Learning More Healing More
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Meeting for Worship Together
This coming Sunday at 10, we will gather as a whole community for worship, followed by some special music, afterthoughts, Joys and Concerns and announcements. All one Zoom. Join any time, leave any time. Zoom sign in information will be provided on Friday in Silent Announcements. Many thanks to Alden and Connie for hosting the Friendly Eights worship --- which has now grown to about three times its intended size!
(Friday's Silent Announcements will be published late on Friday, in order to include some yet-to-be-decided calendar items.)
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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. Ministry and Worship Committee extends a special invitation to those who are working – at home or otherwise – to take a pause to share in the healing and the spiritual nourishment of mid-week worship. Everyone is welcome, whether or not you can join for the full hour. Read a description of meetings for healing here. 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
Note: These meetings are now on a recurring schedule - every Wednesday through July 29. You can mark calendars and save this Zoom link, if you wish.
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Moving? Forward? Together!
Please join in one of these four scheduled sessions for shared reflection about what our next steps might be for resuming any kind of in-person gatherings at the Meeting House.
The sessions will be held via Zoom on:
- Tuesday, July 7, at 7 p.m.
- Wednesday, July 8 at 10 a.m.
- Saturday, July 11 at 10 a.m. and
- Sunday July 12 at 4 p.m.
There is no need to sign up ahead of time; connection info will be sent out to everyone closer to the date. Please just find one that will fit in your calendar and plan to join in. It is important for as many of us as possible to reflect together on the many questions that come up as we look ahead.
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, about these sessions please contact Carole Hoage or Cheryl Morden.
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... because Black Lives Matter
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Living into Anti-Racism in Our Faith Community
Like our fellow citizens and residents in this country and people of goodwill around the world, Quakers are trying to learn what it means to be anti-racist and how to incorporate that concern fully into our faith community. Below are two resources that Ministry and Worship wishes to bring to your attention. We ask that you reflect how these resources might relate to the work and practice of the meeting.
Queries from Baltimore Yearly Meeting
The first is the 2019 Declaration by Baltimore Yearly Meeting as an Anti-Racist Faith Community The declaration describes our shared commitments: "We aspire to recognize and affirm diversity as a means to truth... We approach racism as a virus to be healed... We are committed to becoming more inclusive and welcoming to all... We strive to do more to build and maintain trust... We seek to ensure that we do not benefit some at the expense of others." The declaration also suggests queries to guide and test the decisions that we make:
"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. It will also make us more accountable for our actions and less likely to be satisfied with a statement that sounds laudatory, but proves empty or even harmful. In that regard, 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?"
Public Statement of the American Friends Service Committee
The second resource is the American Friends Service Committee's public statement on racial justice, released on June 4. "As a Quaker organization," the statement reads, "the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is inspired by the fundamental truth that there is human dignity in every single person. In order to live those values, we need to change our economies, schools, health care systems, and every institution in our society." The statement focuses on the crucial role of police and the criminal legal system in upholding white supremacy.
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Refueling for Justice
Daquanna Harrison is leading the efforts to organize Refueling for Justice, a free, online event taking place Saturday, June 27th where those who have been striving for justice can refuel for the long-haul with meditation, movement, children's activities, art, and music. Adelphi Friends can support this event in three key ways: 1) donating to keep the event free for all, 2) attending or advertising the event, and 3) volunteering to staff a "tech support shift" during the Zoom webinar. Visit www.refuelingforjustice.com to donate, sign-up to attend, and learn more. You can also contact Sarah Gillooly.
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Becoming Anti-Racist: Resources for the Journey
Visit our new page of Anti-Racism Resources. Wondering about what you can do to make a difference today? Take a look at Justice in June, which maps out things to do each day. Or see where you are on the Scaffolded Anti-Racism Resources, and pick a next step that works for you.
New: Friends Journal has published an antiracist reading list for young people -- from ages 3 through middle school and above. And here's a link to the broadcast of the Poor People's Campaign: National Call for a Moral Revival with clips from events in all the states. This link will be listed under Inspiration in our WHIRLS resource list!
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Note from Couch Potato Activists
This month's action focuses on police justice -- actions to take at the federal, state and local levels. To learn more, sign up here for Couch Potato Activists.
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Friends in Kenya
Friends and all the people in Kenya have faced three calamities in the first half of this year: massive flooding, biblical scale swarms of locusts, and the coronavirus pandemic. Learn more about the situation and how you can help.
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Friends General Conference Virtual Gathering
June 28 to July 4 (next week)
Friends General Conference 2020 Gathering will be on line, with a theme of "Sink Down To The Seed Sown In The Heart."
Among the scheduled programs and events are these:
· Evening Programs with Valarie Kaur, Dr. Amanda Kemp, City Love, and more
· Afternoon Activities
· Programming for Children and Teens
· Anti-Racism Events (including opportunities for Friends of Color)
· Workshops
Registration will remain open through the week of the Virtual Gathering for adults and children. Teens must be registered by June 25 to participate in the High School program. For more information, see https://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/gathering.
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Friends Returning to the Area: Housing, Anyone?
Phillip and Mary Ann Payette are planning to move back to the area and would like to rent a small place for a month or two, or perhaps as long as six months if that's what it takes to find the right apartment/house for the long term. Any rentals? or ideas? Please call 518-495-0118 or email ilium@outlook.com.
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Camp Closed -- (6) Cabins Open
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The BYM Camping Program
is happy to announce we will be
renting cabins at Catoctin Quaker Camp
as an alternative use of our property
Six of the camper cabins will be rented for 5 days at a time in July and August. The bathhouse will be open, but other buildings, including the lodge and kitchen, will be closed. More information and opportunities to sign up are here.
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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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No-Contact Donations? No Problem.
Do you miss dropping your checks and cash into our meetinghouse donation box? No problem! You can donate our website. Go to the top right and click on "Give". From there you can give a single gift or set up an automatic monthly donation. You can also mail donations to the meetinghouse: 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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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. Scroll down in each section to find your particular item.
WHIRLS stands for
Ways to Connect, which includes
- After meeting gatherings
- Friendly eights
- Virtual worship for People of Color
- Library Committee delivers
- Adelphi Teens' Friday night hangouts
Helping in the Community, which includes
- Couch Potato Activists
- St. Camillus Food Pantry
- St. Matthew's Food Program
- Share food from your over-abundant garden
- Mask-making for non-medical personnel
- Helping with unemployment benefit applications
- Advocacy: New military draft bill to include women
Inspiration, which includes
- The broadcast of the Poor Peoples' Campaign
- Mackenzie Morgan's recent message at West Hills Friends Meeting in Oregon
- Messages, music, interviews and resources to help us get through this
Resources, which includes
- for kids and families
- At home Activities and Art Events
- Annie Patterson and Peter Blood web page for cooped up families
- Book on explaining the pandemic to children
- for all of us
- Guardian's list of home-based cultural activities
- Community resource guide from Local 23
- Richard Renner blogs on protections for workers who raise health and safety issues
Love and Support, which includes
- "Adelphi Cares"
- Sharing Joys and Concerns
- Free mental health support
- Financial Assistance
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