Weekly Announcements, 11/23/14
At some point, as new Quakers engaging in corporate waiting worship, we come to a point where we stop trying to connect, we stop trying to worship, and we just are. We relax into the experience of worship in its complete, connected wholeness. We fall into worship, just like that. – Liz Oppenheimer
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Today: Sunday, Nov.23, 2014
Worship PAR 9:00 am
Worship MR & QHLR 10:30 am
Hospitality KIT noon
Fibre Party NR noon
H&H TER noon
Library C. LIB noon
Sp. Form. DPR 3:00 pm
Finance U AR 5:00 pm
Worship DPR 6:00 pm
Today there are meetings of the Hospitality, Hunger & Homelessness, and Library Committees, as well as the Fibre Party. A Spiritual Formation group meets in the afternoon, and the Financial Peace University resumes at 5:00 pm.
Plans are underway to hold a Thanksgiving Day Dinner & Worship here at FMW. All are welcome. Please bring a dish to share. For more info, contact Patty Murphy at pmurphy@sju.edu
On Sunday, Nov. 30, the Committee of Clerks will meet in the early morning, and the Financial Peace University will resume at 5:00 pm.
The Grate Patrol will prepare sandwiches and soup to take out to the city’s vulnerable people on Wednesday, Dec. 3 starting at 5:30. For more information, contact Steve Brooks at sbrooks@uab.edu
The JYF con (for 6th to 8th graders) of the year will be at Patuxent Friends Meeting on Dec. 6 & 7. . For more information, contact Alison Duncan, Youth Programs Manager, youthprograms@bym-rsf.org, 301-774-7663
Come to So Others Might Eat on Saturday, Dec. 6 from 6:15 to 8:15 and help make breakfast for our vulnerable neighbors. For more information, contact Betsy Bramon at betsy.bramon@gmail.com
Heads up: The annual Shoebox Project will take place on Saturday, Dec. 13 and Sunday, Dec. 14, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm both days. We will pack more than 1000 boxes with practical gifts for our vulnerable neighbors. For more info, contact Steve Brooks at sbrooks@uab.edu
Head of Meeting Schedule (For the most up to date schedule, visit http://tinyurl.com/k2342fa)
Nov. 23: Hunger & Homelessness Taskforce; Nov. 30: Membership Committee