Help Rebuild Ramallah Friends School
The Peace Center at Woodstown Meeting
Peaceful Parenting Workshop Series
Words from Dan Gottlieb @ WHYY
Wanted: Camp Onas Campers from BQM
China Summer: Friends Workcamp in Xiaoshicun 2002
World Day of Prayer: “Challenged to Reconcile”
All Night at the Franklin Institute
Middle School Friends Need Young “Friendly Presences”
Snippets of News from the Quarter and Other Places
Letters to Send your Government Representatives
Booklists Specific to the Middle East, Islam, and Related Areas
Chandler Hall Worship Services
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Fri |
10am |
World Day of Prayer, Challenge to Reconcile, at Southampton Meeting. |
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Thurs |
7:30 |
BQM Meeting Oversight Committee meets at Buckingham. |
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Wed |
7:30 |
BQM Outreach Committee meets at Pennswood. |
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Thurs |
3:15 |
Great Decisions: “Columbia and Drug Trafficking” program at Pennswood Terrace Rm. |
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14-17 |
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Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas, in Philadelphia. |
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Sat |
7:00 |
BQM Peace Pals meet at Wrightstown. |
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Tues |
7:30 |
Buckingham Peace Fair committee meets at Buckingham. |
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21-24 Thurs-Sun |
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PYM Annual Sessions at Arch Street Meetinghouse. |
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Wed |
7:30 |
BQM Singing Group meets at Makefield. |
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28 |
Thurs |
3:15 |
Great Decisions: “South Asia: Focus on India” program at Pennswood Terrace Room. |
Looking Ahead |
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April 5 |
Volleyball ‘til Midnight at George School. |
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April 6 |
BQM All Night at the Franklin Institute. |
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April 12-14 |
A Women’s Gathering: “Women, Wisdom and Witness” at Burlington Center. |
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April 13 & 20 |
Managing Conflict in Your Life! at The Peace Center in Langhorne. |
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April 28 |
George School Community Chorus. |
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April 29 |
Cornel West Lecture at Arch Street Meetinghouse. |
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June 9 |
BQM Baseball Game at the Trenton Thunder in New Jersey. |
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August 11-17 |
PYM Middle School Arts Camp at Burlington Meetinghouse. |
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September 21 |
Peace Fair at Buckingham Meeting. |
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June 28-July 13 |
Quaker Pilgrimage to England. |
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June-Aug |
Children’s Friendship Project for Northern Ireland. Call Beverly Cassel @ 215-493-8511. |
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July 29-Aug 17 |
China Summer: Friends Workcamp in Xiaoshicun. Call 215-241-7236. |
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The school was badly hurt by a bomb attack. No one was hurt. To help rebuild this educational and Quaker presence in the Middle East, send contributions to FUM-RFS Building, Friends United Meeting, 101 Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374.
Improvisation Night is back! Bring your fancy pants or silly shawls, flying brooms or crystal balls, favorite shoes or cowboy hats, hockey sticks or baseball bats, your ballgown or your tattered suit, your earrings or tuxedo.
Make up a silly skit, play Freeze or just have fun with all the props and costumes. Come and have a blast at the second Improv Night at Peace Pals.
On Sat, March 16th, 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.
Friends at Woodstown Monthly Meeting’s Peace Center is a resource for learning and teaching issues of Holocaust, genocide, and racism. It also contains a wealth of books, magazine articles, videotapes, and curricula dealing with these subjects that will be useful in Monthly Meeting children’s and adult education and both public and private school classrooms. There was a grand opening for the Peace Center on Feb 10th. Information: 1-856-769-0066.
The Peace Center will present its successful Peaceful Parenting Workshop Series based on the curriculum, “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids will Talk” on Monday evenings, April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 and May 6 from 7pm to 9pm at the Peace Center, 102 W. Maple Ave, Langhorne. Included in the series are positive discipline strategies, conflict resolution, creative problem solving, reducing stress for you and your child, and effective communications skills. Cost is $30 plus $20 for the books. For information or to register call 215-750-7220.
1) Love those whom you love, only do it more consciously. This will bring you more joy. 2) Love those whom you don’t know. It will make your sense of community bigger and more trustworthy. 3) Love those whom you fear. It will make you feel safer and sleep better. 4) Love those whom you hate - it might save the world. The world has a glioblastoma, and the prognosis is poor. We must pray for a miracle. After that, let’s do something to create one.
Buckingham Friends School had about 50 parents and students for their Diversity Potluck Dinner. Afterwards, they made twelve upbeat posters and filled book bags with school supplies for A Woman’s Place. There were twenty-two book bags and enough school supplies to fill them.
Celebrate the 350th Anniversary of the founding of the Religious Society of Friends in 1652 Country! There will be seven days the first week visiting Firbank Fell, Pendle Hill, and more. The second week you can tour England at your leisure and at you own expense. The plane leaves from Philadelphia airport on June 28 and returns on July 13. Cost of trip is under $2,000 and includes roundtrip airfare, accommodations and visits in 1652 Country. Limited financial assistance is available to Quaker teachers. Information: call Carol Bernard at 1-302-239-0511.
This program will be at the George School sports center. Bring your sneakers, swim suit & towel. This evening of fun is also a fund-raiser for the Centro Educativo Nicaraguito School in Managua, Nicaragua. George School students go to Managua every year. They help the school in Managua by working hard painting, cleaning, and helping out in the classrooms, and more. Ask Friends in your Meeting, parents, relatives and friends to help support this effort. Last year we raised about $1000. Can we do better this year? Everyone must send in or bring a donation. Date is April 5th, from 7 ‘til midnight. Call 215-860-9747.
One more chance for parents and grandparents to help their children get to Camp Onas this summer. Space is at a premium.
Twelve Americans will join with college students from China, Japan, and South Korea in the second annual China Summer workcamp in rural Hunan province. The group will refurbish a 100-year old elementary school, undertake a joint environmental project, and teach English to local children. The trip begins in Beijing with tour of city’s parks, historic sites, & neighborhoods. They will travel to Hunal, hike in the surrounding hills during workcamp, and a four-day visit to China’s first national partk. Dates: July 29-Aug 17. Cost is $2,200. For more information: call 215-241-7236 or email to Chinaworkcamp@pym.org.
Plan to attend the 115th annual ecumenical World Day of Prayer Service on Friday, March 1st at Southampton Meeting at 10am. Light refreshments and child care provided. You will be joining Christian men and women from many faith traditions who will be praying and sharing in this same service at 7 locations in Bucks County and in 179 countries around the world. The service was written by Orthodox Christian women of Romania. There will be a planning and rehearsal meeting on Thursday, Feb 21, at 7:30pm at Southampton Friends Meeting, (corner of Street and Gravel Hill Roads). Please come or send someone. For more information, call Jane Peters at 215-357-1000.
Did you ever wonder what it’s like to sleep in a museum overnight? Now’s your chance. This year’s program is BRAINSTORM! and you will see amazing caves in the IMAX Theater, Web of Life in the 3D Theater, and Thunder Science (a live show). You can also climb a rock wall, take the steam locomotive, and participate in hands-on workshops. The date is Saturday, April 6th. We will leave from George School parking lot opposite the Meeting House at 4:30pm. Pick-up Sunday is at 2pm. Parents needed to take kids to and from the Franklin Institute and/or sleep overnight. Program limited to Middle School Friends or slightly younger. Call Sandy at 215-860-9747.
Melanie Douty is seeking some Friendly Presences for the Arts Camp at Burlington from August 11-17. As a paid counselor you would come two days earlier for training and then participate in six days of very cool stuff, including juggling, creative writing, theater, singing, visual arts, a day at the beach, and a day touring murals in Philadelphia and helping to paint one! Call Melanie at 215-241-7171 or email: mailto:melanied@pym.org.
Marcia Angermann (Buckingham Mtg) found a website called www.progressivesecretary.org/. It is run by a Quaker activist who produces letters to send to government representatives on a huge variety of issues. You might want to check it out.
Rita Varley, of PYM Library, has prepared booklists specific to the Middle East, Islam, and related areas. Some books are contemplative and others more informal. Call Rita at 215-241-7219 for more information.
Want a change of pace? The Michener Museum has walk-in tours on the first Saturday of the month and the second Sunday of the month. Bring your kids or take your parents. Food is also available.
Doylestown Meeting Friends continue their Silent Vigil for Peace at the corner of Court & Main Streets, and invite members from other Meetings to participate as well. The Vigil is from 6pm-7pm every Tuesday. Call 215-345-1714.
John Baird will serve as Head of Westtown School, beginning July 1st, 2002. The family includes wife, Aminda Stern Baird and three children, Matthew, Jeffery, and Elisabeth.
If you know friends who cannot afford medical care because their income is low and they are uninsured, and live from Upper Black Eddy to the north, Warminster to the south, New Hope to the east and Telford to the west, The Free Clinic of Doylestown can help. Call 215-345-2260.
March – Yardley
April – Buckingham
May - Doylestown
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