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April Quarterly Meeting – joint program with Concord Quarter & Wilmington Friends School
April Quarterly Meeting
Western AND Concord Quarters at Wilmington Friends School
(101 School Road, Wilmington, DE)
Children’s Program (during Meeting for Worship and Afternoon Program for elementary and middle school age Friends)
child care available 9-11:45 am and 1-3 pm
8:45-9 am Sign-In
9-10:15 am Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business – for each Quarter
10:30-11:30 am Joint Meeting for Worship
11:45 am -12:45 pm Lunch for all
1-3 pm Program by Dr. Amanda Kemp
5 Steps to Stop Your Implicit Racial Bias, with Dr. Amanda Kemp
5 Steps to Stop Your Implicit Bias
About a year ago Starbucks Cafe closed every store in the nation to provide implicit bias training to its employees. Their training was spurred by an April incident in which employees at a Philadelphia Starbucks store asked the police to remove two black entrepreneurs who were waiting for a business contact. More recently, Lancaster City Police used a taser on an unarmed Black man who was cooperating. This was caught on video and has spurred action.
But what about the everyday indignities, harms and unconscious biases that go unnoticed and largely unintended?
Dr. Kemp’s Racial Bias Awareness and Prevention Training offers:
- Tools to have productive conversations about racism;
- Ways to recognize and stop actions driven by unconscious bias;
- Greater understanding of institutional racism;
- 5 steps to make your businesses, organizations, and communities more inclusive and equitable.
Note while this is an introductory workshop in many ways, participants will be given opportunities to continue learning and practicing skills gained previously. Participants who have engaged in this work regularly will have much to offer those new to the work. It is an opportunity for all participants to expand the ways we know ourselves and each other.
Registrants will be given pre-work to prepare for the presentation.
Register here (at Concord Quarterly Meeting event page.)
We also recommend the Stop the Hurt 5 Day Challenge or go to www.dramandakemp.com for Dr. Kemp’s book.
For more information on Dr. Amanda Kemp, please check these links:
Founder of Theatre for Transformation
Watch “Make America Great Not the Land of Hate Again” Music video
TEDx Talk “How to Lean into Conversations about Race…”
www.dramandakemp.com
January Quarterly Meeting at Centre Friends — 1/20
Join Centre Friends on January 20th for Quarterly Meeting business, worship, lunch and program. We will hear from FCNL representatives* about how they amplify Friends’ concerns on Capitol Hill, and the issues they are focusing on this year.
Please note: Business and program times have been switched from the usual to give our presenters time to travel from Washington, DC.
Schedule
9 am: Registration in the meeting house
9.30 am: WQM Meeting For Business (business room) – With attention to the 10th Query
11:00 am: Meeting for worship (worship room)
12:15: lunch: (Schoolhouse)
1 pm: program (business room)
9.30 am: WQM Meeting For Business (business room) – With attention to the 10th Query
11:00 am: Meeting for worship (worship room)
12:15: lunch: (Schoolhouse)
1 pm: program (business room)
A wonderful children’s program is being panned by Claire, the WQM children’s coordinator. The children’s program will begin at 11 am and end at the completion of the adult program, with a break in the middle for lunch. Centre Friends will provide a lunch of lasagna and sides.
* The speaker for the program will be Diana Ohlbaum. Diana directs FCNL’s foreign policy lobbying team and leads an effort to replace the current U.S. foreign policy paradigm of military domination and national superiority with a more ethical and effective one based on cooperation and mutual respect. She brings to FCNL nearly two decades of experience on Capitol Hill, where she served as a senior professional staff member of both the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and earlier as an aide to Senator Paul S. Sarbanes (D-MD). During her time as a congressional staff member, Diana coordinated efforts to overhaul the outdated Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, improve oversight of arms sales and security assistance, and promote diplomacy and multilateralism.
Immediately prior to joining FCNL in August 2018, Diana worked as an independent consultant specializing in advocacy, political strategy and legislative impact. Most of her clients were non-governmental organizations and foundations working in the areas of sustainable development and human security.
Diana also has experience in the executive branch of the federal government and in the nonprofit sector. From 1999-2001 she served as deputy director of USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives, a cutting-edge unit designed to advance peace and democracy in priority conflict-prone countries. She also worked as director of public policy for InterAction, an alliance of NGOs engaged in humanitarian relief and international development.
Diana is currently a member of the executive committees of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network and the Center for International Policy, and serves on the Advisory Council of the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in Russian studies from Amherst College.
October Quarterly Meeting at London Grove Friends Meeting
London Grove Friends will be hosting Quarterly Meeting on October 21, 2018, with a special 200 year anniversary program.
Schedule:
Registration 8:30 – 9:15 am
Children’s Program 9:15 – 11:30 am*
Worship 9:30 – 10:30 am
Program: 10:45 – 11:45 am
Luncheon: Noon – 1 pm
Meeting for Business* following Lunch
We invite Meetings to share responses to the 9th Query– Grounding for Transformed Lives: Peace and Alternatives to Violence
As has happened in the past (starting in 1757), Western Quarterly Meeting again will be hosted by London Grove Friends on third first day, tenth month. As planned by a group of London Grove Friends, an historical program will be enacted at rise of worship.
Our first story will dramatize the (true but imaginatively embellished) trans-Atlantic courtship of Sarah Swain and Robert Lamborn. Their story allows us to reflect on the formation of Quaker families, based on data recorded between 1722 and 1799.
Next, we will recall the Battle of the Brandywine. The Peace Testimony caused Western Quarter Friends to stand apart from their neighbors during the Continental Congress’ prosecution of the Revolutionary War.
Our third dramatization speaks to the variety of opinions of how to end the institution of slavery that roiled monthly meetings in Western Quarter. Read aloud by a scholar of the life and times of Frederick Douglass, we will learn Douglass’ intentions about a speech he gave on the porch of this meetinghouse in 1844.
Western Quarter Friends will not want to miss this program! We also invite interested members of the community (and their children) to join us for worship, history lessons, and lunch provided by London Grove Friends. Weather permitting, there will be pony rides, so the children can see how Quakers traveled to and from meeting in the 18th and 19th centuries.
*Calling all children!
Did you know that we are celebrating a BIG milestone this year? It’s the 200th birthday of the Meeting House at London Grove, that was specially built to house Western Quarter! Let’s celebrate by creating an old-time festival for all of us to enjoy. We’ll have arts & crafts, live music, games, food, and a few surprises! We will need lots of to help put it all together for the grownups, so come to Quarterly Meeting in October and get ready for fun!
One more thing … please ask your grown up to bring along a quart-sized mason jar or large empty yogurt container (with lid). You’ll be making something yummy to take home and share with your family.
July Quarterly Meeting at West Grove Friends Meeting
Read more about West Grove Friends and how they got involved with Haiti here: Alyce’s Story
During Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business we will hear Monthly Meeting responses to the 6th Query — Nurturing our Community: Care for the Meeting
April Quarterly Meeting at Mill Creek Friends Meeting
Hosted by Mill Creek Friends, we will meet at Mill Creek Meeting House on Sunday, April 15, 2018.
Friends from around the Quarter gather at Mill Creek Friends Meeting to be learn about the physical, mental and spiritual benefits of practicing Tai Chi Chuan. This will be a participatory program, fit for all ages and abilities. Come in comfortable clothes and be prepared to learn something new!
An excellent children’s program is planned for the morning, where all ages will enjoy the outdoors, building fairy houses, playing, and singing together. Youth who are eager to learn about Tai Chi are also welcome to join the adults.
Day’s Schedule:
9:00 am Coffee, tea, and registration
9:30 Program on TAI CHI
10:30 Meeting for Worship
11:30 Pot luck luncheon (see below)
12:30 Western Quarterly Meeting for Worship for Business*
*with responses to the Third Query
For the luncheon Mill Creek Friends will provide cups, napkins, plates, bowls, and silverware, along with tea and coffee. Friends who are able are invited to bring an item to share with others, from one of these suggested categories: Sides, Salads, Desserts, or Beverages.
Mill Creek Friends Meeting is located at 1140 Doe Run Road, Newark, DE 19711
Friends coming from PA will take Newark/Little Baltimore Rd, and turn south onto Doe Run Rd. The Meeting House will be on your left, just after passing Yeatmans Mill Rd. on the right.
January Quarterly Meeting, Kennett Friends Host
Kennett Friends Meeting will host in January, 2018.
Our morning program will be a follow up to the discussion we began at October QM, about how we live our Quaker values. If you missed October, Friend Gail has offered a lovely write up in this post: http://westernquarterquakers.org/october-quarterly-meeting-discussion-part-one/
ending will our call to action: Each of us is invited to do HOMEWORK for next Quarterly Meeting in mid-January at Kennett Meetinghouse:
Set an intention of creating some Peace. Try the experiment in a way new for you, and see where this experiment leads. We should all bring our results to Kennett in January!
There will be a wonderful Youth program, as well, led by Guen Findley and Christian Garber.
Kennett Friends are providing lunch of soups & sandwiches. Friends are welcome to contribute sides or desserts as led.
October Quarterly Meeting discussion — Part One!
October Quarterly Meeting’s Program Invited Each of Us to be Renewed and Active The program at Western Quarterly Meeting on October 15 was built to let Friends to discover what […]
Quarterly Meeting at Fallowfield Friends
All Friends in the Quarter are invited to join Fallowfiled Friends in Worship & fellowship. The morning program on non-violence will enrich us all. We will hear from a panel of Friends about their experiences using non-violent responses to conflict, and then have the opportunity to reflect on how we each honor this testimony in different ways. Ariana Langford, Sally Milbury-Steen, Jessie Cocks, Gail Newbold and Grayfred Gray have been invited to speak.
Fallowfield Friends will provide a main dish for lunch, and welcome your potluck contributions of sides, snacks or desserts.
Schedule:
9 am sign in
9:30-11 program
11 am Worship
noon – lunch
1-3 Meeting for Business
Children will be engaged in their own program on non-violence, tools and tactics. All ages welcome!
July Quarterly Meeting Social, 7/16 at Shelley Hasting’s House
July Quarterly Meeting will be a social event at Co-Clerk Shelley Hasting’s house, starting with lunch (provided) at 12:30 pm. Friends who wish to spend the morning together as well are invited to worship with Newark MM Friends at London Britain Friends Meeting House at 10:30 am.
Please RSVP for lunch so that we prepare enough food.
