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A Message from the Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting
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Dear Friends,
It is with great sadness that Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting marks the passing of Penny Colgan - Davis, who served our Quaker community in so many ways throughout her life. Each person I speak to knew Penny through one or more of her countless roles of service and speaks of her friendship, warmth, wise counsel, and kindness. Please join me, as clerk of PQM, in expressing my deep gratitude to Penny for all that she gave to each of us, and in holding her husband John and their son, Evan, in our hearts as they grieve their loss of this remarkable woman, wife, and mother.
Hollister Knowlton, Clerk, Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting (of the Religious Society of Friends/Quakers)
See News of Friends below for memorial service & obituary information.
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Update! Quarterly Meeting with Program & Worship for Business
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July 22, 2018
Ujima Friends Peace Center
1701 W. Lehigh Avenue, Phila, PA 19132
Click here for FULL SIZE FLYER.
2 PM - Worship
3 PM - Hospitality
3:30 - Program
4:30 - Business
6 PM - Rise
For childcare, email pqmcoordinator@gmail.com by July 19th. Wheelchair accessible.
Come for all or some of the Quarterly Meeting!
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UJIMA FRIENDS PEACE CENTER:
Unapologetically Black, Unapologetically Quaker
Come learn about the experience of Black Quakers who are challenging both Black and Quaker stereotypes by establishing unprogrammed Quaker worship in the historic Black community of North Central Philadelphia. Ujima Friends Peace Center is a ministry of the Fellowship of Friends of African Descent that offers an alternative spiritual experience and serves as a safe haven for intergenerational activities that promote peace and address various forms of violence and injustice.
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Friend, Are you Called to Serve?
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Please consider volunteering on the PQM Recording Clerk Team.
This new team model greatly lightens the load of doing an invaluable service.
Please contact Sara Palmer for more information.
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PQM to Host Opportunities to Learn AVP Tools
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Finding ways to speak and listen about difficult issues is essential to transforming our world and communities. Alternatives to Violence Project teaches us nonviolent communication skills. The Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting is delighted to host an Introductory AVP workshop (date soon to be determined), thanks to the generous accord of the experienced facilitators .O, Carolyn Singleton, and Laurent Hahn. Also, efforts are underway to lift up this work at PYM annual sessions! Look for updates.
Meanwhile, visit the Alternatives to Violence Project to learn more about AVP, founded the ‘70’s by prison inmates and Quakers to transform people, places and situations through nonviolence training (including Philadelphia schools).
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Monthly Meeting & Affiliate News
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Green Street MM Invites YOU to "Fill a Book Bag" for School Kids
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The Green Street EMIR (Every Murder is Real) Spiritual Support Group has organized a drive to Fill a Book Bag, in order to help families affected by homicide. Germantown MM has joined the drive as well! Children’s needs are often overlooked when families are dealing with the violent loss of a family member. Your support will help 85 children start the school year with needed school supplies. (Visit here to learn about EMIR Healing Center)
Three ways you can help:
- Bring supplies to a box in the meetinghouse at 45 West School House Lane, Philadelphia, 19144.
- Write a check to ‘Green Street Friends Meeting’ with ‘Fill a Book Bag for EMIR’ in the memo line and send to the address above.
- Go to http://bit.ly/EmirSchoolSupplies, choose the age group and supplies you wish to gift from the lists shown.
Deadline is August 13th, to allow time for sorting and packing.For information, contact Chris Mohr.
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LQBTQ Quaker Community Event - CPMM Sponsored
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Monday, July 2, 2018
6:30 to 8:00 PM
Rufus Jones Room, Friends Center
Join the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning) Fellowship of CPMM for potluck, fellowship and Quaker worship. Everyone is welcome.
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CPMM Welcomes You to "Make and Quake" and Game Nights
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Sponsored by the CPMM Attenders and Outreach Committee. Any questions? Please email Cindy Palmer at robcinjeff@gmail.com
Make and Quake
Saturday, June 30, 2018; next one is July 21, 2018
1-5 PM
CPMM Monthly Meeting Room
Get together, chat, and get to know each other as we work on our own crafts or art! Non-messy crafts only please.
Game Nights
July 13, 2018
7-10 PM
Cherry Street Room, Friends Center
People are welcome to bring friends, food, and games, they'll be plenty of fun for all
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Volunteer for "Schools Not Prisons" Poetry Night - co-hosted by CPMM
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July 12, 2018
7 pm - 10 pm
Rufus Jones Room
Friends Center, 1501 Cherry Street
Volunteers needed for the "Schools Not Prisons" Poetry Event with Philly's Poet Laureate, Raquel Salas Rivera. Be part of an evening of poetry examining mass incarceration and education - sponsored by Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.
Are you willing to serve as greeters or help provide refreshment? Do you want to help with some postcards for distribution? If you are inclined to provide support in any way please feel free to contact Oskar Castro directly and thanks!
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Join Us!
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Opposing Mass Incarceration - A Minute of CPMM
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The Peace and Concerns committee of the Central Philadelphia Monthy Meeting is offering ideas for ways community members can engage on opposing mass incarceration. This week a suggestion is to watch a Quakerspeak video on what Quakers can do about mass incarceration, at How Quakers Can Help End Mass Incarceration. It features folks who work with the AFSC, and leads to an AFSC website page lots of additional ideas for ways to engage, at https://www.afsc.org/friends/join-afsc-end-mass-incarceration If you have other ideas for engagement, please contact Pamela Haines at pamelahaines1@gmail.com
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Summer Festival at Historic Fair Hill & Youth Stands!
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Historic Fair Hill is "a peace-making urban green space" with a remarkable history and future of Quaker and social justice. Today it is a model of collaborative community building. Find out why. Explore the website, then visit the grounds this summer. Regular gardening, historic tours and other events are listed on the website.
2901 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19133
Youth Farm Stand Begins
July 5, 2018
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
HFH youth group meets during the summer months to provide fresh vegetables to the neighborhood at their weekly farm stand on Germantown Ave. They'll have veggies for sale, harvested from the community gardens that they tend. The proceeds from the farm stand are used directly for the HFH youth program.
Historic Fair Hill Summer Festival 2018
Saturday, July 14, 2018
3 - 7 PM
Bring the whole family to the 14th Annual Historic Fairhill Summer Festival at the burial ground. Come hang at one of our favorite neighborhood events of the year! We’ll have family friendly activities: pony rides, games, face painting, live music, and tons of food. Bring your family and your friends! See you there!
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Friends General Conference in Toledo, OH - July 1-7, 2018
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The theme of this year’s FGC Gathering is The Power of Truth – an invitation to explore the concept of truth in the era of “fake news.” Among other notable speakers, the Reverend Dr. William Barber will be delivering an important address on Thursday, July 5, at 7 PM, and the talk will be live-streamed by FGC.
According to multiple sources, Dr. Barber is one of the most important leaders in the contemporary struggle to eradicate poverty and build a radically just society.His work includes being national co-chair of the 2018 Poor People’s Campaign, and leading an alliance of more than 200 progressive organizations aka “Moral Monday,” a multi-racial, multi-faith movement fighting for voting rights, public education, universal healthcare, environmental protection, and the rights of women, labor, immigrants and members of the LGBTQ community.
Details about livestreaming his address will appear on FGC's home page, (https://www.fgcquaker.org/) in the "New and Noteworthy" section.
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PYM - Register for the 338th Annual Sessions, July 25-29
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The 338th Consecutive Annual Sessions
of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
July 25-29,
The College of New Jersey, near Trenton
This year's theme is "How Our Lives Speak." Friends across the Philadelphia region will gather for fun, worship, business, and fellowship. The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is now receiving registrations and proposals for exhibits for the 2018 Annual Sessions. The deadline for submitting exhibit proposals is June 30, 2018.
Registration is open now, and housing is limited so register ASAP. Housing is available for those who want to stay onsite, commuters are welcome for a day or the whole four-days. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting pays most of the program costs; participants pay for their housing and food. Financial aid is available.
For program details, a list of fees, information about financial aid, and to register online, click here. For more information call 215-241-7238
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Registration is Open for the 338th PYM Annual Sessions
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Radical Faithfulness in Action
Jun 28-Jul 1, Aug 16-19, Oct 25-28, 2018
An online, on-campus program in resilient grassroots organizing and radical faithfulness, with three campus residencies. Click here for the flyer.
Open Art Studio Session at Pendle Hill
July 7, 2018
Led by Jesse White
Saturdays, 1:30 - 5:30pm
All are invited to create in our beautiful, light-filled art studio! These are drop-in, self-directed art experiences. A monitor will be present to help you find supplies and get started.
For information, click here.
Beyond Gender-Based Violence Workshop
July 29 - August 1, 2018
Pendle Hill, 338 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA.
Beyond Gender-Based Violence: Justice, Vision, and Accountability at the Intersection is a workshop that will help participants grapple with the roots of gender-based violence and work toward a world where women, men, and people of all gender identities can thrive together.
Financial assistance available, as is a special rate for commuters. Click here for details or phone 610-566-4507.
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Penny Colgan-Davis's life will be celebrated and family supported at her memorial service on Saturday, July 21, at 10 a.m., at Germantown Friends Meeting, where she also served at clerk. John and Evan Colgan-Davis would appreciate receiving notes and cards but respectfully ask people to not call, drop by, or send emails to them at this time. Their address is 101 Mt. Airy Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19119-2439.
Visit this online obituary tribute for Penny Colgan-Davis.
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PQM invites member meetings & affiliates to send us announcements of interest to the larger Philadelphia quarter for inclusion the PQM News and PQM Bulletins. Events and activities that are sponsored by monthly meetings and affiliates of the Philadelphia Quarterly are always welcomed. Our goal is to connect and lift up your work!
We publish the PQM News by the end of the second week of the month, and the PQM Bulletin goes out on an as-needed basis.
To keep PQM news timely, please send submissions by the 4th Friday of the prior month and 2nd Friday of the current month.
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L. Lanza
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
More information about sharing pronouns
Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Administrative Coordinator
Friends Center
1515 Cherry St.
Philadelphia PA, 19102
Phone: 215-241-7067
Website: www.philadelphiaquarter.org
Find us on Facebook to see the events and happenings within the Quarter
**The coordinator email is checked throughout the week. I will be working offsite June 13 - July 19th, 2018. Regular PQM office hours will start back up on July 20th, 2018. **
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