Weekly Announcements 02.20.2022

Weekly Announcements

Coming Up:

The list of events below can also be viewed on the AFM website’s homepage or on the AFM Calendar.

Note: Titles link to the AFM Calendar for greater detail and the word Zoom links to the online meeting. 

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North County Meeting for Worship

We will meet outside wearing masks at 7pm on Tuesday, March 1. All are welcome! The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) call worship events Meetings for Worship (MfW) rather than services. This is a silent, centering Quaker meeting for worship where a group of people sit for an hour in silent, centering worship. Come sit with us.

For more information, contact Diane E. at info@annapolisfriends.org.

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Wednesday Meditation Group

Starting at 7pm on Wednesday, the Meditation Group will meet on Zoom and we will sit silently for the first 40-minutes followed by a book discussion based on a selected book.

For more information, contact Patty R. at info@annapolisfriends.org.

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Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business

Please participate in the March 3rd Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business at 9:00 am. This is an opportunity to practice several of our testimonies as we carry out the practical work of maintaining our faith community. We seek to be Spirit-led in our work, with as much efficiency as possible, achieving a sense of what Friends call “right order.”

Contact Martha B. for more information by email to clerk@annapolisfriends.org.

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Potluck and Social Time

Following Worship on March 6th at about 12:30 pm, the community will gather for Potluck and Social Time. We will be on Zoom and will have an opportunity to get caught up with one another’s activities and happenings. 

Request more information by email to info@annapolisfriends.org.

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Library Committee Meeting

The Library Committee will be working in the Library all morning.

For more information, please contact the committee at Library@annapolisfriends.org.

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Spiritual Friends Group

The Spiritual Friends Group meets on the 2nd Thurs. of each month, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm using Zoom, not in-person. We meet to nurture our spiritual lives and, if requested, to ask the group to hold us accountable to our individual intentions. Everyone is welcome. Quakers and non-Quakers!

Contact Barb T. for more information by email to info@annapolisfriends.org.

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Spiritual Enrichment

On Feb. 27 at 9:15 am on Zoom, there will be an opportunity for spiritual enrichment with a DVD talk followed by queries and sharing out of the silence. The DVD talk by Rev. Dr. Wayne Schwandt will be offered and will include his reflections on Life, Community, Earth Care, Justice, Love, Creativity, Joy, and other aspects that go into how we build the Peaceable Kingdom here and now.  The DVD will be preceded by selections from the 1st Hebrew creation story, and a snippet of poetry from Hafiz.  Following the talk, will be a few queries and an invitation to share out of the silence.  Everyone is warmly welcome!

Contact Sylvia O. for more information by email to info@annapolisfriends.org.

Deconstructing Racism

Hope you can join us for centering silence, sharing of personal experiences related to diversity, and discernment of personal and corporate leadings. It is an opportunity to further consider decisions AFM is threshing as a meeting. We listen and learn from each other. We close in brief silent worship. All are welcome.

Contact Jean C. at info.annapolisfriends.org for Zoom link information.

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5th Night Light – Every Thursday evening

From 7:00 pm until 8:00 pm on every Thursday, the AFM community engages in a spiritual practice that acknowledges the Light of God within each person and that to be in community is to actively care for one another. During that time, Friends hold people and situations who need additional spiritual support in the Light. Friends will pause wherever they may be, read the list of names, and hold each person or situation in our hearts and in the Light. On Wednesday, the list of names or situations are sent out to the AFM-Announce list.

For more information, contact Pastoral Care at pastoral-care@annapolisfriends.org.

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Meetings for Worship

There are two options for Sunday worship with Annapolis Friends Meeting:

  1.       Weekly at 8:00am. This Meeting for Worship is in person (no technology) and meets outdoors in good weather. Please see below for safety guidance for in-person Worship.
  2.     Weekly at 11:00 am. This Meeting for Worship can be attended in person (see safety guidance below) at the Meetinghouse, or remotely on Zoom (Phone: 301-715-8592, Meeting ID: 650 269 455, Passcode: 241727)

Other options for Meetings for Worship include: 1) a gathering in spirit only, physically apart and without technology, in communion with friends at the Meeting House at 8:00 a.m. This option was created to link Friends in worship in the early days of the pandemic, and often Friends are at their own homes.  2) In North County, on the 1st Tuesday of each month, at 7:00 pm (please see North County Meeting on the calendar).

Safety guidance for in-person Worship:

Masks are required indoors at the Meetinghouse. Chairs will be physically distanced. Please consider the health needs of others and join from home if you are ill. 

For more information, send an email to info@annapolisfriends.org.For additional information about Annapolis Friends Meeting and other events click here for the calendar. Or at https://annapolisfriends.org.

In loving memory of Bob B.

Annapolis Friends Meeting