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Noah Baker Merrill
“What Would It Look Like…?”
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PUTNEY FRIENDS INTERGENERATIONAL RETREAT
PUTNEY FRIENDS INTERGENERATIONAL RETREAT
Saturday Sept 26 9 to 5 &
Sunday Sept 27 9:30 to 10:20
Theme: Exploring our Gifts
Place: Meetinghouse
Come to whatever parts appeal to you. Childcare provided 10-12:30 and 1:30-4:00
Saturday, September 26
9 a.m. Muffins, tea, coffee, and OJ
9:30 All ages celebration of our new Peace Pole – outside parking lot
with Francie Marbury and Brent Seabrook
10 a.m. Exploring Our Gifts
All ages presentation by Laurie Rizzo Medved using Godly Play
materials and an opportunity to draw/collage/write afterwards and sharing
our responses with all ages. Bring your own journal if you have one.
Writing and art supplies provided.
11:15 Choose one of these two activities
- Worship Sharing in the Meeting Room – getting to know better some
of the folks you worship with – led by Elisabeth Dearborn
OR
- Making pizza for lunch with Gail Haines and Ann Coakley
12:30 Lunch starting with gathering songs led by Julie Forsythe
1:30 Clean Up
2:00 Choose one of these two activities
- Deep Relaxation with John Calvi in the meetingroom. Bring your
own yoga mat if you have one, blanket, pillow as needed
OR
- Hiking to Putney Mountain led by ???
4:00 Lemonade and Cookies
4:30- 5:00 Intergenerational Games led by Richard Brady and Gail Haines.
Get to know your community of Friends in new ways!
5:00 Closing Song(s) led by Francie Marbury
Sunday, September 27
9:30 to 10:20 Noah Merrill will be offering some reflections on exploring
our gifts. All are welcome! Let us know if you need childcare because
you plan to attend this.
LOOK FOR THE FOOD AND FLOWER SIGN UP SHEET & help it happen !
Be in touch with Gail Haines or Elisabeth Dearborn with questions
Bring your Rise Up Singing book if you have one.
Note: Childcare is available Saturday 10-12:30 and 1:30-4:00
Read The New England Friend online.
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DEAR FRIENDS,I’m pleased to share with you the latest online edition of The New England Friend. Read The New England Friend online One of the great joys of my work is getting to see new Life rising up in so many corners of our Quaker community. In a season when our society and our world seem besieged by conflict, violence and injustice, I find hope in the ways our meetings–at our best–can serve as circles of Light. I keep hearing stories of how we are helping one another find courage, seek deeper relationship with our neighbors and with Creation, and join with others to build the world of wholeness and right relationship that Jesus called the Reign of Heaven–and what Martin Luther King, Jr. called The Beloved Community. As the demonstrations seeking deep change in response to the laying bare of systemic injustices mount across the country, and with the release of the Senate report on torture making visible the tragic costs of failing to acknowledge that of God in one another, I believe recommitting ourselves to living our faith as Friends is ever more important. We need each other’s help to be faithful, to consider the implications of Ferguson and Guantanamo in the lives of each one of us. Friends, how is the Spirit shaking our assumptions, calling us to pray, to serve, to witness, to speak, to act? How can we share that news with one another, strengthening connections and helping each other find courage and humility to learn, to grow, and to live? In this online content, you’ll find news from the growing edges of the Quaker movement in our region, including exciting updates giving you a glimpse of new explorations in several of our diverse local meetings. As you’ll read below, New England Friends are helping to kindle new collaborations in support of Quaker religious education, and partnering with Friends organizations like Quaker Voluntary Service and Friends World Committee for Consultation to bring the richness of the global community of Friends to enliven our life together in New England, in worship and in witness. I hope you’ll also check out the updates on our work to improve our Yearly Meeting’s staffing and organizational structure to better support the life of the Spirit among us. Finally, we’ve included a summary of highlights from this past summer’s Annual Sessions, held for the first time in our 354-year history in Vermont. The full Minutes of business sessions are posted online. It would be wonderful to welcome even more of our Quaker family next summer at Sessions in Vermont, August 1-6, 2015. Below are two events I’d like to especially highlight in the coming months, with more information to be posted to the online calendar and shared with local meetings soon. The conversation will be more complete with your meeting’s participation!
Finally, we want to hear from you. Do you have:
Please send an email to Office Manager Sara Hubner at office@neym.org(link sends e-mail) or call the office at 508-754-6760 to learn more about submissions, suggest upcoming themes and share how the Light is at work in your meeting.
In faith and friendship,
Noah Baker Merrill |
How Quakers Can Transform The World
Noah Baker Merrill expresses how Quakers can transform the world in this QuakerSpeak video:
