Author: Roger Vincent Jasaitis
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Community Asylum Seekers Project Update
The Commons, Brattleboro Vermont, August 26, 2020 After successful fundraising campaign, CASP to support two new asylum seekers BELLOWS FALLS—In spite of the restrictions imposed on its fundraising efforts by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Community Asylum Seekers Project (CASP) was able to raise more than $11,000 from its sup- porters all over the country. “We…
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Putney Mutual Aid Update
Welcome to Putney Mutual Aid! We are a group of community members working to coordinate neighbor-to-neighbor support in response to the COVID-19 crisis. We help match needs and offerings for things like essential rides, food, grocery pickups, caring for loved ones, organizing neighborhood groups, meals, masks, donations and more. DO YOU NEED HELP? CAN YOU…
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Towards What We Can Become
May 18, 2020 Dear Friends, Across New England, people are talking about “re-opening”. After much anticipation in the media, today the State of Massachusetts released guidelines (here) for houses of worship as some public health restrictions are being lifted. While other states in our region are moving on their own timelines, events seem to be…
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Groundworks needs your help
Dear Friends, Groundworks needs your help now more than ever. Groundworks staff is working around the clock to provide the best protection and support for the people they serve. This creates an unprecedented financial challenge for Groundworks to house and feed their clients and keep them safe. The Seasonal Overflow Shelter was closed and everyone…
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Coronavirus Update: A Love Wide Enough
Sunrise over Cobscook Bay. Photo: Janet Hough, Cobscook (ME) Friends Meeting. Dear Friends, Well and weary. Ruffled and stabilizing. Disconnected and connected. More settled and more scared. Strained and joyful. Grieving and expectant. When we asked Friends on our Tuesday night check-in how their local Meeting community was doing this week, their answers reflected the…
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Coronavirus Update: Living—and Acting On—Our Faith
Dear Friends, In New England’s natural landscapes, April is a time of renewed tenderness, and of breaking open. This year, amid the new buds and birdsong, many Friends are seeking ways to slow down and stay open—and to be made tender—to new Life within and among us, even while meetinghouses and public gathering places are…
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Join us in online Worship
For the health and protection of our Meeting community and to support the public health of the wider community in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic, Putney Friends Meeting has suspended in-person Meeting for Worship. We are experimenting with using online worship as an alternative, using the Zoom conferencing service. Please be patient, we are…
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