Meeting Upcoming events and news
| Hello Friends, Sorry for the delay, and the gobbledegook that happened last week for some folks! The flowers are blooming, farmers are getting ready for planting crops, and the days are warming. May you bloom where you are planted! ________ Is there an announcement you would like included or updated? Feedback about the recent changes to the format of the Announcements? Want to forward someone to get added to the directory? Please email putneyfriendsmeeting@gmail.com with attention to Mary, Communications ClerkPutney Friends & Cuba Friends Discernment on Gifts for Putney Friends Meeting Between early and late worship tomorrow, our Co-Clerks Honor and Michelle will facilitate a discernment about how we at PFM should accept gifts. Please join us as we wonder how we might graciously and thoughtfully accept gifts offered to the Meeting. Meals for Groundworks A group from PFM provides a meal the first Monday of each month to the Groundworks shelter. The need has grown in recent months, so more volunteers are welcome! Interested? Contact Cookie Forsythe (cookie.forsythe@comcast.net) or visit the sign-up sheet to see the details and to sign-up for a specific contribution. Song Circle & Potluck Scheduled for June 6th: Potluck starting at 5:30 PM Singing from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Please contact Ian Conway, 57cycler@gmail.com, with any questions. All are welcome. Bring an instrument if you feel so led.  Let Your Life Speak Series The Let Your Life Speak series sponsored by Adult Religious Education (ARE) will continue meeting in the Fellowship Room at 9:30AM on 2nd and 4th Sundays. This coming Sunday, May 31st our Putney Friends Meeting Co-Clerk Honor Woodrow will be sharing highlights of her spiritual path. ARE continues to welcome your suggestions of other meeting members and attenders whose spiritual paths you would enjoy learning about. Suggestions or questions? Contact Richard (rbrady44@gmail.com). Announcements from the Basket John Calvi’s 2026 Calendar June 6: “Tending the Fire of Sacred Queerness” A Trans Quaker Gathering Woolman Hill; Deerfield, MA July 7-12: Abandon All Weariness Friends General Conference Summer Gathering University of VT; Burlington, VT September 4-6: The Goodness Retreat with John Calvi Pendle Hill; Wallingford, PA Reminder about Events at the Meetinghouse The rental coordinator, Janice Baldwin, would like to remind anyone seeking to use the meeting house for any event whether public or private, large or small to check with her beforehand, or fill out the application on the website. This includes events that are posted as well. Janice is the coordinator of all meeting house events and does not want to double book the space, and can’t reliably schedule events if she doesn’t have accurate information. You may contact Janice at: Email: rentals@putneyfriendsmeeting.org Phone: 802-579-7598 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.  Hospitality Committee Always welcomes the gift of food for sharing, any week, for fellowship after late meeting. If you know in advance that you want to bring soup, a casserole, or a hearty contribution please sign up on the monthly sheet in the meeting room, but we also appreciate spontaneity. If you are interested in helping out or have questions, talk to any Hospitality Committee member and/or Contact Cliff Sunflower (cfw.sunflower@gmail.com or 484-767-3187. Support the Memorial Project Fundraising Richard Brady has donated a number of copies of his book Short Journey Home: Awakening to Freedom with Thich Nhat Hanh to support the PFM memorial project. You will find some in a box on the library table or through PayPal. If you’re interested, please help yourself to one and leave a donation check for any amount marked “memorial project” in the wood collection house in the Meeting Room. Books will be available through June 30. Please contact Richard (rbrady44@gmail.com) if you’d like more than one copy. ______ We are looking to raise $30,000 to fund our Memorial Project. We have raised about 50% of this so far. The design is in the Community Room, and donations should be ear-marked for the “Memorial Project.” Interested in assisting with fundraising efforts or monetarily? Please reach out to the Finance Committee Donate Online 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  Meeting for Worship Schedule Sunday Schedule 8:30 AM Early Meeting for Worship 10:00 AM Singing 10:30 AM Meeting for Worship (Hybrid Format) Childcare / First Day School 11:45 AM Fellowship & Hospitality Thursday Schedule 6:30 AM Meeting for Worship Please contact Eric Barron via text: 603-757-3879 or email: eb.ericbarron@gmail.com in case of bad weather. Monthly Events Schedule First Week of the Month 9:30 AM – Mental Health Support Group 12:00 PM – Peace Vigil on the Putney Commons 5:30 PM – Potluck & Song Circle (Singing from 6:30 -8:30 PM) Please contact Ian Conway, 57cycler@gmail.com, with any questions. Second Week of the Month 9:30 AM – Adult Religious Education Third Week of the Month 12:30 PM – Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business Please Note: Childcare is Provided 12:00 PM – Peace Vigil on the Putney Commons Fourth Week of the Month 9:30 AM – Adult Religious Education 12:30 PM – Bearing Witness in Community 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 Join the Zoom Meeting .jpg)  |
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