Please hold in the Light the thousands of people in Turkey and Syria 
who were killed or injured in the two earthquakes
that struck there and in parts of Syria on February 6.

Friday, February 10 at 7 pm

Second Friday Film Discussion

Our film this month is How It Feels to Be Free:  A documentary that tells the inspiring story of six iconic African American women entertainers – Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier – who challenged an entertainment industry deeply complicit in perpetuating racist stereotypes, and transformed themselves and their audiences in the process.

Watch the film on your own; it is streaming this month on PBS. Here is some commentary on the film.  And you can join in the discussion here on Friday evening at 7.  

Saturday, February 11
from 10 am - noon on Zoom 

Poem as Portal

The portal of healing and creativity
always takes us into the realm of the spirit.  
~  Angeles Arriens 

We take a single poem where we need it to go, and from that new perspective discover what had been hidden.  Poems invite us into the spaces between words where whatever we are seeking may find us.  If you are not already on Judith’s monthly mailing list, contact her through Breeze to receive this month's poem, queries, quotes and Zoom link.  Everyone joining in should bring a journal or other materials to use during time for quiet reflection.  You are warmly invited. 

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

What Are Your Thoughts

About the Spiritual State of Adelphi Meeting?

The Ministry and Worship Committee needs observers, reporters, commenters, participants, and other Friends to contribute their thoughts to the report on the State of the Meeting in 2022. (Likely to be a much more engaging, joyful, and useful report than certain other States of... reports that will make the news this week.) May we count on receiving your perceptive, insightful, sensitive, and generous comments on this form that the committee has provided? 

Sunday, February 12, at 12:15

Meeting for Worship for the Conduct of Business

On the second Sunday of each month, we wait in our second hour for the guidance of the Spirit in our community and meeting affairs. We prepare for this special time through the work of our committees and through our individual careful attention to reports of that work, our own observations of the life of the community, and our perceptions of the shared path we may be led to take.

Discerning How We Are Led ...

As Stewards of Our Meetinghouse

• Background on Initial Building Decision2023-01-08.mp4 video recorded by Cheryl Morden, who served as clerk of our long-range planning committee back in 2006. 
• Building Our Future Revisited prepared by John Bassart on the decision processes we have gone through since that time, and the financial projections that will likely be part of our discernment going forward. 
• Draft minutes of our meeting for business on January 8, with notes on the presentations.  

Tuesdays, February 7th and 21st
7 to 8:30 pm

2023 Winter Book Discussion: The Color of Law 

The Prince George’s County Lynching Memorial Project is holding a two-part discussion of the book, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein. The book discussion is scheduled for two evenings: February 7 (tonight!) and 21 from 7:00-8:30 pm, and will be presented via Zoom.    

Don't worry if you haven't read the book by the first session.  Come join an invigorating discussion with special guests joining to provide commentary and perspectives on how lessons from this book are evident in Prince George’s County.  

Preregistration at this link. Find more information on the Lynching Memorial Project here or ask Jade Eaton (contact info in the Breeze directory).  

Repair Revolution Comes to Adelphi!  

In alignment with the principles of Stewardship and Simplicity, the AFM Climate Action Working Group is planning to bring a Repair Café event to Adelphi. These are fun gatherings where volunteers with skills to share work with others to repair their broken things, whether it is a shirt that needs a button replaced, or that favorite lamp that decided to stop working. The possible list includes, but is not limited to, clothing, jewelry, toys, tools, bikes, electric lamps, vacuum cleaners, ceramics, and more.

The goal is to keep our stuff from going on the trash heap, and saving the resources that would be required to manufacture and buy replacements. We also hope to encourage people to take the leap into fixing their own stuff. If you think that you have repair skills that you might like to share with our community, or even if you are just curious, please contact Charlie Goedeke, via Breeze. 

So You Were an Advocate in January?

(There's still lots to do; check the Couch Potato Activist's January Alert here.)
Peace and Social Concerns Committee would like to hear from you about what actions you took, so they can begin to build the story of what we're working for and how we're working it.  Here's the corrected link for the "story building" form.

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. To ensure that your announcement gets to the right folder, please put [SA] or just SA at the beginning of your subject line.

• 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