Adelphi
Friends Meeting
All are Welcome
3/4/07
2303 Metzerott Road, Adelphi, MD 20783
Ann Marie
Moriarty, Clerk
Meetings
for Worship at Adelphi:
Every
Sunday
10:00 AM
1st, 2nd , 4th, 5th
Sunday
9:00-9:40 AM
2nd Sunday Outdoor Worship 9:00-9:40
AM
Singing: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th
Sunday, 9:40-10:00 AM /3rd Sunday, 9:00-10:00 AM
Business Mtg 2nd
Sunday, at rise of meeting, childcare available
Potluck: 4th
Sunday, at rise of meeting
Contributions:
Please place in box in the foyer, or give to Melanie Gifford, 4216 Sheridan St.,
University Park, MD 20783
Information
for newcomers/visitors:
at
rise of meeting in library of the building next to Meeting House by Outreach
Committee Assisted Listening Device is available. Please
ask greeter for a headset.
To receive electronic Announcements & Newsletter: Mailinglist@adelphifriends.org
Silent Announcements: Contact: Beth Anderson, 301-474-0559 or
afm-silent-ann@earthlink.net,
Deadline: Thursday evening. Newsletter:
Contact: Ann Marlowe, afm-newsletter@earthlink.net.
Deadline: Last Sunday of the month.
To Schedule an event at Adelphi: Contact: John Wolfrum, Resident,
301 445 1114 with date, time, expected attendance & contact person &
telephone number. To Schedule a
Second Hour: Contact: Carole Hoage, 301 890 4159.
Pastoral Care Committee: Please feel free to call any member of
the committee: Rob Duncan, 301 277 2426; Alaine Duncan, 301 277 2426; Joy
Newheart, 301 614 3912; Rob Oerter, 301 982 5610; Chase Clement, 301.270.3862;
Maggie Cahalan, 301.441.8973; Robalee Chapin,301.565.4636
Meetings
for Worship at Takoma Preparative
every Sunday, 10:30 AM, at Sangha,
7014 Westmoreland Avenue, Takoma Park
UPCOMING EVENTS AT ADELPHI FRIENDS MEETING
Sunday,
March 4th, Second Hour: “Expressing the Light: Spirit-Led
Creativity”
will be the topic of The Adult Religious Education Committee (ARE) session
joining together several Adelphi members including Harold Confer, Deborah James,
Michael Newheart, and Joanna Axtmann to present their work and share the
spiritual basis of their creativity. Members who feel so inclined are also
encouraged to bring and share their spirit-inspired works with the group. Please
join us in what promises to be an inspiring sharing by Adelphi Meeting members
of their spirit-led creative endeavors!
Sunday
March 11th , 9:00 am Outdoor Worship:
will start in March. This is in
addition to the regular 9 am indoor worship.
Stay tuned for more details.
Sunday
March 18, 2nd Hour: Friends will have an opportunity to learn about the Friends
International Center in Ramallah established in 2005 in cooperation with the
Ramallah Friends Meeting in Palestine. As indicated in the Center's vision
statement it offers a ministry of hospitality; creates an atmosphere of care and
respect in which positive, civic, and civil discourse can be pursued; and is a
witness to hope and reconciliation in a region where despair and violence have
too often reigned. In all this we seek to express the deepest values and highest
aspirations of the Quaker faith. Adelphi
Meeting has given financial support to the Center, and Alexander Barnes served
as its first webmaster: http://ramallah.quaker.org/
John Salzberg, a member of the Center's Steering Committee and a member of
Bethesda Friends Meeting, will speak about the historical and spiritual basis
for establishing the Center as well as the Center's ongoing activities. He
may also be showing a DVD, Investment in Hope, in which Jean Zaru, Clerk of
Ramallah Friends Meeting, and other members of the Steering Committee talk about
the origins of Center.
JOYS AND CONCERNS:
Please share your joys and concerns HERE
Warm,
sensitive, spiritual, manly men ISO like-minded men for group activity. Sound
intriguing? Then you might be interested in joining the Adelphi men’s
group. We meet twice a month for a time of sharing and mutual support.
See the Meeting newsletter for more info or call Glenn Riley at 301-565-4636.
Paid position(s) for Adelphi Summer Program:
The Religious Education Committee is seeking recommendations/applications for 2
people to lead First Day Classes for Children in our 3 - 5 year-old program.
We need 2 adults (or one adult (age 19 or older) and one teen (14-18)) to plan
and facilitate weekly sessions for this group from June 24 through September 2,
2007. This could be an ideal position for a returning college student, a
current teacher of this class, an interested parent or other meeting attender
and/or young friends with an interest in working with children. If you
have been attending meeting for at least 6 months and are interested in one of
these positions, please contact a member of the RE committee: Lynn Brown:
301-585-0007, <browngorrell@starpower.net>,
Joanna Axtmann:<jaxart@infionline.net>, Beth Anderson: <bethlanderson@yahoo.com>,
or Angela Toda:<angela_toda@rhsmith.umd.edu>,
COULD YOU HELP ADELPHI MEETING? Could you be a potential Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM) Camping Contact? Could you be a prospective BYM Representative? Could you be a latent BYM Correspondent? Could you be a burgeoning Friends General Conference (FGC) correspondent? Look deep within yourselves. The Nominating Committee has not found anyone to take on these responsibilities for 2007. These tasks can be done by attenders or members, alike. Please contact Wendy Eck, (301) 585-5203, or Ann Marlowe, (301) 681-5197. Thank you!
AFM
Camping Scholarships: BYM camping applications are due to BYM by February 1st or until the
camp is full. If a child in
your family requires financial aid from AFM to offset the cost of camp, please
contact Karen Cunnyngham, AFM Treasurer, at kcunnyngham@ verizon.net, by March
31st.
For Sale: GHI Coop Townhouse with Quaker simplicity, 11-E Ridge Road, Greenbelt, MD. This three bedroom brick has remodeled kitchen w/ washer/dryer unit and microwave built-in. Refinished hardwood floors and original doors. Great location, short walk to the library, pool/fitness center, co-op market, and movie theatre. Call Phillip at 301-474-7416 to make appointment. $250,000
According to the New York
Times' Alan Riding on Feb. 18, 'Amazing Grace' celebrates the story of Quakers
and others 200 years ago in ending slavery in England. My research indicates
that no popular motion picture has ever given serious inquiry into the
successes/failures of the Religious Society of Friends. This deeply flawed and
inaccurate movie may be the only one in our lifetiems to do so. Ray Lane
My 16-year-old daughter and I
for the third consecutive year are planning to kayak with the Anacostia
Watershed Society from the port of Bladensburg down the Anacostia to the Potomac
and thence to the Chesapeake Bay. Dates are 'moveable,' but it looks like the
Monday-Saturday week of June 18-23.
It's about a 120-mile journey, with overnight camping and cooking our own meals
as we go. Beyond hard work and lack of luxuries, the journey offers a
one-of-a-kind opportunity to see a river and way of life just about at the edge
of being 'developed' out of existence. Eagles, ospreys, fish, ship wrecks,
historical sites, and much else awaits the inquiring soul. It's a gem of an
experience. If you'd like to go, see the AWS web site. We'll be happy to answer
questions, share experiences from years past.
Ray Lane (301) 270-6057.
Esther
Webb and I have a lending library of medical equipment. This includes a
wheelchair, walkers, reachers, crutches of all lengths, portable toilets, etc.
Suzanne can be reached at (301) 585-8295 or sues4448@aol.com
OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS
March
17, 2007, 9am to 6 pm: The William Penn House and Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s
Peace and Social Concerns Committee are co-sponsoring the workshop, "Strategy is
Possible." The workshop will take place on Saturday, March 17, 2007 from
9AM to 6PM at the William Penn House on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
Daniel Hunter of Training for Change will facilitate. Training for Change
is a group founded by George Lakey that helps activists stand up more
effectively for justice, peace and the environment. Daniel will share key
lessons gleaned from Training for Change’s Strategy Project focused on
successful social movements around the world.
So if you would like to get a fresh perspective on social change
strategies, gain tools to develop effective strategy, get to know Friends from
other Meetings and reflect on ways Monthly Meetings might work together for
peace and social justice, please join us for this workshop! The cost is $40 per
person before February 15th and $45 after February 15th.
To register or for more information, please call Bernadette Odyniec at
202-543-5560, email ernadette@williampennhouse.org, or go to www.WilliamPennHouse.org.
April 2, Entries are are due
for "Healing the Chesapeake ".
Chears will be sponsoring an arts fundraiser on May 6 with the theme
"Healing the Chesapeake ". We are inviting artists of all ages to
Submit artwork that celebrates
the beauty of and/or expresses ways to heal our wonderful Chesapeake watershed
from mountains, farm-lands and cities...to the bay...and from the states making
up the Chesapeake Watershed (Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York,
Pennsylvania , Virginia and West Virginia ). Chears will share the profits from
art sold 50/50 with the artists. Submissions
are due: April 2, 2007. Submit entries to: CHEARS, 506 Elm Ave. Takoma Park, MD
20912. The Call for Entries, Registration form and Postcard Quilt entries for
young artists are attached and call all be found on the Chears website -
www.chears.org <http://www.chears.org/
May 19, 2007, Save the Date: Friends Wilderness
Center
near Harpers Ferry, WV holds its annual Open House that Saturday. Free.
Come for tours, hikes, yummy lunch, kids' activities and meet people as
interesting as you! Bring a group or bring a sleeping bag and stay the night if
you like in treehouse, yurt or your tent. www.friendswilderness.org.
2 Job Opportunities at William
Penn House:
Please check their web site
at: http://williampennhouse.org/