Westport Meeting News:
10:00 – 11:00 AM:
All ages worship and special activity making snowflakes.
Our Annual Potluck with delicious FOOD, FUN, and SINGING!
MEETING CALENDAR:
(All meetings held in person, via Zoom, or hybrid (meaning in-person and via Zoom), as noted)
- Worship each Sunday in meetinghouse and via Zoom at 10am (hybrid)
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Dec 6, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- Advent Potluck Sunday: Dec 10, at rise of worship. Details to follow
- Peace & Social Justice, Mon, Dec 11 at 3:30 PM. Zoom only
- Ministry and Counsel, Monday, Dec 11, 7-8:30 PM
- NEYM: Meeting Leaders Call, Tues, Dec 12, 7-8 PM
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Dec 13, 3:30-4pm. via Zoom
- Monthly Meeting for Business, Sunday, Dec 17, at 8am Via Zoom
- Seekers Group, Monday, Dec 18, 7-8:30 PM. HYBRID
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Dec 20, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom.
- Christmas Eve Service, Dec 24, in Meetinghouse, 7:00 PM. Details to follow
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Dec 27, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- NEYM “Living Faith Gathering,” Dartmouth, MA, April 6. DETAILS
MIDWEEK WORSHIP, via Zoom, WEDNESDAYS, 3:30-4:00pm. (Kevin sends link day of)
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New England Yearly Meeting/Wider Quaker News:
NEYM’s December 2023 Newsletter may be read HERE.
Introduction
Save the date: Young Friends Midwinter
Friends decision-making workshop
Young adult Friends Midwinter
Gathering for Friends with a concern for Gospel ministry
Save the date: Living Faith
Sessions news
Our hopes for this newsletter
We’re hiring!
Workshops sought for Living Faith
Reconciliation leadership workshop offering
Work at Friends Camp
Legacy grantee survey
Bodine-Rustin nominations wanted
ARCH News
Israel-Palestine presentation video
Ramallah students write Congress
Bolivian young Friends provide food relief
Quaker e-books
For youth from K to 8th grade
Quakers in the news
A last word
- Daily at 8:30 a.m.: Daily Worship at Pendle Hill
- Weekdays at 10:30 a.m., Portland Friends Meeting: Waiting Worship
- Daily at noon: International Meeting for Worship
- Alternate Thursdays at 4 p.m., Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL): Thursdays with Friends
- Thursdays at 7 p.m.: Taizé worship
- Thursdays at 8 p.m.: Parents’ Tea-and-Chat
NEYM Living Faith Gathering, April 6, 2024.
Living Faith Gatherings bring together Quakers from across New England to strengthen connections between Friends of different generations and from different meetings, nourish spirits, and provide an opportunity to share the ways we experience and live our faith. We hope Living Faith gatherings will be an opportunity to equip individual Friends and local meetings with resources, tools, and connections to more fully live our faith. (from NEYM website) DETAILS.
Dec 12
Jan 9
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Quaker Programs, Study, Retreats, and Spiritual Nurture:
QuakerSpeak (Our Quaker faith as shared by those who experience it firsthand, every day, via weekly video interviews)
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Closing:
All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope.
Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day
all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future
without the need to know exactly what it would look like.
Let’s live with hope.
– Henri Nouwen
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Thank you, Friends,
Kevin