Category: Member Activities
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Nor’wester: November 2016
Newsletter of the Northwest Quarter of New England Yearly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) November 2016 Nor’wester: November 2016 click to open pdf This includes the schedule and registration for our upcoming hosting of the Quarterly Meeting on December 3rd and 4th and the Memorial Minute of Kay Frazer.
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Labyrinth Election Peace Walk
Sunday evening, November 6th at 7pm Putney Friends Meetinghouse Rt 5 just north of the village, Putney Vermont Sadelle Wiltshire will be hosting a peace labyrinth walk prior to the election. Friends are invited to come walk the labyrinth and hold a the country in a healing light that evening. Sadelle will be offering some inspirational readings […]
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You are welcome to join us as you are.
“We believe that every person is loved by the Divine Spirit. There are Quakers of all ages, religious backgrounds, races, education, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities, classes and experience. You are welcome to join us as you are.” These words were approved by the Monthly Meeting today as an update to our welcoming language […]
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Retreat Reflections 2016
“Everyone felt that the whole weekend was very successful, deep and meaningful and well worth the time we put into it.” ~ Reflection from the Retreat Committee
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Whites confronting our Racism – study and dialogue to action
Dear folks connected to Putney Friends Meeting, We have put up a sign saying that Black Lives Matter. We had a film series in late spring on looking at racism and some of its evolution. And this is your invitation to join a focused group this fall. Details are below. Please contact Gail Haines to […]
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QuakerSpeak to visit Putney Friends Meeting
Dear Friends, On Sunday August 7th, Jon Watts, Director of the popular QuakerSpeak video series, will be worshipping at Putney Meeting for the 10:30worship. Following the rise of meeting, Jon would like to invite anyone who is interested to join him for another brief period of worship, during which he will be filming Friends in worship […]
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Words and Music
Two local artists are joining forces with words and music for a poetry reading with violin interludes on June 18th, Saturday at 1 pm. Gudrun Weeks, violinist and Lynn Martin, poet, will be reading in Marlboro at 355 Upper Dover Road in the barn of Edie Mas (second place on the left after leaving Higley Hill). Visitors are […]
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Quiet Please
Can a Quaker Meeting be quiet enough? Putney Friends Meeting has been working towards sound remediation in the Worship space over the past few years. With so many wood surfaces, the sound of voices was very reverberant and it was difficult at times to hear vocal testimony. This week Brent, Ken, Chris and Roger installed […]
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