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Want to Do Something about Hunger in Greensboro? Volunteers are needed for a food drive on October 6. You can help end hunger in a very practical way by collecting food for the Greensboro Urban Ministry food pantry at the Guilford College Harris Teeter, 701 Francis King St, Greensboro, NC 27410. Please contact Bill McNeill ([email protected]) or Betsy Jenson ([email protected]) if you can work an hour or two between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Help Greensboro Urban…
Two-day event. Grace Community Church, 643 W. Gate City Blvd., Greensboro, NC 27403
Two-day event. Grace Community Church, 643 W. Gate City Blvd., Greensboro, NC 27403
Friendship Community Partnership is sponsoring a blood drive at Persimmon Grove AME Church, 408 Dolly Madison Road in support of the Community Blood Center of the Carolinas. Please schedule a time slot beforehand, by contacting Rick Tunkel at 336-282-4502 or ([email protected]). Your support is greatly appreciated by the community.
Learn more about Quakerism and get to know other New Gardeners! Come and enjoy dinner with Friends, learn some basics about Quaker faith and practice, and enjoy worship together. People of all ages are welcome! For more information contact Margaret at ([email protected]) or 336-292-5487 or Karin at [email protected]).
Brotherhood Room / The Social Concerns committee invites you to bring a bag lunch and join us monthly - every 3rd Sunday, thru December 2018, for movie and discussion series on our Quaker Testimony of Equality. 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…
New Garden Friends Meeting's annual Hallowe'en lantern tour of its historic graveyard is led by retired professor of Quaker Studies Max L. Carter and will include occasional "interpreters" of some of the people whose graves will be visited. Included on the tour will be stories of early settlement in the 1700s; the Revolutionary War skirmishes fought around the graveyard; the Underground Railroad; famous industrialists, reformers, and educators; battles for desegregation; and even famous athletes. The…
Friends Homes West Living Room, 6100 West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro. The buffet luncheon is $17.00 per person. The talk, to follow the luncheon, by Max L. Carter is free. Max Carter, retired professor of Quaker Studies at Guilford College, will share stories from the forthcoming book "Reflections on a Quaker Graveyard" that he and Gertrude Beal have compiled and edited. The stories feature some of the remarkable people interred in New Garden Friends cemetery. Carter…