Winter Solstice Celebration
New Garden Friends Meeting 801 New Garden Road, Greensboro, North CarolinaIn the Woods Behind New Garden Friends Meeting
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Caroling at Friends Home
Meet at Fellowship Hall at 4:45 p.m. / Walk to Friends Home to share holiday melodies with Friends. After caroling, everyone is welcome to come back to Fellowship Hall for a free pizza dinner and cookies.
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
Music at 6:30 p.m. / Worship Service at 7:00 p.m. Please join us in the spirit of giving; fill a box with non-perishable food items according to this list and bring your box to the Christmas Eve Candlelight Meeting for Worship. 1 - box of cereal 2 - peanut butter 3 - stuffing mix 4 - boxed potatoes 5 - macaroni & cheese 6 - canned fruit 7 - canned tomatoes 8 - canned tuna…
Peace & Love Ukestra at Friends Homes
925 New Garden Rd, Greensboro, NC 27410 / 2 p.m. in Independent Living in Fry Hall, and a second performance at 3:30 p.m. in the Memory Care Unit.
American Friends Service Committee / Guest Speaker – Joyce Ajlouny
Please join American Friends Service Committee, General Secretary Joyce Ajlouny, to learn about the strategic planning process she is leading as AFSC turns the page on a century of building peace with justice. Prior to joining as General Secretary in September 2017, Joyce worked in international development and served as the director of the Ramallah Friends School in Palestine.
Lunch & Learn Session
Brotherhood Room / Families and all are invited to bring your lunch to Brotherhood room to watch four short animated movies – stories from African American history, for ages 5-10 (educational for adults, too). All four movies last just over one hour, which leaves time for discussion. - March On: The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World - Martin’s Big Words - ROSA (Nikki Giovanni’s telling of Rosa Parks’ story) - Henry’s Freedom Box:…
Memorial Service Honoring Ed Roach
Shady Hill Baptist Church 1500 Old Durham Road, Roxboro, NC, United StatesShady Hill Baptist Church, 1500 Old Durham Road, Roxboro. There will be a memorial service honoring the only documented victim of lynching in Roxboro. The service is expected to last about one hour. Ed Roach from Reidsville, NC, was employed at the construction company of Nello Teer, a prominent Durham businessman, who wrote a letter stating that Mr. Roach was working on his construction site near Roxboro at the time of the alleged assault on a…
“Alternatives to Violence” Workshop
Guilford College 5800 West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro, North CarolinaGuilford College - King Hall, 026 (ground floor). Participants should be sure they can commit to both days. The facilitators are Deborah Bromiley and John Shuford. Contact: Zulfiya Tursunova, PhD. Peace and Conflict Studies, or call 336 316 2416 for more information.
Underground Railroad Lecture
New Garden Friends Meeting 801 New Garden Road, Greensboro, North CarolinaNew Garden Friends Meeting / 2019 is the 200th anniversary of the first known activity in North Carolina on what came to be known as the Underground Railroad. Two Guilford College historians, Adrienne Israel and James Shields, will share about that history. Following their presentation on the significance of the UGRR for both the African-American and Quaker communities, there will be guided tours of the UGRR woods on the Guilford College campus and the Friends…
“Alternatives to Violence” Workshop
Guilford College 5800 West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro, North CarolinaGuilford College - King Hall, 026 (ground floor). Participants should be sure they can commit to both days. The facilitators are Deborah Bromiley and John Shuford. Contact: Zulfiya Tursunova, PhD. Peace and Conflict Studies, or call 336 316 2416 for more information.