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Calendar
(acronym list follows)
07/05: No 1st First Day Program
07/19: MWCB
07/31-08/13: WYM Annual Sessions
08/02: No 1st First Day Program
08/18: No MWCB
09/20: MWCB
09/21: WYM Administrative Council
10/17: WYM Executive Committee
Acronyms:
ILYM:
Illinois Yearly Meeting
FCG:
Friends General Conference
MCGM: Metropolitain
Chicago General Meeting
MWCB: Meeting for Worship
with a Concern for Business
QVS: Quaker Volunteer Service
WYM: Western Yearly
Meeting
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Welcome
We invite you to join us for worship on Sunday
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Ongoing
Programs
Meeting
for Worship: Sundays
10:30 a.m. Child care is available during Meeting for
Worship.
Fellowship Time follows Meeting for Worship with potluck dinner on
First and Third Sundays.
1st First Day
Program:
First Sunday of the month after Meeting for Worship. Potluck dinner
follows program. A time for a variety of programs including
topical presentations and discussions, event reports, and musical
performances. Upcoming
programs.
Intergenerational
Worship:
Second Sunday of the month (Sept.-May) in First Day School room
concurrent with
Meeting for Worship at 10:30 a.m. Pancake breakfast before Worship at
9:30 a.m.
Adult Religious Education
Program:
Fourth Sunday of the month (Sept.-April) after Fellowship Time.
Upcoming
programs.
Other
Quaker Events
at
Quaker House
Midweek
worship
under the care of Friends Gathered in Jesus Christ. Wednesday evenings
at 6:30 p.m.
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Peaceable Kingdom at Summer First
Day School
July 12 and 19 will be special and fun sessions of First Day
School. Focusing on the idea of Peaceable Kingdom,
the children will find out about Edward Hicks, the Quaker artist, and they will
create as a group a work of art composed of their own pictures and pictures of
animals that they have cut out. The First Day School
program is held in the First
Day School room
concurrent with Meeting for Worship at 10:30. The children will join Meeting
for Worship toward the end of worship.
Woodworker needed for Religious Ed. Program
This Fall's First Day School Program will center on Godly Play, which is an
approach to children's religious education that allows children to enter into
and reflect upon faith stories with the use of some simple props. The Religious
Education Committee is in the process of bringing together materials. They are
looking for a woodworker to help them build a miniature tabernacle. It is not
needed until November. Please contact Joy Duncan if you can help out.
Tongues and Silence
Are there similarities between Pentecostal speaking in
tongues and Quaker silence? This question and an exploration of the spiritual
role of glossolalia and silence will be among the things discussed at the
second summer reading program on Sunday July 26 after Meeting for Worship. The
basis of the discussion will be “The Spiritual Similarities of Quaker Silence
and Pentecostal Glossolalia in Worship” by Ho Yan Au (Quaker Theology: A
Progressive Journal and Forum for Discussion and Study, #15 [vol. 8, no. 2]
Winter-Spring 2008). This article is available for reading (113 PDF). This is part of the Library Committee’s summer
reading/discussion program on the 4th Sundays during the summer. The August 23
session will focus on Quakerism and the Christian tradition.
2012 World Conference of Friends
The International Planning Committee for the 2012 World
Conference of Friends in Nairobi, Kenya met recently in Britain, and a gathering theme has
now been chosen:
Being Salt and Light: Living the
Kingdom in a broken world
“The Kingdom of God is not coming with things that can be observed…the Kingdom of God is among you!” (Luke 17:20-21”
“We have the prospect of one common interest from which our own is inseparable:
to turn all we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business
of our lives.” John Woolman
Western Yearly Meeting Annual Sessions
Western Yearly Meeting (WYM) annual sessions, “You will receive power when the
Holy Spirit comes on you... (Acts 1:8),” will be July 31 to August 3 in Plainfield, Indiana. Program information and downloadable registration form are
available at the WYM website.
Fall Gathering on
Living Today in the
Manner of Friends
The Lower Great Lakes and Midwest
Regions of Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), Section
of the Americas are combining efforts to host a fall gathering at Ann
Arbor Friends Meeting in Michigan, October 30-November 1, 2009.
Patricia Thomas (Wilmington YM) will be the keynote speaker. Click
to sign up to receive the FWCCAmericas enewsletter which will include
further information about this gathering..
Take
Action, Contact Congress
Concerned about the budget, the war,
the environment? Friends Committee on National Legislation provides
an easy, efficient and effective resource for letting your national
legislators hear your voice—sign up for emailed action alerts, get
addition information on issues of concern, make use of sample
letters. All of this can be found at the FCNL
website.
Flashes of Light
Flashes of Light is an occasional informal e-newsletter from
the director of the Quaker Information Center with highlights of events, new
resources and breaking news from member organizations of the Quaker Information
Center, as well as occasional other developments in the Quaker world. Click to signup to receive.
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