Details
Storrs Friends Meeting will be offering extended Worship on June 13. Persons interested in more information should contact Ray Fricano by email or by phone (860) 428-2683. Storrs Friends Meeting is offering a Zoom connection and a Children’s program that have not been offered at any other extended worship session.
We will gather in the Storrs Meetinghouse at 9:30 a.m. for three hours or so of expectant waiting worship. Three hours may sound like a long time, but Friends who have been practicing this kind of extended worship have often been surprised by how quickly it seems to go by. Friends are free to get up and move around, use the bathroom, even take a walk outside, and rejoin the worship as led. After worship, we each eat our own brown-bag lunch (beverages provided). After lunch, we will return to the meeting room for some worship-sharing about our experiences of the morning. We will close by 2:30 p.m. Friends are welcome to come for the morning only, to stay for lunch, or to stay for the entire day.
Transformative experiences can happen when the Living Presence has adequate time to remove the spiritual cobwebs and to shine a Light on the deep calls that are beckoning us to change and to make the world a better place. It is God’s work to awaken people to God‘s wisdom, guidance, and love. These extended meetings for worship can provide a seedbed for God to do that awakening. You can also read Marcelle Martin’s Pendle Hill Pamphlet, An Invitation to a Deeper Communion, which describes the beginnings of these extended worship experiences in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
SCHEDULE
9:00 Tea, coffee, and light snacks will be available with an opportunity for quiet conversation outside of the meeting room.
9:30 Meeting for Worship
12:30 Brown Bag Lunch and time for a walk, relaxation, conversation, etc. SFM will provide beverages, or you may bring your own.
1:15 Reflections on the morning experience of extended worship
2:30 Closing
LOGISTICS
- Please remember to bring your own lunch if you plan to stay beyond the morning worship.
- Parking: If the meeting parking lot is full, there is parking close by in one of UCONN’s parking lots. We will provide a shuttle to and from that lot.
- Zoom or children’s program:If you wish to utilize either of these opportunities, please contact Ray Fricano at the email or phone number above by May 25. This will give SFM ample time to plan.
- Announcements: To allow us to hold the deep experiences of the longer worship, and the reflective time in the afternoon, we ask Friends not to plan to make announcements of other Quaker events at the end of either session of the extended meetings. The only announcements that we will make will concern the extended meetings themselves. If you want to share information about another upcoming Quaker event, please bring it in printed form and place it on a table we will provide.