Announcements last updated September 17th, 2025:
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- The September newsletter is now available.
- 6 ways to support immigrants right now | American Friends Service Committee
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- Reading the Gospels as Friends, Thursday September 18:
The Worship and Ministry Committee continues this series with chapters of John. The discussion group, led by Terry-Thomas Primer, will meet in the Common Room at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday September 18. This discussion is not available on Zoom. - Tree Succession Plan Meeting Friday Sept 19 1p.m.:
At the August 22 Planning Committee meeting, the Committee agreed to invite Jonathan Ceci and Heather Corcoran of Jonathan Ceci Landscape Architecture (JCLA) to make an in-person presentation of their final Tree Succession Plan (TSP) at Third Haven. This presentation will be on Friday, September 19, at 1:00 pm following the regularly scheduled Planning Committee meeting at 11:00 am, allowing a break between Planning and the Tree Succession Plan presentation. We encourage Third Haven Friends to attend to see and learn about the final JCLA version of our Tree Succession Plan. We strongly encourage Third Haven Friends to attend in-person to see the maps and graphics more clearly. We will arrange for a JCLA (not Meeting) Zoom link, but expect that it will be difficult to follow on Zoom. - First Day School Updates:
Greetings Families of Third Haven Friends Meeting! I hope you all enjoyed your summer. Fall is just around the corner. As many of you know, the brick Meeting House is going through a total renovation of the upstairs. I am excited to welcome back families to this new space (new carpet, fresh paint, new furniture etc.) We have also installed a new outdoor metal stairway and gathering brick patio as well as a new ADA compliant ramp to worship.
Here are some important Fall 2025 dates for family participation. They are all family events so we hope everyone will put them on their calendars.
First Day School Activities:- Sept 21: Southern Quarter Meeting with potluck lunch and a family program 10 a.m.
- Oct 4: Carriage Shed Sale; all ages needed 8 a.m. start time but come anytime (help is needed the week before this event (9/9-10/4))
- Oct 18: Halloween bonfire 6-9pm Enniskillen Farm all ages
If you have an idea that may contribute to the longevity of our youth and Quaker faith, please contact Sarah Hilderbrand or Susan Claggett. We LOVE having you worship and learn with us !! - Southern Quarterly Meeting at Third Haven and Welcome Back FDS Potluck Luncheon Sunday, September 21st:
Third Haven Friends will be hosting the next Southern Quarterly Meeting on Sunday, September 21st. Please save the date! This is our opportunity to worship together & strengthen ties with other Delmarva Quakers of all ages, including a Welcome Back FDS Potluck Luncheon! More information will be shared soon. Check back here for updates. - Worship and Ministry Committee:
- The Worship and Ministry Committee is offering a religious education program on "Faith and Practice at Third Haven Friends Meeting." This 6-session program follows on Quakerism 101 offerings, from time to time in the past. This is a shorter more condensed program, more focused on the life of Third Haven. It may be of interest to more recent members and attenders. The schedule is confirmed:
- Quaker history: Priscilla Sener, 9.28
- That of God: Tom Corl, 10.5
- Silent worship: Molly Brian, 10.19
- Testimonies and witness: Molly Brian, 11.16
- Community: Clinton & Kathryn Pettus, 12.7
- Future of Third Haven Friends Meeting: Clinton Pettus & Tom Corl, 1.4.26
- The Worship and Ministry Committee is offering a religious education program on "Faith and Practice at Third Haven Friends Meeting." This 6-session program follows on Quakerism 101 offerings, from time to time in the past. This is a shorter more condensed program, more focused on the life of Third Haven. It may be of interest to more recent members and attenders. The schedule is confirmed:
- Inward Bound Quiet Day: September 22, 2025; 10am to 3pm (pot-luck lunch at 12 noon)
Join us for a day of peace and inward renewal.
Common Room and grounds of Third Haven Friends Meeting | Join TH Friends in a silent retreat that offers a day of listening for the Light within, contemplation, reading, walking the grounds, writing, and self-chosen art activities. We enjoy a shared, silent potluck lunch, and end our session with a short sharing session. Come for all or part of the retreat. Information and/or RSVP: Katherine Johnson. - Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Climate Witness, 10/25:
As we face the urgent call to act on climate justice, we invite you and your meeting to be part of Climate Witness: Let Our Actions Speak! Thread Gathering on October 25, either in person at Arch Street Meeting House, or online. Please click here for more information or to register for the event. - Care Basket for Neighborhood Service Center Donations:
Meeting members and attenders, regularly bring donations of non-perishable food to Meeting for Worship and place their gifts into the care basket outside the meeting house. This is whisked off by John Schreiner to the Neighborhood Service Center and returned to be stored at the meeting until the next First Day. We thank Winslow Womack for initiating this program, John Schreiner for continuing and all the Friends who donate weekly. - Quaker organizations for action: The following organizations represent Quakers nationally, statewide and locally. Their websites reflect current activities and opportunities to participate.
- September 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.
Events at Third Haven:
Be sure to check out the Calendar for more events not listed here!
- Sunday, September 7th, 11:30AM: Worship Sharing
Worship and Ministry will sponsor a second worship-sharing session at 11:30 A.M. on Ninth Month, Seventh Day 2025. The following queries will be used to center the session:- How is my spiritual well-being in the current socio-political environment?
- What can I do to enhance my spiritual well-being?
- What can the Meeting do to support my spiritual well-being during the current socio-political environment?
- Sunday, September 14th, 11:30AM: Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
Meeting for Worship will be held in the Brick Meeting House from 10-11 a.m. with simultaneous virtual meeting. Meeting for Business will convene at approximately 11:30 a.m. If you have items for the Meeting for Business agenda, transmit them to clerk Ben Tilghman by e-mail by Tuesday, September 9th. Information can be presented orally. If you intend to request Meeting action, please present your item in writing and submit it by Wednesday September 10th to Ben Tilghman and recording clerk, Dee Rein. It is advantageous for Meeting understanding to have items written, in advance. - Sunday, September 21st, 11:30AM: Southern Quarterly Meeting at Third Haven and Welcome Back FDS Potluck Luncheon:
Third Haven Friends will be hosting the next Southern Quarterly Meeting on Sunday, September 21st. Please save the date! This is our opportunity to worship together & strengthen ties with other Delmarva Quakers of all ages, including a Welcome Back FDS Potluck Luncheon! More information will be shared soon. Check back here for updates. - Monday, September 22nd, 10AM - 3PM: Inward Bound Quiet Day
Join us for a day of peace and inward renewal.
Common Room and grounds of Third Haven Friends Meeting | Join TH Friends in a silent retreat that offers a day of listening for the Light within, contemplation, reading, walking the grounds, writing, and self-chosen art activities. We enjoy a shared, silent potluck lunch, and end our session with a short sharing session. Come for all or part of the retreat. Information and/or RSVP: Katherine Johnson.
Announcements from Third Haven's Committees:
- Hospitality Change News for 2025:
The Hospitality Committee will do things a little differently for 2025. We've divided our committee up into teams of 2 or 3 people who will hold primary responsibility for certain months of the year. Responsibility of the teams is to RECRUIT other meeting members to contribute food and help with setup / cleanup on certain days, with the team members being primarily responsible for whatever needs doing on those days. We will no longer ask other Third Haven committees to be responsible for Hospitality during certain months, but if any committees want to continue that practice in order to remind themselves to participate, we are grateful for that and will let the Hospitality team members for those months know, so they can coordinate together. The team members and the months they are responsible for will be written on the sign-up calendar which will continue to be on the refrigerator for other meeting members to sign up as well. - 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. - 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. - 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:
- Updates from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM):
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Annual Sessions:
Annual Sessions will take place from Wednesday, July 23 – Sunday, July 27 at Cheyney University’s campus, offering a space for Friends to worship in community and practice our faith. The theme of sessions, Members One of Another, reminds us that our faith is not just about the places we meet, but the relationships we build, nourish, and support. The question “How are we called to create safe spaces for people affected by the changes in our nation?” is included on the agenda. It will be explored through four areas:- Direct action
- Building relationships
- Advocacy with elected officials
- Education
- UPDATE: The U.S. District Court of Maryland ruled in our favor by blocking the Trump administration’s policy that permitted indiscriminate immigration enforcement actions in houses of worship. This preliminary injunction is a crucial step in upholding the right of all people to worship without fear. However, the ruling applies only to the plaintiffs and is a temporary action. Even so, we are encouraged as it sets a strong precedent as the case moves forward.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting joined our neighbors in New England and Baltimore Yearly Meetings, as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. You can read more information about the lawsuit in the story published on PYM’s website and in the press release from Democracy Forward which filed the suit. More information can also be found at NBC News.
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Annual Sessions:
- From Pendle Hill:
- Pendle Hill’s summer programming reflects our renewed commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in a time when many members of our community have come under threat. We have many additional events throughout the summer, including several arts programs, all listed in our summer brochure.
- 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.