Westport Meeting News:
Monthly Meeting for Business will be held Sunday, November 19, at 8 AM.
“Equality is one of the key testimonies of the Society of Friends (Quakers).
We respect that of God in each of us. To that end, we support the autonomy of each woman to make
decisions regarding her body and health care, including reproductive issues. We also support trans
people and their right to make choices about their bodies and for everyone to have access to safe,
competent, compassionate health care.
Signed in the Light,
Peace and Social Justice Committee
Westport Monthly Meeting of Friends”
(Additional information about the Coalition may be read HERE. – K. Lee, editor)
Security Cameras Installation: Please be advised that Wayne Electric will be installing security cameras on the exterior of our buildings beginning Monday, Nov 20, and continuing on Tuesday, Nov 21, and Wed, Nov 22, from 8:00 AM until 4:30 PM. Technicians will be working inside and outside of the Community House, Potter House, Book Shed, and meetinghouse during daytime hours. Daytime rentals are suspended during these days and Friends are asked to avoid being in our buildings during daytime working hours. (Book donations can continue uninterrupted)
Book Shed News: Effective September 1, our Book Shed will be open seven days a week, 9am – 5pm. If you are able to help unlock and relock the Book Shed every now and then, please be in touch with Gretchen.
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)
- Monthly Meeting for Business, Sunday, Nov 19, at 8am Via Zoom
- Security Cameras Installation, Nov 20, 21, 22. All Buildings closed. See above
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Nov 22, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom.
- Seekers Group, Monday, Nov 27, 7-8:30 PM. HYBRID
- Midweek Meeting for Worship, Wed, Nov 29, 3:30-4pm. Via Zoom
- 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
- Christmas Eve Service, Dec 24, in Meetinghouse, 7:00 PM. Details to follow
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 November 2023 Newsletter may be read HERE.
Introduction
Meeting Care Day
Israel and Palestine with Steve Chase
Reconciliation Leadership Program
Gathering for young adult Friends
Public statement on conflict in Israel-Palestine
We’re hiring!
Sessions 2024 update
Legacy grantee survey
Our new Outreach Archivist
Bodine-Rustin nominations wanted
ARCH News
Help from the Archives Committee
Videos, podcasts, and more
For youth from K to 8th grade
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
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:
Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness;
and bearing one with another,
and forgiving one another,
and not laying accusations one against another;
but praying one for another,
and helping one another up with a tender hand.
– Isaac Penington
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Thank you, Friends,
Kevin