An Interfaith Celebration of Thanksgiving

Sunday, November 20 at 5:30 pm

The Greater Concord Interfaith Council invites you to give thanks for health and wellbeing. Hosted at the Wesley United Methodist Church, 79 Clinton St., Concord. Featuring music and readings from diverse religious traditions. With cookie and beverage reception following. Any free will donations will be directed to Family Promise of Greater Concord.

Fall Leaf Clean-up & Yard Work, Nov 20

This annual ritual is upon us. Please wear appropriate clothing, and bring work gloves and rakes. Warm gloves are a must. Snacks to share are welcomed. The forecast is for decent skies but cold temps. .Following worship we will have a time for fellowship and a 20 min. to 30 min. work period. We hope to make short shrift of the leaves, spread the bags of mulch and cut down the tall grasses. We have 4 electric or battery powered leaf blowers, a battery powered lawn mower and 4 leaf rakes in addition to whatever Friends can bring from home. Many thanks to those who can stay to help.

4th Sunday Program

This 4th Sunday the Meeting will conduct a threshing session on the question of the purchase of land across the road from the Meetinghouse. The program follows a pot luck lunch at 12:30.

Divine Metaphors - Dec 8, 7-8pm

December 8th, 2022, 7:00-8:00 PM (ET) on Zoom! Facilitated by Rob Spencer

Come gather to explore eye-opening (and “I” opening) metaphors of the Divine. What words can we use to describe the indescribable? Take a leap of faith and fancy as we soar off the cliff together to discern and share our own Metaphors—before landing safely by the end of the hour. Free and open to the public--bring along a friend! (A voluntary donation of $10 to support One Spirit Learning Alliance is suggested.) A more complete description and registration information can be found here: https://www.1spirit.org/community/events/gathering-12-8-22 [3]

Help Needed in Children’s Program

Although we have 4 people in the teaching rotation, the children’s program needs another person each week to provide childcare for younger –than- Kindergarten children. This can be outside (weather permitting) or inside in the children’s play room. We have not had many people signing up for this, and had to snag someone who hasn’t yet gone into Meeting a couple times.

You must have had a background check (done by NEYM) before volunteering. If you are a pre-approved childcare helper, please check your email for a link to where to sign up online. If you would like to become a helper, please email religiousEduation [at] ConcordFriendsMeeting [dot] org to initiate that process.

If you are not attending Meeting in person, you can also help us fulfill our child safety policy by being a remote observer into our classrooms. We will be setting up a cell phone connected to a YRE Breakout Room in each physical classroom. A Zoom attender could sign up to randomly enter our classrooms to monitor (and then return to Worship Zoom room). If you would like to sign up for this, please do so at the Google doc in the Remote Observer column: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XAX0pPv1wkzbGu7qR5-CsoAbALnIS_nh_w8hJdP2QWM/edit [4]

Rotating Jobs at Meeting

JJ has just updated the rotation of jobs at Meeting and it appears there is the need for a new rotation of kitchen cleanup. We are always interested in expanding the list to include new participants. Participants might not generally come to meeting in person but still want to support the physical work that needs doing. Training is happily provided. If you would like to fit into any of these jobs, please respond to this message with a subject line of "Jobs at Meeting" and thank you in advance.

These rotating jobs include:

• closing with a partner (20 to 30 min. or so - Lights off, windows closed, a bit of cleaning, etc.
• Kitchen clean up on 2nd or 4th Sunday with a partner.
• Boiler cleaning - for those mechanically inclined and not impaired by asthma or other respiratory ailments. This can also be done on the Saturday prior to meeting, Sunday night, or the Monday following meeting.

Minutes

The initial draft of the 11th Month Minutes of Meeting for Worship with Concern for Business for Concord Monthly Meeting are at https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/2022-11-13_CMM_Minutes [5] or via https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/Minutes_of_ConcordMonthlyMeeting [6]

The initial draft of the Minutes for 4th Quarter of Dover Quarterly Meeting are at https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/2022-10-30DoverQuarterlyMeeting [7] or via https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/Minutes_of_DoverQuarterlyMeeting [8]

Please let me know of any corrections. In love, and peace, and tenderness, Mark

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