For additional information please contact us. Please also view our website.
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Masks are currently required in the Meeting House
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SEYM Field Secretary for Earthcare Activities
With Unitarian Universalists Congregation of Lake County, Sunday July 24, 11 AM: "The Battered Earth: Injury, Loss, and Healing" with Beverly G. Ward. ONSITE and via Zoom. (click here to watch on Zoom). Beverly will invite congregants to share concerns on the urgency of climate collapse, reflecting on the harm of human impacts–environmental, interspecies, and intraspecies. Her message will include thoughts, gleanings, hopes, and future work.
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Urgent Call to Friends/friends concerning threats to our democracy - July 25
Friends are speaking out against the lies, extremist movements, and anti-democratic actions that are the opposite of our Quaker understandings of integrity and Truth. We are inviting all concerned Friends and friends to join us in the first of a series of national conversations on these issues to be hosted by the Earlham School of Religion on either Monday, July 25 (7 to 9 PM, Eastern time), or Sunday, July 31 (3 to 5 PM Eastern time). You can find more details and register at quakercall.net.
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Farewell Celebration for Kody and David
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Volunteers for
Conversation to Explore
Volunteers are needed for Conversation to Explore on the first Sunday of each month. To volunteer, let Minerva G. know about a topic you are interested in facilitating. You can speak to her in person at Sunday worship or email her HERE for details.
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Would You Like to Volunteer?
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Land Acknowledgment: A First Step Towards Right Relationship with the Land and its Peoples
Aug 9 and 11, 2022. A two-part Pendle Hill webinar presented by Tom Kunesh.
7:30pm-9:00pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom. Pricing: $40 for both sessions, $25 for one.
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Deepening Friendship
with Chocolate and Limericks
1st and 3rd Thursday of each month from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Please join us. Click HERE to receive the Zoom link by email. What we do:
- Check in with each other
- Share our interests and stories
- Deepen our f/Friendships
- Take turns presenting one discussion topic per meeting, as well as an original, or found and credited, limerick
Conveners: Liz J. and Chris L.
All are welcome!
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Young Friends Group
(First Day School)
Young Friends Group is a weekly religious education program for youth from birth to age 18. Youth attend 10am Worship for a few minutes, then follow adult youth leaders to the Cottage for guided activities. Youth rejoin their families at 11am.
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Winter Park Meeting - New Location
Winter Park Meeting now meets at 10 a.m. at Westminster Baldwin Park, C-D Amenities Building, 2789 Lake Baldwin Lane, Orlando, Florida 32817.
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Please follow the link below to view the 2nd Quarter report from Friends Fiduciary. Under the care of Quakers of Orlando Asset Management (QOAM), OMM has investments with Friends Fiduciary in the Growth and Income Fund, the Green Impact Fund, and the Short-Term Investment Fund. A report of these specific OMM investments will be presented at the 8th month Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please feel free to contact a member of the QOAM Board of Trustees: Chris L., Tom G., Eduardo Y., Richelle O., or Dan V. Click HERE to view the report.
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New OMM Website
Please take a look at our new OMM website that is being developed at the former web address, orlandoquakers.org. The Meeting calendar is up to date, and Meeting for Business minutes are coming soon.
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What are you waiting for?
Surely not for Spirit to speak--
because Spirit is always speaking
always telling you how much you are loved,
always showing you with bright sun
and beautiful clouds, grass, trees,
bees, snowy egret, great blue heron
lampposts and cars that speed
by as you walk to the store
and breath and music and carpet
and dishes (even dirty in the sink)
And everything in every moment. Spirit
is dancing in your heart, knocking
on your door and asking if You
can come out and play, because all
dealing with Spirit can be nothing
but joyous play, or it is nothing at all.
So, what are you waiting for?
~ Steven R.
Items from readers for REFLECTIONS are welcome. Click HERE to submit.
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Our Current Quaker Worship Opportunities
Orlando Meeting: The Meetinghouse is open for worship, Young Friends (First Day School) and fellowship on Sundays at 10:00 a.m. Wearing masks is currently required.
Zoom Worship: The best way to access Zoom Worship with Orlando Monthly Meeting is to go to the Meeting website Home | Quakers of Orlando (orlandoquakers.org). On the homepage of the website, you can click on the word "HERE" to open the Zoom link on your device. Details for OMM and two associated Worship Groups are below and also at orlandoquakers.org.
St. Augustine Worship Group: Wednesday evening, 7:00 pm. Two Ways to Join: In-person Meeting for Worship at The United Church, 5880 U.S. 1, in St. Augustine for those who are fully vaccinated. We are inside, masked and socially distanced. We also offer Zoom for those who are unvaccinated, uncomfortable meeting in person, at a distance, or cannot join in person for another reason. Contact Richelle at (610) 368-2908 or rogle415@gmail.com for information.
DeLand Worship Group: Friends meet Sunday mornings at 10:00 A.M. for fellowship and doughnuts, and at 10:30 AM for Meeting for Worship at the Collective facility in the Dreka Theater, 112 E. New York Ave, DeLand. Meeting for worship is followed by discussion. All are welcome. Call 386-337-5204 or email delandquakers@gmail.com.
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Supporting Gifts
Supporting Gifts to the Orlando Monthly Meeting are very important. They provide the basis for our financial support and for our continued existence as a Quaker Meeting. While it is true our community has the great benefit of a financial legacy provided to us from the generous and wise Friends of the past, we nevertheless have a duty to protect the legacy for the future. Your support gifts, of any size, will add to the effort to preserve our legacy and enable the Orlando Monthly Meeting of The Religious Society of Friends to continue serving Friends now and beyond our time.
Gifts may be made in person at the Meeting House or by mail. To use credit cards, debit cards or Paypal, simply click on the DONATE image below, or go to orlandoquakers.org where any menu page, such as "About Us," will have a DONATE button for making a single or recurring contribution. Checks made out to “Quakers of Orlando” can be mailed to: Christine Stinson, Treasurer, Orlando Monthly Meeting, P.O. Box 840097, St. Augustine Beach, FL 32080.
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Online Quaker Resources
Click HERE for a comprehensive list with links.
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