Announcements dated July 27, 2010:
Meetings for Worship:
| First Days 10am: | Fourth Days 5:30pm: |
| July 28 | |
| August 1 | August 4 |
| August 8 | August 11 |
| August 15 | August 18 |
| August 22 | August 25 |
| August 29 | September 1 |
News of Friends, or friends of Friends:
- Aiyana Paterson-Zinkand writes, "I want to thank the Meeting for holding my stepmother, JoAnn Zinkand, in the light for these last months. She passed away last night in her home in Florida."
- Ann Womack writes: "I am not sure where to send out the message to send healing light to my brother Steve who suffered a heart attack Monday afternoon. He is at Salisbury Regional Medical Center, in the Coronary Care Unit. We will have a better idea of the severity of his condition tomorrow but it was a close call, so send love and light to his wife Donna and daughter Amanda, and my parents as well. Thank you, in love and light."
Events/Activities:
- July 28 to August 1: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Summer Sessions 2010: "We Make the Road by Walking—How Are We Called to be Prophetic in our Witness?" DeSales University, Center Valley, PA. All Friends in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting are invited. Please do not stay away for lack of funds. Financial aid is available. Preliminary business agenda includes: EcoJustice concerns and actions, Budget approval & yearly meeting vision, Report from the Middle East WG's delegation of Young Adult Friends to Israel and Palestine, Frequency of annual sessions Faith and Practice revision report, War tax refusal, Quaker process, Quarterly meeting reports. For more information contact: Lou Ann Merkle, Sessions Coordinator at louannm@pym.org; 215-241-7238. Visit http://www.pym.org/annualsessions.
- July 28-August 1: Middle School Friends at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Summer Sessions. If you are a 6th through 8th grader, come and join us in the Middle School Friends program at DeSales University for PYM's annual Summer Sessions! We will meet during the morning and evening adult plenary sessions for an awesome program that will nurture the seeds of Quaker faith, practice and witness within each of us, while getting to know each other and having a lot of fun along the way! Planned activities include a visit to a waterfall, games, singing, arts activities, special visitors, and a scavenger hunt! For Summer Sessions, middle schoolers must have a parent or guardian with them. For more information please contact program staff: Stephen Dotson, Middle School Friends Coordinator, 215-241-7171 StephenD@pym.org.
- July 30 (Friday) 6 pm: The Worship & Ministry summer book discussions will continue with Siddhartha, led by Mark Beck on the Friday, July 30th at 6 pm. The August selection is to be announced.
- INWARD BOUND: A quiet day for Friends
Worship and Ministry will be sponsoring a series of retreat days for Third Haven Friends Meeting. Katherine Johnson and Candace Shattuck will facilitate "Inward Bound", a quiet day of listening for the Light within, reflection, reading, walking the grounds, writing, and self chosen art activities in community with a shared, silent pot-luck lunch. Each session will end with Worship Sharing on a given topic such as: Listening for the voice of God; How do I live a life of peace, etc. Events are being scheduled for Fall 2010, alternating Saturdays with some midweek sessions. Current scheduled dates are: Sept 11 (Sat), October 13 (Wed). Time: 10 am to 3:00 pm. Participants are welcome to come for part of a day, entering with respect for the silence of the group. To sign up, or for questions, please contact: Katherine onespiritcoach@goeaston.net 410-820-0341 or Candace candace.shattuck@gmail.com. - Sept. 24-26 2010, June 17-19 2011: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's SPIRITUAL FORMATION PROGRAM: Gathering Friends from different regions of PYM for a program of individual spiritual deepening and corporate community building. Be supported on your spiritual journey to develop daily spiritual practice(s), share your story with other seekers, and discern what the Inner Light has in store for you! For more information: click here or contact Registrar Susan Thompson, Newtown Meeting at 267-847-6396 or sthompson@healthfederation.org.
Other Announcements:
- MIGRANT MINISTRY UNDERWAY:
Immediate needs:- work boots, sneakers - sizes 7- 10
- sweatshirts– medium & large
- socks
- towels
- work gloves
- sheets & blankets
- jeans – 30/32, 32/34
- insect spray
- t-shirts - med. & large
- toiletries
Ralph Young is our Third Haven contact 410-819-0050 (donations may be put in his white pick-up which is normally parked in front of the common room on First Day meetings for worship). - The online directory remains password protected: please e-mail hawkjm@goeaston.net if you need the password.
- Anyone interested in participating in a group who is examining our Third Haven grounds for a memorial garden (specifically for scattering ashes) please talk with Meredith Watters or by e-mail at MeredithW@atlanticbb.net.
- Please don't forget to bring to Meeting, each Sunday, a non-perishable food item and place it in the container under the literature table in the Common Room.
- 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.