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Third month tasks: Prepare the soil for planting, renewal and rebirth.
How we can we do better? Our monthly meetings are alive with an active expectation of change. It seems Friends everywhere are reflecting on how to renew their meetings and welcome new Friends. How does the truth fare with thee, Friends?
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PQM TREASURE HUNT: CLICK the red links to find Quaker treasures and trivia.
P.S. Scroll to the end if you seek the calendar of Quarterly meetings or list of monthly meetings...
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1. It's That Time of Year: SOMs
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2. Hold the Date for Spring PQM !
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3. Central Philadelphia MM
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A Workshop: Having Difficult Conversations
Saturday, March 30th 2019
9 AM- 4 PM
A full-day workshop facilitated by Dr. Amanda Kemp, author of Say the Wrong Thing. Join Friends as we build skills, comfort and confidence for engaging in necessary conversations about race and structural racism. Contact CPMM to register! Sponsored by the Racial Healing and Wholeness Committee. Refreshments and lunch provided.
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CPMM's Loving Friends Fiesta!
Saturday, April 6, 2019
4 - 7 PM, Cherry Street Room
What fun! What spirit! What talent! Come one and all - old and young - to the Loving Friends Fiesta - a celebration organized by the CPMM Peace and Social Concerns Committee. Proceeds support local social and environmental justice work. Music (ala D.J. Oskar Castro). dancing, creative play for the kids, a Silent Auction, $5 table, and more.To donate for the auction, click here. Contact terryroberts1998@gmail.com.
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SAVE THE DATE:
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
6:30 PM in the Worship Room (Race Street Room)
Dr. Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism will speak to this topic. Event is cosponsored by Friends Select School and CPMM.
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Empty Plate Dinner
March 30th 2019
5 – 8 PM
St. Dominic Church, 8504 Frankford Ave.
Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network will hold its annual Empty Plate Dinner. Tickets: $20 for adults, $10 for children 12 & under.
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All proceeds benefit Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network (PIHN) in its mission to help families experiencing homelessness and hunger. Guests take home a free hand-painted plate as a reminder that every night many of our neighbors, even working parents and their children, have only an empty plate. Tickets and info.
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CHMM Adult Classes
9 AM in the Gathering Room
(for child care, contact adultclass@chestnuthillquakers.org by the previous Wednesday)
Sunday, March 10 Who Is a Quaker? We will watch together the recent QuakerSpeak video of John Bogle on Quaker values. Our discussion will focus on “who is a Quaker” and how Quaker values are communicated, perceived, and lived in the world.
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2nd Annual Germantown Monthly Meeting Art Show!
Reception: Saturday, March 23rd 7 - 9 PM
Exhibit runs March 23rd - 31st, 2019
Don't miss this wonderful friend and fund raiser! March 23rd 7-9 PM celebrates GMM talent: musicians will serenade as we savor a feast of visual art. Refreshments will be served. Meet us at the Front Hall of the GFS main building at 31 West Coulter Street.
Viewing Times: Opening Night, Saturday, March 23rd 7-9
Sunday, March 24th, after Worship
Sunday, March 31st, after Worship
Questions: Email Candice Price, or call 215-842-2662
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GMM Adult Classes
9 AM in the GMM social room. Light refreshments.
For questions, contact Joanne Sharpless, clerk of the Adult Class Committee, 215-843-9226.
Sunday, March 17 Vanessa Julye, coordinator of Ministry on Racism for Friends General Conference, will lead a discussion on FGC's Institutional Assessment on Racism Task Force. Please read the IA Executive Summary and Report ahead of class.
Sunday, March 31 Lilah Saber of the interfaith action group POWER will give us an update on its work for economic justice, climate justice, and criminal justice reform.
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6. Monthly Meeting of Phila. Friends
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Fighting Poverty by Saving Stamps
A Report by Katherine Oniskey, MMFP /Arch Street's Philadelphia Quarter Rep:
Recently, at a PQM reps meeting, I offered pouches to my fellow reps to take back to their monthly meetings. These pockets were and are intended to be used collect used postage stamps for Right Sharing of World Resources’ (RSWR) Stamp program. RSWR is a Quaker nonprofit that provides grants and microcredit lending for women owned small businesses in Sierra Leone, Kenya and India (watch Vimeo videos from RSWR.) One Quarterly rep asked, “How does RSWR turn used postage stamps into money?” I responded, “I don’t know, but I’ll find out.” Here is what I was told:
"One of the lead volunteers in the stamp team is very familiar with the stamp market: its physical and online venues, dealers and collectors. We are fortunate that the team enjoys talking about stamps and how "stamping for dollars" can make a difference in developing countries, and we find that collectors are starting to come to us. By networking and knowledge, the team sells stamps at fair market value. Our goal is to grow the stamp program to produce $65,000 a year- so it can entirely fund one RSWR project annually.
We at RSWR are thankful to all stamp donors from your meetings that send us their cancelled stamps!"
If you’d like to contribute to RSWR’s Stamp Program, drop your used postage stamps into the collection pocket on your Monthly Meeting’s bulletin board. - What? There is no pocket on your Meeting’s bulletin board? If you’re willing to monitor the pouch and work with me on this, contact Katherine Oniskey, katr1n1o@yahoo.com, and I’ll send you one.
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Historic Fair Hill, a 300-year old Quaker burial ground in Philadelphia, is the final resting place of great abolitionists and early women's rights leaders. Visit today! Call HFH at (215) 870-8348 for details.
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Women’s History Celebration: One Woman Play & Essay Contest
Saturday, March 9, 2019
1 - 3 PM
St. Johns Memorial Church, 2853 Germantown Ave. Philadelphia PA 19133 (the former Fairhill Friends Meetinghouse).
Celebrate the life of Harriet Forten Purvis, an African American Philadelphia suffragist and abolitionist. First, enjoy Beacon Theater Production's new one woman show, "Letters to Aunt Hattie".
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Next, listen to Fairhill school students (4th -8th grades) read their winning essays about Harriet Purvis for the Black and Women’s History essay contest.
Finally, join us for a reception and visit to the graves of abolitionists Harriet and Robert Purvis at Historic Fair Hill burial grounds, 2901 Germantown Ave. Phila PA 19133.
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PYM Spring 2019 Continuing Sessions
Saturday, March 23, 2019
10 AM - 4 PM
Reading, PA
The theme: Love Thy Neighbor. " How do we, as Friends, center ourselves toward trust and love?" Join Friends for a day of action, worship and witness! Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and Friends will gather in Reading, Pennsylvania for Continuing Sessions. For info and to register
For info and to register for Youth Programs at Spring Continuing Sessions
Quaker Family Meetup
April 6 at Princeton Meeting
PYM 2019 Annual Sessions
July 24 – 28th, 2019 at The College of New Jersey
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9. What is Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting (PQM)? |
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Visit us at
PhiladelphiaQuarter.org!
PQM is made of eight (8) Quaker Monthly Meetings (MM) in Philadelphia and affiliated groups:
Central Phila. MM
Chestnut Hill MM
Frankford MM
Germantown MM
Green Street MM
MM of Friends of Phila. (Arch Street)
Unity MM
West Philly Preparative MM
Affiliates:
Riverfront Friends
Historic Fair Hill
Stapeley (Wesley Enhanced Living)
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All are Welcome and Encouraged to
Attend a Quarterly Meeting!
We’ll share worship, refreshment, a program designed by the host and Meeting for Business. Come for all or part of the day.
Winter / January 27, 2019
Hosted by Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
Done. Click for Report on Meeting
Worship & refreshments. Presentations on Green Burials, and "Sustainable Communities & the Overbrook Environmental Center". Worship for Quarter business.
Spring / April 28, 2019
Hosted by Chestnut Hill Monthly Meeting
Worship & refreshments. CHMM program on Phila. Interfaith Hospitality Network - helping families experiencing homelessness. Childcare program. Worship for Quarter business. Flyer.
Summer / July 21, 2019
Hosted by Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting
Details to come!
Fall / October 27, 2019
Hosted by Frankford Monthly Meeting
Details to come!
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PQM invites all monthly meetings & affiliates to send news and announcements of interest / open to Friends in the Philadelphia Quarter! We strive to publish PQM News around the beginning of the month, and when needed, mid-month.
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L. Lanza
pqmcoordinator@gmail.com
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
More information about sharing pronouns
Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Administrative Coordinator
Friends Center
1501 Cherry St.
Philadelphia PA, 19102
Phone: 215-241-7067 Cell: Call office phone or email to request.
Website: www.philadelphiaquarter.org
Find us on Facebook to see the events and happenings within the Quarter
PQM office hours are weekly Wednesday or Thursday, 10 am - 2 pm. I
I am happy to discuss PQM news outside of office hours. Just email me or listen to voice message information on office phone. Thank you!
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