by WebPost | Jan 5, 2017 | Adult Spiritual Education
This coming Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 9:30 am in the Community Room
Please join us for this important session on Earthcare Witness.
Barb Adams is our Meeting’s representative to Quaker Earthcare Witness, and in this session she will help us explore our intimate relationship with the earth. Through interactive experiences, personal discussion, and sharing, we will examine our emotional connection to our planet and the larger cosmos. Barb will guide us in using our own experiences of nature to understand the vital importance of living within the earth’s carrying capacity. Barb will bring some essence of Joanna Macy’s teachings from her presentations at this year’s Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology.
by WebPost | Nov 29, 2016 | Adult Spiritual Education, Peace and Social Concerns
The Friends Committee on National Legislation is now registering for their next Spring Lobby Weekend to be held March 18-21, 2017. The topic will be “Dismantling Income Inequality.”
The program is basically three days of workshops and one day of lobbying, urging members of Congress to:
Support a jobs program for the 21st Century
Modernize our unemployment system for today’s workforce
Stop taxing single people and people under 25 into poverty
For full information and to register, go to fcnl.org … Click on “Action & Events” then “Events” then “Spring Lobby Weekend.”
Registration is only $50, an inexpensive lodging may be available at the hostel, but that may be already fully booked. The RFM Adult Spiritual Education Committee encourages participation, particularly by younger Quakers, and will provide scholarships to this event, up to $400 per person, available to members and attenders of our meeting age 40 and under.
by WebPost | Nov 10, 2016 | Adult Spiritual Education
Sunday, November 13, 9:30 am
The Chrysalis Institute’s Spiritual Paths Program
Presenters: Michael Pierce and Mary Fran Hughes-McIntyre will discuss their experiences in the Chrysalis Institute’s inaugural Spiritual Paths program; Elaine Kiziah, Ph. D. a faculty member in the upcoming program, will also join us and lead an experiential exercise; other faculty and staff from the program will be in attendance and available to answer questions.
Sunday, November 27, 9:30 am
Living the Quaker Life: Quakers and Christmas
Presenters: Barbara Myers and Howard Garner will facilitate a discussion of Quaker values and the biggest national holiday of the year. Participants will be have the opportunity to explore their own family traditions and to share how their Quaker values are lived during this season of the year.
by WebPost | Oct 17, 2016 | Adult Spiritual Education, Committees
Ministry & Worship and Adult Spiritual Education are offering Fall Retreat at The Clearing on Saturday, October 29, from 9:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. We encourage Friends to car pool. Coffee and bagels will be available as we gather. The program, “Becoming the Blessed Community through Conscious Inclusion,” will begin at 9:30am. The presenter, Corey Roberts, will explore what inclusion and diversity means to Richmond Friends Meeting through queries and worship sharing. This program is planned for anyone twelve years of age or older and we hope for the voices of our younger friends. The pot-luck Lunch is being organized by ASE. We encourage Friends to car pool. Indicate below if child care is needed.
You may register online using 2016 Fall Retreat Registration.
Or contact a member of Ministry and Worship with the following information:
Name(s) of attendees
Email
Phone
Joining us for morning coffee, etc. [ ] Yes [ ] No
If childcare is needed, please list names and ages of children.
Please include any other information you want to share.
by WebPost | Aug 27, 2016 | Adult Spiritual Education
The Baltimore Yearly Meeting Spiritual Formation Program invites its participants into a deeper spiritual experience through retreats, spiritual community, reading spiritual classics, and individual spiritual practices.
You are invited to participate in the Spiritual Formation program at Richmond Friends Meeting for 2016-17. Registration is open through September 18th.
The Spiritual Formation Program at the local level includes a monthly large-group meeting that includes everyone. In addition to the large group meeting, most people join a small group of 6 to 8 members who meet once a month to share spiritual journeys and daily spiritual practices.
Our first large group meeting will be held on Sunday, October 2 from 5-7 PM.
We will focus this year’s program around ‘Quaker Speaks’ videos which explore the core questions of our faith. Integrating the video with readings, books, articles and worship sharing.
From October through May, the monthly large group Spiritual Formation meetings will be on the 1st Sunday of the month from 5-7 PM beginning with a shared potluck.
If you would like to learn more about the Spiritual Formation Program visit the BYM site:
http://quakerspiritualformation.org/
If you wish to explore the possibility of joining Spiritual Formation at Richmond Friends Meeting, you are encouraged to contact Mary Fran Hughes-McIntyre (655-8572) or Janett Forte (227-3053)
Online registration will be available on the RFM website and a link for online registration will be sent on the listserv.
Please complete the form and submit electronically or print out your form and return to meeting by September 18, 2016. In addition, paper copies will be available at the meetinghouse.
The link to the online registration form is here.
by WebPost | Aug 15, 2016 | Adult Spiritual Education
The following events will be held in the Community Room and will conclude at 10:45 in time for Meeting for Worship. For more information, click the corresponding event on the Calendar page of this website.
Sunday, August 28 at 9:30 am
Topic: The Radical Christianity of Early Quakers
Presenter: Rita Willett
Sunday, September 25 at 9:30 am
Topic: Clearness Committees: An Amazing Quaker Process
Presenters: Barbara Myers and Monica Shaw
Sunday, October 23 at 9:30 am
Topic: Lobbying for Peace: People Power to Help Extinguish the Middle East Fire.
Presenter: Kate Gould, Legislative Representative for Middle East Policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation.
Co-sponsored by the Committee for Peace and Social Concerns.
