. We have had several occasions of the basement being unlocked and the lights on after hours, as well as the back door upstairs near the kitchen. Doors and lights are all checked when the office closes at 5p.m. so this is happening after hours. Please be mindful of checking when…