Draft Minutes of January Meeting for Business

From Friends Journal:
Confronting the Legacy of Quaker Slavery

Continuing its series of messages featuring articles in the January issue on Reparations, Friends Journal this week features the 339 Manumissions Project, a research and educational effort that is a response to the release of newly digitized documents detailing the legal freeing of slaves. The documents, which reside at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, contain deep stories of ancestors, formerly enslaved and enslavers.

Avis Wanda McClinton, author of the article on the 339 Manumissions Project, is leading a team of researchers through these stories, and consulting with groups such as Abington Meeting about the identity of those "Known Only to God" who were likely interred in meeting burial grounds.

BYM's Working Group on Racism Recommends:
  "Josiah Henson: No Uncle Tom"

Josiah Henson's life and history is a forgotten story of an enslaved man who survived slavery and became an author, abolitionist, founder of the Dawn Settlement, in Ontario, helping two hundred slaves.  In this play, Josiah’s story will be performed by Chevell Thomas. Tickets to this virtual film screening are available now for showings on Feb 4, 5, 11, and 12 at 2 p.m., to support the Amazing Theater Company. Click here for information and to purchase tickets.

Climate Action Working Group
  Meets Tonight

All are welcome to join with the Climate Action working group in its efforts to rescue our relationship with the earth and all that lives upon it.  The meeting is tonight from 7 - 9.  Information on the Zoom link is on Breeze, in the calendar section (click on the "events" tab.)

Injustice Happens in Empty Courtrooms

Public Online Access to Courts bills are being heard in both houses of the Maryland legislature tomorrow - Wednesday.  See the fact sheet linked here on why transparency is so important to equal  justice. (Adelphi Meeting sent a letter in favor of these bills in the last legislative session.)

Your action:  Please call or email the Chairs of the two justice committees.  Include your full name and, if you are willing, your address or at least your county or town.

"I support HB 133 to promote public online access to courts"
Phone:  301 858-3495;  e-mail:  luke.clippinger@house.state.md.us 

If you are a Montgomery County resident, please send a message of appreciation and support to David Moon, Vice Chair of the Judiciary Committee, and primary sponsor of the House bill.  Phone: (301) 858-3474; 
e-mail: david.moon@house.state.md.us

• Note:  Also on the committee are Montgomery County delegates Aaron M. Kaufman, Emily K. Shetty, and Charlotte Crutchfield and Prince Georges County delegates Del. Nicole A. Williams, Del. Kym Taylor, and Del. Karen R. Toles. A friendly note wouldn't hurt.

(2) For the Senate:

Call or send a note to the Chair of the Judicial Procedures Committee, Senator William C. Smith, Jr (from Montgomery County):

"I support SB 043 to promote public online access to courts."

Phone:  301 858 3166; e-mail: will.smith@senate.state.md.us

• Note:  Also on the committee is Prince Georges and Ann Arundel County Senator James C. Rosapepe, the Senate sponsor of the legislation.  He'd probably appreciate a note of support.

Need any more information?  Please contact Jade Eaton (contact info here.)  

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For the Next Generations... 

For the younger children, ages 0 through kindergarten, the Nursery opens from 10 a.m. to 11:30 each Sunday in the white house. Zarmina Khan is our new caregiver in the Nursery.

Children in 1st through 5th grades and Young Friends worship with their families (and all of us) for the first 20 minutes of meeting. Children and youth and their teachers then move to classrooms in the white house.

• To get a log-in to access Breeze (our online meeting directory), contact either Mackenzie Morgan or Reuben Snipper at webservent@adelphifriends.org (“webservent,” with an “e,” is correct.)
   
• To sign up to receive Silent Announcements or to change the email address where you receive them: There's a small form on our webpage (www.AdelphiFriends.org), at the bottom left corner.  You can use that form to subscribe to Silent Announcements or change the address where the announcements go.
   
• To edit your own entry in the Breeze directory, just look up your own name and click on the little pencil icon next to each section of information (e-mail, home address, etc.)
   
• To find out who serves on various committees: In Breeze, click on tags and then choose "committees." You should find up-to-date lists there.
   

• To schedule something at Adelphi (for example, committee meeting on Zoom, 2nd hour, a room for an in-person meeting, space outside on the campus, etc.) send an email to schedule@adelphifriends.org.

• Title for event, such as 2nd Hour topic, name of committee, etc.
• Purpose of event, if not clear from the title
• Name of requester and contact information
• “Location,” i.e., Zoom, in-person, or both. If in-person, what space you want to meet in (Library, Meeting Room, Memorial Garden, Social Hall, etc.)
• Date and time when it starts and ends. If recurring, what dates or pattern, e.g. 2^nd Thursday of the month
• If Zoom meeting, will it be open to the public? If so, you may need a technical person to manage the waiting room, etc. Please let us know by mentioning this on your request.
• Other information that would be helpful for us to help you with this

• To find the Zoom link for a scheduled meeting:  Go to Breeze at this link, and click on “Events.”  The Zoom info should be there. 
• To announce your event in Silent Announcements. For events at Adelphi, schedule the event first by following the steps in “How to Schedule Something at Adelphi (above).”  Once you have done that, your event will be on the calendar with date, time and place.  
  
  Then you can tell people more about the event – or announce something that isn’t an Adelphi event – by sending an email to this address.  Silent Announcements are prepared each Friday morning, with brief updates on Tuesdays.

• Keep an eye on opportunities to meet with others in the community as we learn more together – about Quakerism, about our community and the world around us. These will usually be described in Silent Announcements, our bi-weekly news. 
   
• To join in the work of a committee – a great way to get to know people - contact the Nominating Committee, through one of the committee’s members listed on the “committees” tag in Breeze
   
• Provide financial support for Adelphi’s work and worship together.  If you are able, donate to support the Meeting’s budget, which includes everything from building upkeep to support for members and families and families in our broader community, to “mini-reparations” as we begin to acknowledge how the development of Quakerism on this continent are tied to the development and continuation of racism. 
  
  You can donate by sending a check to the Adelphi Meeting Treasurer, 2303 Metzerott Rd., Adelphi, MD 20783. Or donate securely on our website – either a one-time donation or a monthly/ quarterly pledge. To make or change a pledge to support renovations of the meetinghouse, click here.
   
• 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.
   

• You can find approved minutes of past meetings: look here for 2022 minutes, and here for earlier years.
   
• You can also find recent issues of Silent Announcements:  The last two months' editions are listed at this link. 

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

Bible study: Wednesdays, 7:30pm