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SUMMARY:Children's Worship Group - Virtual Offering
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday evenings at 7:30pm — join us for one week\, or every week! We will gather for stories\, yoga\, waiting worship and kids’ meeting for business\, writing letters to pen pals\, and playing games. We can continue to experience the joys of participating in PYM Children’s Programs and the long-standing tradition of fostering community with fun and spiritually deepening activities. Please reach out to Kimani Keaton\, Children and Families Program Facilitator if you have ideas for this time\, or interest in leading a worship group one week. Kimani and Crystal look forward to seeing Friends on Wednesday\, April 1 for our inaugural worship group.\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE for the Wednesday Worship Group! 
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/childrens-worship-group-virtual-offering/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200402T190000
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SUMMARY:Young Adult Friends Worship - VIRTUAL OFFERING
DESCRIPTION:Join YAF Community Worship for worship sharing facilitated by Eric Peterson. \nJoin Zoom Meeting by computer: https://zoom.us/j/540686103\nOr by phone: +1 929 436 2866\nMeeting ID: 540 686 103
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/young-adult-friends-worship-virtual-offering/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200404T100000
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SUMMARY:Day of Silence - CANCELED
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our spring Day of Silence\nat rural Sadsbury Meeting House in eastern Lancaster County\, PA.\n10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.\nBag lunch.\nFor more info and to register contact Connie L. Webster 484-985-0454 cwebster3615@comcast.net
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/day-of-silence/
LOCATION:Sadsbury Friends Meeting\, 1089 Simmontown Road\, Gap\, PA\, 17527\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200405T113000
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SUMMARY:Clothing Swap! - POSTPONED
DESCRIPTION:Hockessin Friends Meeting hosts a clothing swap!\nSwap will follow a potluck for participants to be held shortly after the rise of Meeting for Worship at 10:45am.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/clothing-swap-2/
LOCATION:Hockessin Meeting\, 1501 Old Wilmington Road\, Hockessin\, DE\, 19707\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200407T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200407T120000
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SUMMARY:Wilmington Friends School Invitation to Visit - POSTPONED
DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED\nSusan Kelley\, Clerk of the WFS Board of Trustees\, and Head of School\, Ken Aldridge\, invite members of Western Quarterly Meeting to join WFS Trustees and other guests on Tuesday\, April 7th to visit Wilmington Friends School and observe classes.\nCome see Quaker education in action – an academic program with depth – one that truly asks students to think\, to collaborate\, to be creative\, to take risks – all within a caring community that balances the focus on the individual with responsibility to the common good.\nDownload RSVP form here\n 
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/wilmington-friends-school-invitation-to-visit/
LOCATION:Wilmington Friends School\, 101 School Rd\, Wilmington\, DE\, 19803\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200410T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200410T083000
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SUMMARY:Quaker Pen Pals! - Ongoing
DESCRIPTION:Another way for us to engage with each other and our community is through a pen pal program. If you’re interested in being a pen pal for an elder in a Quaker retirement community\, sign up in the PYM children’s events section and we’ll get you connected! (Scroll down to get to the pen pals section)
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/quaker-pen-pals-ongoing/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200413T093000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Worship with Abingdon Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to join us online\nMonday\, Wednesday & Friday\nfor a Quaker meeting for worship by Zoom from 10am to 11am.\nPreceding this is hymn-singing from 9:25 to 9:50am\, where a meeting family leads us in song\, while our home mics are muted.\nFOR THE LINK: ahead of time please email AbingtonMeeting@abingtonfriends.net
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/virtual-worship-with-abingdon-monthly-meeting/
LOCATION:PA
ORGANIZER;CN="Abington Friends Meeting":MAILTO:AbingtonMeeting@abingtonfriends.net
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SUMMARY:PYM's Weekly Clerks\, Quarter Clerks\, and Coordinators Call
DESCRIPTION:Advance Care Planning During the COVID-19 Crisis:Having the Conversation Now\npre-conversation video is about 30 minutes\n\n7:00 pm – for conversation\nA conversation between Ted Taylor MDiv\, Director of Pastoral Care & Training at RWJ Baqrnabas Hospital in Hamilton NJ (Yardley Meeting)\, and Susan W Hoskins LCSW (Newtown Meeting)\, in which they discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the urgency for talking with family members about how you would like your care to be handled in a way consistent with your choices and Quaker values.\nWATCH THE VIDEO FROM YOUR LOCATION. PASS ALONG TO FRIENDS & FAMILY.\n \nSusan will offer a Q&A follow-up on Zoom\nTime: Apr 16\, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Meeting ID: 220 863 082 PW: 1jtMyS
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/pyms-weekly-clerks-quarter-clerks-and-coordinators-cal-2020-04-23/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200418T133000
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SUMMARY:Middle School Friends - Virtual gathering!
DESCRIPTION:Let’s Hangout! \nWe had a wonderful time at our first Middle School Friends virtual hangout! Our second Zoom Hangout will be Saturday\, April 18th from 1:30-3 PM.\nThis time\, we’ll begin with an at-home Scavenger Hunt to check-in. For the rest of the time\, we will give MSF participants an opportunity to simply be together with old and new friends\, talk\, and play a question/answer card game.\nIt was wonderful to see everyone last time! Thank you for bringing yourselves and your thoughtful questions! We are looking forward to spending more time in community with you all soon. All friends in middle school are welcome! \nElizabeth Croce\, MSF Co-Facilitator       Kristin Simmons\, MSF Co-Facilitator   \nAlix Vallery\, MSF Assistant\nSee the PYM calendar to register OR register here
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/middle-school-friends-virtual-gathering/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200418T150000
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SUMMARY:Quaker Family Meetup! - VIRTUAL OFFERING
DESCRIPTION:Quaker Family Meetups are an opportunity for PYM Families of infants to teens to join together for fellowship\, play\, snacks and spiritual refreshment. \nWe’re moving this party online! Join PYM Families to check in\, tell jokes\, hear a story together\, and share fellowship across our homes. BYOS! (Bring your own snacks this time!) \nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/143964445 \nMeeting ID: 143 964 445 \n\n3:00 Introductions\n3:30 Group games at home!\n4:30 Story and worship sharing\n5:00  So long . . . until the next Meetup! (at Annual Sessions)\n\n\nLet us know you’re coming (not required)\nEmail the Youth Religious Life Coordinator: mwennerbradley@pym.org or call 215-241-7171. It’s also fine to show up! \n\nThe Vision of the Quaker Family Meetups (modified a bit for virtual gathering!) \n\nProvide a welcoming\, comfortable space for parents and children to gather for a relaxed program of fellowship\, play\, and worship sharing. Grandparents\, foster parents\, and other family caregivers are welcome\, too. Create the opportunity to connect with other families and support one another in grounding our parenting in the “tools” we have as Friends: queries\, space for listening\, openness to finding new ways\, and Quaker testimonies.  \n\n 
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/quaker-family-meetup/
LOCATION:PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200423T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200423T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Clerking with Emily Provance
DESCRIPTION:Emily Provance\, a member of Fifteenth Street Meeting (NYC)\, New York Yearly Meeting will be with us to offer her gifts and skills for a 2 hours “Clerking a Virtual Meeting” workshop. Do you have questions about clerking a virtual business meeting? Please join us to learn and ask questions.\nPlease join us – you will not want to miss this workshop! You will need to register and you may do so by using the registration link below. You will receive an email the the day before the workshop with the Zoom call information.\nWe look forward to being with you for this great workshop with Emily!\nRegister here
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/pyms-weekly-clerks-quarter-clerks-and-coordinators-cal/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200426T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200426T150000
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SUMMARY:April Quarterly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Come for worship\, programs\, business\, and fellowship!\n8:45-9:00 Sign in\n9:00-10:15 Meeting for Business\, each Quarter meeting separately AND CHILDREN’S PROGRAM!\n10:30-11:30 Meeting for Worship\n11:45-12:45 Lunch and fellowship\n12:45 gathering for program AND CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES\n1:00-3:00 CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES\n1:00-3:00* program – Better Angels Skill Session\nwith Jennifer Elam\, a member of Goshen Friends Meeting in Concord Quarter\nand Madelena Rizzo\, a Friends Central graduate and J.D/Ph.D. candidate at Drexel\nBetter Angel’s Mission\nBetter Angels is a citizens’ organization uniting red and blue Americans in a working alliance to depolarize America\n\n\nWe try to understand the other side’s point of view\, even if we don’t agree with it\n\n\nWe engage those we disagree with\, looking for common ground and ways to work together\n\n\nWe support principles that bring us together rather than divide us\n\n\n*Better Angels list workshop times for a minimum of 2 1/2 hours but the moderators will aim for a two hour time for this one. \n 
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/april-quarterly-meeting-2/
LOCATION:Kennett Friends Meeting\, 125 W. Sickle Street\, Kennett Square \, PA\, 19348\, United States
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