Quaker Meetings

An exciting event of the Fall will take place at the Arch Street Meeting House on Saturday, October 23, 2010. Under the auspices of the Standing Committee on Peace & Concerns which will be celebrating the 350^th anniversary of the 1660 Statement, “We utterly deny . . .” with many other programs in the fall of 2010. This one day lecture and 15 breakout groups is scheduled for the third Saturday in October. It is hoped that Friends and acquaintances not only of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting but the other three yearly meetings and faculty from Friends schools on the North-East corridor will be able to participate.
The day’s program is entitled “How to Speak to the Other”- that person whose understandings are in direct apposition to our own. There will be a morning lecturer, time for questions, lunch and an afternoon time for attenders to attend two of many break-out groups addressing a variety of areas. These will range from helping our children as parents, teachers  in both Quaker and public schools, and adults in their personal and professional lives. Our speaker will be Sallie B. King, Valley Meeting (BYM), Buddhist Quaker, Professor of Religion at James Madison University, author of five books on Buddhism, BYM?s 1^st Day School Curriculum How to Speak to the Christian Fundamentalist and FGC’s Friends and Other Faiths. [Read more →]

Location: Kennett Meeting
6:30 PM pizza supper provided
7:30 PM Meeting for Worship for Business
RSVP with childcare needs by 09/07/210
RSVP for supper by 09/12/2010
610-444-1012 (press 2 for Western Quarter)

Date: September 14, 2010

The Cynic

What is a rainbow?
A vain show of gaudy beauty,
Wrought from separateness and division of light,
Flight from reason and the glaring white.
A miracle you say, a sign from a God that separates,
Time and time again, colors, sexes, peoples?
Optical conclusions that engender false hope
And promises of riches to be squandered,
Go ahead-Shine, time and time again!
Don’t expect anyone to be impressed
By a so- called miracle of your moment in space time.
I won’t be.

Christine Heaney Howells
August 5, 2010

Feeling confident in the existence of miracles, even in the face of cynicism.

(We will keep a waiting list for future workshops)
$10.00 for the weekend includes registration, snacks, beverages, and lunch on Saturday (vegetarian option will be available)*

Please email or call to register no later than 8/30/10, or if you have questions:

Deborah Bromiley and John Shuford via email: AVPDE@hotmail.com

Kathy Ranck via phone: 610-608-4571
For a flyer to print and post, click. here
Registration fee is due Friday evening, 9/10/10

Cash or checks payable to AVP Delaware, a 501(c)3 organization
For more information, click here.
Remember . . . Peace begins with you!

Seventy Five Friends showed up at London Grove on 4th Month 17th to participate in a special session of Quarterly Meeting. There had been a real concern for the health of the Quarter and an interest in understanding who we were and where we were going. In our search for identity, a community was discovered. ? [Read more →]

The Hickman is expanding its campus to include affordable housing for low income seniors. We are particularly interested in communicating this resource to local Friends and hope that you will assist in distributing our message to the Monthly Meetings in the Concord, Western, and Caln Quarters. Please let me know if you have any question.
Anthony DeCarolis
Admissions & Marketing Director
The Hickman Senior Living Community of West Chester
400 North Walnut Street
West Chester, PA 19380
Office (484) 760-6400
Cell (484) 410-9753
Fax (610) 696-1627
www.thehickman.org