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Sunday Feb. 18^th : Young Friends and Middle School Young Friends (grades 6-12) are meeting this Sunday, Feb 18, at the Meeting House for lunch and games. If the weather's good, we'll play games outside; if it's dicey, we'll play indoor games (both board games and physical games). Time: After Meeting (12ish) until 2:30 pm, Bring: $3 (singles ppreciated!); games/puzzles you'd like to share; a friend. RSVP to Anna much appreciated (so she can plan munificently for food): annarain61@msn.com.

Sunday, February 18^th, Second Hour: The Adult Religious Education Committee (ARE) has invited Imam Johari Abdul Malik of the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington to present the award-winning film documentary “Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet” and to lead a discussion afterwards on the Prophet Muhammad and Islam in general. Following a brief introduction by Tom Wolfe citing William Penn’s belief in the unity among religions and his support of religious pluralism, selected extracts of the Muhammad film will be shown, leaving time to explore questions such as: Who was Muhammad? What is Islam? What do Muslims believe? Is Islam compatible with American values? How do we move the world in a more peaceful direction? Imam Johari is a former Muslim chaplain of Howard University, President of the Muslim Society of Washington, Head of the National Association of Muslim Chaplains in Higher Education, and Chairman of government relations of the Muslim Alliance of North America. Please join us in what certainly shapes up as a fertile opportunity for Muslims and non-Muslims alike to explore, discuss, and understand each other’s faiths in the context of world upheavals these past several years.

Sunday February 25^th, After Pot Luck: Debbie James and Steve Woods will be leadingtheir monthly Vignette Writing Workshop. Come join our writers group and journal a story from your life. The process is designed to awaken new understandings of ourselves and others. We hope everyone at meeting can attend a vignette workshop at some point. If you can't come this month, please come next.

Sunday, March 4^th, 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 11^th , 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

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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.

Monday Feb. 26 at 11:30 am: FRIENDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL TIME CAPSULE CELEBRATION. All members of the FCS & Adelphi community are invited to attend the time capsule ceremony. During the ceremony, students in grades 7/8, representing all of the students, will fill a time capsule destined to be opened in 25 years. The contents will reflect the environmental ideas and aspirations of our current students, and presumably inspire and amuse them, as well as future students, in 2032. Place: The new campus, 5901 Westchester Park Drive, College Park. A demonstration of straw bale construction will accompany the ceremony. All are welcome.

Esther Webb and I have a lendling 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

I recently decided not to renew my contract with Montgomery College and have been looking for part time work. I have office management skills, database management skills, computer skills, website management experience, tutoring ability, writing ability, editorial experience, supervisory experience, and a strong interest in the arts. If you hear of any such part time (about 20 hours per week) openings in the Washington, D.C. area, with benefits, please let me know. Thank you very much! P e t e r O ' B r i e n 8305 Park Crest Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20910 obrienp.email@gmail.com 301-588-3287

Share House: GHI Coop Townhouse with Quaker simplicity in Old Greenbelt. This three bedroom brick has remodeled kitchen w/ washer/dryer unit and microwave built-in. Refinished hardwood floors and original doors. Short walk to the library, pool/fitness center, co-op market, movie theatre or catch the bus to the Metro downtown. $450 per month and half of the utilities. Call Phillip at 301-474-7416.

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.

A LETTER FROM AFSC:
Friends, I am writing to ask you to keep me in your thoughts and prayers next week. I leave on Saturday (February 17) with a delegation of "religious leaders" for a week in Iran. I, among others, will be representing AFSC and going with the Mennonite Central Committee, National Council of Churches, United Methodist Church, Sojourners (Evangelical), Friends Committee on National Legislation, Episcopal, Catholic and others. We will be meeting with Muslim religious leaders, President Ahmadinejad, women members of Parliament and will be trying to meet the Jewish community in Teheran. We are also trying to meet with women’s rights and human rights activists. The purpose of our trip is to encourage diplomacy and dialogue between the US and Iran, keep the US from a military attack on Iran, and encouraging Iran to meet the deadline of the IAEA and the UN Security Council resolution preventing their attainment of nuclear weapons. We will be accompanied by a video journalist from the PBS program NOW. We plan on a press conference when we return and several days of lobbying in congress and the State Department to try to move the US toward a more reasonable foreign policy. I really would ask that you keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

Thank you, Mary Ellen McNish

SILENT ANNOUNCEMENTS February 18, 2007

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