January 31, 2023
Tuesday Updates
Tuesday Updates include only events that are coming right up and new items. For all the news, please check last Friday's announcements at this link.
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When do we meet? To find times and links for our meetings, please scroll down (almost) to the last page.
How do we meet? Safety practices for in person meetings have been revised: vaccinations are no longer required. See details here.
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Coming Right Up
... in the next couple of weeks
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February 5 - Sunday: Second Hour led by Quaker Continuing
at 12:15 pm Education Committee on this year's theme: the
Peace Testimony (See details below.)
February 12 - Sunday: Meeting for worship for the Conduct
at 12:15 pm of Business (See January minutes below.)
February 13 - Monday: Discussion on Mysticism
at 7 pm (See details below.)
February 26 - Sunday: Second Hour on
at 12:15 pm an update on the Cornstalk Project
February 26 - Sunday: Second Hour on
at 12:15 pm discernment for AFM's building project
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Second Hour - Sunday, February 5 at 12:15
Teaching Peace
This Sunday, Adelphi Friends will continue our year-long exploration of the Friends Peace Testimony with a Second Hour on the subject of "Teaching Peace." Where does peace come from -- is it something that descends as if by magic from the heavens? ...is it a destination? ...is it a technical skill? ...is it a value?
During this Second Hour, we will welcome teachers from Friends Community School -- Keely Kozac, Tess Ross Callahan, and Terrance Smith -- and learn about their motivations and methods for teaching peace to the next generation of peacemakers. Please join us for this Second Hour, when we will deepen our connection to FCS and maybe learn some things about how we all can teach peace more/better in our daily lives.
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In and Around Adelphi Meeting
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Monday, February 13 at 7 pm
Discussion on Mysticism
The Friends Exploring Mysticism group will next meet on February 13 at 7 pm. To get on the announcements list to receive the Zoom link and obtain future meeting dates, etc., email Roger Burns at rogerburns@pobox.com
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In Their Own Way, Even File Folders Can Bring Peace
Carol Nezzo writes that she is organizing her papers and need file folders. If you have old ones, she will put them to good use. Manila type folders would be best. Please contact Carol at cnezzo@UMD.edu
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How Does Culture Influence Quaker Worship?
In this brief QuakerSpeak video, Ayesha Imani describes her joyful encounters with Quaker worship, and her emerging sense of the rules and limits that we may be placing on ourselves, perhaps missing some of the richness of joy, depth, and exuberance in worship.
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From the Black Quaker Project
Black Quaker Lives Matter - Film Festival and Forum
Beginning Saturday, February 4 at 1 pm, the Film Festival and Forum will offer a presentation every other Saturday through April 8. The series begins with a 1999 interview with Bill Sutherland, a nonviolence advocate, imprisoned conscientious objector, friend and active supporter of African liberation and freedom fighters, and long-time staff member of the American Friends Service Committee. Read more here about the upcoming presentation and the series as a whole - including how to register.
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From Baltimore Yearly Meeting
Winter Interchange
This quarterly publication from Baltimore Yearly Meeting brings us up to date on the activities of the staff and several yearly meeting committees, and also on some of our neighboring monthly meetings. You can find a long list of dates for upcoming events, including Young Friends and Junior Young Friends weekends. This issue features an insightful article about the history of the land now occupied by Camp Catoctin and its connection to the Catoctin Furnace. Read more.
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Newsletter from the BYM Camping Program
Way Opens
Thinking about going to camp this summer? Working at a camp for the season or a week? (Camp applications, and both staff and "work grant" positions are open.) Read about "Camp Magic" here, and you'll be transported at least part way there.
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From the Friends Committee on National Legislation
Native American Legislative Update
FCNL has released its monthly Native American Legislative update - featuring action on the establishment of a truth and healing commission on Native American Boarding Schools, along with information on two bills supporting the restoration of Native languages and improvements in the funding of the Indian Health Service. Read more.
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When (and How) Do We Usually Meet?
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On Sundays:
8:45 am - Meeting for worship in Memorial Garden
9:50 am - Listening to music (indoors) or singing along (on Zoom)
10 am - Blended Meeting for Worship + Outdoor Worship
10:20 am - First Day School classes
After meeting - Pot luck lunch in-person or online in random small groups
12:15 pm - (Often) a "Second Hour" discussion or meeting
for business
On Wednesdays:
Noon - Meeting for worship for healing a broken world, via Zoom
7:30 pm - Bible Study via Zoom - focusing on the early
Christian Church
Click here for announcements from Takoma Park Friends Meeting Preparative, which meets under the care of Adelphi Friends Meeting. Note that online meetings for Takoma Park Preparative are scheduled for the second Sunday only.
If you are participating in person in an indoor event at Adelphi Meeting, please consult these COVID-related requirements (updated 1-29-23).
If you are connecting online to a meeting for worship or business or a second hour, or other Adelphi gatherings (such as bible study) please click here to find Zoom links. You can also check the "events" tab in the Breeze program for links to committee meetings and such.
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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.
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Do You Know the Secret Handshakes?
(Hint: they've been revised)
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Who’s Who and Who Are You? How to find and share contact information within the Adelphi Community
- 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.
What’s Happening At/Around Adelphi Meeting?
- 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.
You will need to provide the following information:
- 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. 2nd 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
There's a team of people prepared to help schedule and support events in our very active community. Depending on the type of event, different individuals may be involved in scheduling. How will you know whether your request was “approved”? We will get back to you with a confirmation and you will then find the info for your event on the Breeze/Events calendar.
- 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.
Want to help, get to know people, make this your meeting?
- 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.
To Look Up Adelphi Meeting Archives
We are working to improve the accessibility of our archives. So far, they are somewhat limited. Questions about specific documents can go to webservent@adephi.org or recordingclerk@adelphi.org
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