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Spring Retreat 2023 Invitation to Register

by WebPost | Apr 17, 2023 | Spring Retreat

Friends are invited to register for the 2023 Spring Retreat at The Clearing: Rooted in Community. This year we celebrate 40 years of stewardship of the retreat property in Amelia County. Join us over Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-28, for food, fellowship, sharing stories of The Clearing, and connecting as a community. Activities this year will include a writing workshop where Friends can put pen to paper via poetry or prose to write down memories and/or stories, including of The Clearing, opportunities to make audio recordings (and video, if that is preferred), and an art station where Friends can make Clearing-inspired art. Please see the tentative schedule below for other activities. Please be sure to register Sunday, May 21 so we can plan for you! Registration is online at this link: https://bit.ly/RFMRetreat2023.

Friday:

3pm: Earliest arrival time; check out a tent site/secure cabin accommodations

5:30-6:30 DIY Dinner with soup available

6:30 Clean up/Sign up for Chores!

7pm Possible Movie? and Popcorn; Board Games

9pm Dessert/Coffee/Conversation

Saturday:

7-9:30am Breakfast/Coffee/Conversation

9am Sign up for chores!

9:30am Cleanup

10-11:30am Rooted in Community: Stories of the Clearing (writing workshop led by Ted Heck)

11:45am - 12:15pm Lunch Prep

12:15pm LUNCH

1-2pm Lunch Cleanup

2pm Sign up for Chores!

2-4pm Games / Open Studio / Wonderful Water activity with Katy Rugg

4pm Watermelon Break

4:30 - 6pm Dinner Prep

6pm DINNER

7pm Clean-up; Fire Prep

8-10pm Fire Circle, Singing, and S’MORES!

Sunday:

7-9:30am Breakfast/Coffee/Conversation

9:30am -10:30 Strike/Cleanup

10:30am-11:30am Meeting for Worship

11:30am Cleaning

12:30 LEFTOVERFEST LUNCH

1pm Final Cleaning

3pm Go home 🙂

*Please note: This is a draft schedule and subject to change!

Let Your Life Speak

by WebPost | Apr 16, 2023 | Adult Spiritual Education

Please Join Us

Let Your Life Speak:

Process Theology & The Quaker Testimonies

Quakers have long held that our core beliefs are best expressed in the way we live our lives. And yet, we are always searching for helpful ways to talk about the Divine (God, Light, Inner Teacher, Spirit, Ground of all Being, etc.). Let's take some time away together to explore two approaches to faith that may open up new understandings and ideas for your own life and faith. We will look at the basic tenets of the Quaker Testimonies and of Process Theology to see how they inform one another and our own thinking and living. And just as important, there will be time for rest, reflection, spiritual exploration, community building, and friendship throughout the day.

Our facilitator will be Janet Legro. Janet holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University and is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ. She was the director of spiritual life and community service at Tandem Friends School in Charlottesville, VA from 2007 to 2016. She has been a pastor for outreach and faith formation at First Presbyterian in Richmond and minister for youth and families at Grace Episcopalin Red Hill, Va. Additionally Janet has a background in counseling, as well as planning and leading pilgrimage in the U.S. and overseas, and is currently President of the Council for Richmond Hill.

Saturday, May 6 at the Meetinghouse

9:30 Gather for coffee and bagels

10:00 - 12:00 Morning Session

12:00 - 1:00 Bring Your Own Bag Lunch. Drinks and Fruit provided

1::00 - 3:00 Afternoon Session

Note: Attendance at the morning session only is an option.

* Please bring a notebook and pen.

Childcare can be provided. Please contact Monica Shaw to arrange. monicakshaw@gmail.com

RSVP to Beth Morrison. bethbmorrison@gmail.com RSVP helpful but not required. All are welcome. Participants will be provided with the Pendle Hill Pamphlet: "Reclaiming the Transcendent. God in Process" by Thomas Gates for follow-up study.

Upcoming Education Programs at Pendle Hill

by WebPost | Mar 25, 2023 | Announcement, Pendle Hill

April First Monday Lecture: The River of Life: We Are What Have Been Becoming - Online: Apr 3
Loving, Listening, Learning, Discerning: A Couple Enrichment Retreat - On Campus: Apr 14-16
Café Darkness: An In-Person Writing Workshop for People of Color - On Campus: Apr 16-20
The Truth Is, We’re in Conflict!: Exploring Our Relationship to Conflict Alongside the Testimony of Integrity - On Campus: Apr 16 (Registration coming soon!)
Pendle Hill Quaker Institute: Beloved Community as Prophetic Witness - On Campus: Apr 28-May 1
Pendle Hill Nature Walk - On Campus: May 7
The Work that Reconnects - On Campus: May 12-14
Pendle Hill's Reading Group - Online: May 17
Continuing Revolution: Nurturing Experiments in Spiritually Grounded Abolition - Hybrid: June 2-6
Kairos: A Spiritual Journey - On Campus: Jun 15-18
Mediating Trauma Through Creative Expression - On Campus: Jun 23-25 Aiming for Freedom: Race, Reparations, and Right Paths - On Campus: Aug 7-11

Thinking About Race – (April 2023) – Claudia Rankine’s Citizen

by WebPost | Mar 25, 2023 | Announcement, Baltimore Yearly Meeting

Although this item is dated April, it is going out in March, Women’s History Month, and thus features a piece by a woman writer, Claudia Rankine: Citizen -- An American Lyric, 2014.
“A woman you do not know wants to join you for lunch. You are visiting her campus. In the café you both order the Caesar salad. This overlap is not the beginning of anything because she immediately points out that she, her father, her grandfather, and you, all attended the same college. She wanted her son to go there as well, but because of affirmative action or minority something – she is not sure what they are calling it these days and weren’t they supposed to get rid of it? – her son wasn’t accepted. You are not sure if you are meant to apologize for this failure of your alma mater’s legacy program; instead you ask where he ended up. The prestigious school she mentions doesn’t seem to assuage her irritation. This exchange, in effect, ends your lunch. The salads arrive.”
“Thinking About Race” is prepared by the BYM Working Group on Racism (WGR) and sent to the designated liaison at each local Meeting. The BYM WGR meets most months on the first Saturday, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm, currently via Zoom. If you would like to attend, contact the clerk at david.etheridge@verizon.net.

What is the Fund for Sufferings?

by WebPost | Mar 23, 2023 | Announcement

Born of long-term Quaker tradition and originally established to help those suffering economic hardship due to acts of conscience, the Fund for Sufferings was reinstated at Richmond Friends Meeting in 2009 to be used for short-term help for members and attenders in financial need. A major distinction between this fund and the Meeting's annual operating budget for Care and Counsel is that Friends may contribute directly to the Fund for Sufferings by sending a check earmarked for that purpose to the RFM Assistant Treasurer. Applicants for Fund for Sufferings assistance submit a request in writing to the clerk of Care and Counsel. The process allows confidentiality for both donors and recipients.
The 2023 co-clerks of Care and Counsel are Sylvia Shurcliff and Denna Joy. (They are in the RFM Directory.) Reach out to them should you have need for guidance about or support from the Fund for Sufferings.

Report from the Library Committee

by WebPost | Mar 23, 2023 | Announcement

In order for Friends to have an idea of the new books the Library Committee is adding to our library, from time to time we will publish a few of the titles in our monthly newsletter.
We now have Margaret Edds' most recently published What the Eyes Can't See.
This book can be found in the Social Concerns section; however, for a while, it may be on
display in the library.
Another new book is Understanding the Bible, 5th Edition, by Stephen L. Harris. This book can be found in the Bibles & Commentary section.
For the children and young friends, we have obtained A Place Inside of Me, by Zetta Elliott, and Preaching to the Chickens, The Story of Young John Lewis, by Jabari Asim. Both of these books can be found in the Children/Young Friends section.

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