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Putney Area CASP meeting
Putney Area CASP meeting (Community Asylum Seekers Project) Thursday, October 25, 6:30pm at the Putney Friends Meeting House Please join us for a simple potluck supper followed by a meeting to update us on CASP’s work in southeastern Vermont and to strategize our next steps in the Putney area as we seek to support…
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Three Days Left to Give
Three Days Left to Give Here we have a prospect of one common interest from which our own is inseparable, that to turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives… …
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Member News: Chloe Learey
VTDigger Report Chloe Learey: Strategies to increase child care slots Editor’s note: This commentary is by Chloe Learey, executive director of the Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development in Brattleboro, and a member of the Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council. The Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce recently named her Entrepreneur of the…
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New England Yearly Meeting 2018 State of Society Report
Dear Friends, This year the 32 members of New England Yearly Meeting Ministry and Counsel read all 35 of the State of Society reports that were sent to us from local meetings across New England. At our meeting in May we walked around the room and drew pictures and wrote phrases about “what had life”…
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A Deeper Hope
SEPTEMBER 2018 A Deeper Hope Dear Friends, In my morning devotional time since Annual Sessions, I’ve been reading Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited, a foundational reflection by Thurman, the Black theologian, preacher, professor, activist and mystic whose work helped inspire the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and who was a student and friend…
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Quaker Youth Opportunities
Dear local meetings & worship groups of New England, Hello! My name is Nia Thomas and I serve as NEYM’s Young Friends Coordinator. In my role, I strive to make as many teens and families as possible aware of the Young Friends retreat program. Did you know that we offer six retreats a year for…
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Orchard Hill Quakers Opening Worship
Friends! I am so pleased to share that there is a new Quaker worship group forming – under the care of Putney Meeting – at the Orchard School Community Center in Alstead, NH. We will begin meeting at 10AM on Sundays beginning August 12th. Childcare will be provided at our first gathering. If you are…
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Will You Join Us?
Each August, hundreds of Quakers from across New England and beyond join together for worship, fellowship and seeking God’s guidance in meeting for business. Together we find nourishment, connection and encouragement to live our faith in the world. The 2018 Annual Sessions of New England Yearly Meeting are almost here. This year, we’ll meet August 4-9 in Castleton,…
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Online Registration for Annual Sessions 2018 is now open!
Dear Friends, For 358 years, Quakers in New England have gathered for worship, spiritual nurture, fellowship and discernment of our shared calling. Online Registration for Annual Sessions 2018 is now open! Register Now
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