July 22, 2022
A Time For Reaching Out -
to friends, Friends, and all our relatives
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July Events - Moving Toward August
(Special ones in bold)
July 24 at 8:45 am - Meeting for worship in Memorial Garden
July 24 at 10 am - Blended Meeting for Worship and
Outdoor Worship behind meetinghouse
Junior Meeting for children in grades 1 - 5
July 24 at 7 pm - Meeting for Worship via Zoom
July 27 at noon - Meeting for worship for healing a broken world
July 27 at 7:30 pm - Bible Study - focusing on the Book of John
July 31 at 8:45 am - Meeting for worship in Memorial Garden
July 31 at 10 am - Blended Meeting for Worship + Outdoor Worship
Children's Summer Program
July 31 at 7 pm - Meeting for Worship via Zoom
August 3 at noon - Meeting for worship for healing a broken world
August 3 7:30 pm - Bible Study - focusing on the Book of John
For those attending virtually, check here for links and more details, including information on the activities of Takoma Park Preparative Meeting.
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In and Around Adelphi Meeting
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And for the Children ...
Children's Summer Program - On the 1st through 3d Sunday each month (and 5th Sunday, if there is one), children of grade-school age have their own program, with games, crafts and perhaps some surprises. Usually, the children join their families for about the first 20 minutes of meeting, and then leave for their program with their adult leaders. They will be returned to their parents at the rise of meeting.
Junior Meeting - On the 4th Sunday each month, there's a treasured opportunity for children in grades 1- 5 to meet together in worship, accompanied by a few adult Friends. Meeting begins at 10:00, either in the memorial garden, or in the white house if needed for inclement weather.
For the younger children, ages 0 through kindergarten, the Nursery opens from 10 a.m. to 11:30 each Sunday in the white house.
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When I think of the times I have felt awe, the fabulousness of the experience is not that I get to feel special or good about myself. The joy is that I don’t care about how big or small or great or trivial or good or flawed I am.
I am simply bowled over by the greatness of something else.
~ from "Why Self Esteem is Overrated and What We Should Nurture Instead,"
by Kat Griffith, in January 2022 edition of Friends Journal
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Finding a New (AFM) White House Resident
Adelphi's current White House resident (Joseph Ndayisenga) is planning to move out as of Oct. 1. Our Resident Search Committee is re-convening to select our next resident. Would you be interested in serving? If you have questions about serving on the committee, or would be willing to serve please contact (via Breeze) either Heather Carter or Victor Thuronyi (clerk of trustees, the committee in charge of the process).
If you are interested in the position, or know someone who might be a good fit, please contact Heather or Victor. A job description and application process will be available shortly.
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Peace and Social Concerns Committee
Launches Working Groups
Peace and Social Concerns Committee is hosting and launching two working groups and the committee hopes you will join one or both. One group will focus on developing a minute and actions for Reproductive Rights and Privacy, and another will focus on climate action.
The first meeting of the Reproductive Rights group will be on July 25, and the Climate Action group will meet on July 26. Much more information is available here.
If you are interested please contact Connie Meyer or Charlie Goedeke, and they will send you additional information and the Zoom link. (Please click on their names above to see their contact information in Breeze.)
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What Happened in our July Meeting for Business?
Here are the draft minutes of the meeting last Sunday, in case you had to miss it. Please send any corrections to recordingclerk@adelphifriends.org.
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The Wider World of Quakers
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Weekly Announcements from
Baltimore Yearly Meeting
BYM Annual Sessions will be held on line and in person, August 1 - 7 at Hood College in Frederick, MD. Registration for in-person participation is closed now, but you can still register here for virtual workshops and sessions. Virtual workshops begin this coming week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. See the list of workshops here. Tomorrow (Saturday) all registrants will receive log-in instructions for the "hub" that that the yearly meeting has set up -- a one-stop, "click to join" platform for all the Annual Session events offered via Zoom.
But wait, there are more announcements!
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Recording and Notes
Webinar on Peace and the Ukraine War
The Baltimore Yearly Meeting Working Group on U.S. Militarism and War presented a webinar last Monday on the Peace Testimony and Ukraine, featuring Helena Cobban, Robert Dockhorn, and Michael Beer. Links to a recording of the webinar and resources offered by the speakers are here.
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Couch Potato Activists' Alert
The July alert for Couch Potato Activists is available here. As usual, the range of action opportunities is wide, including several earth and water protecting events, couch-potato support needed for a Truth and Reconciliation bill in Congress, education on reproductive rights, support for trans people in hostile states, and direct help requested by Housing Initiative Partnership (HIP).
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- 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.
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