For additional information please contact us. Please also view our website.
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* Masks are not required at this time *
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REMEMBER, everyone who signed up, that our Retreat will be this Saturday 22 October 2022 from 10:00am-2:00pm (or so). Lunch will be provided, all you need to bring is yourself and your enthusiasm for our Meeting. Our theme is: “Where Do We See Ourselves as a Meeting in Ten Years.”
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Invitation to a Seekers Book Club
Cheryl Demers-Holton, of Deland Worship Group, is facilitating the Seekers Book Club, beginning October 20th, at 7:00 PM. Practicing Peace: a devotional walk through the Quaker tradition, by Catherine Whitmire, will be our first focus. Click HERE for more information.
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RALLY FOR THE TRANSIT TAX  Orlando Quakers have joined with other community groups to garner support for the Orange County Transportation Initiative. We have an event at 6PM on Wednesday, October 26, and we're hoping to get 10 people out from our meeting. Please call/text Mira at 321.287.8734 if you want to meet up or if you have questions.
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Pride Festival
Click HERE to see more photos.
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SEYM Listening Project November 6
SEYM would like to hear how the Spirit fares at OMM, and how SEYM might best assist us with responding to the Spirit's leadings for our meeting.
Please join us after worship on 11/6/2022 at 11:45 to participate in this important discussion. This will be a hybrid meeting held both at the meeting house and via Zoom (using the same link and password as Meeting for Worship).
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Suggestions for the
Social & Community Giving Committee
We shall have our autumn meeting soon, & wondered if Friends have any new suggestions. Click HERE to see the last lists of our recipients for the autumn 2021 and spring 2022 donations.
Do send new suggestions, and any factors that have moved you to make the suggestion, but please, no solicitations from the organisations being suggested. Send your suggestions to me, Pierre Ivory, at ivorypierre@verizon.net.
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Quaker 101 - Online Course
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Friends Meeting of Cambridge MA invites everyone to attend Exploring the Quaker Way: a 3-part course, happening every other Sunday via Zoom, from Oct 16 – Nov 13, 2022. We'll meet from 7-8:30pm ET.
Exploring the Quaker Way (XQW) is a 3-part course intended to help participants connect with others while going deeper into explorations of Quaker faith, practice, and history.
XQW especially welcomes newcomers and new-ish-comers, as well as more experienced Friends who wish to examine fundamentals more closely. It is also an opportunity for newer Friends to meet longtime attenders and members
For these online sessions, facilitators will offer an interactive, participatory experience, with learning and fun!
//// LEARN MORE AND REGISTER /////
http://exploringthequakerway.eventbrite.com
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It's that time of year again!
Friends, it is the time for Meeting committees & representatives to start working on their budget requests for the next fiscal year, which is January to December 2023.
Clerks & convenors of committees please do hold meetings soon, so that your committee can work on the matter. I would be delighted if committees would get their figures back to me by Nov. 1.
Email them to me, Pierre Ivory, at treasurer@orlandoquakers.org.
Any questions, do phone me at (904) 540-9875
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Would You Like to Volunteer?
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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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Hurricane Ian Assistance:
Local, State and Federal
Click HERE for lists of resources.
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George Lakey: Lessons for Today from a Lifetime of Nonviolent Activism
Sunday, November 20 @ 3:15 PM
- In-Person (Homewood Friends Meeting - Baltimore - 3107 N. Charles Street)
- COVID Precautions: Masks are required while attending the event in-person. They can be removed while eating or drinking for the reception afterwards.
- Via Zoom
Please Register HERE for either in-person or on-line participation.
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SEYM Half Yearly Meeting Postponed
New Date: December 16-19
SEYM was unable to lease the Youth Camp at Wekiwa Springs State Park for the Thanksgiving weekend. We were able to secure it for the weekend of December 16 to 19, so we are postponing Half Yearly Meeting until then. More information coming soon.
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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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Deepening Friendship
with Chocolate and Limericks
1st and 3rd Thursday of each month from 5:30 to 7 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, and Take turns presenting topics and limericks.
All are welcome!
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May the fragile harvesting of the Light
Help to release whatever has become false in you.
May you trust this light to clear a path
Through all the fog of old unease and anxiety,
Until you feel arising within you a tranquility
Profound enough to call the storm to stillness.
~ Will Hensel
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.
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; or join us on Zoom. Contact Richelle at (610) 368-2908 or rogle415@gmail.com for information, including the Zoom link.
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. If you choose to use mail instead of PayPal for your donations to OMM, please send checks (payable to “Orlando Monthly Meeting”) directly to the Meeting House: Orlando Monthly Meeting, 316 E. Marks St, Orlando FL, 32803.
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Online Quaker Resources
Click HERE for a comprehensive list with links.
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