Join us for this very special New Garden Friends Meeting tradition! Family Camp is a wonderful opportunity for us all to enjoy the beauty of Quaker Lake Camp, fun and games, delicious food, and fellowship. 2019 Family Camp Registration Forms are available on the Religious Education bulletin board, via email, or by clicking on the link above . Please contact Karin Heller for more information.
Fellowship Hall
Center City Park, Greensboro, NC / On Friday, September 20 people everywhere will walk out of their schools and workplaces to join young strikers in the streets. We know governments won’t deliver climate action and justice on their own, so we’re going on a climate strike to show them what people power is capable of accomplishing. Here in Greensboro we will gather at Center City Park downtown at 200 S. Elm Street. We’re aiming for…
Quaker House is celebrating 50 years as a place of peace in a military city. New Garden Friends Meeting has been an integral part of sustaining this mission from the beginning. Join us for a luncheon and panel to celebrate and to show New Garden’s continuing support. There will be guests of honor including people we have helped in the past and previous directors. We will also have a special viewing of our professionally produced…
We will gather at New Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 408 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, and march (bring your signs!) to Shiloh Baptist Church at 1210 S. Eugene Street, where at 6 p.m. we will hear from Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Co-Chairs of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Sisters and brothers directly impacted by the unjust systems that we are demanding must change…
North Carolina Quaker Men will hear former NFL lineman now of First Fruits Farm speak. Jason Brown, formerly the highest paid NFL lineman, will speak about his journey from football to becoming a farmer and providing hundreds of thousands of pounds of produce to the hungry in North Carolina. Come to Concord Friends Meeting (5000 Old Randleman Road, Greensboro) with Friends from all over North Carolina, eat supper, and hear this remarkable story.. Questions? Ask…
As part of the ongoing observance of the bicentennial of the UGRR in Guilford County, a day of commemoration for Vestal Coffin, the First “Conductor” on the Underground R.R. in Guilford County, will be held on October 10, Coffin’s birth and death date (1792-1826). Activity schedule (all free and open to the public): 9:30 a.m. “Origins of the Underground R.R.: African Americans, Native Americans, and Quakers,” Arwin Smallwood, Chair of the History and Political Science…
Norvell Hall
Friendship Community Partnership is sponsoring an Underground Railroad Tour in the Guilford College Woods. Meet in the New Garden Friends Meeting parking lot. The tour is .6 mile on unpaved wooded trail and takes 1 - 1.5 hours. For more information, and to reserve a spot, contact : Kate Hood Seel or 336-455-2591. Participating churches; Collins Grove United Methodist, New Garden Friends Meeting, Persimmon Grove AME, Raleigh’s Crossroads United Methodist, and St. Barnabas Episcopal.
Norvell Hall