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It was a nice evening stroll with Jane and the mutt on July 12 to the Heritage Community sign dedication on West Friendly Avenue. The one-mile walk from our house to the sign on the western edge of the Guilford College/New Garden community had us walking through land once inhabited by the Occoneechee, Saura, and Keowah; farms settled by Pennsylvania and Nantucket Quakers; fields where soldiers fell during the Revolutionary War; areas where “free Blacks”…
It is time to VOTE in our local elections – for mayor, city council and five bond issues. Election Day is July 26; early voting ends July 23. Hopefully all readers will exercise that right and privilege, and in doing so, think about African Americans like Henry Frye, who was denied the right to vote upon returning from military service, due to a failure to pass the “literacy test” (given to Black citizens only) prior…
Reading from Meeting for Worship on July 3, 2022 / Britain Faith and Practice / Carl Heath, 1922 Social problems, like religions, when we do our best and earnestly desire the highest, are often seen in the wrong perspective due to limited horizon, the lack of essential knowledge, the impossibility of dealing with them in any genuinely detached sense, or of seeing the wood for the trees. Such conditions present no case for a stern…
From an AMERICAN ABOLITIONISTS Knowledge Card by the New York Historical Society: “Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) ‘He told me that I was made for his use, made to obey his command in every thing; that I was nothing but a slave.’ When Harriet Jacobs published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in 1861, readers were shocked by its brutality. Jacobs told of enslaved women with no control over whose children they bore. She described…
Childcare on Sunday Morning Are you planning to attend in-person, semi- programmed Meeting for Worship with a child/children this week? Childcare is available for children ages 4 and under in the nursery beginning at 10:30 a.m.. Because this age group is currently not eligible for the vaccine, we ask that families enter the building through the porch door (next to the kitchen and Fellowship Hall) and take their children directly to the nursery. The capacity…
11:00 a.m. Reading: “Excerpt from THE WILL OF GOD” by Leslie Weatherhead. Title: “Where is God in all this?” by Kate Hood Seel Please join our Facebook live stream here or our interactive Zoom session. A link for Zoom will be sent by email, or it can be requested from the Office through Friday. We look forward to seeing you online and also in person at New Garden Friends Meeting. Please observe Ministry & Council guidelines for Covid-safe in…
Please join me in welcoming Valerie Harris as our new Office Manager. Valerie will start her training today with Sharon. Valerie is a graduate of Penn State University and resides in our neighborhood. She has a long and extensive background in accounting, management, sales, and account reconciliation. Valerie also has 15 years of experience proctoring high stakes exams. Many thanks to Bill McNeil, Danny Finnegan, Janet Inmon, and others on the Personnel Committee for their…
Visit with our Bolivian students, graduates and staff on our Virtual Quaker Study Tour in honor of our twentieth anniversary. Join BQEF supporters around the world for three sessions: July 11 7 p.m. The Founding, Development, and Fruits of BQEF, starting with Newton Garver and Bernabe Yujra’s efforts to overcome family poverty with education. July 20 / 7 p.m. Climate Change in Bolivia. July 23 / 4 p.m. Current students speak about their experiences of…
We invite Friends to join us 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 and…