Threshing and Healing and Meeting
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Reminder:
Threshing Session Tuesday Evening
about a new meetinghouse sign
Discussion continues about language for a new sign in front of the Meetinghouse. Many and varied thoughts, beliefs, and feelings have been shared.
Please join a threshing session on Tuesday July 21 at 7 PM
to advance the discussion and raise your voice, if so moved.
For information about threshing sessions, see these excerpts (download as a .pdf) from three yearly meetings.
To join the threshing session at 7 p.m. this evening (Tuesday), click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89447645583?pwd=bkI5OSsvTzBxZ3d2Z3dEY0ROUzBwQT09
Or join by phone: 301-715-8592
Meeting ID: 894 4764 5583
Passcode: 914873
Questions? Please contact Mosi Harrington or Lynn Hardesty
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Meetings for Healing
with a Concern for a Broken Nation
Wednesdays at noon
Meetings for healing continue on Wednesdays at noon. Everyone is welcome, whether or not you can join for the full hour. Here is the Zoom sign in:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88290130829?pwd=UWxVOVhXQUYwdXIvcElhTzQwZ2tFZz09
Or join by phone: 3017158592
Meeting ID: 882 9013 0829
Password: 259616
Please note: The Wednesday meetings are now on a recurring schedule through July 29. If you wish, you can mark your calendars and save this link.
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Recipes - We Need Recipes!
We are now gathering recipes to include in the Adelphi Friends Meeting cookbook, so please go get out your favorite recipes and email them to Nicole Cintas. All recipes are welcome, certainly, but we also want an extra shout out for vegan recipes, gluten-free recipes and, of course, strawberry specials.
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Need Groceries?
County Councilmember Tom Dernoga, who represents the Adelphi area, announces a “grocery giveaway” for whoever needs some good food. 500 boxes of fresh produce and proteins will be given away at the Calverton Office Park 11700 Beltsville Drive. The last "giveaway" will be Saturday the 25th at 10 a.m., while supplies last.
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Young Authors ... Is there one in your home?
Kids need something productive and joyful to do at home? Lelac Almagor is offering individualized (virtual) creative writing instruction for grades 3-12, customized for your child's interests and learning needs. Reduced rates for families that qualify for free and reduced lunch. See details at www.MsAlmagor.com
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Challenging Systemic Racism-
Resources for the Journey
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Working Toward Right Relations with Indigenous Peoples
You heard it here first! Six-webinar series begins on August 10
Pendle Hill, Canadian Friends Service Committee, Friends Peace Team’s program on Right Relations with Native Peoples, and Decolonizing Quakers have teamed up to create a series of six webinars,”Working Toward Right Relations with Indigenous Peoples.” The webinars begin August 10 and will be presented via Zoom on the second and fourth Mondays of August, September, and October from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern time.
Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts from Canada and the U.S. will lead the presentations. Registrants and non-registrants in Adelphi Meeting will be invited to small group discussions on the third Monday of each of the three months.
Information on webinar topics, fees, and some of the speakers can be found here and on the Decolonizing Quakers website, and (soon) on the Pendle Hill website. Additional details about the topics are here. Questions? Ruth Flower is hoping you’ll ask.
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Anti-Racism Resources
Friends have collected and shared a plethora of Anti-Racism Resources: books, articles, films, web sites. Be sure to check here for the latest. Just added:
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"Being antiracist results from a conscious decision to make frequent, consistent, equitable choices daily..." from the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Talking About Race.
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[Clip and save for committee meetings and meetings for business]
Using queries to examine how our decisions may promote inclusiveness, allow equal access, and welcome those we perceive as different from ourselves could, we believe, guide us in our deliberations. We seek to always be able to answer the following queries:
- How could this decision affect those who have been harmed by racist behavior?
- To what degree have privilege, class, stereotypes, assumptions, and our ability to include other perspectives affected this decision? Will this decision promote equity, diversity, and inclusiveness? Will it enable us to be more friendly and whole?
- How will we provide opportunities for those most likely to be directly affected by our decision to influence that decision?
- How does this decision support the declaration of our Yearly Meeting that we are an anti-racist faith community?
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Helping Goes Both Ways
The meeting can help you through this pandemic. Friends are prepared to offer spiritual, practical, and financial support. Find out how, here in WHIRLS.
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Missing something you saw in Silent Announcements?
Check out WHIRLS where we've listed a lot of useful resources, and also Adelphi Meeting's collection of anti-racism resources. Recent issues of Silent Announcements are linked on Adelphi Meeting's home page.
Wondering about an advocacy issue that you'd like to weigh in on? Sign up for Adelphi Meeting's Couch Potato Activists list serve.
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Relevant and still current information is being saved in a place where you can always find it -- a page called "WHIRLS." The links below will take you to sections of these announcements.
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No-Contact Donations? No Problem.
Adelphi Meeting's budget appreciates your steady donations as we meet apart. You can donate on our website . You can send a single gift or - even easier - set up an automatic monthly donation. And postal mail is still a thing. You can mail donations to Adelphi Friends Meeting Treasurer, 2303 Metzerott Rd, Adelphi, MD 20783.
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To Submit an Item for Silent Announcements
Send a message to the editor via an on-line form. Provide essential information (date, time, etc.). Feel free to add informal notes in the description box. The editor is probably going to edit it anyway.
During the pandemic, Silent Announcements are sent out on Tuesdays and Fridays at about noon. Please submit items before 10 a.m. on those two days.
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To Schedule a Virtual Committee Meeting
Send the info below to: Zoom2@adelphifriends.org
Your e-mail should include at least the following information:
(1) the title of the meeting (e.g. Finance Committee meeting),
(2) the date and time,
(3) recurring or one time only – if it is recurring, what is the schedule (2nd Tuesday of the month), including beginning and ending dates,
(4) contact person, and
(5) any special considerations (e.g., you need a technical person to help out or to host, you need someone to control breakout rooms).
Note that the specific Zoom invitation info for these committee meetings should NOT be put in Silent Announcements. Instead put in the Silent Announcement a contact person who will forward the zoom invitation to the committee members. You can also just send the zoom info directly to the committee members without a Silent Announcement.
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