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Meetings Converge for Quarterly Meeting, April 19

By on May 15, 2014 in

Today is our opportunity to Gather as Friends, who even in our differences seek the same Spirit. The topic for this gathering is: 

Living into Friends’ Testimonies — how a small group of Quakers made a big difference recently, and how we can do the same.

West Grove MM invites Friends from throughout the Quarter to join them for Worship at 10 am, followed by a discussion on Living our Friends’ Testimonies, led by Gail Newbold. Gail is one of the founders of EQAT (Earth Quaker Action Team), a small group of Friends who felt led to respond to uphold the testimony on stewardship of the environment, and channeled their leading through social activism that has produced real results. We gather to celebrate this success, as well as learn ways – small and large – we can also “walk the walk”, living our testimonies as Friends.  

A simple meal of soup will be provided, but Friends are invited (and encouraged!) to bring a side or dessert to share.

The Children’s Program will begin with Worship and end when lunch is served.

Meeting for Worship with attention to Western Quarter’s business will follow lunch, at 1 pm.

Schedule:
9:30 am     Coffee & tea 
10 am         Meeting for Worship — Children’s program starts
11 am         Discussion
12:15          Lunch (children join their families)
1 pm          Meeting for Business  — see Agenda here  Draft minutes from last meeting here
 
Click here for pdf of event flyer
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Western Quarterly Meeting at Kennett <--- Location Change!!!

By on April 18, 2014 in

*** UPDATE! Location Change — now being held at Kennett Meeting*** Lunch will now be POTLUCK

Nurturing the Seeds of Peace in a Culture of Violence

Kendal Monthly Meeting invites all in the Quarter to join together in worship and fellowship, and for a morning program featuring Bruce Birchard and Christina Repoley, of Quaker Voluntary Service. Bruce and Christina will share about their own experiences of faith, service, and transformation in the cause of peace and love. Friends will also learn about Quaker Voluntary Service and will be invited to share about their own experiences of the integration of the inward and the outward journeys, of sowing seeds of peace and compassion in a culture of violence. You can read all about them below.

There will be a full children’s program as well. 

Quarterly Meeting Schedule

Adult Program:

9:00 am          Registration with coffee and tea
9:20 am          Centering Worship,  Introduction & Overview
 (Children leave after worship for their program, rejoin us at lunch. Details –>)
9:45 am       “Nurturing the Seeds of Peace in a Culture of Violence,” with Bruce Birchard and Christina Ropeley
10:45 am        Break
11:00 am        Responses to the 12th Query, Meeting for Worship         
12 Noon          Lunch (Registration Required)
1:00 pm         Meeting for Business

Children’s Program:

9:20 am       All gather for centering Worship

9:45 am       Children go with FDS teachers to the multipurpose room for intergenerational activities
 
10:45 am    Children go with FDS teachers for swimming in Kendal’s indoor pool (lifeguard present)
 
Noon           Children meet parents in dining room for lunch
 
 

Meet Our Presenters: Bruce & Christina 

Bruce-Birchard   Bruce Birchard 

Bruce joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1967 and has been a member of Central Philadelphia        Monthly Meeting since 1976. He has served Friends           in three full-time positions: Peace Movement Organizer    for Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly   Meeting (1974 to 1984), National Coordinator of AFSC’s Disarmament Program (1984 to 1992), and General Secretary of Friends General Conference (1992 to 2011). Since his retirement in 2011, he has given extensive volunteer service to  Quaker Voluntary Service, Right Sharing of World Resources, and   Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.  He is concerned about climate change and, among other things, published an article in the June, 2014 issue of Friends Journal titled “Exploring New   Images of God for Healing the Earth.”

 Christina Repoley   Christina Repoley

Christina is the founding Executive Director of Quaker Voluntary Service. She grew up in the Charlotte Friends Meeting and is now a member of the Atlanta Friends Meeting She has served on staff in the Peace Building Program of the American Friends Service Committee, and she previously worked out of AFSC’s Philadelphia office as the coordinator of the Mexico Summer Project, one of AFSC’s last remaining workcamps for young adults. She has worked professionally for several faith-based nonprofit organizations. She served on Friend’s General Conference’s Youth Ministries Committee for 6 years, and recently served on FGC’s Stoking the Spiritual Fire of Quakerism Capital Campaign Steering Committee. She has represented FGC Friends several times at FWCC international and cross-branch Quaker gatherings and is a regular workshop leader and speaker on prophetic witness, Quaker spiritual practices, and discernment. She was a Woodruff Fellow at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology where she received a Master of Divinity in 2011, and recently completed a Ministry Fellowship with the Fund for Theological Education. Serves on the Board of Directors of Friends Fiduciary Corporation. Her writing has appeared Friends Journal and Quaker Life and she has been the invited speaker at various events including the 2014 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting William Penn Lecture and Guilford College’s 2014 Commencement Exercises. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Dean, who is the founding principal of the Kindezi School, and their son, Harmon.

For a pdf of the flyer, click here:  2015 Jan QM flyer Kendal

 

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