Weekly Announcements as of 12.18.2022

Weekly Announcements

Reminder:

If you know of an event that you would like to see in the Weekly Announcements, please send the information to communications@annapolisfriends.org.

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. 

*********************

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.

↪Scroll Down for More ↩

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

↪Scroll Down for More ↩

Attention! Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business

January’s Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business will be on January 8, 2023, rather than on New Year’s Day. 

Potluck will also move from January 1 to January 8. 

For more information, contact Karen C. at clerk@annapolisfriends.org.

↪Scroll Down for More ↩

In Person Christmas Eve Meeting for Worship

On Saturday, December 24, at 7 pm in the meetinghouse, you can join a Christmas Eve Meeting for Worship Gathering. Our tradition of gathering together for a Christmas Eve Meeting for Worship continues this year with this in-person meeting that is open to all. We hope you, your family, and friends will join this beloved, yet relaxed, Meeting for Worship where we pause to breathe in the full spirit of the holidays.  Friends are invited to bring cookies or a snack to share. Hot cider will be provided. All ages are welcome. 

This in-person meeting will be parallel and not blended or connected with the Zoom event that will happen at the same time. 

7:00-7:30  Meeting for Worship

7:30-7:45  Carol Singing

7:45-8:00  Fellowship

For more information, contact Martha B. at info@annapolisfriends.org.

↪Scroll Down for More ↩

On Zoom Christmas Eve Meeting for Worship

On Saturday, December 24, at 7 pm on Zoom, you can join a Christmas Eve worship.  Our tradition of gathering together for a Christmas Eve Meeting for Worship continues this year with this Zoom meeting open to all who cannot make it to the Meetinghouse. We hope you, your family, and friends will join this beloved, yet relaxed, Meeting for Worship where we pause to breathe in the full spirit of the holidays.  All ages are welcome. Please note that the Zoom meeting will be parallel and not blended or connected by technology to the in-person event that will occur at the same time.

6:50 – 7:00 Zoom open, gathering begins

7:00 – 7:30 Meeting for Worship

7:30 – 7:45 Carol Singing

7:45 – 8:00 Fellowship

Contact Peter M. at ministry@annapolisfriends.org for more information.

↪Scroll Down for More ↩

Suggestions for Helping Others

Those who wish to help others for the holidays can directly help the Anne Arundel County Food Bank and the Light House. Click on the name of the organization to be brought to their website. Friends have been supporting these two organizations for years and it makes a big difference in people’s lives, especially around the holidays.

↪Scroll Down for More ↩

Pre-Ordered Notecards from Quaker Holiday Market

If you haven’t picked up the notecards that you ordered, please look for them under the bench in the foyer at the meetinghouse. 

Also!!! There are extra notecards available at a reasonable rate if you would like to purchase notecards after the Quaker Holiday Market that are available on display on the bench in the lobby.

Contact market@annapolisfriends.org, for more information.

↪Scroll Down for More ↩

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.

↪Scroll Down for More ↩

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.

↪Scroll Down for More ↩

Children’s Religious Education & Nursery Care

The Children’s Religious Education Committee offers First Day School (FDS), also known as Sunday School, from 11:00 am until 11:50 am in person each Sunday during the 11 am Meeting for Worship, except on Christmas Day (12.25). In addition, there is Nursery Care, as needed, except on Christmas Day (12.25). To line-up nursery care, please email children@annapolifriends.org.

↪Scroll Down for More ↩

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 held outdoors in good weather. Masks and social distancing are optional inside the meetinghouse.
  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). Nursery care is available; please email us at children@annapolisfriends.org if you would like to bring your child/children to our nursery. First Day School (a.k.a., Sunday School) is available for school age children.

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.

 

Photo credit: E. McBride
“Sunset from Kent Island”