Weekly Announcements 10.16.2022

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 contains the link to the online meeting. 

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Uphold Ukraine Daily

Friends House Moscow supporters in the U.S.A. are running an international online Meeting for Worship, to join other Friends holding in the Light all the people affected by the current crisis in Ukraine. This meeting will run EVERY DAY. The start time depends on your time zone. It starts at 9:00 am PDT (12:00 pm EDT).

Click on THIS LINK, which is the Friends House Moscow Cloud Meeting. This link was revised as of 04.10.2022. Or use Meeting ID: 416 500 5614; Passcode: 182805

Contact Ann R. at ministry@annapolisfriends.org for more information.

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Quakers in Kyiv Sunday MfW

The Quakers in Kyiv meet on Sundays at 1:00 pm EDT in silence. For Zoom information, go to their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/QuakersKyivUkraine/. 

On Zoom: Meeting ID: 852 8396 7313; Passcode: 2022

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Communications Committee 

The Communications Committee manages the Annapolis Friends Meeting website. Our goal is to use online communication to build and maintain a strong community. Meeting recognizes that it takes a whole community to listen and speak to one another in an inclusive spirit. The website is one of the tools for accomplishing that goal. The community includes members, attenders, committees, officers, seekers, newcomers and other people who are interested in the work of the Meeting. The Communications Committee coordinates the Meeting’s efforts by compiling relevant, accurate information. On an ongoing basis, the committee seeks to evaluate and improve our means for effectively sharing our information. Check out the Communications Committee webpage.

For more information, contact communications@annapolisfriends.org.

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Pastoral Care Committee 

The Pastoral Care (PC) Committee is a group of Friends and others who are called into ministry in the areas of providing support in the ways of emotional, social, and spiritual counseling, care and nurturing.  The PC has numerous initiatives, including 5th Night Light, Friendly 8s, Clearness Committees, Helping Hands and more. See the PC webpage.

For more information, send an email to pastoral-care@annapolisfriends.org.

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Peace & Social Concerns Committee: Quaker Causes 

On October 17 (Monday) at 7 pm, the Peace & Social Concerns (P&SC) Committee will begin discussions about our annual Quaker Causes donations. It is our committee’s job to gather Friends recommendations, to consider these, and in turn to recommend action to our Meeting for Business.  So, we’d like to get other Friends’ recommendations this month before 10/24! Please let us know what you think. 

Contact Phil C. at social-concerns@annapolisfriends.org.

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Environmental Justice Legislation 

Register by October 19 to lobby virtually or in person with the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) and other Friends, including AFM members & attenders. The Annual FCNL Meeting and Public Policy Institute select one particular bill that is consistent with our Testimonies to go after with constituents from around the U.S.  This year, the legislation is the Environmental Justice for All Act (H.R. 2021/S. 872). 

Register by clicking on your preference: IN PERSON or ONLINE prior to October 19.

Lobbying days are November 16 through 20. It is thrilling to join with Friends from across the US to lobby Congress.  This year it is in person and online. 

For more information, send an email to pastoral-care@annapolisfriends.org.

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Library Committee

The Library Committee organizes and maintains AFM’s books, orders additional books, pamphlets, and literature, as required. 

The committee manages checkouts and returns, maintains a catalog of books and videos, educates adults on the use of the AFM library, and places reviews or articles in the newsletter.

Please take a look at the online Library Collection and discover all the titles and authors available in the physical library. Click here. 

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Friendly 8s (a.k.a., The Friendlies) 

The Friendlies meet on Zoom for fellowship and conversation. We share deeply and have great conversations all the while in our own locations and using Zoom to connect. It has been an enriching experience for those involved and we’d be happy to share the joy. Next meeting will be held on Friday, October 21, at 6:00 pm. 

For more information, contact Ellen M. at info@annapolisfriends.org.

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Education Committee 

The Education Committee plans and provides adult religious education activities and provides orientation for members, attenders, and interested persons to Quaker faith and practice. 

For more information, contact Ann R. at ministry@annapolisfriends.org.

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Weekend Spiritual Friendship/Community Group 

The Weekend Spiritual Friendship / Community Group meets monthly on Saturdays. The next meeting will be held at 10:30 am in person on October 22 (Saturday). The group is mainly meant as a way to build community, spiritual support, and share our spiritual journeys and questions about spirituality. This group is open to anyone affiliated with Annapolis Friends Meeting.  This is a “hybrid” meeting where some people will meet in-person outside on the Meetinghouse patio and others will be joining via zoom. 

For more information, contact Jo Anna S. at info@annapolisfriends.org.

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Racial Reconciliation Collaborative Planning Committee 

On October 26 (Wednesday) at 7 pm, the Racial Reconciliation Collaborative (RRC) Planning Committee is happy to announce our next banner project meeting, which AFM members & attenders have participated in. The event will be held in the Great Hall at St. Philip’s. Based on the results of the survey, and on the views shared by many of you at the August meeting, we have now narrowed our banner designs down to three. These three designs have gone through many revisions, and all that remains now is for our wider group to vote on the design we would most like to see represent us on the RRC banner. 

Contact info@racialreconciliationcollaborative.org.

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MfL: Friendly Bible Study

On October 23 at 9:15 am there will be a sample Friendly Bible Study session on Zoom, facilitated by Pat Schenck.  Then, if there is interest, the group will continue for six sessions at a time other than Sunday morning.

If you are interested, let Pat know by October 19 at pat.schenck3227@gmail.com, so that she will know whether break-out groups will be required.  She will create a listserv of people who have registered to send any further information.

Many people find this model of Bible study very satisfying, whether they are “Bible people” or not.  However, it is not for everyone. Please read the description at https://www.read-the-bible.org/friendlybiblestudy.htm.  

When Pat led a group at Friends House, one woman said, “I have attended Bible study many times, but this one is about your life!”

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13-Bean Soup Mix Collection by Oct. 30

AFM’s Young Friends gather for a couple of First Day School sessions to mix up the dried beans, fill the jars, and decorate them with fabric jar toppers and ingredient labels tied on with raffia. For additional history about this annual event, CLICK HERE.

Friends are invited to show their support for this project by donating the 13 types of dried beans prior to October 30!

This year the sign-up will be electronic and not a physical clipboard! The online sign-up will let you see remaining real-time needs. Here is the link to the sign-up form:

13 Bean Sign Up Form

Contact Cairn K. at market@annapolisfriends.org for additional information.

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Quaker Holiday Market – December 3

The Quaker Market Committee conducted discernment sessions for identifying the beneficiaries, also called Quaker Causes, for the 2022 Quaker Holiday Market that will take place at the meetinghouse on the first Saturday in December (12.03.2022). For the Quaker Holiday Market, the first $250 will go to young Friends, 25% will be distributed to each of these charities.  Kenyan Friends, Hope for All, Interfaith Partners of the Chesapeake and World Central Kitchen. 

Contact Cairn K. at market@annapolisfriends.org. 

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Wednesday Meditation Group

Starting at 7 pm every 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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5th Night Light – Every Thursday evening

From 7:00 pm until 8:00 pm 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 8:00 am. This Meeting for Worship is in person (no technology) and meets outdoors in good weather.
  2.     Weekly at 11:00 am. This Meeting for Worship can be attended in person at the Meetinghouse, or remotely on Zoom (Phone: 301-715-8592, Meeting ID: 650 269 455, Passcode: 241727)

Other options that you can attend 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 pm (please see North County Meeting on the calendar). 

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.