Friend Community School Annual Meeting 

On March 19, the FCS annual meeting will be held at Adelphi during 2nd hour. The annual meeting is a chance for members of Adelphi to get an update on the school. According to the FCS bylaws, the annual meeting agenda and any action items must be posted at Adelphi two weeks in advance. The FCS agenda is posted here. 

Glenn Riley Memorial Reception  

We will gather on April 1 at 3 p.m. to celebrate the life of our dear Friend, Glenn Riley. 

As is our custom, we will extend our celebration and fellowship with a reception following the meeting.  We need Friends to help make this happen by bringing finger foods. Please arrive at the memorial meeting a little early to drop off your contributions.  Also, please drop a quick email or text to Cheryl Morden (contact information in Breeze) to let us know that you will bring a gift of food. 

Calling All Egg Dyers

On Sunday, April 2nd, we will dye Easter eggs during potluck for the annual Easter Egg hunt on April 9th. We would be delighted to receive any white hard boiled eggs by April 2nd or dyed Easter eggs by April 9th for the occasion. Please bring hard boiled eggs in cartons labeled for the Easter Egg hunt and place them in the fridge. No plastic eggs please. Questions? Contact a member of the Children's Religious Education Committee or Jessica Arends. (Contact information for both are in Breeze.)

Friends Community School Weekly Bulletin

Angela Garcia writes of two women who have been role models in her life - her mother Doris Garcia and Betty Ann Workman - a trail-blazer in Quaker schools, and convener of a National Association of Independent Schools caucus of people of color teaching in independent schools.

The school is preparing for its various summer camps, and is hiring camp lead teachers and assistant counselors. And in other news, the fifth graders are learning animated art.  (When your editor was in 5th grade, "chapter books" were the big new things to explore.)

In its "Quaker Corner," the Bulletin offers a Quaker Speak video by J.E. McNeil, an FMW Friend, on "the secret to true communication" with people with opinions or cultures different from our own.  J.E. is proud to speak both NACAR and NPR.

Climate Action Working Group

The Climate Action Working Group will be meeting twice this month: On March 21 from 7 - 8:30, to focus on action, and on March 28, (same time) to focus on education.  Both events are listed in the Breeze calendar, but please notice that the Zoom link for the 28th is different from the link for the 21st. All are welcome to join in with this vibrant and devoted group! 

Is This Recyclable?

Reel and Meal at the New Deal Café

On Monday, March 20 at 7 p.m., Reel and Meal will present Even Our Dreams  by Nyari Mashayamombe, a film that shows the challenges faced by Africans with disabilities. Nyari, a filmmaker and musician from Zimbabwe will be with us, and will sing as a part of the program. The film will be screened in-person at the New Deal Café, 113 Centerway in Greenbelt, and online via Zoom (Register here (required). You can view film trailer here.  

Plentiful Produce

Carol Nezzo is happy to let us know that there is produce available from yesterday afternoon through Sunday afternoon at 4pm. Where? At 4611 Drexel Road, College Park (first light north of Whole Foods).Go to back of driveway in front of garage.  (Lights will come on after dark.)

Baltimore Yearly Meeting Meets at FMW on March 25   

Friends Meeting of Washington will host the winter BYM interim meeting on Saturday, March 25 from 10 to 2, with hospitality offered beginning at 9 a.m.  Materials and agenda are now available; register and find materials here. 

A special item will be coming up:  the proposal to move Camp Opequon to the Rolling Ridge Conservancy in West Virginia. The committees involved have made a video about the conservancy and their discernment process so far.  See the video here.

In the weekly announcements, you'll find opportunities to "Nurture Your Light in Wild Spaces" (visits to Rolling Ridge Conservancy, camp rentals, workdays), and the Spring Spiritual Formation Retreat.  And Adelphi's "Repair Cafe" - scheduled for Earth Day, no less - is also featured in the announcements!

Black Quaker Lives Matter Film Festival and Forum Presents... 

Benjamin Banneker:  The Man Who Loved the Stars

The film and discussion will be tomorrow, March 18, at 1 p.m. ET  The honored guests in the discussion are three Benjamin Banneker descendants, who will discuss Banneker's life and legacy. Register and learn more here.

Friends Journal's Podcast

The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope

Now in its second season, "The Seed" explores the testimony of integrity. Listen to the latest episode with eppchez yo-si yes, who takes us on a journey of noticing patterns of faithfulness and patterns of oppression to begin moving through transformations of self and community. Tune into The Seed wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss these conversations for radical hope!

Friends Journal also features this month an article by Linda Segar, titled Nothing Can Separate Us from the Light - an exploration of the bonds of community, virtual and physical.

Women in Quaker History

Who was the first black woman elected legislator in the U.S.?  

[Spoiler Alert:  It was Crystal Bird Fauset,
elected to the Pennsylvania legislature in 1938.]

Crystal Bird Fauset was an educator and a pioneer for race relations in the mid-1920s. On an American Friends Service Committee speaking tour, she spoke in more than 200 venues, urging white audiences to see and appreciate the dignity, wisdom and contributions of African Americans.  Read more about her background, her life,  and her international work here, in the folder. "Resources on Quakers."

Meet the "Golden Rule" - A Small Ship with a Big Mission 

Support anti-nuclear advocates and learn more about nuclear weapons abolition. The “Golden Rule”, a small ship with a history of Quaker anti-nuclear weapons activism, will be stopping in the D.C. area in April to spread the word about the dangers of nuclear war. The Peace & Social Concerns Committee of Friends Meeting of Washington is supporting this project, and would appreciate your help!

Save the date -- April 5, 5:30 pm --for an event at at Friends Meeting of Washington, to welcome the crew and educate the community. (Adelphi attender, Madison Rose will be speaking too). They are also coordinating essential support service for the ship’s crew when they are in town. Please indicate on this form if you can offer help! They are especially in need of a boat slip or RV parking pad to borrow! Questions? Contact Madison Rose via Breeze.

Reparative Justice and Right Relations
for Indigenous Peoples and African Americans  

April 30, at 1 pm ET, Atlanta Friends Meeting and the Friends School of Atlanta will offer a free online forum on “Reparative Justice & Right Relations for Indigenous Peoples and African Americans."  Find more information here.  Registration will be required; registration information will be sent out closer to the date of the presentation. (Check Silent Announcements.)

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. 
   
• For events at Adelphi, schedule the event first (see “How to Schedule Something at Adelphi" --  above).”  Once you have done that, your event will be on the calendar with date, time and place.  
   
• To announce your event in Silent Announcements:  Schedule it first (see steps above), then send an email to the Silent Announcements editor (a.k.a. Ruth Flower) at her address in Breeze -- about your event or a non-event.  Silent Announcements are prepared on Friday and Tuesday mornings. To ensure that your announcement gets published (not lost), 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, including 2022 and so far in 2023, here.
   
• 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