SILENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
February 25, 2007
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sunday February 25th, After Pot
Luck: Debbie James and Steve Woods
will be leading their 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.
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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
JOYS AND CONCERNS:
Please share your joys and concerns HERE
COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY
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.
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
MOVIE:
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 lifetimes to do so.
Ray Lane
TRAV EL: 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
FEB 26 TOWN HALL MEETING WITH
CONGRESSMAN CHRIS VAN HOLLEN.
Residents of 8th Congressional District invited to
participate. Update residents about important issues such as the Iraq War,
Medicare, education, health care, gang violence, the economy, homeland
security, transportation, ethics reform, Social Security, global climate
change, and renewable energy sources. Congressman Van Hollen will answer
questions and respond to comments from the audience. A sign language
interpreter will be provided.
7:30-9 PM John F. Kennedy High School, 1901
Randolph Road, Silver Spring
Info 301-424-3501
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
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