PYM Publications Grants Application
Chandler Hall Auxiliary/Staff Party
42nd Christmas Peace Pilgrimage
Quaker Youth Pilgrimage - 2002
Some Results of Called Session on Nov 10th.
Feat-Fund for Education and Training
See you at the Bucks Quarterly Meeting New Year’s Day Ice Skating Party
Bucks County Association for Corrections and Rehabilitation
Snippets of News from the Quarter and Other Places
Chandler Hall Worship Services
Number of seekers visiting this page.
DECEMBER 2001 |
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Tuition aid for Quaker children at Friends School. (see article below) |
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1-2 |
Sat-Sun |
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PYM Middle School Circle of Girls gathering. Call Melanie Douty at 215-241-7171. |
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2 |
Sun |
noon |
Jim Fine speaks on Iraq/Campaign for Conscience, followed by potluck@Buckingham. |
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3 |
Mon |
2pm |
Chandler Hall Auxiliary/Staff Holiday Party for Residents. Call 215-946-6080. |
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8 |
Sat |
11am |
42nd Annual Nazareth to Bethlehem Christmas Peace Pilgrimage. |
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8 |
Sat |
7pm |
God’s Love Luthern Church in Newtown invites Friends to a concert. 215-968-0695. |
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14 |
Fri |
7pm |
Candlelight Meeting for Worship at Buckingham. |
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14&15 |
Fri-Sat |
7pm |
George School’s Junior Class Play - Help! I’m Trapped in a High School. |
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16 |
Sun |
9am |
Falls Meeting’s Christmas gathering breakfast, followed by children’s Christmas play. |
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16 |
Sun |
9:15am |
Maria Crosman speaks on Jesus’ Birth Story at Buckingham. |
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16 |
Sun |
11am |
Christmas program at Newtown plus mittens & hats for Mercer Street Friends Center. |
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23 |
Sun |
8am |
Pancake Breakfast followed by Singing and Meeting for Worship at Buckingham. |
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23 |
Sun |
9:30am |
Plumstead children’s play: Noah’s Ark story acted out with amazing effects. |
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23 |
Sun |
9:45am |
Middletown FDS “Poems. Prayers, and the Promise,” an intergenerational event. |
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23 |
Sun |
10am |
Worship at Solebury followed by children’s pageant and Mitten Tree program. |
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23 |
Sun |
11am |
Joanna Mell plays harp at Middletown, social hour following Meeting for Worship. |
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23 |
Sun |
11am |
Falls FDS will do gift wrapping and gingerbread house decorating. |
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23 |
Sun |
noon |
Newtown’s homecoming reception for college students. |
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23 |
Sun |
7pm |
Candlelight Service at Southampton, followed by refreshments. |
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24 |
Mon |
7pm |
Christmas Eve Candlelight Meeting for Worship at Newtown. |
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24 |
Mon |
7:30pm |
Candlelight Carol Sing at Plumstead Meeting. |
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27-30 |
Thurs-Sun |
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PYM Young Friends Xmas Silence Gathering at Burlington Meetinghouse. 241-7222. |
Looking Ahead |
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January 1 |
New Year’s Day Ice Skating Party at Ice Land Rink in Hamilton, NJ. |
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January 12 |
First Annual Gathering of Quaker Public Educators. Info: 215-241-7224. |
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January 15 |
PYM Publications Grants application deadline. |
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January 18-20 |
Quaker Summit on Iraq sponsored by PYM. |
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The Publications Granting Group makes grants ranging from $100-$5,000 to PYM committees, working groups, etc. The publication process, such as start-up or completion, may be funded. Grants will not be made to projects for which there is not a clear need, or for materials. For more information call Carol Walz at 215-241-7201.
On Mon, Dec 3rd at 2pm residents and staff of Chandler Hall will enjoy punch, home-made cookies, and ice cream, as they visit with residents in Adult Day Care, Skilled Nursing, and Hicks Assisted Living, to chat and enjoy the holiday season. Chandler Hall notecards available from Auxiliary members or Winnie Asch. Call 215-946-6080.
The next Peace Pals will be a Chinese Pollyanna. That means YOU bring a crazy gift and put it on the pile. One person picks something. The next person can keep the first persons gift if they like it or they can pick from other gifts. Bring canned goods for the Food Pantry in Lambertville.
On Sat, Dec 15th the fun begins at 7 and ends at 9:30. Cost is $3 each. Peace Pals meet at Wrightstown Meeting. If you don’t know how to get there, call Sandy at 215-860-9747. 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.
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Dec 1 |
Christmas Parade on State St., Newtown, in conjunction with holiday tree lighting. 215-968-7550. |
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Dec 6 & 7 |
Holly Nights at Pennsbury by candlelight! Hot mulled cider, carolers, tours of Manor House & more! Call 215-946-0400. |
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Dec 8 |
Wreaths & Greens Workshop at Pennsbury Manor. Spend the morning making a fragrant evergreen wreath to take home. Call 215-946-0400. |
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Dec 8 & 15 |
Breakfast with Santa at the Brick Hotel in Newtown. Call 215-968-7550 for information. |
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Dec 9 |
Holiday Open House at Fonthill Museum and Moravian Pottery & Tile Works. Tours, music, refreshments, holiday crafts, tree trimming and Santa. |
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Dec 25 |
Annual Christmas Crossing of the Delaware River at 1pm in Washington Crossing Historic Park. Call 215-493-4076. |
The Pilgrimage is to walk the road of Peace from Nazareth to Bethlehem and is an opportrunity to think about what Christmas really means. Participants meet in the parking lot at 520 E. Broad St, Bethlehem (corner of Broad St and Elm.) You must be there before 11 AM. Buses will leave to go to Nazareth. The Pilgrimage begins at Moravian Church in Nazareth. There will be rest stops along the way, along with lighted candles, Singing and Litany, and a supper and rally. The speaker is Jeff Garis, Director of Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty. Dress appropriately for weather. For more information, call Fran Dreisbach at 610-258-7313.
The Pilgrimage includes stops in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and Washington, DC. Cost is approximately $1200. Pilgrimage is co-sponsored by the Section of the Americas and the Europe and Middle East Section of Friends World Committee for Consultation. There will be two adult facilitators and fourteen young Friends from each Section. Pilgrimage is from July 12th to Aug 10th, 2002. Young Friends must be age 16-18 by time of the Pilgrimage. Deadline for adults is December 15, 2001, Pilgrims by January 15, 2002. Information: 215-241-7250.
After worship, Friends from organizations spoke, including American Friends Service Committee, Friends Committee on National Legislation, and Thom Jeavons, General Secretary for PYM, who also said that there will be a Poster for Peace coming out soon. There were about 500 hundred people there. Every Meeting in our Quarter had a representative there! Thoughts and ideas on what to do next bubbled up from the Friends assembled. Francis Brown suggested coordinating with all peace organizations. Others suggested that we might have more public statements as a Quaker voice in America. Someone else suggested that PYM empower Arlene Kelly, Clerk of Yearly Meeting, Tom Jeavons, and Interim Meeting, to respond quickly to newsworthy events. Find Friends in your Meeting who were there and talk to them about what went on.
For those who request tuition aid for Quaker children at Friends Schools you must submitt an application form. Look for application forms at your Meeting. Call Tom Hoopes for more information at 215-241-7224.
This fund assists young men who for reasons of conscience do not comply with laws requiring registration for the draft. Non-registrants are ineligible for enrollment in federally funded job training programs and for federal and some state financial aid programs for higher education. For more information call 1-202-483-1242.
Atthe Ice Land Rink in Hamilton, NJ. on Tsday, January 1st, 2002.
The fun begins at noon and ends at 2 PM. For info and directions: 215-860-9747.
Skate rental free! Cost is $4.50 per person.
This Association is a non-profit seeking successful rehabilitation for inmates and parolees of the Correctional System. BACR seeks to support both inmates and post-release individuals, and maintains close connections with the educational and treatment programs offered in the correctional system. BACR offers speakers to churches, community, and civic organizations. Call 215-345-3740.
Doylestown Meeting continues its Silent Vigil for Peace every Tuesday, from 6 - 7 pm, at the corner of Court and Main Streets in Doylestown. All Friends are invited to participate in this vigil. Friends gather informally in the garden of the Courthouse after the vigil. Call Larry Miller at 215-345-1714 for more information.
Wrightstown Meeting had an informal Buy-A-Blanket (at $22.50 each) to be sent to American Friends Service Committee. Later, thirty-two heavy-duty woolen blankets were taken to AFSC in Philadelphia to be sent to Pakistan. Your Meeting might want to consider doing this. Deadline to ship blankets is December 31, 2001!
Outreach Cmttee Query: Is your Meetinghouse sign visible from both ways? Is it lit up? Does it have color? Does it stand out? Does it have the Quaker Q with a dove on it? Does it appear welcoming? Does it have the time of worship on it?
Nine students/parents from Bucks Quarter signed in at the Quaker College Fair on October 20th. Judy Van Hoy (PYM) believes our Quarter holds the record for the most sign-ins.
Beginning in January 2002, Rosemary McQuate will be Clerk of Doylestown Monthly Meeting.
Now that the holiday season is imminent, Friends may be looking for ways to spread Christmas joy while avoiding the holiday spending frenzy. The Heifer Project International offers one way. Did you know that for just $20 you can give a flock of baby chicks, or 3 rabbits ($60), or a pig ($120) to a needy family in the Third World? More info:1-800-698-2511.
The Michener Art Museum and the Mercer Museum will have a Holiday Open House on Tuesday, Dec 11, from 7 - 9 pm. Friends are invited to take advantage of this opportunity. Free admission to both museums. No registration required.
Doylestown Friends Meeting has put out a press release regarding blankets, quilts, and sleeping bags in good condition as well as cash to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan refugees. Donations will be collected in the Cross Keys Center, 606 N. Main St., Dec 15th, from 9-noon, and on Sun Dec 16th from noon to 4. The collection site is made available through the courtesy of John Thompson, of The Thompson Organization in Doylestown. Call 215-345-1714.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee
PYM Interim Meeting minuted support for Barbara Lee, 9th District of California. The text is: PYM commends your decision to vote against the resolution to authorize the President to use military force in response to the terrorist attacks. We agree with your statement in Congress on Friday, Sept 14, 2001, “that military action will not prevent future acts of international terrorism against the United States,” that the results of such action could “spiral out of control,” and that by taking military action we risk “becoming the evil we deplore.” We support your courage in taking a position that you knew would be unpopular.
December – Solebury
January – Southampton
February - Wrightstown