Query for September
How are we led to participate in the life of the Meeting?
Friends Meeting Calendar
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Events in September 2022
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Forum: How Should We Organize Our Meeting?
Forum: How Should We Organize Our Meeting?
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September 11, 2022How Should We Organize our Meeting?
Friends Meetings have no paid staff; we depend on volunteers to do the tasks that keep Meetings running and to provide the collective discernment of the right path forward. To do this, we have traditionally relied on formal committees. Recently, this has not worked well.
- Even before COVID, we had trouble filling several of our committees; now, it is impossible to do so.
- We have tried giving more tasks to fewer committees, but those committees are now spread too thin. Tasks often fail to get done or fall to the 'usual suspects' to do them.
- We have tried leaving things to individuals, but worry that this does not provide the collective discernment that is one of the hallmarks of the Quaker way.
We need to think together about other ways to organize ourselves for the post-COVID era. Please join us on Sunday, September 11th, for a (first) forum/discussion on Meeting organization. We need your help identifying:
- the problems with our current structure,
- the tasks that are crucial for us to do, and
- possible ways to organize ourselves so that those tasks get done with joy rather than as burdens.
Jim Spickard will facilitate the Forum.
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Monthly Business Meeting
Monthly Business Meeting
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September 18, 2022Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business will be in-person.
If you are unable to attend in person, then you may join us by Zoom.
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ID #976 0522 6497; passcode: 194077
Phone: +1 346 248 7799, then enter ID#Agenda & Draft Minutes will be posted HERE Opens in new tab a week before the Meeting
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Second Forum: How Should We Organize Our Meeting?
Second Forum: How Should We Organize Our Meeting?
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September 25, 2022How Should We Organize our Meeting?
Friends Meetings have no paid staff; we depend on volunteers to do the tasks that keep Meetings running and to provide the collective discernment of the right path forward. To do this, we have traditionally relied on formal committees. Recently, this has not worked well.
- Even before COVID, we had trouble filling several of our committees; now, it is impossible to do so.
- We have tried giving more tasks to fewer committees, but those committees are now spread too thin. Tasks often fail to get done or fall to the 'usual suspects' to do them.
- We have tried leaving things to individuals, but worry that this does not provide the collective discernment that is one of the hallmarks of the Quaker way.
We need to think together about other ways to organize ourselves for the post-COVID era. Please join us on Sunday, September 25th, for a (second) forum/discussion on Meeting organization. Jim Spickard will facilitate.
Read the report of the September 11th Forum HERE
Other Groups that Use our Meetinghouse: |
(open to all except as noted; click links for information) | |
| Mondays | 6:30-9:30pm | Insight Meditation — Yellow Dog Sangha |
| Tuesdays | 6:30-8:30pm | Plum Branch Sangha |
| Wednesdays | 7:30-8:30pm | Celebration Circle: Meditation Circle |
| 2-3 meetings per month | various | Reformed Congregation of the Goddess (click link for information about attendance) |
