Honor cards are a different way for you to give a present to your friends, neighbors or loved ones. Instead of a physical object, you give a card that reflects a gift to a nonprofit of your choice. The gift to the non-profit is in the name of your friend or loved one, so they know that a local organization has been supported in their honor. At New Garden Friends Meeting, we have selected multiple…
Friends are welcome to stop by the New Garden Library and check out new books that will further our efforts to become an anti-racist faith community. Thanks to the Library Committee for all they are doing to spruce up and make more relevant and diverse our book collection at the meeting house! ––Kate Hood Seel
Would you like to join a team that makes a big difference in the lives of others and strengthens your relationships with other Friends? If so, please join the NGFM Meals on Wheels Team. This is a project initiated by the Peace and Social Concerns Committee. Other faith communities in Greensboro have teams, and this is a great time for New Garden Friends Meeting to get on board! If you would like to volunteer, all…
Peace and Social Concern Committee is seeking proposals for small grants to support programs or projects that reflect our Quaker Values. Usually, grants are awarded in the $250 – $500 range. You may apply on behalf of an organization or project by submitting a one-page description of the work being done, specifically what the grant would be used for, contact information including name, address and how a check should be written, should the proposal be…
We have been invited to join a forum with George Lakey. Many of us are inspired by his activism and witness. Piedmont Friends is inquiring into the possibility of George coming to our area next year and in that process we were invited to join by Zoom an event in Baltimore featuring George entitled, “Lessons for Today from a Lifetime of Nonviolent Activism” on November 20th at 3:15 p.m. Please register here. George Lakey is…
November 2022 Native American Heritage Month 08 Election Day 11 Veterans Day 16 International Day for Tolerance 20 World Children’s Day 24 Native American Heritage Day 29 International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People – from the NG Antiracism Working Group
Here is a book I am recommending: The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee. (Hint – Soon it will be found in our Little Free Anti-racist Library.) There is a great summary from the book jacket. “The Sum of Us is a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here: divided and self-destructing, materially rich but spiritually starved and vastly unequal. McGhee marshals economic and sociological…
Our BLACK LIVES MATTER sign has been recovered and re-installed, thankfully, as it is one way New Garden Meeting can show its commitment to becoming an anti-racist faith community. First Friends Meeting also has a sign opposing racism that reads RACISM HARMS US ALL. Recently, there was a short spot on Fox 8 with members talking about the sign in front of their meetinghouse and their efforts to live up to Friends’ testimony of Equality.…
Register & more information • Lobbying in the Quaker Public Policy Institute (11/16-11/17) will focus on increasing funding for environmental justice Programs. • FCNL’s Annual Meeting provides a rich opportunity to gather with F/friends from all over the country, learn more about FCNL and come together to move the world toward the ‘World We Seek.’ • Financial support is available both through FCNL & New Garden Friends Meeting.
Structural Violence Faced by Independent Kenya’s 1st President & Current Efforts for Retrospective Justice Dear F/friends, October 20, is accepted as the birthday of trailblazing Pan-Africanist and political leader Jomo Kenyatta (1897). After Kenya achieved independence on 21 December 1963, Kenyatta was sworn in the following year as the country’s first indigenous president. What kind of nation did he inherit to lead? This narrative seeks to (1) expose how both the direct and structural violence…