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THIS WEEK AT NEWTOWN MEETING

Newtown Meeting continues
to offer Sunday morning programs in person
and on Zoom
. 
 [See website for link]. 

February 5th
Meeting for Business 9:30am
Meeting for Worship at 11am
Friendly ‘First’ Shared Meal  
at the rise of meeting.
February’s Friendly First Shared Meal
is hosted by the Adult Religious Education Committee
and Worship & Ministry. 

Everyone is invited to bring a dish to share but come anyway even it you can’t bring anything this month. 
February’s Service Project 
All children are to report upstairs at 11am.
Want to help the kids create their Weekend Bags for Trenton Area Soup Kitchen? Please bring in granola bars, individual serving cans of ravioli or spaghetti,  individual fruit cups, water bottles or juice boxes. Thank you!
Coming Up At Newtown Meeting
in Adult First Day


February 5
Meeting for Business at 9:30am NOTE TIME CHANGE
Annual reports will be heard from Mark Haber, Clerk of Building & Grounds and Brad Sheeks, Clerk of Inreach/Outreach 
February 12th 
Adult First Day Program at 9:45am
Penny Ettinger, Executive Director of NOVA
Network of Victim Assistance. 
To read Norvals article - click here.
February 19th
Quarterly Meeting at Middletown Meeting (offered unperson & on Zoom)
9:30am - In person welcome and registration
10am Adult Program
11am Meeting for Worship 
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Meeting for Business
ALSO our meetinghouse will be open for in-person worship while QM programs & worship will be viewed on Zoom. 

February 26th
Adult First Day Program at 9:45am
Presentation by Worship & Ministry
NEXT WEEK: Clerks Meeting at 12:30pm
QUERIES FOR FEBRUARY
Deepening Our Faith: Meeting for Business
The first four queries are for the meeting to consider.

Is our meeting for business held in which we seek divine guidance?


How do we sustain prayerful consideration of all aspects of an issue and address difficult problems with a search for truth that is unhurried by the pressures of time? Is our meeting for business held in which we seek divine guidance?


Do we recognize that we speak through our inaction as well as our action?


The last four queries are for individual reflection.
Do I regularly attend meeting for business?
If unable to attend, how do I fulfill the responsibility to understand and embrace the decisions made?

How do I affirm and support Gods presence in the process of discernment and reaching a decision.
Do I remain open to personal transformation as the community arrives at the sense of the meeting?
Our next meeting for business is on February 5th at 9:30am.
FRIENDS SCHOOL FINANCIAL AID 
It’s Friends School Tuition Aid Application Time!

Newtown Meeting members with children who will attend a
K-12 Friends School in 2023-24 can find an application for and information about supplemental tuition assistance (from Newtown Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and the Friends School Tuition Assistance page (in the Committees section of the meeting website. The application takes about five minutes to complete. 
Completed applications should be emailed to Laura Kinnel, (Laura.Kinnel@gmail.com) Clerk of the Committee
by February 10, 2023.
Want to Support Newtown Meeting’s 
Financial Aid Fund?

Friends who are interested in helping to build the funds which are the source of this aid are invited to contribute to Newtown Meeting’s endowment for education (checks can be sent to the Meeting treasurer, Rich Richardson) OR theNational Friends Education Fund under the care of Friends Council on Education.

Find out how to turn PA Taxes into scholarships
for Quaker Schools through
 The Friends Collaborative. 


The Friends Collaborative is an organization that helps direct your PA taxes to need-based scholarships for students via PA’s
 Educational Improvement Tax Credit  (EITC) and the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC).  Find out how!  Two information sessions are being held by Newtown Friends School this week on Zoom.  Find out more about The Friends Collaborative,  EITC and OSTC this week on Zoom.  
Tuesday, 2/7 at 11:00 AM and Wednesday, 2/8 at 6:30 PM

These sessions are NOT restricted to folks wishing to donate to NFS. Other members of The Friends Collaborative are: George School, Buckingham Friends and The Quaker Schoolat Horsham.
Click the date below for the Zoom link for that session. 
    February 7th           February 8th 


For more information, contact Diane Zimmaro, 
Director of Advancement at dzimmaro@newtownfriends.org 

Camp Onas is looking for New Folks to Serve on their Board of Directors!
For more information click here for more information!

Bucks Quarter Quarterly Meeting


February 19th
9:30 AM  3:30 PM
Middletown Friends Meeting
453 West Maple Ave, Langhorne

Bucks Quarter Friends, under the care of Middletown Friends Meeting, will have a hybrid gathering of informative programming, worship, fellowship and business. The zoom room will open at 9:45 am so Friends can socialize before our program, which begins at 10:00 am.

The program will be a panel discussion with teachers, parents and students from the Bucks Learning Cooperative. The Bucks Learning Cooperative is a self-directed education center for area teenagers who want to leave traditional school and take charge of their education. They offer classes, workshops, field trips, mentoring, independent study and more! BLC provides a warm, welcoming, inclusive space and combines the most valuable parts of school with personalized attention. Most of all, BLC gives kids and their families the freedom to choose how they learn. The panel will include teens and parents currently enrolled at BLC who will share their experiences in self-directed learning and take questions from the audience. They are always looking for ways to engage with the larger community, as well as recruiting volunteers who are interested in sharing their wisdom and knowledge with young people.

Children’s Program: An in-person children’s program will be offered; registration is required.
Click here to access the registration form on our website.

Meeting for Worship will follow at 11:00 am. Lunch will be from 12:00 to 1:00 pm; Friends should bring a brown bag lunch; drinks and desserts to be provided by Middletown Friends.

Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business will begin at 1:00 pm. We will be hearing annual reports from Doylestown, Makefield and Quakertown Meetings, Friends Camp Association (Camp Onas), Budget & Nominating (preliminary budget for next year) and Outreach Committee. 

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