Parlor / Vicki McCready will take our previous study of the Southern Poverty Law Center's booklet on how to speak up when faced with bigoted comments, to the next level. A member of First Friends Meeting, Vicki has designed small group sessions to think together and apply ideas to 15 actual scenarios from our normal daily lives. Come experience speaking up and learn from each other what our choices are.
How is it that we are wealthy, but struggle to meet our budget, much less to fund new initiatives? Perhaps it is just a matter of how you look at it. Please join John Farmer for a discussion of our financial condition at the rise of worship. Bring your own lunch/snack.
This year’s Seekers Classes are set to start February 17th and will run for four Sundays from February 17 – March 10 from 3 to 5 p.m. These sessions are wonderful for newcomers and also long-time members where we will cover the basics of Quaker history, the testimonies, and Quaker faith, Quaker community practices and business practices and variations among different branches of Quakers.
"How we can use the Quaker legacy of direct action campaigning to meet today's turbulent America." George Lakey will share good news from Quaker history and his own experience with nonviolence. Recently retired from teaching at Swarthmore College, George was first arrested in the civil rights movement and most recently in 2018 in the Power Local Green Jobs campaign. His new book, the tenth, is "How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning." …
The first ideas gathering meeting of the New Ideas Working Group is set for Rise of Meeting. For more information, contact Charles Cameron, Clerk, New Ideas Working Group