I am filled with gratitude for the generosity of New Garden Friends Meeting. For the 4th year, I have gone to Walmart to anonymously pay off some gift layaways. For the last several years I have invited New Gardeners to give some money to help support this activity and every year I am humbled by the outpouring of gifts! This year we had just under $2,000 ($1956.00) to use to pay off nine layaways. We…
Please join American Friends Service Committee General Secretary, Joyce Ajlouny on Saturday, January 12 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. / New Garden Friends Meeting. Learn about the strategic planning process that she is leading as AFSC turns the page on a century of building peace with justice. Prior to joining AFSC as general secretary in September 2017, Joyce worked in international development and served as the director of the Ramallah Friends School in Palestine.
9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. / Friendship Hall. We invite refugees and non-profits to display their valuable work and offer us ways to give to friends and family by buying gifts and honor cards. This then helps refugees support themselves and organizations to help others. Lunch and treats will also be available for purchase. Those participating include; Taste The World, Ten Thousand Villages, Nana’s Treats, Biz Kids, Gate City Quilt Guild, Quaker House,Turkish Crafts, Urban Ministry,…
Quaker House wants you to save this date: Saturday, September 21, 2019. We are working on exciting projects that will capture and share our unique history of peace advocacy and of our work towards healing the hidden wounds of war over the last half-century. These projects will culminate in a presentation, lunch banquet, and special visitors from our past coming together in Fayetteville. Won’t you plan on joining us? Please let Sara or Charlie White…
Brotherhood Room / 12:15 – 2:30 p.m. The topic for the third First Day Lunch and Learn November 18 is built around the peace testimony. We will watch two QuakerSpeak videos, “Why are Quakers Pacifists?” and “Why I’m not a Pacifist?” They offer great food for thought and should stimulate some meaningful discussion. Please bring your lunch and join us after the rise of Meeting for Worship. For more information, contact Sara White at 336-253-1319.
9:30 a.m. – 3:15 p.m. / Embassy Suites, 460N. Cherry Street, Winston-Salem, NC / Explore the effects of gentrification across the Triad through a fair housing lens. “The Many Faces of Gentrification” is an event sponsored by Winston-Salem Human Relations Commission/New Horizons Fair Housing Committee. Experts from Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem’s housing, municipal, non-profit, banking, and educational communities are collaborating to represent a few perspectives for the day’s discussions. Breakout sessions will include Seniors and…
The NC A&T State Theatre Arts Program 2018-2019 Season begins with “Ruined” October 18-21 and 25-28, 2018 Thursday – Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. / Sundays at 3:00 p.m. at Paul Robeson Theatre on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University. From Lynn Nottage, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of such plays as “Fabulation” and “Intimate Apparel,” comes this haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war. Set in a…
Brotherhood Room / 12:15 – 2:30 p.m. The Lunch-and-Learn program will feature Life in the Sacrifice Zone, a documentary on health problems related to Duke Energy’s Belews Creek coal ash ponds polluting ground water near Walnut Cove. Local artist Caroline Armijo and Walnut Cove residents are expected to join in the discussion to give witness to the problem. Bring a bag lunch and discuss the personal impacts of coal ash.
New Garden Friends Meeting Social Concerns Committee provides small grants to organizations for projects addressing priority issues through our Broader Concerns budget. Priorities for 2018, drawn from a Fall 2017 survey of New Gardeners include: peace and conflict prevention/resolution; poverty, homelessness, and hunger; youth engagement; environment and clean energy; social, racial, and economic justice and refugee crisis and immigrant rights. Worthy organizations advancing any of these priorities through programming or projects, should send a one…