Flea Market Half-Price Sale / September 29
8:00 am – 12:00 p.m. / Norvell Hall
Now Accepting Flea Market Donations
The Flea Market needs your help! It’s time to clean out your closets & attics and bring clean, gently used items to Norvell Hall. Volunteers will be sorting donations Sunday afternoons from 3 – 5 p.m. This is a great way to serve the community and get to know other New Gardeners. We also need volunteers during the Flea Market on September 22 and 29. Contact: Erin Allred ([email protected]).
FCNL and Annual Meeting & Quaker Public Policy Institute / Nov. 28 – Dec. 2
Join Friends Committee on National Legislation and Annual Meeting & Quaker Public Policy Institute in Washington, DC this November 28 – December 2. Learn. Lobby. Lead. As FCNL enters our 75th year, join Quakers and friends for four days of community, celebration, and advocacy. Register Now! Be a part of the 75-year legacy of prophetic, persistent, and powerful Quaker advocacy. Join FCNL November 28-December 2, 2018 for Annual Meeting and the Quaker Public Policy Institute. Just…
Volunteer Your Potluck Super Powers for the Guilford College Student Progressive Dinner / August 24
6:00 p.m. / Friendship Hall It’s that time of year again, when New Gardeners show their potluck super powers to feed the young adult Friends from Guilford College. We provide dinner, and Friendship Meeting provides dessert. Please leave food in the kitchen before or as close to 5 p.m. as possible. We expect around at least 50 hungry students and staff. Contact: Karen Garraputa at ([email protected]) or 336-706-1715.
Peacemakers at the Fun Fourth Festival / July 4th
New Garden Friends Meeting volunteers spread the testimony of peace at the Fun Fourth Festival, downtown Greensboro.
Peacemakers Unite / July 4
New Garden Friends Meeting has secured a booth at the Fun Fourth Festival, downtown Greensboro, on July 4. We would like to have you join us in spreading the testimony of peace around Greensboro.
Summer Program / June 18 – 22
Margaret Fell, a 17th-century follower of George Fox who eventually became his spouse, made a guest appearance Monday evening at New Garden. Coincidentally, Summer Program’s theme is Quaker Women.
Summer Program / June 18 – 22
5 p.m. – 8 p.m. / Friendship Hall Join us for fun in the sun this summer at New Garden Friends Meeting! We’ll enjoy delicious meals, making music, doing crafts, and learning more about Quaker Women past and present. Dinner begins at 5 p.m. in Friendship Hall. All children who were 2 years old by December 31, 2017 through 8th-graders are invited. Young Friends who are ninth-graders and older are welcome to volunteer during the…
Pot Luck Dinner & Poor People’s Campaign Forum / May 25
6:00 p.m. Friendship Friends Meeting, 1103 New Garden Road, Greensboro, NC 27410. A pot luck dinner will be followed by a presentation and discussion with the Rev. Wesley Morris, new pastor of Faith Community Church. Faith Community Church is a leader in local organizing for the PPC movement. The new PPC is a national movement managed on the state level so that different states can focus on their issues and successful strategies. PPC has noted…
Blood Drive / May 22
We are hosting a blood drive with the Community Blood Center of the Carolinas at New Garden Friends Meeting on May 22 from 3:30-6:30 pm. To make the blood drive successful, we need you to consider donating your blood. Please pledge to help save local lives; contactBill McNeil ([email protected]) or (919) 622-3303.