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There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you don’t do them.

~ Charles D. Gill

(A judge for the Litchfield District Superior Court in Connecticut and

a tireless advocate for the rights of children)

The Meeting Calendar

Day	Date	Time	Event
Saturday	June 1st	9:30 a.m.— 3:00 p.m.	Concord Meeting HOSTS NEYM “Meeting for Listening”
Sunday	June 2nd	10:00 a.m. Noon	Meeting for Worship & Fellowship. For Zoom link, email Zoom [at] ConcordFriendsMeeting [dot] org (subject: %E2%80%9CWorship%E2%80%9D%20Zoom%20Link%20Request) . First Day School:  Ruth; Helper:  TBD; Closing:  Faith S. & Chris H. SPRING PARTY at Heidi’s!!! (25 Concord Dr., Webster NH)
Tuesday	June 4th	6:30 p.m.	Midweek Worship at the Meeting House.  All are welcome.  If possible, please let Rich know you will be joining us. klnschmdt [at] gmail [dot] com (subject: Mid-week%20Worship) (603-899-7574)
Sunday	June 9th	10:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. — 2:00 p.m.	Meeting for Worship. For Zoom link, email Zoom [at] ConcordFriendsMeeting [dot] org (subject: %E2%80%9CWorship%E2%80%9D%20Zoom%20Link%20Request) . First Day School:  TBD; Helper:  TBD; Closing:  Ruth & Greg H. Potluck Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business

Join us for a gathering of Friends in New England caring for the nurture of spiritual life and ministry in our local faith communities.  It will be a full-day, hybrid gathering where Friends can gather in different ways: on site at Concord (NH) Meeting, in local clusters connected via Zoom, or individually via Zoom.

Registration is now open.  Whether you plan to participate via Zoom or gather with others, you can register for this free-of-charge event at neym.org/Meeting-for-Listening.  If you plan to attend on site in Concord, please register by May 26^th.  This will help us comfortably accommodate everyone.

This year's Spring Party will be held at Heidi Babb's new home on June 2^nd at the rise of Meeting for Worship.  Heidi just purchased this home at 23 or 25 Concord Dr, Webster NH with lake frontage on Pillsbury Lake.  Since she has just moved into the house and has a bit to do on it, we invite those able to stay to work on projects inside to help her get settled following the party.  See you there!

Our next meeting will be June 2^nd at 9 a.m. in the Meetinghouse.

The silent vigil for a ceasefire in Gaza continues every Thursday from Noon-1pm at the corner of Main and Center Street.  Make your own sign, use one provided, or just stand in silent witness besides others. This is done in coordination with NH Peace Action.  We suggest that people make signs that convey something about justice for Israel and Palestine.  Also please avoid the word genocide, ethnic cleansing, and similar terms.

Every Autumn, the Greater Concord Interfaith Council organizes a fundraiser for hunger relief, both local and international, known as the Crop Walk.  We have had participants in this for many years.  There is a need for someone to lead this again and be a contact person between our Meeting and the organizers at the GCIC.  Please let Jennifer Smith know of your interest in helping out with this (jaycmd7699 [at] gmail [dot] com).

We will once again be able to joyfully gather together at Castleton University and on Zoom, for the 364^th Annual Sessions of New England Yearly Meeting of Friends, August 2^nd through 7^th. All of us are looking forward to welcoming Friends, new-comers and oft-comers, adults, children, youth, and their families.

Our theme for this year’s Sessions is:  “Let us faithfully tend the seed.”  Rich with imagery, our theme calls us both to act in the world in ways that give voice to the Inner Light and also to let go of our individual truth and listen for the voice of God in others. Isaac Penington put it in these words,  “Give over thine own willing; give over thine own running; give over thine own desiring to know or be anything, and sink down to the seed which God sows in the heart, and let that grow in thee, and be in thee, and breathe in thee, and act in thee; and thou shalt find by sweet experience that the Lord knows that, and loves and owns that, and will lead it to the inheritance of Life, which is its portion.”

We strive to create a beloved community which shows loving concern and actions toward all attenders of the Meeting and all with whom we interact in the wider world.  We demonstrate this care and love by being vaccinated, because vaccination protects the person vaccinated and others with whom they come in contact.  We encourage all attenders to be vaccinated and keep their vaccinations up to date.  We believe this will make our meetinghouse a safer space for attenders whose own network includes people who are at greater risk of death or disability should they get the COVID-19 virus.

We request that you attend via Zoom if any of the following apply:

• You have a fever, cough, or other viral symptoms.  (This is because you can have COVID and spread it before testing positive.)
• If you have had COVID recently, please don't attend in person until after the 5^th day after you tested positive; and please wear a mask until the 10^th day (or longer if your doctor recommends).
• If you know you have been exposed to COVID, please do not attend in person until after testing negative on the 5^th day after exposure.  Then please continue to wear a mask until the 10^th day after exposure.

Otherwise, masks are currently optional in the Meetinghouse unless the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports hospital admissions for COVID as “red” in any county of New Hampshire on the following map: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#maps_new-admissions-rate-county  For further clarification or questions, please contact Clerk [at] ConcordFriendsMeeting [dot] org.