Thanks to Jo Poole for sharing an entry from Chuck Fager’s A Friendly Letter from July 21, 2022. (It’s actually excerpts from the New York Times: There’s a Reason We Can’t Have Nice Things by Bryce Covert) “. . . Why is it so much harder — right now, seemingly impossible — for our country to enact new programs that are customary in much of the rest of the world? It’s easy to blame one…
Are you interested in learning bridge? New Garden has been the site for weekly duplicate bridge games on Friday afternoons. Several people have asked about how to learn bridge. Here is an opportunity: “Learn Bridge in a Day”! Greensboro will host the one day training on Saturday, August 27 10-4:00. The local duplicate bridge group is sponsoring this training, the instructor is Patty Tucker, (Bridge Hall of Fame and Master Teacher) . Pre-registration cost is…
Summer Adult Forum Series This Summer we have been using Quakerspeak videos and discussion questions to learn more about Quakerism. All are welcome. Unsurprisingly, we have fallen behind schedule. Maybe we can get caught up next week. Please find the video links we have yet to watch, and those for next week. We will watch the videos together, but Friends may choose to watch them independently as well. • Quaker Spaces https://bit.ly/3oMnJWr • Understanding Quaker…
Results from the Peace and Social Concerns Spring Survey The Peace and Social Concerns committee requested New Gardeners to respond to an on-line survey to help us discern what were the priorities of the Meeting for study, advocacy, coordinated activities and use of our limited resources in awarding small grants to local non-profits. We asked people to rank a series of 14 issues from 1 (highest priority) to 5 (lowest priority) for the Meeting. (We…
The demand for food assistance is so high that over 100 household come each day, five days a week, to receive groceries from the Food Pantry. While the amount of donations have gone up over the last week, much more food is needed to continue meeting the weekly demand. The economy has driven many families to the pantry that have never had to as for food assistance before. Greensboro has always been a generous community…
Equal Access to Quality Public Education Led by our testimonies of Equality, Integrity, and Community, we value the importance of education in realizing the inherent potential of all people. We support legislation that supports equal access to quality public education for all residents, through instruction which centers integrity and truth-seeking, provided by instructors, support services, and infrastructure that ensure the mental and physical health, safety, and dignity of every student, teacher, administrator, and school board.…
We hope you will join us at Guilford College for a plenary session exploring the topic of “Reassessing George Fox: 350+ Years of Quakers in NC.” The evening keynote address will be delivered at 7pm Thursday, October 13 in the Carnegie Room at Hege Library on Guilford’s campus by Dr. Noeleen McIlvenna, Professor of History at Wright State University and author of “A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713.” The event will…
Help to End the Devastating War. Over the last two weeks Friends across NC, including folks at New Garden, have met with staff in Sen. Tillis & Sen. Burr’s offices. We are urging our Senators and Representatives to co-sponsor S.J. Res. 56/H.J Res 87 – the Yemen War Powers Resolution. We need your help to build on that momentum – they need to hear from you! Let them know that North Carolinians care about what…
Friends are warmly invited to participate in the North Carolina Fellowship of Friends Annual Meeting on August 20, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. The theme is Let Your Life Speak. There will be music led by Dr. Meredeth Summers and a keynote address by Dr. Adrienne Israel, Professor Emerita of History. The meeting will be held in hybrid fashion at Jamestown Friends Meeting, 509 Guilford Road, Jamestown, NC 27282 and on Zoom. Registration is open…
Friends are invited to join in celebrating 350 years of Friends in North Carolina on a pilgrimage to eastern North Carolina and Virginia, where the first Friends meetings in NC were established. We will explore early Quaker sites and meetings in Pasquotank and Perquimans counties, NC, including Up River, Piney Woods and Little River Meetings, visit the Newbold-White House, and, not to be forgotten, Wolfman Jack’s grave! We will wrap up with Meeting for Worship…