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.
Gathering Singing: Sundays, 10:00 a.m.
First Day School Program: Children's religious education program, Sundays concurrent with Meeting for Worship. Program Schedule.
Adult Religious Education Program: Sundays, 9:15-10:15 a.m. Program Schedule.
Fellowship Breakfast: Fifth Sundays, Breakfast is served 9:00-10:00 a.m.
Singing & Activity: Fourth Sundays after Meeting for Worship. A time to gather for intergenerational fellowship and refreshments followed by a time for singing and a creative activity.
Spiritual Seekers Information and Discussion Program: Fifth Sundays, 12:30-3:30 p.m. Program Details.
Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business (MWCB): Third Sundays after potluck dinner.
1st First Day Program: First Sundays after potluck dinner. A time for a variety of programs including topical presentations and discussions, event reports, and musical performances. Upcoming programs.
Articles & News
- Iowans rally for fairness on Tax Day
- Introducing Katie Huerter, AFSC Iowa Middle East Peace Associate
- Blog: Cultivating a new approach in St. Louis
- Mother Earth Day Celebration 2014
- Sing Out for Pete
- Global Day of Action on Military Spending
- NEO AFSC April 17, 2014 Podcast
- Dayton forum explores the dark side of chocolate
- People Over Profit Rally
- Breaking through racism to wholeness
Blogs
- Greene Street Friends works to unite congregation and extended school family — NewsWorks
- Gathering Crowds – Or Making Disciples?
- Dana Kester-McCabe: Up Welling
- Barbara Smith: The Craving for Simplicity, Meaning and Peace
- Among Friends John: The vocal ministry I’d like to hear at meeting
- Matt Hisrich: Quakerism's inherent subversion of the state
- Vice.com covers war tax resistance, quotes Quakers
- "Waiting patiently to be named..."
- I used to be an ally
- Spring Is Here – Micah’s Ministry Newsletter #63
Wider Quaker Calendar
(Acronym list follows)
2014
4/25-27: ILYM Women’s Weekend (McNabb)
5/3: Chicagoland Friends Gathering (Chicago MM)
5/17: WYM Board Meetings (Plainfield)
5/23-26: ILYM High School Quaker/Junior High Tremor (Urbana-Champaign)
6/11-14: FUM Triennial Sessions (Marion, IN)
6/18-22: ILYM Annual Sessions (McNabb)
6/29-7/5: FGC Gathering (near Pittsburgh, PA)
7/17-20: WYM Annual Session (Plainfield)
Acronyms:
FWCC: Friends World Committee for Consultation
MCGM: Metropolitan Chicago General Meeting (now CFG)
USFWI United Society of Friends Women International