February 24, 2023
Aspirations: Radical Hope and Deep Integrity
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When do we meet? For information on when and how we meet, please scroll down (almost) to the last page. For links to any of our events, check the Breeze calendar or our listing of recurrent links.
Check here for events of Takoma Park Meeting Preparative.
How do we meet? Safe practices for indoor meetings have been revised: vaccinations are no longer required. See details here.
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February 26 - Sunday: During Second Hour:
at noon discernment for AFM's building project
March 5 - Sunday: Second Hour on
at 12:15 pm the Peace Testimony
March 10 - Friday: Discussion of film to be selected
at 7 pm by Change Group
March 12 - Sunday: Meeting for Worship for the
at 11:45 pm Conduct of Business
March 19 - Sunday: During Second Hour: Friends
at 12:15 pm Community School Corporation Meeting
March 26 - Sunday: During Second Hour: further
at 12:15 pm discernment for AFM's building project
April 1 - Saturday: Memorial Meeting for
at noon Glenn Riley
Heads up for Changes coming in April and May:
Meeting for Business in April will move from the 9th to the 16th, due to Easter, and Meeting for Business in May will move from the 14th to the 21st, due to Mothers' day.
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A Reminder From the Clerk...
Our Next Session to Prepare for Discernment about Improving Our Facilities
This Sunday, February 26, we will have a called business meeting (meeting for worship for the conduct of business is its real name) at noon. Two weeks after this, on March 12, we will have another extended business meeting, starting at 11:45.
This Sunday, we will meet at noon and spend 1 – 1.5 hours listening to presentations about our current financial situation, and asking and answering questions about our finances. Our agenda will include:
- Annual financial report for 2022, from our Treasurer
- Another look at Adelphi's financial capacity, from Development and Stewardship, a sub-committee of Finance Committee.
- Consideration of all the aspects to the Finance Committee’s recommendation on the amount of money that Adelphi could spend on improving our facilities. This is interesting! Much work has been done to come up with an amount that involves a moderate amount of risk (higher risk numbers have been tabled).
There may be other agenda items. Please plan to be there!
Plans for finding childcare are underway. We will keep you posted. Children are welcome to attend.
Documents you may need for this and other discussions of building improvement are being posted here to our website. Click on "Building Discernment" in the banner at the top of the page to see the folder with the documents. More may be added as we go along.
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In and Around Adelphi Meeting
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Mosi's Prayer
Mosi Harrington passed away from us just over a year ago. Before her death, Mosi sent a prayer to her daughters. They gave it as a gift to the meeting -- they believed the prayer was for us all.
That you be safe, safe, safe,
That you have sufficiency,
That you have a little bit of luck,
That you greet the world, and the world greets you
with compassion and generosity.
May you be strong, kind, useful, loved and loving,
And may you have awe and joy and purpose in your life.
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Hospitality Committee Needs Some Helping Hands
Hospitality Committee has only 5 active members at this time and we need occasional help from other volunteers to help setup before Meeting or cleanup after Potluck, especially those who have previous experience. If you are willing to help us occasionally and/or to be "on call", then please sign up on our "Friends of Hospitality" sheet in the foyer. If needed, please contact Will Kastens via his contact information in Breeze.
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Parents, Caregivers, F/friends
of Young Adult Friends ages 18 to 25
Outreach and Fellowship Committee is preparing care packages of snacks and surprises for Young Friends to ease the stress of mid-semester papers and exams. Of course, not all Young Friends are current students, so please send us information for any Friends between the ages of 18 and 25 who could use care, encouragement, and friendship this Spring! Send name, mailing address and any food allergies/sensitivities or preferences (vegetarian/vegan) to Mari Schimmer, whose email is in Breeze.
We would appreciate responses by March 10.
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Friends Community School
The school's weekly bulletin includes a reflection by Head of School Angela Garcia on the importance of stories - both the telling and the listening. She recalls a TED Global talk more than a decade ago by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie titled “The Danger of a Single Story.”
In the talk, Adichie says, “Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”
The bulletin includes a story about Alma W. Thomas, "a pioneering artist and educator who taught us the importance of seeking beauty in the everyday." Thomas, a DC resident, was the first Black woman given a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York at age 81, and was the first Black woman to have a work of art acquired by the White House Collection. The Phillips Collection resource page includes more information.
Note: We will be meeting with Angela Garcia and members of the Board of Trustees on March 19, in second hour Corporation Meeting.
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In the Wider World of Friends
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Baltimore Yearly Meeting Weekly Announcements
Maybe this is your year to stretch out and meet (and work with) some Friends from other meetings in our region. There are plenty of opportunities: For example:
- Training for "Friendly Adult Presences" who assist at Young Friends and Junior Young Friends events - coming up on March 4.
- A Retreat for Friends in Pastoral Care April 20- 23
- A whole series of monthly Saturday meet-ups for Religious Education teachers, and
- Spring Camp Workdays coming up April, May, and June
Don't forget that Workshop Proposals for BYM annual session in August are due next Tuesday, February 28.
And, as always, there's lots more in BYM announcements.
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Friends Journal
The February issue of Friends Journal is now available online and in print. Here are two items among the many offerings this month:
- Planting the Seeds of Peace - a story from a Friend in Gunpowder Meeting who was led to work with Friends in the country of Georgia when they faced conflict with the Russian government;
- A review by Pamela Haines of a new book by Joanna Macy and Christine Johnstone with the intriguing title: Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're In with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power.
There's also a new Quaker Speak video on the Peace Testimony.
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Pendle Hill - On Integrity
Check Pendle Hill's Upcoming Events page for online opportunities that may call your name. Pendle Hill also announces the Second Season of its podcast, "The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope."
In this season, the podcast will explore the Quaker testimony of Integrity: What does it look like to meaningfully live out our deepest spiritual truths with authenticity and grace? Listen now to the latest episode, "Integrity & Wholeness: Building Sanctuary in Community" with Blanca Pacheco, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts—new episodes released biweekly. Apple | Spotify | Buzzsprout . Then continue the conversation by tuning in to Blanca's March First Monday Lecture and registering for our March Reading Group on the testimony of integrity.
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Next Tuesday, February 28 1 p.m.
Environmental Justice
While climate change is a threat to everyone’s health, well-being, and access to clean air, food and shelter, it is the socially and economically disadvantaged that face the greatest risks. President Biden has made a priority of addressing environmental injustices.
Learn more about the Justice40 Initiative, which commits 40% of benefits to communities that are disadvantaged, marginalized, underserved and overburdened by pollution. World Resources Institute is presenting a webinar: Two Years of Justice 40: How the Initiative is Delivering Solutions to the Climate Crisis. Tuesday, February 28th at 1 pm EST.
Register by clicking here:
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Black Quaker Lives Matter Film Festival and Forum
Saturday, 4 March, 1:00 PM
Sisters In Freedom
Black & White Women in the Abolition Struggle
Featuring: Sarah Mapps Douglass
Join us on Saturday, March 4, as we celebrate Women’s History Month with a unique look at early collaboration between Black and White women fighting for African American emancipation. The third event of the Film Festival & Forum honors Sarah Mapps Douglass (1806-1882) an abolitionist, educator, artist, and author. She is a member of the Morrey-Bustill Quaker family, which produced two centuries of African American Friends, and is also an ancestor of Paul Robeson. Learn more and register here.
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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. To ensure that your announcement gets to the right folder, please put [SA] or just SA at the beginning of your subject line.
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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