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| October 25, 2026 Sunday 8:30 am – 9:30 am 8:30am8:30am Early Meeting for Worship 10:00 am – 10:30 am 10amFirst Day Singing 10:30 am – 11:30 am 10:30am10:30 Meeting for Worship with Zoom option 11:45 am – 12:30 pm 11:45am Hospitality and Fellowship 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm 12:30pm Bearing Witness October 29, 2026 Thursday 6:30 am – 7:30 am 6:30amEarly Morning WorshipMeeting Room Join Meeting for Worship via Zoom https://us06web.zoom.us/j/95647391295?pwd=ZHQwNmxwL1phRHd0VGNRWTJkQVJqUT09 Meeting ID: 956 4739 1295 Passcode: 248722 One tap mobile +16465588656,,95647391295#,,,,*248722# US (New York) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Find your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kpQXZrzKD Announcements Groundworks Shelter Meal Dear Friends, Such a blessing you all are. I was so worried before last month’s meal ministry and you all helped me to understand communications in the meeting, offered to help in ways that worked for you, and offered to join the Groundworks email group so that we have a broader base of folks to pull from. I absolutely appreciate having folks who can cook or provide items less than monthly. Many hands make for easy work! Our next meal service at the Groundworks Drop-In center shelter is on Monday November 2nd. The Shelter is currently providing a meal for up to 70 people as the need in our community has grown. Thanks to everyone who has signed up so far. Friends can sign-up on our sign-up sheet. Please note what type of casserole or vegetables you are planning to make, Groundworks finds it very helpful to know. I will put this into their spreadsheet each month. I have also added a request for breakfast items to our list as voluntary. They can be dropped off at the Groundworks Shelter any day when they are open (see below)- THANK YOU Meal service delivery will take place at the Drop In Center at 54 S Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, between 4:00 and 4:30 pm. Or you can take your contribution directly to the Drop In Center between 4:00 and 4:30 pm on the day of the meal service. Also, you can contact Cookie (cookie.forsythe@comcast.net) about dropping things at her house to deliver to the Groundworks shelter. Threshing Session: Names on Memorial Sunday, November 1 at 12:15. A threshing session to explore and develop what we as Putney Friends Meeting want on the stone, for memorialization as the phase II of the Memorial Project. A threshing session is a time to share thoughts, concerns and visions. It leads to the discernment needed for a decision in Business Meeting at a later date. We will share an outline of the history of this concern for a Memorial, as well as reflect on what to us individually and collectively is the intent for the memorial. Led by John Leppmann, Julie Forsythe, Muriel Wolf and Cookie Forsythe Extended Worship Opportunity at Putney Meeting on Saturday, November 14 Dear Friends, The extended worship opportunities that are moving around New England Yearly Meeting is coming to Putney Meeting on Saturday, November 14. The worship starts at 9:30 am, preceded by coffee and nibbles at 9:00 am. These extended worship Saturdays often attract Friends from many other meetings. So are expecting visitors that day. Michelle Wright and Michael Wajda are handling the arrangements for that Saturday. A flyer with all the details is attached. Joe Jencks Benefit Concert Nov.7 All Souls Church 7 p.m. Benefit Refugees and Asylum seekers It is fitting that the person who wrote “Lady of the Harbor” should sing a benefit concert for refugees and asylum seekers. So Joe Jencks will perform Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. at All Souls Church in West Brattleboro. Jencks is a 25-year veteran of the international folk circuit, an award-winning songwriter, and celebrated vocalist based in Chicago, IL, but traveling the world over. November 7 will be the Saturday after the election when we all could use some song. Tickets are $25 and available online at http://www.ascvt.org/JoeJencks Merging conservatory training with his Irish roots and working-class upbringing, Joe delivers engaged musical narratives filled with heart, soul, groove, and grit. Joe is noted for his unique merging of musical beauty, social consciousness, and spiritual exploration. Blending well-crafted instrumentals and vivid songwriting, Joe Jencks serves it all up with a lyric baritone voice that has the edgy richness of a good sea-salt caramel. Having penned several #1 folk songs, including the ever-relevant Lady of The Harbor, Joe has become a fan favorite throughout North America and is the co-founder of harmony trio, Brother Sun. Joe also toured the Caribbean with the U.S. State Department as a Cultural Ambassador. Fall Clean Up Day Nov. 8th will be our fall clean-up day after both early and late worship. We recognize that Friends will also be interested in attending the event on caring for and communicating with people with dimentia the same day (after late worship) and trust that things will work out despite the overlap of opportunity to participate in the life of the meeting. Annual Thanksgiving Pot Luck November 22nd Monthly Song Circle Saturday November 7 5:30 Potluck 6:30 Singing Bring instruments and copy of “ Rise Up Singing” if you have them  Parking at the Meetinghouse Friends are encouraged when possible to park in the parking lot just south of meeting on the opposite side of Route 5 for late meeting and other heavily attended events as our lot fills quickly and spaces in the lot are appreciated for those of us unable to park further away. This is just north of the old Basketville Store and the Putney Mountain Winery & Spirits, as the owners have kindly allowed us to park there. There is a sidewalk from there to the meeting. Can you help? We encourage you to sign-up to be a greeter or to setup and run Lucretia (OWL). Please consider trying it out. To help with our meetings for worship sign up on the Google Spreadsheet or on the sheet at the Meeting house. Sign Up Here  .jpg)  |
