A way to support Friendship Community Partnership and our friends of color Nicole Walker, of Persimmon Grove AME Church/Friendship Community Partnership, has invited New Gardeners to a virtual dance program called “The Christmas Shoes” in which her daughter Mala will perform. Choices for participants are a drive-in, live Zoom or On Demand Zoom event. Purchase…
November 11, at 6:30 p.m. the RE Committee will host a special called meeting, seeking feedback and ideas for Religious Education programs for the future at New Garden. Karin Heller will send a a link so that Friends may attend virtually. We hope to see you there!
New Garden Library has received a number of books from generous donors over the past year. Here are a few that might be of interest to New Gardeners in hopes that we will soon be back together and can take advantage of these selections! Moral Injury, by Alice Lynd with the assistance of Staughton Lynd…
This past summer, for 2020 Summer Program, several New Gardeners recorded themselves reading children’s stories aloud for our Facebook page. These videos were popular with New Gardeners of all ages, and continued to receive “traffic” well after the dates they were posted. New Gardeners are missing one another! So why not continue connecting this way?…
Young Friends, it’s been a while! Hope to see you all on zoom, October 25, for pumpkin carving. We will be using GroupMe this year to communicate. Please share and sign up with these links below to stay in the loop. Reach out to karin@ngfm.org should there be technical difficulties. Excited to be reunited, and…
Young Friends will officially launch programming on Sunday, October 25 with a Virtual Pumpkin Carving Extravaganza! Information and updates on Young Friends programming will be sent out on Wednesday of each week, beginning this week. If Friends would like more information about Young Friends programming at New Garden Friends Meeting, or are interested in receiving…
New Garden Friends Meeting is searching for a Young Friends leader for the 2020-2021 academic year. This position is for a leader who will work with both Middle School and High School students. The leader will collaborate with another Young Friends leader as well as the New Garden Friends Meeting Religious Education Coordinator. At present,…
We recognize the great value (and necessity!) of interpersonal connections during the pandemic. Therefore, while following the recommendations of our COVID-19 Medical Advisory Group not to sponsor in-person activities, we will continue our efforts to enhance connections in other ways: virtual meetings for worship; virtual committee meetings and Religious Education activities; and virtual ministry with…
Many of you are already aware that two of our Young Friends Leaders are moving on to new adventures. Accordingly, the Religious Education Committee is seeking to hire an additional Young Friends Leader for the 2020-2021 academic year. The official job posting will be provided soon but please contact Judy Haughee-Bartlett or Nikki Baker for more…
Hi! I’m Anya Lawe, a Senior at the Early College at Guilford. My robotics team is running a virtual summer camp for students ages 6-13 to teach coding (students at any level are welcome). There is no tuition for the camp; however, we are asking for donations to support COVID-19 relief. We hope to see…