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Racial Dialogue Capacity-Building Workshop

Jun 9, 2018
Both meetings and individual Friends throughout New England are in different stages of engagement with the Minute on White Supremacy. This is to be...

Workshop: Supporting Ministry and Ministers

Jun 2, 2018
Are you called to ministry? Do you have a leading? Who in your meeting do you talk to about it? A member of your meeting has come to you with a...

May 2018: Still There and Always There

May 7, 2018 •
Where have you found living water in a dry place this month? This month: rediscovering the springs of living water, continuing work to...

Responding to Gun Violence

Mar 2, 2018 • Fritz Weiss, Presiding Clerk and Noah Merrill, Secretary
Dear Friends, Again, our hearts are broken by news of a school shooting. Galen Hamann of Providence (RI) Meeting, Director of Friends...

Cuba and New England Yearly Meetings Join to Protest U.S. Policy

Feb 27, 2018 • Cuba and New England Yearly Meetings
This minute was discerned and signed simultaneously at Cuba Yearly Meeting annual sessions and at the meeting of Permanent Board on...

New England Friends visit Cuba Yearly Meeting

Feb 9, 2018 • Len Cadwallader, co-clerk, Puente de Amigos Committee, (Puente de Amigos)
Dear Friends, With God’s help, the Puente de Amigos delegation to Cuba Yearly Meeting will arrive in La Habana early tomorrow afternoon...

Theme and Speakers Chosen for Annual Sessions

Jan 19, 2018 • Fritz Weiss, Presiding Clerk
The Annual Sessions of New England Yearly Meeting will gather this summer from August 4–9th at Castleton University in Castleton, Vermont,...

Introducing the Young Friends Interim Coordinator!

Jan 12, 2018 • Nia Thomas, (Young Friends)
Dear Friends: We are excited to announce that beginning in March, Maggie Nelson (Portland, ME) will be serving as the Interim Young Friends...

The Latest from Committees & Programs

Our Meetings Are Going Solar!

May 1, 2018 • Suzanna Schell (Beacon Hill, MA, Friends Meeting) clerk of the Legacy Gift Committee, (Legacy Gift)
On April 21, 2018, Concord Friends Meeting in New Hampshire completed the installation of solar panels, supported in part by a grant from...

Experiment in Expanding Quaker Worship

Apr 27, 2018 • Worship & Study Committee, Middlebury Friends Meeting
On April 21-22, 2018, Middlebury, VT, Friends Meeting hosted a wonderful workshop on Experiments in Expanding Quaker Worship: Forms with...

AFSC Representative Reports on Annual Meeting

Apr 24, 2018 • Charles Simpson, Burlington (VT) Friends Meeting
Quakers established the American Friends Service Committee in 1917 to give conscientious objectors a way to serve—driving ambulances,...

Anti-Racism Work at Fresh Pond Meeting

Apr 24, 2018 • Will Taber, Fresh Pond (MA) Friends Meeting
In June of 2015 concerns about racism, white privilege, and injustice in our society appeared in the vocal ministry at Fresh Pond Meeting...

A Week of Lobbying

Apr 24, 2018 • Steven Whinfield, New Haven (CT) Friends Meeting
Recently I went on two lobby visits as the New Haven Advocacy Team, one with U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal and the other with U.S...

A Prayer for Racial Justice

Apr 19, 2018 • Callid Keefe-Perry, Fresh Pond (MA) Monthly Meeting, , , (Permanent Board), (RSEJ)
Callid Keefe-Perry of Fresh Pond Monthly Meeting is excited to report the publication of United Against Racism: Churches for Change, a book...

April 2018: The Encouragement of Light

Apr 5, 2018 •
In this issue: a fable for spring, Living Faith news, racial justice resources, important news from Beth Collea, and more. Read the April...

The Snow Crocus: A fable

Apr 4, 2018 • Noah Merrill, Yearly Meeting Secretary
How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all its beauty? It felt the encouragement of light against its being; otherwise...

Quaker Parenting Initiative Begins a New Chapter

Apr 3, 2018 • Beth Collea (Wellesley, MA) and Harriet Heath (Schoodic, ME)
The Quaker Parenting Initiative (QPI) celebrated the beginning of a new chapter in its service to Friends at a Woolman Hill weekend in...

Standing Up for Those in Need

Mar 21, 2018 • Megara Sanderson, New London (CT) Friends Meeting
Friends, I just returned home to Connecticut after attending two out of four days of FCNL’s Spring Lobby Weekend learning to lobby for fair...

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