Chandler Hall Hospice Seeks Volunteers
Educators Night Out at The Academy of Natural Sciences
Harvest Supper & Auction of Your Dreams
Monday Evening Lecture Series at Pendle Hill
Teacher In-Service Training Evening
BARC (advocates for people with developmental disabilities)
Friends and Individuals in Our Meetings
Snippets of News from the Quarter and Other Places
Chandler Hall Worship Services
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1 |
Mon |
7:30 |
Monday
Evening Lecture Series: Quakers and Money at
Pendle Hill. |
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1 |
Mon |
6-9 |
Teacher In-Service Training Evening
at Arch Street Meetinghouse. |
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1 |
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6:30-9 |
Chandler
Hall Hospice Volunteer Training Program. |
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5-8 |
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Young Quakes Conference @ Burlington
Meetinghouse. Call 215-241-7222. |
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5-8 |
Fri-Sun |
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Quakers and Money gathering at Pendle Hill. Call 610-566-4507. |
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6 |
Sat |
11-4 |
Quaker
Peace Fair at Buckingham Friends Meeting. |
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10 |
Wed |
7:30 |
BQM
Outreach Committee meets at Pennswood. |
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11 |
Thurs |
11 |
A Woman’s Place Candlelight Vigil beginning
at the Courthouse in Doylestown. |
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12 |
Fri |
8-10 |
Annie
Patterson will be playing and singing at Borders in Princeton. |
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12-14 |
Fri-Sun |
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Quakers & Racial Justice weekend at Pendle
Hill. Call 1-800-742-3150. |
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13 |
Sat |
9-3 |
BQM
Seekers Gathering at Newtown Meeting. |
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14 |
Sun |
2-6 |
Planned
Parenthood’s Blue Moon Auction. Call 215-785-4594 for information. |
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14 |
Sun |
5pm |
The
Peace Center’s “Harvest Supper & Auction of Your Dreams.” |
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14 |
Sun |
7pm |
Quakerism 101 begins, led by Jonathan Snipes,
at Newtown Meeting. |
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16 |
Tues |
4-7 |
Educators Night Out at the Academy of
Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. |
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17 |
Wed |
7:30 |
BQM
Singing Group meets at Makefield Meeting. |
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18 |
Thurs |
7:30 |
BQM
Oversight Committee meets at Buckingham. |
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19 |
Fri |
6:30 |
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20 |
Sat |
1-5 |
Quaker
College Fair at Fourth and Arch Street Meetinghouse. Call 215-241-7224. |
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20 |
Sat |
7-9:30 |
BQM Peace Pals meet at Wrightstown Meeting. |
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26-28 |
Fri-Sun |
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Prophecy and Social Justice weekend at Pendle
Hill. Call 1-800-742-3150. |
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November
3 |
Pastoral Care Conference at Haddonfield
Meeting. Call 609-835-4285 or peacepc@aol.com |
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November
9-11 |
Religion,
Bioethics & Public Policy at Pendle Hill, with James Childress. |
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November
16-18 |
Clerking: Serving the Community with Joy and
Confidence, with Art Larrabee at Pendle Hill. |
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November
18 |
Bucks
Quarterly Meeting at Falls Meeting. |
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July
12-Aug 20 |
Quaker
Youth Pilgrimage 2002. Deadline: Jan 15, 2002. Call 215-241-7250. |
Chandler
Hall Hospice will be offering a five week Hospice Volunteer Training Program
beginning October 1st at 6:30-9 pm every Monday and Wednesday. This educational series will prepare
volunteers to work with people faced with terminal illness as well as their
families. The program includes the
hospice concept, family dynamics, symptom control, interdisciplinary team
functions, and bereavement. Volunteers
may assist hospice patients with errands, personal care, chores, and
companionship and support for the family.
Call 215-860-4000, ext. 1375.
On
Tuesday, October 16, from 4 pm - 7:30 pm school educators are invited to the
Academy of Natural Sciences to preview
new and existing programs. Included are
materials for lessons on the changing exhibits, new permanent exhibit on watersheds, time to speak with staff in
round-table discussions, meet live animals and the vital role they play in
teaching conservation, and find out about experiential learning on the Delaware
river aboard the Jolly II Rover sailboat.
This may be something for our school educators and our First Day
Schools. For more information call
215-299-1153 or 215-299-1060.
It’s
October! - must be time for a bonfire, s’mores, popcorn and music! Come in costume and bring extra clothes and
make-up in case someone else forgets.
Bring a blanket and a flashlight because it will get dark very early.
The fun
begins at 7 and ends at 9:30. Cost is
$3 each. You won’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
215-860-9747 for information.
If you have a child who is graduating from high school and wants
to become a conscientious objector you might want to contact the Center on
Conscience & War at 1830 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009-5706,
or call 202-483-2220
This
annual event by the Peace Center will be on Oct 14th, at 5pm, in the The Wright
Meeting Hall at Chandler Hall. There
will be a silent and live auction of very special gift items, art work, entertainment,
and travel opportunities. RSVP by
October 5th. Proceeds benefit peace education and violence prevention programs
in our schools, communities and families.
For information: 215-750-7220.
Middletown
Meeting is having its Annual Auction on Friday, Oct 19th at the
Meetinghouse. There will be a free
picnic supper at 6:30pm, followed by the auction at 7:30pm. The money goes to various charitable causes
which the Meeting supports locally and are not in the budget. If you want to donate something, call Holly
Olson at 215- 453-7325. Friends in the Quarter are invited to this evening of
food and fun!
Monday
evenings: Oct 1, 8, 15, 22, 29.For more information call Pendle Hill:
1-610-566-4507
Paul
Rasor: Materialism: The American Cultural Religion
William
Charland: Calling and the Spirituality of Earning.
Penny
Yunuba: Transforming Your Relationship with Money.
Margaret
Benefiel: Spirituality in the Work Place.
Steve Baumgartner: Nothing Matters; Everything Matters.
Wm Penn’s
1701Charter of Privileges and Free Public Schools
This
special evening is on Monday, Oct 1st, from 6-9pm, at Arch Street
Meetinghouse. Presenters include John
Colgan-Davis, Craig Horle, Irene McHenry, and William Kashatus. The program is for educators of public,
parochial, Friends Schools, and other interested parties. The program is sponsored by The Quaker
Information Center. For more
information call 215-241-7024.
BARC
advocates for people with developmental disabilities and is celebrating its
50th anniversary in 2001. Barc has
produced a video showing the evolution of services to people with disabilities
during the past fifty years. The video
highlights the support BARC provides to over 700 individuals and families and
families in our community through early intervention, residential, employment,
and respite services. If your Meeting is
interested in the video and/or a speaker, call Peggy Groschopp at
215-794-0800.
Plumstead
Friends invite Meetings and other churches every Wednesday night at 7 PM for
worship and discussion. For information
call Beth Taylor at 215-822-2299.
The Young
Quakes Conference will be held at Burlington Meetinghouse on Oct 5-8. The theme is: “One Body, Many Gifts.” The
Young Quakes conference is a YouthQuake-like experience in the unprogrammed
Friends tradition to explore our Quaker Biblical roots and the Christian and
Universalist expressions of our faith.
Registration is Friday evening between 5:30 and 7 pm. For more information call Cookie Caldwell at
215-241-7222 now!
Quakerism
101
If you
have not yet taken Jonathan Snipes’ class on Quakerism 101, you will want to
take this course! Classes will meet at
Newtown Meeting at 7 pm on Sunday evenings: Oct 14th, 21st, 28th, and November
4th and 11th. Cost for the sessions is
$25. Call Sandy at 215-860-9747.
This
conference will be on Saturday, Nov 3rd, at Haddonfield Meeting. The topic is “Care in the Meeting Community:
Balancing Compassion, Responsibility and Resources.” The program begins at 9am with registration and refreshments,
followed by worship and the opening presentation by Judy Owens and Mickey
Edgerton. The morning workshop is
“Listening to People So They are Heard” followed by “Non-tradional Ways of
Helping-Discovering Our Resources.” and “How Do we Care for our Caregivers?” Afternoon: “Spiritual Support as Pastoral
Care,” “Resources and Limits in the Meeting Community,” and “Enlisting the Help
of the Meeting.” Flyers will be coming
to Bucks Quarter. More info: Sandy @
215-860-9747.
This is an
opportunity to respond to our Congress and House of Representatives regarding
our beliefs as Quakers. You might also want to put out local press releases at
this time. On an individual level all
of us have opportunities to encourage in a way that eschews violence. Agree on a Minute from your Meeting and put
it in the newspapers. Continue to use the press often. It helps. Find loving ways to articulate our
beliefs as Friends. Call our Senators
and Representatives to let them know what we think. For resources for First Day School teachers, call the Friends
General Conference bookstore at 1-800-966-4556. Sandy at 215-860-9747 for other questions.
If you
have a child who is graduating from high school and wants to become a conscientious
objector you might want to contact the Center on Conscience & War at
1830 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009-5706, or call 202-483-2220
The recent
attack on the World Trade Centers in New York and The Pentagon in
Washington have taken our breaths away.
We have all seen the devastation and the continuous plumes of smoke day
after day after day. Many, many
firefighters lost their lives trying to save people in those buildings. Friends have called their loved ones near
and far. If you had friends in New York
it was impossible to call them. Our
airlines were shut down for several days.
Most of our local schools shut down for at least two days for teachers
to plan how to help our children. The rhetoric
from Washington did not meet our needs as Friends. From FCNL: “It is important that we in the U.S. try to hear and
understand the sources of this anger.
If we in the U.S. do not seek to understand and address the roots of
this anger—poverty, injustice, and hopelessness—then the violence may well
continue, no matter what the U.S. does to try to prevent it. As members of the Religious Society of
Friends (Quakers) we witness to that spirit of love which takes away the
occasion of war. Out of darkness and
tragedy, may God show us the path of true and lasting peace.”
Thanks
go to Doylestown Meeting and Camp Onas for a wonderful event at Bucks Quarterly Meeting. We had singing, a campfire, swimming, great
food, terrific children’s programs and more.
Nionyu Spann brought interesting perspectives to one and all on Sunday
morning. Friends stayed and helped
clean up after the Business Meeting.
The
National Council on the Aging (NCOA) runs a website at www.benefitscheckup.org.
which carries information on federal and state programs for seniors, their
families, and caregivers.
Each year
A Woman’s Place observes Domestic Violence Awareness Month with a public
Candlelight Vigil and March—to honor the women who have died as the result of
abuse. Neighbors and friends will gather at the Courthouse in Doylestown on
Monday, October 15th at 6:30pm. Program begins at 7pm, followed by a March
through neighborhoods.
There is
an Art Exhibit at Chandler Hall of a collection of paintings, drawings,
and photographs by Betty Powell (Newtown Meeting). The exhibit is on display in Chandler Hall’s Wright Meeting House
and runs from Sept 1st through October 9th.
Friends can visit the exhibit daily, from 9am to 5pm.
Perhaps
Meetings might encourage new members and attenders to sign up for Q101 by
helping them with financial aid.
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Hall Worship Services will be organized by:
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