Quakerphernalia
The Newsletter of Bucks Quarterly
Meeting of Friends
November 1997
Contacting the Coordinator
Events
This Month plus 
Last-minute
updates
Looking
Ahead
Chandler
Hall Worship Services
Details
about Past and Coming Events
Snippets of News from the
Quarter and Other Places
Just in case you forgot to write down a phone number, etc.
November 1997
|
| 1 |
Sat |
9-12 |
BQM Budget & Nominating Committee meets at Makefield Meeting. |
| 1 |
Sat |
9-1 |
Basic Conflict
Resolution at the Bucks County Peace Centers. |
| 1 |
Sat |
9:30-12:30 |
Open Meeting on Money vs.
Wealth by the Environmental Working Group. |
| 9 |
Sun |
12-4 |
Bucks County Peace Centers Peaceful Toy &
Craft Fair at George School. |
| 11 |
Tues |
7:30 |
BQM Singing Group meets at Friends Village. |
| 14 |
Fri |
6:00 |
BQM Worship & Ministry Committee meets at
Solebury. |
| 14-16 |
Fri-Sun |
|
White People
Working On Racism/Meeting the Shadow at Falls Meeting. |
| 15 |
Sat |
8:30-1 |
Interfaith Housing
workday for high school Young Friends. |
| 16 |
Sun |
9-3 |
Bucks
Quarterly Meeting for Worship and Business at Yardley Meeting. |
| 20 |
Thurs |
7:30 |
BQM Oversight Committee meets at Newtown. |
| 21-23 |
Fri-Sun |
|
PYM Young Friends at Lancaster, PA. "Trusting
the Path." Call 241-7222. |
| 22 |
Sat |
7:30-10:30 |
Teen Night at Wrightstown. |
| 27 |
Thurs |
9:30 |
Thanksgiving Meeting for Worship at Plumstead
followed by Potluck Brunch. |
Looking Ahead
|
| Dec 9 |
|
|
Admissions Open House at The Quaker School at
Horsham. |
Chandler
Hall Worship Services will be organized by:
November - Southampton
December - Wrightstown
December - Yardley
Details
About Past and Coming Events
Money vs. Wealth
The Environmental Working Group will host an "open meeting" on Saturday,
November 1st at Arch Street from 9:30 AM-12:30 PM on "Money vs. Wealth."
The presenter will be David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule
the World. He will discuss "what citizens should know about the globalization
and deregulation of corporations and finance." Panelists Zulene Mayfield,
Chairperson for Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, and the
Rev. J. Andy Smith, Director of Social and Ethical Responsibility in Investing,
will join David Korten in considering how these developments are affecting
our region. For more information call 609-261-8190.
Teen Night at Wrightstown
Don’t forget to gather a few of your friends for another evening of fun
and games! Teen Night is on Saturday, Nov 22 from 7:30-10:30 PM. Bring
some goodies to eat or $2.
Interfaith Housing Workday
High school Young Friends are needed for a workday at Interfaith Housing
on Saturday, November 15th. We will meet at George School at 8:15 AM, drive
down to the Interfaith Housing office and go from there to the site where
the work is being done. Bring tools, lunch, warm clothes, gloves, and a
giving spirit. Interfaith Housing relies on us each year to put in some
time so that low-income families can have their own homes. Call Sandy for
information: 860-9747.
A Wonderful Afternoon
at Friends Home
Friends from all over the Quarter came to celebrate the 100th anniversary
of Friends Home on October 5th. Bill Parry led the way with opening remarks.
Three families, the Paxsons, Palmers, and Parrys, were honored with commemorative
Mercer tile plaques on 3 buildings at the Home. The 100th anniversary certificate
was signed by over 125 guests. Several private rooms and apartments were
available for viewing. It was a splendid afternoon!
Basic Conflict
Resolution at Peace Centers
The Bucks County Peace Centers are offering a Basic Conflict Resolution
Workshop on Saturday, November 1st from 9 AM-1 PM. Participants will learn
the skills of active listening, using "I" messages, problem solving, and
other creative ways to respond to conflict. The workshop will be held at
the Peace Centers, 102 West Maple Ave., Langhorne. The cost is $30. You
must pre-register by calling the Peace Centers at 750-7220. This is a good
opportunity for those who attended the Quarterly Meeting at Falls to extend
their knowledge.
PYM Wants Our News!
If your meeting does not already send the newsletter to PYM, they wish
you would. Judy Van Hoy reads them all! She copies articles which might
be of interest to the staff and files them. Help spread the BQM word by
putting Judy on your mailing list: PYM, 1515 Cherry, Phila., PA 19102.
Quaker School at
Horsham Open House
The Quaker School at Horsham, which is a Friends elementary and middle
school for children who learn differently, will hold an admissions open
house on Tuesday, Dec. 9th from 9-11 AM. For more information, please contact
William Hallowell. The Quaker School at Horsham is located at 318 Meetinghouse
Rd., Horsham, PA. Phone: 215-674-2975; email: WHALLOWELL@aol.com; fax:
215-674-9913.
Nurturing the Spirit in
Recovery
The Family Relations Committee of PYM would like to offer a new workshop,
"Nurturing the Spirit in Recovery." This 7-week workshop will be led by
Richard Squailia of Willistown Meeting. It is open to anyone who would
like to enhance daily spiritual practice and reduce stress by learning
to be less controlled by emotional and physical reactions. The program
is designed to increase connectedness with the power to grow and to change
and to heal. To learn more about this upcoming program call 610-648-0378.
White People Working on
Racism
The Center for Change is holding a 3-day workshop, White People Working
on Racism/Meeting the Shadow, from Friday through Sunday, November 14-16.
The workshop will be held at Falls Meeting. The facilitator is Antje Mattheus
who has worked for over 22 years on oppression and liberation issues. The
workshop offers white people an opportunity to meet and learn about our
shadow, the creation and development of racism in the US, and our role
in it. By accepting that such racism exists in society and in us, we create
a base for healing, balancing, and actions for change. The cost of the
workshop is $225 including tuition, Saturday lunch and dinner, Sunday lunch,
and all snacks. Call Susan Snipes-Wells at 849-1994 for more information.
Stages of Life: Faithful
Responses
There wasn’t room in the last Quakerphernalia for this: the 8:00 PM Monday
Evening Lecture Series at Pendle Hill still has 8 in the series left, beginning
on October 20th with Adolescence, followed by Vocation at Midlife,
Coming Out as Gay, Marriage, Parenthood, Divorce, Caring for Dying Parents,
and The Second Stage of Aging. For more information call 610-566-4509.
Bucks
Quarterly Meeting for Worship and Business at Yardley
First Day, November 16, 1997
1652!
Join with Friends in the Quarter for this event!
| 9:00 |
Registration and coffee. |
| 9:30 |
Join the Bucks Quarter Singing Group in song. |
| 10:00. |
Meeting for Worship |
| 11:15 |
1652! led by Janet Burkholder and Sid Cadwallader. |
| 12:30 |
Enjoy conversation and luncheon provided by
Yardley Friends. |
| 1:30 |
Meeting for Worship for Business. |
There will be childcare and school-age children’s programs all day, including
Constructing a Shed, Nature’s Bouquet (gathering materials to make flower
arrangements for the tables), Make Your Own T-Shirts, Fun and Games with
Sign Language, Art As It Relates to the World’s Religions, and a Teen Gathering
to discuss The Spirituality in Our Lives.
(Wear clothes suitable for painting and hammering!)
Snippets of News from
the Quarter and Other Places
On June 12-14, 1998 PYM
will offer a weekend gathering entitled Companions Along the Way.
This is a conference on Adult Religious Education for Quaker Spiritual
Life and will take place at George School. Put this one on your calendar!
Anne Merrill of Southampton
Meeting shook President Clinton’s hand when he and Hillary came to the
church service at the Tabernacle in Martha’s Vineyard.
You might want to give thanks on Thanksgiving
Day by worshipping at Pumstead. A meeting for worship is planned for
9:30 AM, followed by a potluck brunch. Call Beth Taylor at 822-2299 for
more information.
Several First
Day Schools have "taken to the road" and visited other meetings. Yardley
Meeting’s Young Friends visited Makefield Meeting to see how their
shed was constructed as they plan to build their own portable shed to be
used for Meeting events.
Friends at Buckingham Meeting welcomed David
Smith and Bethann Morgan after their six-month trek on the Appalachian
Trail. A covered dish dinner and slide show of the trip made it a special
evening.
You can order the current edition of the Guide
to Quaker Services for the Aging by calling 1-800-220-0796, ext. 226.
The Coordinator occasionally learns of a used
appliance looking for a new home. If you have something to offer, there
are Friends out there who have needs. Call the Coordinator at 860-9747
if you want to give or receive.
Bryn Hammarstrom showed a retrospective
of Lehigh Valley Meeting with his slide show of events dating from 1960
when the Meeting broke ground for the meetinghouse. Friends saw the evolution
of the meetinghouse as well as the changes in clothing and Lehigh Valley
members!
Friends at Makefield Meeting gave a house-warming
shower for Anne Twining to make her new apartment feel homey.
Feeling frustrated about getting an article to Sandy in time for the
next Quakerphernalia? Always check the bottom of this page
for the cut-off date.
To have your events listed in the December issue, please notify the
coordinator by November 14:
Coordinator
Box 4477
George School
Newtown, PA 18940
Phone: 215 860-9747
bucksqtr@libertynet.org
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