Announcements last updated April 17th, 2024:
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New Announcements:
- News of Friends:
- Cherie Baron and family are being held in the Light following the loss of Cherie’s brother, Danny Dunbar.
- Samantha Moore attended Meeting for Worship and expressed her appreciation for being held in the Light during her wait for a liver transplant. She notes that she mostly feels well but occasionally has a downward turn. Please hold her and her entire family in the Light.
- Amy Kimball and her husband David Schmickel will return home this coming week and continue to recuperate from their car accident.
- Mary Yancey continues to recuperate.
- Molly Brian asks we hold her sister-in-law, Martha, who is in a North Carolina Intensive Care Unit, in the Light.
- Sam Steffens asks we hold her ill stepfather in the Light and at the same time shares the joy of watching her daughter navigate the challenges of young adulthood.
- First Day School Updates:
The children listened on First Day to the Faith and Play story entitled “Gifts.’ They were thoughtful in their responses to gifts we share and gifts they own. Afterwards hospitality was presented by the FDS committee with Melissa Grant, Sarah Claggett and Marion Murphy helping with set up/clean up and providing nourishment for the Meeting.
First Day School Activities:
- April/May: outdoor learning
- Moving up day June 2024
- Third Haven Summer Mindfulness Camp June 24-28, 2024
- June 30 - July 7: Friends General conference in Haverford PA. This is another exciting opportunity to gather with other Quaker families in community. Check out Friends General Conference: The Gathering.
- April 19 (Friday), Zoom Happier Hour 7 PM:
Zoom happier hour conversation is scheduled on Fridays at 7:00 pm. Typically, about 5-6 people use the hour to reconnect, share news and again, offer fellowship. Please consider joining our group this evening. - Building a Meaningful and Connected Life - FGC eRetreat,
April 22 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm:
The Building a Meaningful and Connected Life eRetreat by Friends General Conference delves into the profound spirituality of meaning-making, resilience, renewal, and life transitions. Through contemplative practices and insightful discussions, Friends will navigate the rich tapestry of growing older at any age while embracing spiritual gifts across the lifespan. REGISTER HERE. - Join Us! Quaker Earthcare Witness 2024 Spring Gathering (April 25-29): Register Here.
- Internal Family Systems: Integrating Spirituality into action that heals a wounded world May 24-27
Catherine Cripps, a board member of the Program Committee of Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology recommends this year’s program with Tom Holmes that blends spirituality and Jungian thought with Internal Family Systems work that has so many wonderful applications for personal growth and healing. Please click here for more information. - Tree Survey Resumes:
All are welcome to help the tree surveyors Friday, May 10, 9-noon, or anytime therein. Meet at the Common Room. We are finishing the Third Haven Monthly Meeting property tree survey that began last Spring. Participants are advised to wear long, light colored pants, ideally ones that can tuck in socks, to ward off ticks. Please let Sally Claggett know in advance if you would like to take part so we can be sure to have sufficient measuring tools on hand.
News of Friends, or friends of Friends:
- Cherie Baron and family are being held in the Light following the loss of Cherie’s brother, Danny Dunbar.
- Samantha Moore attended Meeting for Worship and expressed her appreciation for being held in the Light during her wait for a liver transplant. She notes that she mostly feels well but occasionally has a downward turn. Please hold her and her entire family in the Light.
- Amy Kimball and her husband David Schmickel will return home this coming week and continue to recuperate from their car accident.
- Mary Yancey continues to recuperate.
- Molly Brian asks we hold her sister-in-law, Martha, who is in a North Carolina Intensive Care Unit, in the Light.
- Sam Steffens asks we hold her ill stepfather in the Light and at the same time shares the joy of watching her daughter navigate the challenges of young adulthood.
- Congratulations! Matt Gray, assistant professor, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and faculty member Professor Ming Li have been named U.S. Fulbright Scholars for the 2024-2025 academic year. The U.S. Fulbright Program seeks to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and partner countries through educational and cultural exchange programs. The program provides unique opportunities for scholars to teach and conduct research abroad. “Our short-term goals include conducting acidification experiments with the European Flat oyster, but my hope is the award will help establish long-lasting collaborations with researchers in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe,” said Gray in the Star Democrat article.
- Robert Gladney, leader of the Wednesday Morning Artists, Dorchester Center for the Arts and Academy Art Museum of Easton, organized a day for 26 participants to have their clay creations glazed and fired in the Raku method. See Star Democrat for details.
- Condolences to the family of Debbie Rossiter Cox Deborah Cox 83, a longtime member of Third Haven Monthly Meeting, passed away after an extended battle with Alzheimer’s Disease on February 16th, 2024, at Talbot Hospice in Easton. As a nurse practitioner, Debbie’s love was for the less fortunate with the most challenging health care needs. She is survived by her daughter; Brittain Shaw, son; John Shaw, and her four grandchildren, her aunt Janine, stepson David Cox and step-granddaughter Jamie Cox, and husband Doyle. Deborah Cox’s Memorial Meeting for Worship will be held on April 6, starting at 11:30 in the Brick Meeting House. At the rise of the meeting, there will be an interment ceremony by the Maryland Nurses Honor guard. After this, her husband, Mr. Doyle Cox, and his family have invited all attending to join them in the Common Room for a simple lunch. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to Talbot Hospice, 586 Cynwood Dr., Easton, MD or the Alzheimer’s Association
- Beverley Martin has recently had surgery. She would appreciate being held in the Light, receiving cards and/or any warm, healing energy. Her daughter is staying with her for two weeks.
- Melissa Grant asks that we hold her cousin and the cousin’s son in the light during a family emergency.
- Jonathan Slocum asks we hold the family of Enrico Conti, recently deceased father of Jonathan’s brother in law, in the light.
- Paige Tilghman asks we hold in the Light previous attender Carol Reed and her family on the sudden loss of her nephew.
- CONDOLENCES: Our condolences go to Winslow Womack and his entire family on the passing of Helen on Friday, December 1. Helen was a huge contributor to the life of Third Haven Friends Meeting and will be missed.
- We send our condolences to Sumner Parker and family on the loss of his wife Fran.
- Tom Corl asks Friends to hold the Spirit of his nephew Craig Deem in the Light. Craig died in early October, age 69. Craig’s father Art Deem died in December 2020, age 95. Craig’s mother, Tom’s sister Ruth, died in September 2022, age 92. They are survived by Craig’s older Brother David Deem. Hold David in the Light as well.
- Dee Rein asks that we please hold in the Light her brother Max’s extended family and all other families in British Columbia, Hawaii and the U.S. West dealing with fire dangers.
- Connie Lewis asks that we hold Larry in the Light with surgery impending.
- Friends are asked to hold in the Light Tom and Samantha McCall and their family as they deal with Samantha’s health challenges.
Events at Third Haven:
Be sure to check out the Calendar for more events not listed here!
- Friday, May 10th, 9am to 12pm: Tree Survey Resumes
All are welcome to help the tree surveyors Friday, May 10, 9-noon, or anytime therein. Meet at the Common Room. We are finishing the Third Haven Monthly Meeting property tree survey that began last Spring. Participants are advised to wear long, light colored pants, ideally ones that can tuck in socks, to ward off ticks. Please let Sally Claggett know in advance if you would like to take part so we can be sure to have sufficient measuring tools on hand.
Announcements from Third Haven's Committees:
- From Worship & Ministry:
- Thoughts on a more Settled Meeting: Quakers have come up with practices that are most conducive to a settled meeting. Please review the following link.
- Facilities Use Committee Zoom Meeting Scheduling:
This document was prepared by Third Haven Friends Meeting Facilities Use Committee is attached here to guide us through the process of setting up and running our meetings. - First Day School Updates:
The children listened on First Day to the Faith and Play story entitled “Gifts.’ They were thoughtful in their responses to gifts we share and gifts they own. Afterwards hospitality was presented by the FDS committee with Melissa Grant, Sarah Claggett and Marion Murphy helping with set up/clean up and providing nourishment for the Meeting.
First Day School Activities:
- April/May: outdoor learning
- Moving up day June 2024
- Third Haven Summer Mindfulness Camp June 24-28, 2024
- June 30 - July 7: Friends General conference in Haverford PA. This is another exciting opportunity to gather with other Quaker families in community. Check out Friends General Conference: The Gathering.
- From Testionies & Concerns:
- The Guide for Giving:
Testimonies and Concerns Committee has prepared The Guide for Giving, an annotated list of non-profit, charitable organizations who sustain values and priorities in keeping with our Queries. Please click here to view the guide. - Minutes for Testimonies and Concerns Meeting, 9/06/20.
- The Guide for Giving:
Announcements about Local Non-profits or Faith Organizations:
- Detention Center Library:
A small group from Third Haven and friends maintain the library at the Talbot County Detention Center. This was started many years ago by Ralph and Mary Young. The Talbot County Detention Center Library needs an additional volunteer. It involves one session of about two hours a month. The time is somewhat flexible—what you and your partner decide. The work involves checking books in and out for the guards to distribute to the inmates. Contact Stephanie French if you have time and inclination to join us. - The Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform (MAJR) reports their efforts, in the 2023 Maryland General Assembly Session, found success in passing some bills, partial-success with others, and still are building support for many more important bills. See additional information at their website.
- Talbot Interfaith Shelter:
Because THFM has been a stalwart supplier of dinners since the very earliest days, we were asked to yield to a new team for the 17th of the month. So we are released from that commitment. Thanks to all of you who provided food and cooked over the years. Lately we have had fun cooking together in the Common Room kitchen. We are still charged with helping to provide "Housesitting" during weekdays on the 17th so that the staff doesn't have to answer the door or phone, or can go off-site. Please contact Sarah Sayre if you can help! - PEARLS:
Stacy Ewing, of the Talbot County Health Department writes to our meeting, "I wanted to let you know about a home visiting program called PEARLS (Programs the one who should be able to get for Encouraging Active, Rewarding Lives)." Please click here for a brochure with more information. - Maryland Citizens's Health Initiative (MCHI) Request:
Third Haven has received a request from Nikki Richards of Homewood Friends Meeting in Baltimore asking us to endorse a resolution brought forward by their Maryland Citizens's Health Initiative (MCHI). If our Meeting supports the concept of equal access to quality, affordable healthcare for Marylanders we can help on this new Initiative to improve health equity. Health inequities based on race, ethnicity, and place of residence persist throughout the state, and have been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Maryland Citizens's Health Initiative requests that community organizations, faith groups, small businesses, and others around the state sign on by September 16 in support of this life saving initiative. If it is the sense of our Meeting that we endorse this, our response can be forwarded to them. The Initiative's Resolution can be reached by clicking on this link. - Feed The Front is organized to connect donors, restaurants and volunteers to feed essential workers in Talbot County.
- Acts of Kindness: A Task Force volunteer provides interpretation services between Mid Shore ProBono attorneys and immigrants. Another volunteer has been reaching out to immigrant children through the arts, as part of an after school program sponsored by the Chesapeake Multi Cultural Resource Center. Another, expert in immigration law, filed objections to proposed regulations that would raise barriers to documented immigrants becoming citizens. 2 volunteers from the task force have reached out to the many other congregations throughout the county to expand the network of congregations associating with the task force. There are 6 local congregations that are already associated with the task force and include Temple B'nai Israel, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship At Easton, Third Haven Friends Meeting, Easton Church of the Brethren, Scott's United Methodist Church and Grace Lutheran Church.Reach out to: Helpingimmigrantstc@gmail.com.
- Opportunity: If you are interested in helping to start a worship service at Eastern Shore Correctional Institute, please call Molly Brian. No set schedule is yet formed on this, but we are trying to see if there is genuine interest in a project there.
- If you would like to make a public statement of your commitment to our Peace Testimony, the opportunity to do so exists eachThursday afternoon. Peace Vigils are held each Thursday from 5 to 6 p.m. The Thursday vigil is held in Easton in front of the Talbot County Court House.
Announcements from Quaker Organizations:
- Quaker Voice of Maryland just launched their legislative priority survey and are seeking input from Quakers across Maryland. Results of the survey will guide discerning 2024 legislative priorities. Submissions are due by midnight on January 8th, 2024. You can access the brief survey link and learn more here: Quaker Voice Survey.
- Join Us! Quaker Earthcare Witness 2024 Spring Gathering (April 25-29): Register Here.
- Building a Meaningful and Connected Life - FGC eRetreat,
April 22 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm:
The Building a Meaningful and Connected Life eRetreat by Friends General Conference delves into the profound spirituality of meaning-making, resilience, renewal, and life transitions. Through contemplative practices and insightful discussions, Friends will navigate the rich tapestry of growing older at any age while embracing spiritual gifts across the lifespan. REGISTER HERE. - Updates from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM):
- Annual Spiritual Formation Retreat, April 19-21, 2024
Listening One Another Into Wholeness
Nurture your spirit with a weekend retreat designed to uplift your sense of hope and interconnectedness through listening deeply to self, others and to nature. We will have the opportunity for loving conversations and activities with fellow travelers on the Spiritual Journey. We are pleased to provide an opportunity to gather with, O, a member of the Central Philadelphia Meeting and a seasoned facilitator of workshops focused on Quaker values rooted in love, peace, and social justice. Additionally, we will be joined by Molly Hicks, a member of Old Haverford Meeting, who will share her creative music and songs that express her spiritual relationship with God and with others. We will meet at Pendle Hill in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, a beautiful Quaker Retreat Center on 24 acres. Enjoy comfortable accommodations and delicious homemade meals, made with local organic ingredients.
REGISTER HERE. - Young Adult Friend Alex Emmert, Wicomico River Monthly Meeting, Shares Experience With Quakerism and Annual Sessions
Written on: August 3, 2023
We sat down with 19 yr. old Young Adult Friend, Alex Emmert from Wicomico River Monthly Meeting to find out what drew him to Quakerism from his upbringing as Baptist, what he enjoyed most about Annual Sessions and what he is looking forward to seeing from Quakers in the next decade. Alex shares his personal, truthful experiences with Quakerism and insights on outreach to other young adults seeking solid spiritual grounding. To see Alex's story, use this link: https://www.pym.org/young-adult-friend-alex-emmert-shares-experience-with-quakerism-and-annual-sessions/. - An Urgent Call to the Religious Society of Friends:
This call to action from PYM was authored by a group of nineteen Quakers, who see forces at work in our country that undermine some of our basic values of equality, truth-telling, and deep listening. - Supporting Children & Teens After Violent News:
In the last two weeks we have been repeatedly confronted with gun violence. The 3 recent events have happened in the kinds of everyday places that should be safe—the grocery store, church, and school. How do we talk to children about gun violence? - Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Response to the Crisis in Ukraine: Quakers from around the world are in anguish and deeply concerned with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Our hearts are with the people of Ukraine and Quakers in the affected areas in this dark time. As a historic peace church, we join our call for peace in the world to their cries for peace and help.
- Help Us Address Racism
A sprint (a goal-oriented short-term team that tackles a project and does the work quickly) has formed under the care of PYM's Administrative Council to propose ways for our yearly meeting community to intentionally hold the work of anti-racism and anti-oppression. Learn more on how you can help. - Pathways to Ending Gun Violence: Legislative Solutions
On Saturday, April 10, the Legislative Policy Collaborative of PYM sponsored a virtual workshop on Pathways to Ending Gun Violence: Legislative Solutions. Nearly 120 people registered for this event—clearly, this is a topic of great concern to F/friends, as representatives from more than 30 meetings tuned in to get informed and to get involved. - Epistles And Minutes:
Before the first reading of the PYM epistle on Saturday night, PYM rising clerk, Melissa Rycroft, described an epistle as a letter that is "not written for those of us in PYM. It is our outgoing letter to others in the world". Epistles are not meant to be a recitation of everything that happened, instead minutes capture those details. Nor are epistles a travel-log or documentary. Melissa emphasized that an epistle actually tracks how the spirit has moved among us.
- Annual Spiritual Formation Retreat, April 19-21, 2024
- From Friends Committee on National Legislation:
Support The Bill: At the PYM ecojustice conference this past week, information was given on the Clean Energy Protection Program (CEPP). This will be debated in the US Congress in the next few weeks. If you want to support the bill, here is an easy link for you to send an email to our Congress people: https://fcnl.quorum.us/campaign/34603/?utm_source=fcnlaction. The instructions are simple, however it's a good idea to make the email your own by writing at least a personal statement at the start and the finish. The bill would help us move towards clean energy by 2030. For extra punch, mention the Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator (Called a National Climate Bank in the Senate), as this bill would help low income communities with a series of environmentally friendly loans.
Regular Announcements:
- Please remember to greet visitors to meeting—answer what questions they have about Friends, our buildings, our programs and activities. We are all emissaries of Third Haven.
- Contributions to the meeting can be made by way of the contributions box in the Brick Meetinghouse entranceway. Checks can also be sent to THMM, P.O. Box 2379, Easton, MD 21601; or by clicking on the button below:
- Are your names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail listings all correct in the Third Haven Directory? Please review your information at Directory. The online directory remains protected: please e-mail taniahharrison@gmail.com or hawkjm@goeaston.net if you need the password. If you have corrections for the Directory, please send them to 3rdhaven@gmail.com.
- Faith and Practice can be read and portions extracted from the PYM website at this link.
- If you have material for the newsletter, additional announcements, or added information about any of these posted events, please send it to 3rdhaven@gmail.com.
- Fridays, Zoom Happier Hour 7 PM:
Hospitality would also like to remind the community that the zoom happier hour conversation is still happening on Fridays at 7:00 pm. Typically, about 7-10 people use the hour to reconnect, share news and again, offer fellowship. Please contact John Turner for more information. - Food Pantry Donations: We continue to support our community at the Neighborhood Service Center with donations of nonperishable food. Please remember to bring an item First Day and contribute to the bin outside the Meeting House. Food is then delivered on Tuesdays to the Neighborhood Service Center.