Date | Time | Event | |
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Sun | Mar 1 | 10:00 a.m. | Worship. Childcare: Sara; Closing: Dave & Penny. |
Mon | Mar 2 | 1:00 p.m. | Ministry and Council Committee meets |
Tue | Mar 3 | 7:00 p.m. | Property Committee Meeting at Lucy’s |
Thu | Mar 5 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Lenten Luncheon at Concordia Lutheran Church, 211 N. Main Street, Concord, NH. |
Sat | Mar 7 | 11:00 a.m. | Quaker Basics, Week 1 (of 6) at the Meetinghouse. |
Sat | Mar 7 | 7:00 p.m. | Arnie Alpert Action Fund fundraising event at Meetinghouse. |
Sun | Mar 8 | 10:00 a.m. | Worship followed by Potluck and Meeting for Business; Childcare: Faith Closing: Pat and Faith; Boiler: Jonah. |
Thu | Mar 12 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Lenten Luncheon at Concordia Lutheran Church, 211 N. Main Street, Concord, NH. |
Thu | Mar 12 | 5:00 p.m. | Quaker Basics, Week 2 (of 6) at the Meetinghouse - POSTPONED. |
Sun | Mar 15 | 10:00 a.m. | Worship followed by Fellowship and Building Clean-Up |
Thu | Mar 19 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Lenten Luncheon at Concordia Lutheran Church, 211 N. Main Street, Concord, NH. |
Fri–Sun | Mar 20–22 | Fri eve + all day Sat + ½ day Sun | “Bible as a Door to Spiritual Transformation” workshop at Woolman Hill - POSTPONED |
Sat | Mar 21 | All day | Legacy Gift Committee [2] meeting at the meetinghouse |
Sun | Mar 22 | 10:00 a.m. | Worship followed by Potluck and and Program 2 with James McKim on Racial Reconciliation. Childcare: Chris; Closing: Rob Y and Kathy M; Boiler: Rob. |
Tue | Mar 24 | 11:30 a.m. | Finance Committee Meets to prepare 2020-2021 budget recommendation. |
Thu | Mar 26 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Lenten Luncheon at Concordia Lutheran Church, 211 N. Main Street, Concord, NH. |
Sat | Mar 28 | 1:00 p.m. | Program on Mass Incarceration |
Thu | Apr 2 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Lenten Luncheon at Concordia Lutheran Church, 211 N. Main Street, Concord, NH. |
Sat | Apr 19 | 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | NEYM Clerking Workshop [3] at the meetinghouse |
Date | Time | Event | |
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3rd Sun | after Meeting | Dances of Universal Peace [4] | |
most Mondays | 6:00–9:00 p.m. | Zen Group | |
1st Tue | 9:00–10:15 a.m. | Prayer Vigil & Jericho Walk: Norris Cotton Federal Building, 275 Chestnut St., Manchester, NH | |
3rd Tue | 9:00–10:15 a.m. | Prayer Vigil & Jericho Walk: Norris Cotton Federal Building, 275 Chestnut St., Manchester, NH | |
Every Fri | 4:00–5:00 p.m. | Immigration Solidarity Witness: southwest corner Main & Park Sts. (State House Plaza), Concord, NH |
James McKim, our facilitator, has provided us with the PDF that he used as a slide show through the program and it is provided to you through the link that follows. You can use it for review purposes and to help with the homework, or if you were unable to attend, you can follow the embedded links to short videos he presented. This can help you catch up with attendees. Don’t be daunted by it’s length. The PDF is full of large images rather than text. (For a copy of the PDF, please send an e-mail to Info [at] ConcordFriendsMeeting [dot] org.)
Here is our homework for our next session on March 22nd.
James plans to do a quick review of the concepts in the first program (see implicit bias [“Peanut Butter, Jelly and Racism [6]” and “An Introduction to Unconscious Bias [7]”] videos and microaggressions [8] video), delve into the homework results attendees bring, and then move into some new territory. We hope you will be able to attend. Attendance at session one is not a prerequisite. Everyone is welcome.
Click here to read James’ biography [9]. James writes of his program: "The paradox of persistent inequalities [between races and genders] amid improving racial and gender attitudes has led to a search for factors underlying ongoing discrimination and ways to create welcoming communities. This program explores those factors and ways to minimize the impact of implicit bias in our interactions and decision making toward inner peace and creating a welcoming community. During this highly interactive program we will discuss the following questions:
We recognize this first workshop with James is only a beginning and we expect it to be an ongoing process. We expect to be doing the second workshop in this series March 22nd. Please save the date.
Ministry and Counsel
Join us March 7th at 7 p.m. at the Meetinghouse for a celebration of Arnie Alpert’s 39 years working for peace and justice at AFSC-NH. Special guests Renny Cushing, and Barbara Keshen will share stories of working with Arnie to end the Death Penalty in New Hampshire. A concert by acclaimed musician Steve Schuch of Night Heron Music will follow. Donations will go toward the Arnie Alpert Action Fund, which will support future projects of AFSC-NH. Please RSVP to Events [at] ConcordFriendsMeeting [dot] org.
https://www.afsc.org/aaafund [10]
“Quaker Basics” is a series of six informal, one-hour meetings to learn from one another through reading selections from Faith and Practice of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and New England Yearly Meeting. The selections have been collected into six separate booklets that are available [11] on the “Library [12]” webpage on this website, but the MarkWBarker [at] ConcordFriendsMeeting [dot] org (subject: %E2%80%9CQuaker%20Basics%E2%80%9D%20booklets%20of%20readings) (facilitator) will print copies for participants to mark up, underline, and dog-ear during their preparation for each meeting. After opening with a brief period of worship, we begin with responses to the question “What spoke to you?” We will close the meeting with another brief period of worship. At the end of each meeting, we will agree the time and the venue of the next meeting.
Finance Committee and Budget Preparation
Committees are asked to get their budget requests to the Finance Committee by March 23rd. A draft budget should be before the Meeting for consideration at the April Meeting for Business. All requests should be made by email or in writing. Verbal requests for budget requests made to some members of Finance Committee will be forgotten. Alas. Our email address is FinanceCommittee [at] ConcordFriendsMeeting [dot] org
LENTEN LUNCHEONS, 61st Annual Series, Sponsored by Greater Concord Interfaith Council [13]
Location: Concordia Lutheran Church, 211 N. Main Street (across the street from the Kimball Jenkins School of Art)
Price per luncheon: $7 (all proceeds go to local area non-profits)
Thursdays, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
There will be a presentation on Mass Incarceration, by Jeanne Hruska of the ACLU on March 28th, at 1:00 p.m., at the Meetinghouse. She will talk about the current use of incarceration as a response to every situation, which unfairly punishes those who cannot pay bail. She will discuss Sentencing Reform, Bail Reform, Restorative Justice, Mental Health Court, and Drug Court, as well as other aspects of the issue.
From the minutes of our last Meeting for Business: “PSECC would like the meeting to anchor the start of community-wide education and action. Friends approved. [14]” This program is the beginning of that project.
Minutes from Meeting for Business: Follow these links for the minutes to our last meetings for business. /2020-02-09_CMM_Minutes [15] and https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/2020-03-08_CMM_Minutes [16].
Dear Friends,
I am leading a retreat March 20-22 at Woolman Hill with Adria Gulizia, a Friend from New York YM - whom some of you may recall as one of the plenary speakers at NEYM annual sessions in 2018.
This weekend will not be Bible study in the sense of talking about the Bible, who wrote a passage, or what at meant when it was written.
Instead we will seek to become a listening community together, where we can open our hearts and allow God speak to us as we read and hear passages in the Bible that were powerful in the lives of early Friends – and have special significance for many Friends today.
We anticipate this to be a rich weekend both for those who have a long journey with the Bible and also for those with little or no experience with it. I hope you can join us – or pass this along to others who might find it helpful.
http://woolmanhill.org/upcomingprograms/bible-as-door-to-transformation/ [17]
In God’s love,
Peter Blood-Patterson
Here are some examples of passages we may spend time with:
Early Quakers were very fond of the Letter of James. James ch. 3 talks about “taming the tongue”. James ch. 4 talks about how wars arise from greed (quoted in the 1660 Peace Testimony).
Building Uses of Note
Jericho Walk [Joshua 6:1-27 [23]] 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. for those reporting to ICE for deportation that day at the Norris Cotton Federal Building, 275 Chestnut Street in Manchester. This will be followed by the Sanctuary Support Network meeting at Blessed Sacrament Church, 14 Elm Street, Manchester where there will be refreshments. We have signed the pledge to stand with our immigrant neighbors. If you have not seen a copy of the revised solidarity statement, it can be found here. [Also, see resources at the website of the NH Council of Churches.]
Jericho Walk [Joshua 6:1-27 [23]] 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. for those reporting to ICE for deportation that day at the Norris Cotton Federal Building, 275 Chestnut Street in Manchester. We have signed the pledge to stand with our immigrant neighbors. If you have not seen a copy of the revised solidarity statement, it can be found here. [Also, see resources at the website of the NH Council of Churches.]
Links:
[1] https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/sites/all/files/images/ConcordFriendsMeeting-GroupPicture2019.jpg
[2] https://neym.org/committees/legacy-gift
[3] https://neym.org/events-calendar/2020/04/clerking-workshop
[4] https://www.dancesofuniversalpeacena.org/
[5] https://ConcordFriendsMeeting.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9a8043445371972ccf703d972&id=3a99de5323&e=c72c5a0f80
[6] https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000004818663/peanut-butter-jelly-and-racism.html
[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCgIRGKAbfc&t=2s
[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDd3bzA7450
[9] https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/JamesMcKim
[10] https://www.afsc.org/aaafund
[11] https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/Library#QuakerBasics
[12] https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/Library
[13] https://www.greaterconcordinterfaithcouncil.org/events.html
[14] https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/2020-02-09_CMM_Minutes#02.5
[15] https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/2020-02-09_CMM_Minutes
[16] https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/2020-03-08_CMM_Minutes
[17] http://woolmanhill.org/upcomingprograms/bible-as-door-to-transformation/
[18] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+19%3A9-13&version=NRSV
[19] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1%3A1-13&version=NRSV
[20] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+4%3A19-24&version=NRSV
[21] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12%3A2&version=NRSV
[22] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+10%3A3-5&version=NKJV
[23] https://bible.oremus.org/?ql=439204170