Quakerphrenalia May 2001

May 2001
5	Sat	9:30	Gathering of Quaker teachers and Quakerism teachers at Yardley Meeting.
5	Sat	6-10	United Friends School Spring Benefit.
9	Wed	7:30	BQM Outreach Committee Meets at Pennswood.
10	Thurs	7:30	BQM Oversight Committee meets at Buckingham.
11	Fri	7:30	Creative Sharing at Buckingham Friends Meeting.
11-12	Fri-Sat	8:00	George School musical performance of West Side Story.
11-13			Our Spiritual Mothers: Weekend with Michele Tarter & Georgia Fuller at Pendle Hill.
11-13	Fri-Sun		Young Young Friends camping weekend at Blairstown.
12	Sat	9:30	Arthur Larrabee leads Workshop for Clerks of Quaker Cmttes. (see April newletter)
13	Fri	7:30	Creativity Sharing at Buckingham Friends Meeting.
18	Fri	6:00	BQM Worship & Ministry Committee meets at Lehigh Valley.
19	Sat	9-4	Wrightstown Meeting’s Spring Fair.
19	Sat	7:00	BQM Peace Pals meet at Wrightstown.
20	Sun		Bucks Quarterly Meeting at Buckingham Meeting.
Looking Ahead
June 2		Flea Market at Middletown Meeting.
June 10		BQM Trenton Thunder Baseball Game in Trenton, NJ. (see next page)
June 16		Sites of the Underground Railroad: an African American Perspective. (deadline Tues May 1)
June 18-July 27		Buckingham Friends School Summer Arts Camp. Call 215-794-7491.
June 30-July 7		Friends General Conference at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. Call 215-561-1700.
July 8-15		High School Youth Camp at Pendle Hill. Call 1-800-742-3150.
July 23-Aug 6		The Peace Center Peace Camp at Middletown Meeting. Call 215-750-7220.
July 28-Dec 15		Quakers and the Political Process: Living our Faith into Action. Call 215-627-2667.
Oct 6		Quaker College Fair at Fourth and Arch Street Meetinghouse.
Oct 12-14		Quakers & Racial Justice weekend at Pendle Hill. Call 1-800-742-3150.

Bucks Quarterly Meeting for Worship & Business at Buckingham Friends Meeting

May 20th, 2001

8:30 - 9:00	Registration, coffee, and munchies.
9:00 - 10:30	“Deepening & Strengthening Our Meetings As Faith Communities.”Arlene Kelly, Clerk of Yearly Meeting, will be the facilitator. There will be small group discussions based on Arlene’s comments.
10:30 - 11:30	Meeting for Worship.
11:45 - 1:00	Brown bag lunch. Soup, beverages and desserts available.
1:00 - 3:00	Meeting for Worship for Business.
*First Day School and Young Friends*:
8:30 - 11:30	Crafts, outdoor games, cupcake workshop, and more.
9:00 - 10:30	Young Friends may participate, if they want to, in the adult program.
11:45 - 1:00	Brown bag lunch. Soup, beverages and desserts available.
1:00 - 3:00	Indoor board games, face painting, children’s library, and snacks, with Karen Kay.

Wrightstown Meeting’s Spring Fair

This wonderful Spring Fair will be held on May 19th, from 9:00am-4:00pm. Family fun includes children’s activities, food, crafts, and much more. Table rentals are available for $15 each. Call 215-598-7352 (the phone number in the printed Quakerphrenalia is wrong) for more information.

Religious Witness for the Artic Refuge

A call to Religious Witness for the Arctic Refuge will focus on climate change and energy policy as the larger context in which protection for the Refuge must be placed, to be held in Washington, DC on May 1st-3rd. Lodging is available at William Penn House. Call 1-609-261-8190.

Sites of the Underground Railroad: An African American Perspective

This one-day bus tour on Saturday, June 16, leaves from Souderton, PA at 6:45am and returns by 6:00pm to the Mennonite Conference Center on Route 113 in Souderton. Cost is $40 per person (not including meals). Deadline to sign up is Tuesday, May 1. Children & youth accompanied by an adult are welcome. Join this tour to Christiana and Gettyburg. Revisit the experiences of African Americans with the Underground Railroad and the Civil War. Call Sharon Williams at 215-723-5513 for information.

Young Young Friends Blairstown Camping

This Quaker family weekend near the Delaware Water Gap is open to adults and to children ages 7 to 13 years old, and is sponsored by Philadelphia and New York Yearly Meetings. Blairstown Camp is located in northwest New Jersey. Cost is ages 6-17 $45; 18 years & up is $90. Date is May 11-13. There will be rappelling, ropes and climbing wall, hiking, canoeing on the Delaware and through the Delaware Water Gap, rowing on the camp’s Bass Lake, non-competitive games, night hike, campfire. Send your check to John Kelly, 1 Devon Ave., Lawrenceville, NJ 08648. Note “Blairstown” on the check. For more information call Fran Campbell at 1-856-727-4022.

United Friends School Spring Benefit

The Spring Benefit, on Saturday, May 5th, from 6pm-10 pm, will be held at McShea Center at DeSales University (formerly Allentown College). Preview & Silent Auction is from 6-7:30 pm. The live Auction is from 7:45-10pm. Admission is $10 per guest. Major credit cards accepted. You must be 21 to attend. For tickets, reservations, or information call 215-536-3202. Your participation helps support United Friends School.

Children’s Friendship Project for Northern Ireland

Flea market to support host families for the Children’s Friendship Project for Northern Ireland, a peace initiative, will be held at Middletown Monthly Meeting, 354 West Maple Ave., Langhorne, on Saturday, June 2, at 7:30 am. Call Kate Daly, 215-757-3303, to reserve a space or table or for details of the Friendship Project. To donate, make check payable to CFPNI and mail it to Kate Daly, 299 Dilworth Lane, Langhorne, PA 19047.

Peace Pals

Sarah Conroy and others will lead Improvisation Night. Bring your crazy items from home - crazy clothes, pots & pans, old toys & more. Once we’ve gathered our props each group will put on a short skit. Come join the fun! We will meet on Saturday, May 19th at Wrightstown Meeting.

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 previously. 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 won’t have to fill out a form each time. Call Sandy at 860-9747 for information.

“Our Spiritual Mothers” at Pendle Hill

Our own Michele Tarter (Falls Meeting) and Georgia Fuller (Alexandria Frds Mtg) will talk on the earliest Quaker women, whom Friends called “Spiritual Mothers,” counseled their religious family to embrace the power and spirit of their literature - words which they believed could transform the world. Now recovered from archives, these women’s tracts attest to a wondrous community that sustained and nurtured “the inward light” and the spiritual leadings of these early feminist leaders, visionaries, ministers, and writers. The program will be on May 11-13 at Pendle Hill. Cost for double room is $205, $250 for single. Call 800-742-3150 for information.

Snippets of News from the Quarter and Other Places

Trenton Thunder

Our annual baseball game at Trenton Thunder in Trenton, New Jersey, is coming right up. It’s great fun! Bring your kids, friends, and extended family. Our baseball game is a great opportunity to relax, chat with Friends in the Quarter, eat hotdogs and sodas, and watch the game, which begins at 1:00 PM on Sunday, June 10th. The Trenton Thunder team will play against the Seawolves from Erie, PA. Seek out your Meeting baseball representative for tickets, which cost $8.00 each. Purchase your tickets by the first week in May. Don’t miss out! Be there!

Old fishing boat needed

Wrightstown Friends Nursery School needs a replacement boat for the children at the school. If you have an old fishing boat that you want to let go of, please call Catherine Ann Porter at 215-968-8911. The children love to play in the boat!

Stillness: Surrounding, Sustaining, Strengthening

“Stillness: Surrounding, Sustaining, Strengthening” is the theme for this year’s Friends General Conference, to be held at Virginia Tech, Blackburg, VA, from June 30-July 7. The experience of the divine stillness will be central to the core of all activities this year. Among other speakers, Steve Curwood, Quaker host of NPR’s Living on Earth, and Joe Volk, who will issue a call for Friends to become more active in witnessing in Washington through Friends Committee on National Legislation. Call Friends General Conference for more information: 215-561-1700.

Card Party and Luncheon

Middletown Friends Meeting and the Women’s Group will host a Card Party and Luncheon on Wednesday, May 9th, at 12 noon. The cost is $40 per table. Call Bea Carson at 215-357-8964 for reservations.

Parents of Peace Pals

Parents of Peace Pals - please remind your children to go to Peace Pals at Wrightstown Meeting. They can’t go unless you drive them. Try car-pooling with other parents in your area. Your kids love the programs and want to be there.

Gathering of Quaker teachers and Quakerism teachers

A gathering of Quaker teachers and Quakerism teachers on May 5th, at Yardley Meeting, begins at 9:30 am. Bring a bag brown lunch. Beverages and desserts will be available. For more information, call Gene Hillman at 215-241-7182.

The impact of the military and war on young people’s lives

American Friends Service Committee addresses the impact of the military and war on young people’s lives, with the aim of reducing the influence of the military in schools, promoting nonmilitary school-based programs, strengthening youth involvement in peace and justice work. Call 215-241-7176 for more information.