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April 22, 2022

Our Reach and Our Embrace

Adelphi Meeting Events 

April 24 at 8:45 am           - Meeting for worship in Memorial Garden
April 24 at 10 am              - Junior Meeting (for worship) in the white house
April 24 at 10 am              - Blended Meetings for Worship + Outdoor Worship      
April 24 at 7 pm                - Meeting for Worship via Zoom
April 27 at noon                - Meeting for Worship for Healing a Broken World
April 27 at 7:30 pm           - Bible Study
May 1 at 8:45 am              - Meeting for worship in Memorial Garden
May 1 at 10 am                 - Blended Meetings for Worship + Outdoor Worship
May 1 at 12:15                  - Second Hour on Bayard Rustin and Quakers
May 1 at 7 pm                   - Meeting for Worship via Zoom
May 4 at noon                   - Meeting for Worship for Healing a Broken World
May 4 at 7:30 pm              - Bible Study
May 8 at 8:45 am              - Meeting for worship in Memorial Garden
May 8 at 10 am                 - Blended Meetings for Worship + Outdoor Worship   
May 8 at 7 pm                   - Meeting for Worship via Zoom
May 11 at noon                 - Meeting for Worship for Healing a Broken World
May 11 at 7:30 pm            - Bible Study
May 14 at 2:00 pm            - Memorial Meeting for Mosi Harrington 
May 15 at 8:45 am            - Meeting for worship in Memorial Garden
May 15 at 10 am               - Blended Meetings for Worship + Outdoor Worship   
May 15 at 12:15                - Meeting for Worship for the Conduct of Business
May 15 5:30 to 7 pm         - High School Group meets in White House
May 15 at 7 pm                 - Meeting for Worship via Zoom
May 18 at noon                 - Meeting for Worship for Healing a Broken World
May 18 at 7:30 pm            - Bible Study
May 22 at 8:45 am            - Meeting for worship in Memorial Garden
May 22 at 10 am               - Blended Meetings for Worship + Outdoor Worship   
May 22 at 12:15                - 2nd Hour: Threshing session, Change Group
May 22 at 7 pm                 - Meeting for Worship via Zoom

Find details on meetings for worship below:  "How We Meet for Worship."

Adelphi's Blended Meetings and Outdoor Meetings

Please join us for worship!  We offer four choices on Sundays:

Both outdoor meetings for worship will be in the Memorial Garden.  For those coming into the meetinghouse for worship, masks and vaccinations are still required, to protect the vulnerable among us. Also, we can't sing in the meeting room.  Please see the general guidelines here for everyone who enters the meetinghouse for worship. 

Nursery, Junior Meeting, and High School Meetings

The Nursery opens from 10 a.m. to 11:30 for ages 0 through kindergarten. 

New! On the fourth Sunday of the month (coming right up on the 24th, this month), all children in 1st through 5th grades will meet right at 10 a.m. for "Junior Meeting" - an especially treasured children's meeting for worship.  The meeting will be in the white house, on the first floor to the right of the door that faces the meeting house (also known as "the library.")

The high school group meets once a month in the white house on Sunday evenings from 5:30 to 7 with former Catoctin camp counselors Jamie Demarco and Sara Dean. Upcoming dates are May 15 and June 12.  

Here is more information on First Day School and the full roster of classes and teachers.

How We Meet For Worship 


 On Sunday mornings, we gather in a "blended" meeting at 10 am:  In the meeting house and on Zoom. See details in the clerk's message hereHere is the Zoom link for Sunday worship and second hours.

On Sunday mornings at 8:45, some Friends gather for worship in the Memorial Garden.

On Sunday mornings at 10:00, there is an outdoor meeting in the Memorial Garden. This meeting is not 'blended" with the Zoom and indoor meeting. 

On Sunday evenings at 7 pm, Adelphi Meeting convenes an on-line meeting for worship. Here is the Zoom link for that meeting. (Meeting ID is 823 9626 3173 and passcode is 734636).

On Wednesdays at noon, Adelphi Meeting convenes a midweek meeting for worship for healing with a concern for a broken nation. Here is the recurring link to the Wednesday noon meetings.

Takoma Park Friends Meeting Preparative meets on Sundays in-person indoors at 11:30 am and by Zoom at 7:30 pm. On Thursdays at 3 pm, Friends meet in-person outdoors (weather permitting).

See more details for all these gatherings, including Takoma Park Friends gatherings, in this attachment.

Potluck  - Yes!

Highly Rated

The (small) Hospitality Committee has stepped forward to host a potluck for all of us who are attending meeting for worship in person, whether indoors or out. But the committee is only the host.  The rest of us should plan to bring food or drinks to share, help with set-up, and stay to help with clean-up.

Food will be served inside and enjoyed outside.  Please wear your mask when you bring your donations, pick up your meal, and help with cleanup. 

In a recent random survey on the success of pot-luck: 4 out of 5 said it's wonderful.  (20% of diners were felt it was impolite to respond while they were eating.). 

In and Around Adelphi Meeting

New: Second Hour on Bayard Rustin

Closing Event of the Series - Sunday May 1 at 12:15 p.m.

At the (virtual) Second Hour on May 1, we will conclude our year with Bayard Rustin.  June Confer will share her reflections on Rustin's life and Quakerism.  Please join us!  Until then, you can check out Rebecca Hamilton-Levi's QuakerSpeak interview with Rustin's partner, Walter Naegle:   https://quakerspeak.com/video/bayard-rustin

New: Sign Up Here to Help
Mosi's Memorial Meeting
 

On May 14th at 2 pm, we will welcome Mosi Harrington's family and many friends, and greet each other in a Memorial Meeting to cherish the memories that Mosi has left for us. It will be a large event under a canopy behind the meeting house.  Cooperative weather has been requested. There will be music - some brought by a gospel choir, some led by our own singers and musicians.  There will be stories and smiles and probably tears. 

Come and help make it happen. Here is a sign-up sheet where you can indicate how you'd like to take part in creating this event. (We'll need about 30 people!) Please respond soon to let the planning team know what we can count on. (That would be Jameson Goodman, Lynn Brown, and Ruth Flower)

“Hope is like a road in the country:
there was never a road,
but when many people walk on it,
the road comes into existence.” ~ Lin Yutang

New: Boosting Friends Dealing with College Exams 

Outreach & Fellowship would love to send a care package to Young Friends studying for exams! If you have a Young Friend in your life who is in college and could use a morale boost, please email Jade (jadeeaton@comcast.net) by Wednesday, April 27. Include the name, mailing address, and any food allergies we should know about.

New: Update on the Lodin Family

A message from Jamie Buss:  The Lodins still need you / us! We have achieved a LOT for and with them -- they have moved into a house, and it's outfitted, mainly. 9 kids started school today!  Many folks have visited with them and are building personal relationships, which the Lodins really love (as do the rest of us). But they still need a LOT -- some physical stuff, quite a bit of guidance and orientation and support, a car and/or a van, financial support -- and they're going to need it for a long time. And there are 13 of them. Feel like you want to know more or be more involved? Let me know and I can help you find just the right opportunity for service.  Seeking the light, alongside all of y'all,-Jamie

New: Friends Community School's Weekly Announcements

... are available here. Head of School Angela Garcia writes about how students are learning compassion. 

New: Need for Clothing and Baby-Wear Donations

And Heather Carter writes:  A neighbor in SE DC is running a clothes closet/ laundry service out of her home. She is especially in need of infant clothing (especially newborn - 6 months, as she says there’s a bit of a baby boom going on in her community). If you have some lying about that you’d like to move on out, please contact Heather Carter in Breeze.

Wider World of Friends

Friends General Conference - the Gathering

Friends General Conference Gathering this year will meet on line from July 3-9, BUT there will be an in-person gathering for children, teens and young adults and their families, July 6 - 10. This event (called YAY! for Young adults and Youth) will take place at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. The committees planning this gathering discerned a leading to center the needs of families, children, youth & young adults to be in community in-person. This event will run at the same time as the 2022 FGC virtual Gathering, however it is not a hybrid event. YAY will only focus on in-person activities.  Read more about it here.

New: Baltimore Yearly Meeting

Baltimore Yearly Meeting weekly announcements are available here.  There's lots going on - everything from deep spiritual experiences to camp maintenance to budgeting, which of course all leads back to deep spirit.  Makes this editor think we really should get out more.  Check out some of the (perhaps unexpected) happenings!

Learn - Advocate - Act

Working for Climate Solutions at the Federal Level

Saturday April 23 (tomorrow) from 1:00 to 2:00

Climate and Social Justice groups are coming together next Saturday to "Fight for Our Futures," in a rally in front of the White House. The focus will be to support Congress passing the reconciliation package including provisions to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and expand the social safety net. Jamie DeMarco recommends this rally as the most important and timely of climate events he has seen recently. Here's a link to learn more sign up for the rally.  Check out the huge and impressive list of organizations supporting this action. 

 Reparations:  The Journey of Greene Street Meeting in Germantown

Greene Street Meeting in Philadelphia has committed to make reparations to African Americans in the Germantown area, with a current focus on sponsoring legal clinics to help these neighbors to protect clear title to their homes and to preserve the intergenerational wealth that comes through homeownership. The meeting has committed $50,000 a year for the next ten years; the money is to be invested in projects selected by the African American members of the meeting.  Read about this meeting's journey to a reparations commitment.

“In times of deep darkness, we not only need light —
we need to be light for one another." 
~Parker Palmer

Further follow up...

On the joint faith letter to the Nicaraguan government

Adelphi Friends signed a letter to the Nicaraguan government along with North Americans from many different faith groups.  The letter continues to have a strong impact.  The main Nicaraguan newspaper, La Prensa, spoke about the letter’s importance in its editorial. We hope you will continue to share the letter and article with both religious and secular media that you have access to as a way of making visible the situation in Nicaragua.   

A grandmother and mother of two political prisoners responded publicly to the open letter expressing her gratitude for the depth of the solidarity from people of faith who do not even know her or her daughter or granddaughter and yet chose to stand with them and raise their voices to call for their freedom. She wrote: “I am deeply touched by the gesture, the letter demonstrates how faith and solidarity crosses borders and strengthens the spirit.”

An Invitation from Peace and Social Concerns Committee

Support the Poor People’s Campaign March on Washington

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will be gathering in Washington DC once again on June 18.  The campaign will bring poor people and other moral agents together across lines of division—racial, partisan, and geographic—to confront the inseparable evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation, and the distorted moral narrative of our nation.

The Campaign is looking for support and direct participation from the faith community.  Peace & Social Concerns Committee is looking for a volunteer to be Adelphi Meeting's point of contact with the Campaign to coordinate with the March’s local leaders. If you are potentially that person, please contact the P&SC committee through Charlie Goedeke's contact information in Breeze. Learn more about the Poor People’s Campaign and what is happening locally at  https://bit.ly/AboutThePPC.

Quaker Voice Update

Maryland's General Assembly session is over for 2022 and QuakerVoice had some big wins for climate justice and racial equity. More details will be provided at the end of the month in the Quaker Voice end of session newsletter.  

The "big wins" include:

  • The Juvenile Interrogation Protection Act which will protect due process for children who are entangled in the legal justice system by ensuring that a parent, guardian or attorney is present when they are questioned. The governor vetoed the bill and the General Assembly passed it over his veto.
  • The Climate Solutions Now Act which sets a 60% target for fossil fuel emissions reduction by 2030. Unfortunately the bill lost an important provision that would have prohibited new buildings to be constructed to use fossil fuels for heating. The governor was expected to veto the bill, but did not.  The bill became law without his signature.

How We Do Other Things ...

  • Get involved in meeting activities and outreach? Check out this updated list of committees and opportunities, and get in touch with a member of the Nominating Committee about your interests.
     
  • Donate on line or at a distance?  Mail to Adelphi Meeting Treasurer, 2303 Metzerott Rd., Adelphi, MD 20783. Or donate securely on our website. To make or change a pledge to support renovations of the meetinghouse, click here.
     
  • Get a log-in to access Breeze?   If you need help with Breeze, contact Mackenzie or Reuben at webservent@adelphifriends.org (webservent, with an “e,” is correct.)
     
  • Silent Announcements:
    • Submit an item for the bi-weekly Silent Announcements? For now, please respond to this email or send a message directly to the editor, Ruth Flower, at flowerruth@gmail.com+SA  For events, please include date, time, place (if in person), and how to register (if on Zoom). Silent Announcements are prepared each Friday morning, with brief updates on Tuesdays.
       
    • Find a recent issue of Silent Announcements?  The last two months' editions are listed at this link.
       
    • Sign up to receive Silent Announcements or to change the email address where you receive them? On our webpage, bottom left corner of the "splash" (main) page, there's a small form to  subscribe or change your address. If your email has changed for all purposes, please enter the change on your page in Breeze.  
       
  • Zoom Meetings at Adelphi
  • Schedule an in-person meeting at Adelphi (whether indoors or outdoors, recurrent or one-time) send an email to our resident Joseph Ndayisenga (resident@adelphifriends.org) requesting the use of that space.  Review these guidelines prepared by the Clerk when we started opening the meetinghouse grounds to outdoor use. 
     
  • Advocate with others on an issue you are concerned about? Sign up here for the Couch Potato Activists list serve and report your activities here.
("New Normal") Sunday Schedule
    9:50–10 10–11 11:15–?
    singing worship "virtual potluck"

Business meeting: noon, second Sunday of the month
Additional Meetings for Worship:  Wednesdays at noon, Sundays at 7 pm

Bible study: Wednesdays, 7:30pm

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