Prepare for Meeting for Business, July 11:
Committee Clerks should get reports from their committees to Rich, Mark, and Heidi in advance for distribution. Attendees: Please bring a brown bag lunch if you are staying at the meetinghouse for business meeting. We plan on eating outside and will continue our current hybrid meeting plan (masks etc. except when eating or drinking, which should be done outside).
Minutes from June
Draft minutes for Sixth Month 2021 are on the website https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/2021-06-13_CMM_Minutes or via https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/Minutes_of_ConcordMonthlyMeeting
Watch for other materials coming separately.
This workshop is now full! Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples (a workshop for New England Yearly Meeting)
Films of Interest.
The film Indian Horse should be of interest and will be an opportunity to meet Denise and Paul Pouliot in person. More info in the link.
JULY 24: Join us for a screening of Indian Horse and welcome our guest speakers, Denise L. Pouliot, Sag8moskwa and artist, and Paul W. Pouliot, Sag8mo and THPO Cowasuck Band of the Pennacock-Abenaki People.
AUGUST 28: Join us for a screening of Urban Roots and stay after the film for discussion with our guest speaker Lila Kohrman-Glaser, Executive Director of 350NH.
This event will take place in the barn at Saltonstall Farm. Chairs will be placed 6ft apart and barn doors will remain open for maximum air flow. Please no eating during the event to ensure masks remain on. You are welcome to bring your own beverage.
Donations are encouraged and greatly appreciated. We will accept donations at the door or visit our website to become a Friend of Robinwood Center.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/racial-and-climate-justice-film-series-tickets-151126285789
Blended Meetings Have Begun – Windows may Remain Closed
We are delighted to welcome Friends back to the meetinghouse for worship in person. The Pandemic Group reports that we may leave windows closed. Zooming in continues to be an option. There are some restrictions noted below so, please read carefully. Bear with us as we work out the technological kinks and work to minimize their impact on worship space. Your feedback to Ministry and Counsel about the worship experience and the Tech Committee about how tech solutions are implemented is most welcomed.
Guidelines from the Pandemic Response Group
(expect updates, sometimes without notice)
- Only people who are fully vaccinated should be in the meetinghouse. That is to say, everyone who attends in person should be willing to affirm they are vaccinated.
- The fellowship room and kitchen will not be used except for access through the space to bathrooms, storage spaces, etc. No lingering.
- Masks will be worn at all times indoors and also when outdoors if closer than 6 feet to people not from the same household.
- Eating was not discussed but JJ believes that means eating needs to be outside.
Ministry & Counsel Meeting July 5, 2021
Please remember that lunch after worship this Sunday is brown bag!
NEYM course for fall: Exploring Spiritual Practices – 10-week course online. Begins Sept 7. Led by Marcelle Martin. This is an incredible opportunity to learn about many different spiritual practices with a wonderful teacher/guide. Sara signed up and she would love to have a small group to practice these together. This course can also fulfill the requirement for learning about spiritual practices before taking the 2022 Spiritual Formation course. It is pay as led but heavily subsidized as well.
https://neym.org/events-calendar/2021/09/exploring-spiritual-practices
Sara is encouraging Friends to gather at the Meetinghouse for a few sessions of NEYM. I hope to start with the opening session and stay through the plenary. AND Sessions registration is open! Here is a taste of the events---The Saturday Plenary will be a conversation between gkisedtanamoogk (Mashpee Wampanoag) and Shirley Hager (Winthrop Center, ME, Friends Meeting). Shirley and gkisedtanamoogk met at NEYM Sessions in 1986, and subsequently arranged a series of gatherings to bring together settlers and Indigenous peoples from throughout Wabanaki territory (Maine and Atlantic Canada). Participants in these gatherings explored how to move past generations of destructive encounters between Indigenous peoples and settlers and into authentic relationship. In the format of a conversation, gkisedtanamoogk and Shirley will speak to us about the healing this group found, and what that experience has to offer us. Would you like to join together at the meetinghouse for this event or maybe others? Sara will be offering this as a way for us to be partly together during sessions. Saturday Aug. 7 from 10 to 2:30 with this plenary going from 1-2:30. Check with her for questions and if there is interest in gathering for other sessions. For more info https://neym.org/sessions
Singing & Coffee hour: Pandemic response committee has determined that singing with masks on is safe enough for now.
We are making a joyful noise together once more! Singing, wearing masks, windows open, and socially distant in the fellowship room 10:00 – 10:15 every Sunday. You may check out a hymnal to bring home, if you plan on singing from home.
We will have coffee and tea fellowship time after worship. We encourage Friends to bring their own mugs (some paper hot cups will be available, too), pour your beverage, and move outside or into the worship room to maintain social distance. Enjoy!
Looking for a place to have a get together for the Fourth Sunday in July. We could have a picnic potluck at Bear Brook State Park by the Catamount Pond if no homes are available. Let Sara know if you have possible venues in mind.
Ministry & Counsel Meeting July 5, 2021
Please remember that lunch after worship this Sunday is brown bag!
NEYM course for fall: Exploring Spiritual Practices – 10-week course online. Begins Sept 7. Led by Marcelle Martin. This is an incredible opportunity to learn about many different spiritual practices with a wonderful teacher/guide. Sara signed up and she would love to have a small group to practice these together. This course can also fulfill the requirement for learning about spiritual practices before taking the 2022 Spiritual Formation course. It is pay as led but heavily subsidized as well.
https://neym.org/events-calendar/2021/09/exploring-spiritual-practices
Sara is encouraging Friends to gather at the Meetinghouse for a few sessions of NEYM. I hope to start with the opening session and stay through the plenary. AND Sessions registration is open! Here is a taste of the events---The Saturday Plenary will be a conversation between gkisedtanamoogk (Mashpee Wampanoag) and Shirley Hager (Winthrop Center, ME, Friends Meeting). Shirley and gkisedtanamoogk met at NEYM Sessions in 1986, and subsequently arranged a series of gatherings to bring together settlers and Indigenous peoples from throughout Wabanaki territory (Maine and Atlantic Canada). Participants in these gatherings explored how to move past generations of destructive encounters between Indigenous peoples and settlers and into authentic relationship. In the format of a conversation, gkisedtanamoogk and Shirley will speak to us about the healing this group found, and what that experience has to offer us. Would you like to join together at the meetinghouse for this event or maybe others? Sara will be offering this as a way for us to be partly together during sessions. Saturday Aug. 7 from 10 to 2:30 with this plenary going from 1-2:30. Check with her for questions and if there is interest in gathering for other sessions. For more info
https://neym.org/sessions
Singing & Coffee hour: Pandemic response committee has determined that singing with masks on is safe enough for now.
We are making a joyful noise together once more! Singing, wearing masks, windows open, and socially distant in the fellowship room 10:00 – 10:15 every Sunday. You may check out a hymnal to bring home, if you plan on singing from home.
We will have coffee and tea fellowship time after worship. We encourage Friends to bring their own mugs (some paper hot cups will be available, too), pour your beverage, and move outside or into the worship room to maintain social distance. Enjoy!
Looking for a place to have a get together for the Fourth Sunday in July. We could have a picnic potluck at Bear Brook State Park by the Catamount Pond if no homes are available. Let Sara know if you have possible venues in mind.
Singing & Coffee hour: Pandemic response committee has determined that singing with masks on is safe enough for now.
We are making a joyful noise together once more! Singing, wearing masks, windows open, and socially distant in the fellowship room 10:00 – 10:15 every Sunday. You may check out a hymnal to bring home, if you plan on singing from home.
We will have coffee and tea fellowship time after worship. We encourage Friends to bring their own mugs (some paper hot cups will be available, too), pour your beverage, and move outside or into the worship room to maintain social distance. Enjoy!
Looking for a place to have a get together for the Fourth Sunday in July. We could have a picnic potluck at Bear Brook State Park by the Catamount Pond if no homes are available. Let Sara know if you have possible venues in mind.
Paddle Trip on the Pagôntegok (Contoocook) River
Sunday July 11 at 1 pm
Jane Lewellen Bandstand in Contoocook Village
Participants are invited to paddle down the Contoocook River and learn about how the river was the primary mode of transportation for Native Americans. Tribal members will point out features, and participants will be given a waterproof map that highlights Native American presence and activities along the Contoocook.
Participants should meet at the Jane Lewellen Bandstand in Contoocook Village at 12:45 pm and will use their own equipment to paddle to Bohanan Farm and back to Contoocook Village. Registration is not necessary.
Following the paddle, participants are invited to the Society to view locally found stone tools and our current exhibit, "What we have learned from the Abenaki Trails Project."
Sponsored by New Hampshire Humanities
