Religious Education / May 03, 2023

Dear Friends, Happy May! We have a few special events this month, including Mother’s Day on May 14th. It has been our tradition at New Garden Friends Meeting to dedicate children to our community on both Mother’s and Father’s day. If you are interested in having your child dedicated (at any point- it does not need to be Mother’s/Father’s Day), please email me so that we can make arrangements to do so. Recognition Sunday is…

Upcoming Memorials / May 3, 2023

Jonathan Mooneyham Saturday, May 6, 2:00 p.m. / New Garden Friends Meeting Please call the NGFM office if you would like a Zoom invitation to Jonathan’s funeral. Nancy Ratledge Graveside Service, Sunday, May 21, 1:30 p.m. Ruth Mavronikolas Saturday, June 3 / New Garden Friends Meeting Bob & Reba Benbow TBD

Special Zoom Event for Piedmont Friends to Learn About the Racist Origins of NC’s Death Penalty and the Movement to Abolish It / April 25, 2023

Hosted by Eno Friends Meeting of Hillsborough Eno Friends Meeting invites all Piedmont Friends to a special Zoom event to meet Noel Nickle, Executive Director of the NC Coalition of Alternatives to the Death Penalty and Alfred Rivera, an exoneree from NC death row. Friends will watch “Racist Roots,” a powerful 30-minute film, on-line beforehand and then join in a Zoom discussion with Noel, Alfred, and fellow Piedmont Friends. The film demonstrates the deep entanglement…

Share Your Proposal for Funds / May 2023

The Peace and Social Concerns Committee seeks proposals for funds to support organizations, programs or projects that are in-line with our Quaker testimonies and our commitment to becoming an antiracist faith community. Our meeting provides small grants (usually $250 – $500) through the Peace and Social Concerns Committee’s Broader Concerns budget. If there is a cause you would like to see benefit from one of these grants, you or a representative from the organization can…

Notes from Pastor Ashley / April 24, 2023

Dear Friends, When I came to New Garden Friends Meeting, I was given a list of thirty-five people who needed pastoral visits on a regular basis. On the other hand, there was no list for staff contact information, the names of who had keys to the office, or meeting policies for safety or personnel. And no one could remember the last time the meetinghouse had a deep clean. We are an aging meeting, and one…

ICAN Cities Appeal Supporting the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons / April 25, 2023

It has been almost a year since you graciously and righteously signed on to the attached letter urging Greensboro Council Members to endorse the ICAN Cities Appeal supporting the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This call for mutual nuclear disarmament remains as urgent today, and we have not been idle. The municipalities of Green Level, Carrboro, Durham, Chapel Hill have since unanimously signed on, and the Resolution is or will soon be…

Thank You, GUM Meal Providers! / April 25, 2023

A delicious, carry-out meal of Cowboy Stew, cornbread and desserts was provided following the 4-23-23 Intergenerational session. The food was prepared by the group of New Gardeners who prepare the meal each month for homeless residents at Weaver House. The Transition Team led the evening discussion on Leadership in preparation for our upcoming pastor search, and would like to thank the GUM cooks for providing the meal. ––The Transition Team

Now Hiring: Quaker Census Data Researcher – Remote Worker / April 25, 2023

The goal of this grant funded project is to analyze data on Quakers in the US collected in the 2020 US Religion Census in order to find Meetings/Churches that have closed since 2010 (or which may have been erroneously not included in the census data), correct the data, collect the missing data, and perform an analysis of the corrected/updated data to better articulate current trends in Quakerism in the US through a written and oral…