The Annual meeting for North Carolina Fellowship of Friends is August 21, at Quaker Lake. All New Gardeners are welcome and encouraged to attend. Worship sharing and workshops will be included, in addition to a business session. The planning group asks that you register for this at: https://www.ncfriends.org/ which includes registration and a brief agenda. Contact: Kate Seel ([email protected])
7:00 p.m. / via Zoom / We continue conversation centered around Ibram X Kendi’s book, “How To Be An Antiracist” Thursday, July 15 at 7 p.m. If you would like to join this Zoom group, please contact Sarah Gates who will be leading us and sending the Zoom invitations to participants. The queries associated with the three chapters we will be discussing (9,10 & 11) are listed below. NGFM Book Discussion: Thursday, July 15th 7:00pm-8:00pm+…
As Friends know, Margaret and Christopher are anticipating the arrival of a new baby. Margaret is due in early August. Margaret will be taking 10 weeks of maternity leave time and during that time Deborah Suess will be serving as interim pastor. Please know that all calls, texts, emails, and messages regarding pastoral ministry will be forwarded to Deborah during Margaret’s family leave. Margaret will not be responding to messages during this time. Let’s support…
Please join us on from 12 to 1 p.m. on July 18 (following the Meet & Greet for Deborah Seuss) for an outdoor in-person gathering to shower the Webb family with love and blessings as we eagerly await the arrival of Baby Webb! This event will be open to the entire New Garden community (all ages) and will be informal/unprogrammed (ie. no party games or gift opening). In acknowledgement of the challenge of a mixed…
Immediately following the 10 a.m. meeting on July 18, plan to linger and meet Deborah Suess who is stepping in to help with pastoral duties when the Webbs welcome their new baby.
Cases of COVID , hospitalizations and percent positive COVID tests in NC have significantly increased in the last week, believed to be due to the more infectious Delta variant. These increases are more prominent in NC counties with relatively low vaccination rates, primarily in the southeastern and southwestern parts of our state. Vaccination rates did not change last week with NC still at 43% of the total population being vaccinated. In Guilford County 46 percent…
Attention: rising high school juniors and seniors! Are you interested in leadership, addressing the “ism’s”? NCCJ is recruiting for Anytown and and scholarships available. Students earn 40 hours towards required service learning hours. For more information, contact: Lizzie Biddle or Gertrude Beal.
Thanks to all the New Gardeners who contributed to our second virtual food drive for Greensboro Urban Ministries’ Food Pantry! The total collected was $932.00.
1:00 p.m. / virtual, via Zoom / AGENDA; Opening Silence Reading: “Spirit Voyaging” Dr. John Le Gay Brereton (1827-1886) Consent Agenda Approval of Proposed Schedule of Monthly Meetings, July 2021-July 2022. Minute of Appreciation for former Clerks: Tim Lindeman, Clerk of Meeting; Jane Foy, Clerk of Ministry and Council; Jim Lancaster, Recording Clerk. For their leadership and service in seamlessly continuing the meeting’s operations during the current pandemic and supporting virtual and hybrid worship during…
It was shocking to learn from the New York Public Library African American Desk Reference list (1999) purchased recently about a number of African American inventors about whom I had never heard! Probably most of us knew about George Washington Carver inventing peanut butter (in 1896), but he’s the only one that I remember studying in school. Here’s another inventor of color, whom we can thank as we manage the heat this summer: Frederick McKinley…