A NOTE OF GRATITUDE
Thank you, Sara Greenblatt for your work over the past years on our Meeting’s newsletter. You generously gave of your time and talent to ensure we were all kept up to date of important information, events and our individual joys and sorrows. Always dedicated and timely, yours will not be easy shoes to fill. Thank you, so much, for all you have accomplished!
Meeting Newsletter in Transition
The Meeting newsletter remains in transition. Drew Biehl has temporarily assumed the duties of editor. We have faith that one of our members or attenders will feel led accept this role for an extended period of time. Perhaps two or more would consider creatively sharing this task. If you have any interest at all please contact Diane Snyder, clerk of Care Committee.
Quarterly Meeting to be held at Haddonfield
On Sunday February 28th the Haddonfield Quarter will hold its Meeting for Worship with a concern for business at Haddonfield Meeting. Meeting for Worship will begin as usual, at 10:00am and Quarterly Meeting for Business will begin at 11:00am. February Covered Dish will begin after Meeting for Business. We need volunteers to help set up and warm the various dishes brought
HADDONFIELD MONTHLY MEETING RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS NEWSLETTER Volume 56, No. 6 ~ February, 2010 Meeting for worship
10 am Sunday ~ 9:15 am Wednesday
for lunch. Also, please, please bring extra food for lunch that day – we will have many visitors. If possible, please make something extra special so we can be especially welcoming to our guests!!
Adult First Day Activities/Programs
January 31 – Worship and Ministry will lead a discussion on the pamphlet, “Worship: The Gathered Meeting Revisited” by Tom Gates. His talk was given at the July, 1996 PYM Annual Sessions.
February 7 – Tales of a Wayside Inn, #3, by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow.
Ty Drago and Michelle Tartar will read from section 3, which describes the wonderful love story of Elizabeth Haddon and John Estaugh. A brief introduction to the history and context of the poem will also be offered.
February 14 – Business Meeting
February 21 – Quakers and Native American Concerns - Elizabeth Koopman and Kate DeRiel, PYM Indian Committee co-clerks, will discuss their leadings to work on Indian issues, provide a brief historical review of Friends work with Native Americans, and present two issues of current concern – a proposed PYM minute to disavow the Doctrine of Discovery, which was used to justify early European activities in the Americas, and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Information regarding service thru the PYM Indian Committee and FCNL will be provided.
February 28 – Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting held at HMM, followed by covered dish.
March 7 – Africa Great Lakes Initiative – Following excerpts from a video about this Quaker-led project, which provides Alternatives to Violence training in Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and DRC, two women who have participated in AGLI activities will reflect on their experiences: Sue Nowelsky, who was a short term volunteer, and Anna Crumley-Effinger, who was a member of the AFSC staff in Kenya over the past year and worked with AGLI during that time.
Poets and favorite poems wanted! On April 18, in honor of National Poetry Month, HMM poets are invited to read one of their poems, and others are invited to share a favorite poem. Please contact David Austin or Linda Lotz if you would like to participate.
Children and Youth Programming:
A calendar with upcoming topics and activities for children and youth programming will be posted on the bulletin board. Everyone is invited to sign up to help, or see Ty Drago and Inspira Williams.
GIVE A VALENTINE OF FOOD
Haddonfield Quarter and the wider Quaker community are again collecting food in February when the weather is cold and food is scarce. Please join Friends Meetings and Friends Schools in gathering food which will be distributed to people in need through New Visions and Friends Transition Support Services. Non-perishable food donations will be collected through February 28. Please leave the food on the bench in the back hallway or call Priscilla Adams (609-835-4285) to arrange pick up. If you would like to send money for us to purchase food, please send your check to Priscilla Adams, 96 Pageant Lane, Willingboro, NJ 08046. Checks need to arrive by February 22 to allow time for shopping. — Priscilla Adams
AGING IN THE LIGHT: A Day of information and Reflection on Issues of Aging
Saturday, February 20 (8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.) – A Program of Concord Quarterly Meeting at Birmingham Meeting 1245 S. Birmingham Rd., West Chester PA 19382. Presenters include Deborah Cooper, Coordinator for Friends Counseling Service, George Schaefer, PYM Care and Aging Coordinator Tricia Coscia, PYM Aging Resource Coordinator.
Together we will look at our own aging and that of our meeting members. We will learn how to grow in our connection to God and each other, and to offer spiritual support and practical care to our aging members. Session Topics:
Session I – Quaker Spirituality and Aging
Session II – Aging Among Friends: Sharing the Journey
Session III – Slow Medicine, Hospice & End of Life
Session IV – What Are the Resources Available to Help?
To register: Call or e-mail Beth Lawn, 610-872-1522; concordquarter@verizon.net, by February 13.
FRIENDS COUNSELING SERVICE
Friends Counseling Service is a network of Quaker mental health professionals for Quaker members and attenders who are affiliated with PYM. Counselors are available with a variety of expertise and include psychologists, social workers, therapists, family therapists, and a psychiatrist. Some financial support is available if needed. More information about this service can also be obtained from the PYM website or by calling Deborah Cooper at 215-248-0489.
Volunteer in Africa
Applications are now being accepted for the Africa Great Lakes Initiative work camp, to be held June 19-July 24.
AGLI supports reconciliation, community building and trauma-healing in Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and, Tanzania at the grassroots level through Alternatives to Violence Project workshops, Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities workshops, mediation training, women’s support groups, etc. In recent years, work campers built schools, clinics and community structures such as peace centers.
Anyone with a leading to do peace work is welcome to participate. All ages are welcome, though most are between 18 and 35. No skills are required. Each person does what s/he is able to do. Participants live with an African family or with other work campers.
2010 summer projects and an application form can be found at www.aglifpt.org.
The Prep School Negro at MHS Feb 25th
The documentary film The Prep School Negro by Andre Robert Lee tells of the plight of students of color who attend independent schools, including Quaker schools, both within the school community and within their own families and neighborhoods. Lee himself was granted a full scholarship to Germantown Friends School when he was 14. His experiences then were not so different than those of current students, as the struggles continue and racial intolerance and ignorance mount. He will present the documentary, which is currently being pursued by HBO and other major networks, and facilitate a question and answer period following the film. Hosted by Haddonfield Friends School and Moorestown Friends School, the viewing followed by a discussion and reception is being held at MFS, Thursday, February 25, 7:00 p. m. All are welcome.
Among Friends
Mary Noland continues to recuperate from heart valve replacement surgery. She feels good. If you want to offer a meal or go walking with her, please e-mail her. Meals should be low in cholesterol ~ chicken/turkey/fish (no tilapia please but flounder and salmon are fine) ~ and sweets should be limited. Mary would like to keep the number of incoming phone calls low, so please use e-mail. Thanks. Her e-mail is conlow22@comcast.net
February Calendar
Feb 7 10:00am Worship
11:00am First Day School
Feb 9 7:30pm Care Committee
Feb 14 10:00am Worship
11:00am Meeting for Business
Feb 21 9:00am Worship & Ministry
10:00am Worship
11:00am First Day School
Feb 24 7:30pm Property Committee
Feb 28 Quarterly Meeting
10:00am Worship
11:00am Quarterly Meeting
12:00ish Covered Dish Luncheon
