August 5, 2022
Finding the Quiet Between the Storms
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August Events
On Sundays:
At 8:45 am - Meeting for worship in Memorial Garden
At 10 am - Blended Meeting for Worship + Outdoor Worship
- Children's Summer Program
At 7 pm - Meeting for Worship via Zoom
On August 14 - Second Sunday
- Meeting for Worship for the Conduct of Business
On August 24 - Fourth Sunday
- Junior Meeting for Worship beginning at 10 am
On Wednesdays:
At noon - Meeting for worship for healing a broken world
At 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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Children's Summer Program
On the 1st through 3d Sunday each month, 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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In and Around Adelphi Meeting
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Seeking a New (Adelphi) White House Resident
Adelphi Friends Meeting seeks a resident caretaker to start October 1. If you want to apply or refer a Friend, you can now find more information on Adelphi Meeting's web page, under "News." The job description and application are there too. Applications are due August 20.
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Meeting for Worship for the Conduct of Business
... is coming up on August 14. Here's a folder where we'll be accumulating committee reports and other business including, of course, the agenda. So far, we have the Nominating Committee report. (Go Nominating!)
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Couch Potato Activists' Alert
The August 3 alert for Adelphi's Couch Potato Activists has a wide menu to choose from:
- action on climate change,
- protection of reproductive rights,
- support for investigating the boarding schools mandated for Indigenous children, and
- advancement of voting rights.
Pick the one that speaks to your heart and send your message. Here's the whole alert.
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Puppets!
Heather Carter is teaching Puppetry for 6-12 year olds, Aug 8-19 (two weeks, M-F). From 9-4 every day we will work alternately collaboratively and independently to work on dexterity and problem solving; our artistic feedback process; and relational skills while making at least six (and maybe more!) different puppet types. We also play a lot of games every day; we will have two days with visiting mural artists; and are creating our first ever Friday Field Day. Camp is hosted at Brentwood Art Exchange in Hyattsville, MD. (Before 9 a.m. care is available, same location.) $260 residents/ $338 non-residents, as set by MNCPPC.
Please call, text, or email Heather Carter (via Breeze) with questions about the class or if you'd like to register the young artist in your life.
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The Wider World of Quakers
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BYM Weekly Announcements
Weekly announcements from Baltimore Yearly meeting are available here. Highlights:
- Yearly meeting sessions are coming to an end, closing with the last "official" presentation - the Carey Lecture - tomorrow evening (Saturday) at 7:30. Travelling Friend Emily Provance will have much to tell us from her global travels. To join through Zoom (if you haven't already registered for the sessions) contact admin@bym-rsf.org.
- August 12 - 14, Friends of African Descent will gather via Zoom on the theme of "Continuing Revelation: Spirit, Society, Self." More info in BYM's announcements.
- Campers Alert: The 100th Anniversary of BYM's camping program is coming up August 26 to 28. Details in BYM announcements.
- BYM's reading of Caste by Isabel Wilkerson will begin September 14. Details are [you know where.]
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Women's Retreat: Adelphi's Hosting - Can You Help?
Hold the Date! Saturday, October 8, 2022 for the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Women's Retreat here at Adelphi Meeting. Hybrid in-person/on-Zoom, one-day meeting. Martha Woods is coordinating, and seeks 4-6 Adelphi women to help welcome those from our larger BYM community. More info to come. Contact Martha at msoldhouse@gmail.com.
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"Reflection gives us access to listening for our inner voice. The practice of taking a few breaths before responding to a situation, question, or comment gives time for your true wisdom to reveal itself. It’s a slowing down, waiting, practicing patience."
~ Kay Lindahl, The Sacred Art of Listening: Forty Reflections for Cultivating a Spiritual Practice
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Quaker Earthcare Witness Hosts Workshop
on Ecological Grieving
Thursday, August 25, from 7 - 8:30 pm Eastern
Quaker Earthcare Witness is hosting an experiential workshop, Ecological Grief: Engaging with the Emotional Impacts of Climate Change, and we are all invited to participate. This workshop will be an introduction to the phenomenon of ecological grief—what it is, how to engage with it, and why it’s important. We’ll explore those tender places in our own hearts where ecological grief dwells and offer them sacred attention. Hayley Hathaway, Santa Fe Friends Meeting in New Mexico and Gayle Matson from Chico Friends Meeting in California will facilitate the workshop. Gayle wrote a beautiful reflection on her own grief process, which you can read here. Learn more and register here.
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Reel and Meal Film on Surviving Hiroshima
August 15 at 6:30 p.m.
The August Reel and Meal film about Setsuko Thurlow, a Hiroshima survivor, and her efforts to move the world back from the brink, remind us of why we must abolish nuclear weapons. The risk of nuclear war during the Ukraine conflict is higher than it was even during the Cuban Missile Crisis, according to many foreign policy experts.
The film will be screened both in-person at the New Deal Café, 113 Centerway, Greenbelt, MD and online via Zoom; registration required at https://tinyurl.com/ReelnMealAug15.
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Watch the Recording of the
Webinar on the War in Ukraine
The Baltimore Yearly Meeting Peace Committee offered this webinar last month. Friends can watch the recording of the event at this link You will need an Access Passcode: DBn?K8Z. Now here's what we've figured out about that passcode - the reason it hasn't been working for many of us. See that [.] at the end of the passcode? That's part of the code. If you include the period in the code, it works.
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On Native American Issues
Portia Skenandore-Wheelock, manager of FCNL's program on Native American Issues sent us an update on July news. She explains two court cases on criminal justice jurisdiction and urges action in support of the bill to set up a commission to investigate the impact of the boarding schools mandated for Indigenous children.
In other news, NORTH PACIFIC Yearly Meeting has just approved a minute asking all of its monthly meetings to commit to a list of steps toward right relations with Native peoples. The list is instructive for those of us wondering what to do, how to begin. Worth a look.
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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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