Celebrating Community and Belonging, The Putney Friends Meeting Retreat 2016

Celebrating Community and Belonging

Saturday and Sunday, September 17th and 18th

 Putney Friends Meeting House


Saturday

9:30 – 10:00   Muffins and tea

Group Singing

10:00 – 11:30   Intergenerational Activity led by Owen Coursinimage2

Description:  We are asked to think of something we want to increase in the world, and something we want to let go of.  We will write or draw our ideas onto either side of soft clay doves.  We will then hang the doves on tree branches where the clay (and our intentions) will return to the earth.
image1 -In small groups first talk about our ideas, then either using a pre-madedove, or by first making our own, write or draw our ideas onto the dove.

-Come together in large group to briefly share

-We disperse to hang our doves on trees outside

 

11:30-12:30   Two Simultaneous Activities:

  • Worship Sharing (led by Owen)
  • Pizza Making for adults and kids

12:30-1:30     Lunch — Potluck — plus Pizza

1:30-2:00       Lunch Clean-up

1:15-2:15        Group Games (kids and adults)

2:15-4:00       Two Simultaneous Activities:

  • Hike for kids and adults
  • Presentation by Julie Forsythe on The Inward Landscape based on          the work of Brian Drayton. Worship Sharing

4:00-4:30    Lemonade and Cookies; Closing Circle

Childcare for youngest children provided Saturday, 10:00-12:30


Sunday 

8:30 – 9:30 Meeting for Worship

9:30-10:30  Talk by Noah Merrill; An ecology of faithfulness: encouraging        the life of our Meeting

10:30 – 11:30 Meeting for Worship

Childcare for youngest children provided Sunday, 10:30-11:30

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