Westport Meeting News:
Reminder: Please be advised that Monthly Meeting for Business will be held this Sunday morning at 8:00 AM via Zoom only. The weekly email will contain the Zoom link for business meeting, and the usual Zoom link for worship at 10am.
NEEDED: MEN’S HATS AND WOMEN’S/MEN’S GLOVES AND MITTENS: The Pilgrim Church Home urgently needs men’s hats and women’s/men’s gloves and mittens to make available to patrons at their morning breakfast program. Please bring these items to the Westport Friends meetinghouse and leave in the meetinghouse foyer. Barbara Sullivan will deliver them to the Pilgrim Church Home in downtown New Bedford. Questions? Contact Barbara at 774-454-1498.
Newsletter Editor: In 1994, Jean Kennison, due to advancing eye health challenges, asked me if I would consider taking over the Westport Meeting Newsletter . I said “yes,” figuring I would do it for a few years and then pass it on to another Meeting Friend. During that time, as the use of computers and digital formats increased exponentially, our Meeting Newsletter moved from printed monthly formats, painstakingly sent via US Mail, to monthly digital formats that arrived via email. Over time, we incorporated the Newsletter into our Meeting’s website, so that every issue was automatically archived and remained accessible by visiting westportfriendsmeeting.org. In recent years I have found it more efficient time-wise to update the Newsletter each week on a rolling basis, instead of monthly. Doing so has kept content fresher and gives us the ability to easily add content from committees and monthly meeting for business as requested.
After twenty nine years, I still enjoy putting the Newsletter together, but I know, too, that the time is nearing for me to pass this service to the Meeting on to another Westport Meeting Friend. If you, or if you know of another Westport Meeting Friend who might be interested, I am happy to answer questions and explain what’s involved. Choosing the next Meeting Newsletter editor is decided by monthly meeting for business. Ideally, I would like to help the next Newsletter editor transition into the role as needed. That said, I plan to continue until business Meeting names the next editor to continue after me. – Kevin Lee
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Approved previous minutes of Monthly Meeting for Business may be read HERE.
MEETING CALENDAR:
(All meetings held in person, via Zoom, or hybrid (meaning in-person and via Zoom), as noted)
- Monthly Meeting for Business, Sunday, Feb 19, at 8am (Zoom only)
- Worship each Sunday in meetinghouse and via Zoom at 10am (hybrid)
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Feb 22, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- Seekers Group, Mon, Feb 27, 7pm, Potter House and via Zoom
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, March 1, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- NEYM, and at Westport Meeting “Bread Day,” March 4. Details below and HERE
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, March 8, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- NEYM monthly check-in for Friends serving their local meetings, Tues, March 14, 7pm (See below)
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, March 15, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- Peace and Social Justice Committee, Mon, March 20, 7pm via Zoom
- Ministry and Counsel Committee, Thurs, March 21, 7pm (Zoom only)
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, March 22, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- NEYM Living Faith Gathering (in-person), April 1, Portland ME. Details HERE
MIDWEEK WORSHIP, via Zoom, WEDNESDAYS, 3:30-4:00pm. (Kevin sends link day of)
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Yearly Meeting/Wider Quaker News:
NEYM February 2023 Newsletter, “Learning to Trust God by Pivoting through the Pickleverse,” by “Briana Halliwell (Vassalboro, ME, Meeting),may be read HERE.
Support for Quaker Parents
The Life Cycle of a Meeting
Embracing Spiritual Gifts
Facing Our History
Faithfulness Groups Workshop
Faith & Practice Revision
New Book on Eldering
Friends Camp Video
Stewardship Resources
Got Photos?
A Last Word
Recurring virtual events
- 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
Other events coming soon
- Bread Day: March 4. Bread Day “is coming again this year on March 4th 2023! Watch this video to find out what the first-ever Bread Day was like last year for Quakers of all ages across New England”. – NEYM Website.
Fortunately for us, Gretchen will be leading Bread Day March 4 in our Community House again this year. Questions? Speak directly with Gretchen or email her at hellogretchen@gmail.com.
Monthly Check-In for Friends Serving Their Local Meetings
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Sandwich Quarterly Meeting News:
- Sat, March 25, SQM Ministry and Counsel, at E. Sandwich Meeting.
- Quarterly Ministry and Counsel:
March 25 in East SandwichSept. 23 in Mattapoiset
- Sat, Sept. 23 SQM Ministry and Counsel, at Mattapoisett
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:
The greatness of a community is most accurately
measured by the compassionate actions of its members,
a heart of grace, and a soul generated by love.
– Coretta Scott King
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Thank you, Friends,
Kevin