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1 |
Wed |
7:30 |
Bucks
Quarter Singing Group meets at Makefield. |
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4 |
Sat |
1:30 |
Annual
Public Gathering of the AFSC at
Friends Center. |
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8 |
Wed |
7:30 |
BQM
Outreach Committee meets at Pennswood. |
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9 |
Thurs |
7:00 |
Denis
Halliday speaks at Pennswood Village. |
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10 |
Fri |
7:30 |
Creativity
Sharing at Buckingham Meeting. |
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10-12 |
Fri-Sun |
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PYM
Friends Workcamp weekend. Call 215-241-7236. |
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11 |
Sat |
1:30 |
Bible
Association of Friends in America at Arch Street. Call 856-829-5395. |
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16 |
Thurs |
7:30 |
BQM
Oversight Committee meets at Yardley. |
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17 |
Fri |
6:00 |
BQM Worship & Ministry Committee meets at
Makefield. |
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17-19 |
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PYM
Young Friends trip to Washington. |
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18 |
Sat |
7:00 |
Peace Pals meet at Wrightstown Meeting. |
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19 |
Sun |
9:30 |
Bucks Quarterly Meeting at Wrightstown
Meeting. |
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28 |
Tues |
7:30 |
BQM Singing
Group meets at Makefield Meeting. |
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December
16 |
Doylestown
Meeting benefit concert by John Flynn at Buckingham Friends School. |
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July
22-Aug 14 |
China
Summer: Friends Workcamp at High Bridge School for Girls. |
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January 12-14, 2001 |
A
Seminar in Quaker Theology at State College Friends School |
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April 6-8, 2001 |
Quaker
Peace Roundtable at State College Friends Meeting |
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Bucks Quarterly Meeting for Worship and Business at Wrightstown
Friends Meeting
Season of Peace - The Peace Center
Annual Public Gathering of AFSC
How May More Iraqi Children Must Die? - and What Can We Do?
Bucks Quarter Worship & Ministry Meeting
Amy Raudenbush Gets Book Contract
Newtown Friends School Admissions Open House
Substitute Teachers at Buckingham Friends
Snippets of News from the Quarter and Other Places
November
19, 2000
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9:30-10
am |
Bucks
Quarter Singing Group invites Friends to sing. |
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10-11 am |
Meeting
for Worship. |
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11-noon |
Sharing
Ideas About Adult Education: Content and Delivery of Adult Education. |
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12-1 pm |
Brown
bag lunch. Desserts and beverages provided. |
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1:00 pm |
Meeting
for Worship for Business. |
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Children's Programs from 10 am -
noon: Fun for All Ages. |
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** Cooperative Games ** |
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** Face Painting ** |
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** Candied Carmel Apples ** |
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** Fall Craft Project ** |
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Child care provided from 1 - 3 in
the afternoon. |
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The Season
of Peace, a collaboration with Oxford Valley Mall, begins on Saturday, Nov
18th. There will be a parade at 9 PM. The Peace Center's booth will be open from
10am-3pm on Nov 18th, and noon-3 on Nov 25th, Dec 2nd, 9th, and 16th. There
will be face painting, crafts and family entertainment from 1-2. Friends are
invited to donate a new non-violent toy. There will also be a parent advisor
available to answer questions. Call 750-7220.
On Sept 28
Newtown Friends School held a dedication for the new library media center. At
this event the school announced that this facility will be called The Swayne
Library Media Center in honor of Amelia Swayne, 1st head of school, and Kingdon
Swayne, benefactor and friend.
Please
send announcements for the December issue of Quakerphernalia to: Coordinator,
Box 4477 George School,
Creating
Global Justice - Seeing What Love Can Do is the program for this gathering. The
speaker is the Rev. Robert Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of
Churches. In addition there will be three simultaneous panel discussions. Child
care is provided. The gathering is from 1:30 - 4:30 pm at Friends Center on
November 4th. For more information call 215-241-7000.
Denis
Halliday will be the United Nations Day speaker at Pennswood Village on
Thursday, Nov 9th at 7 PM. He is the Irish Quaker who resigned from the United
Nations after a 30-year career in order to speak out publicly about the
genocidal impact of economic sanctions on the people of Iraq. As the former
Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and former head of the UN Oil
for Food program, he became convinced that lifting the sanctions is the only
way to end the suffering. His talk at Pennswood is sponsored by Falls Meeting
and by the Bucks County Chapter of the U.N. Association of the United States.
The
Newtown Friends School Committee is now accepting applications from Friends who
are interested in serving on the school committee. Newtown Friends is a Pre-K
to 8th grade day school with an enrollment of 338 students. We seek candiates with
various talents and a dedication to a high-quality Quaker value-based
education. Please submit a letter of interest to: Susan Hoskins, Membership
Clerk, Newtown Friends School Committee, Box 225, Newtown, PA 18940.
The Bucks
Quarter Worship and Ministry committee will meet at Makefield Meeting at 6 PM,
on Friday, Nov 17th. The topic is "Spiritual Preparation for Meeting for
Worship." which came out of the Spiritual Outreach program given by Thom
Jeavons on Oct 6th.
Our own
Amy Raudenbush (Middletown Meeting), has gotten a book contract for her book,
Lucy More Needs Less. The lighthearted story examines the preposterous pitfalls
of obsessive consumption and the value of simplicity. There are wonderful
drawings, paintings and text for children As Amy said, "How often does one
get the opportunity to fulfill a lifelong ambition and promote Quaker
values?" The book will be out sometime next year.
The Open
House is on Sun, Nov 5, from 2-4 pm. If families are considering applying to
Newtown Friends, they need to begin the process this Fall for Sept 2001
enrollment. Call Betsy Rendall at 215-968-2225.
If you
know how to juggle, bring your clubs! John Bailey and Ann D'Silva can teach you
how to juggle too! You will get to learn some new tricks. If you have a friend
who juggles, ask him/her to come along for the fun. Or bring a friend - even if
they can't juggle! They can learn the tricks too. The fun begins at 7:00 and
ends at 9:30. Cost is $3 each. You don't need another permission form if you
were there last month. If you're coming for the first time don't forget to have
your parent fill out the permission form on the back of the flyer. We will keep
the permission forms on file for you so you don't have to fill out a form each
time. Call Sandy at 860-9747 for questions or more information.
Buckingham
Friends School is looking for people with teaching experience who would be able
to substitute teach. The school is also in need of occasional secretarial
substitutes. Call the school at 215-794-7491 for information.
Stille
Helfer Exhibit at Arch Street
PYM seeks a
Youth Mediation & Conflict Resolution Specialist
Children
Write Down What's Bugging Them
Folksinger
John Flynn Will Do A Benefit Concert
Friends in
Bucks Quarter congratulate Jillian Parry, Miss Teen U.S.A. 2000! As gifts from
her state, Jill brought a Penn State football autographed by Joe Paterno and
Bucks County commemorative tiles from the Tile Works.
Friends will
want to visit the Stille Helfer Exhibit at Arch Street, open from Nov 4th
through Jan 31st. The exhibit is about the humanitarian work done by Quakers
and others after both world wars and during the Nazi era. It is on loan from
the German Historical Museum in Berlin. The work in part resulted in the 1947
Nobel Peace Prize to the Religious Society of Friends.
Every year
thousands of people die while waiting for organ or tissue transplants. Have you
signed up to become a donor yet? What could your Meeting do? Contact the Gift
of Life Program at 888-DONORS-1 or http://www.donors.org/
to find out.
The
Parents Helping Parents support group meets weekly, providing parents with a chance
to discuss the problems and stresses of raising children and receive help and
guidance from other parent and facilitators. The group meets on Monday evenings
from 7:30-8:30 pm at the United Christian Church, 8525 New Falls Road,
Levittown. The cost is free and childcare is provided. Call the Peace Center at
215-750-7220.
PYM seeks
a Youth Mediation & Conflict Resolution Specialist. This staff person will
support volunteers doing the work of both The Nonviolence and Children Working
Group and Friends Conflict Resolution Programs. A college degree and at least
two years of experience are necessary. Salary is $24,500 - $28,500. Deadline is
November 30th. Send resumes to PYM Youth Mediation Search, c/o Joan Broadfield,
1515 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102.
Eileen
Gall, 3rd & 4th grade teacher at United Friends School writes that she uses
a "Bug Box" with her class. The children write down what's bugging
them. During their weekly meeting a bug paper is pulled out and discussed. It's
a wonderful outlet for children's concerns.
The Drug
Concerns Working Group would be pleased to visit and talk to our Meetings. Call
215-895-1314.
Our own
Faith & Practice and folksinger John Flynn will do a concert to benefit
Doylestown Meeting's expansion of facility project. As many know, their
Meetinghouse is filled to the gills. The date is Saturday, Dec 16th, at
Buckingham Friends School auditorium at 7 pm. Cost is $15 for adults, $5 for
children over five years. Call 610-239-0175.