It’s Scholarship Time Again / Applications Due by May 31, 2021
Scholarship applications are available and can be obtained by email from the New Garden Friends Meeting office. Completed applications must be returned by May 31.
Religious Education Updates / May 4, 2021
Thanks to all who joined our May 2nd Zoom Forum for “A Conversation with Kathy Manning.” Last week during our Adult Forum time, Friends discussed the Quaker perspective on economic systems. Below, please find resources that were shared during our discussion. Queries: How is our current economic system blocking the Kingdom of God? What are some of the cultural assumptions that we have about who and what our roles and connections are with one another…
Young Friends / February 14, 2021
12:30 p.m. / Please check email for Zoom invitation link, or reach out to Karin Heller for more information. As always, please feel free to reach out with any questions, joys, or concerns. -Karin Heller
Young Friends / February 7, 2021
12:30 p.m. / Please check email for Zoom invitation link, or reach out to Karin Heller for more information. As always, please feel free to reach out with any questions, joys, or concerns. -Karin Heller
Young Friends / January 31, 2021
Young Friends (*5-6 p.m.):This Sunday we will be joined by David Pudlo, a New Gardener who has traveled across the United States by bike! David will join us for a conversation about the wheels that keep everyday creativity, Quakerism, and Quaker Creativity turning. We will meet for fellowship at 5pm this Sunday January 31st which will be our last evening meeting for the foreseeable future. Given the continued success of a 12:30 meeting time, Young…
Support Friendship Community Partnership
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 tickets at www. tinyurl.com/reboxoffice. Contact: Kate Seel ([email protected]) 336-455-2591.
A Called Religious Education Meeting / November 11, 2020
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!
Donations to New Garden’s Library / November 2020
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 The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship and Hope in America, by Helen Thorpe Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth…
Readers Wanted / Share a Favorite Children’s Book
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? Friends are invited to record themselves reading one of their favorite children’s books aloud, and send the recording to Karin…
Young Friends / October 25, 2020
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 [email protected] should there be technical difficulties. Excited to be reunited, and to meet some new Friends! Middle and High School Young Friends: https://tinyurl.com/y5z44mjw High School Young Friends: https://tinyurl.com/y28aq26z Parent Communications Group:…