Weekly Announcements for 11.20.2022

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 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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Thanksgiving Potluck – November 25

On Friday, November 25 at 2:30 pm in person at the meetinghouse, there will be a traditional Thanksgiving dinner to welcome and celebrate our sponsored Afghan family with our neighbors, the Annapolis Unitarian Universalist Church friends.  Space may be limited. Please contact Barb T., as soon as possible if you are planning to attend.

For more information, contact Barb T. at pastoral-care@annapolisfriends.org.

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BYM Young Friends Program

Starting at 7 pm on Friday, November 25 until Sunday, November 27 after MfW, the Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM) Young Friends Program, about 20 participants, will be holding a conference at the AFM meetinghouse until after MfW.

For more information, contact Clerk at clerk@annapolisfriends.org.

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Friends Writing Together 

On November 27 (Sunday) at 12:30 pm, all are invited to the Friends Writing Together. We write from prompts that are provided from the facilitator. These are brief suggestions intended to elicit images, stories, and thoughts, which only you know, to which only you can give voice. Sharing aloud is optional. We do not critique this fresh writing, but offer what touched us. Everyone has stories—the prompts simply help guide us toward them. No experience necessary; all ages welcome. Bringing your lunch is optional.

Contact Mary B. at info@annapolisfriends.org for more information.

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Quaker Holiday Market 

Dates to remember

Although the Quaker Holiday Market is on the first Saturday of December (12.03.2022), there are other dates that are helpful to remember, including …

  •       11.27.2022, transform meetinghouse, retrieve offsite donations, set-up of large tent
  •       11.28.2022, last sign-up day for food that will appear on printed Quaker Café menu
  •       11.29.2022 through 12.02.2022, sorting (schedule tbd)
  •       12.02.2022, afternoon, drop-off of baked goods (or by arrangement)
  •       12.03.2022, by 9 am, drop-off of other food donations
  •       12.03.2022, 9 am – 2 pm, Quaker Holiday Market
  •       12.03.2022, 2 pm cleanup: boxing up unsold items, transporting some categories offsite, tent takedown, etc.

Donation Guidelines

The Quaker Market Committee welcomes your donation of new or gently used items that you no longer need. Donations may be dropped off at the Pod prior to 11.27.2022. Starting 11.27.2022, we will be collecting donations in the foyer or on the front porch. If you need help transporting items, or would like to donate furniture (requires pre-approval), please let us know. See the Quaker Market webpage for donation guidelines: CLICK HERE.

Food Sign-up

Many shoppers tell us they come to Quaker Markets for the food.

If cooking or baking brings you joy, we would love to have you support the upcoming Quaker Holiday Market on December 3, 2022 by contributing food for the Quaker Café and baked goods table!

Ellen has created a wonderful online signup sheet to help us keep things straight Food Sign Up Sheet.

Food drop-off at the meetinghouse will be Friday afternoon for baked goods and Saturday morning by 9 am for hot items and everything else, or by special arrangement.

Notecards for sale 

We hope that interested Friends will use the online pre-order option to help us better gauge how many notecards to print. Pickup and payment will be at Quaker Holiday Market on December 3, 2022, or by special arrangement.

Please note the pre-order deadline was extended to Wednesday, November 23, 2022! Get your order in!

Quaker Holiday Market Notecard Intro Page

Quaker Holiday Market Notecard Pre-Order Form

Task Sign-up is coming! 

Although it is not ready yet, there will be a task sign-up sheet for all the many Quaker Holiday Market tasks, including set-up, during and clean up.

Contact Cairn K. at market@annapolisfriends.org. 

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Sunday Bible Study

On November 20 (Sunday) at 7 pm on Zoom, there will be a Friendly Bible Study.  Join us for Sunday Bible Study Sessions. If you wish to join a session and are not on the original list, please contact Barbara Thomas (bthomas60@comcast.net) for instructions and handouts.

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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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Holiday Sharing 

Phil C. is organizing the holiday sharing project where friends can contribute a frozen turkey chicken or ham

Contact Phil C. at pcaroom@gmail.com, for more information.

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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Sacred Chant and Dance

On December 11 (Sunday) at 9:15 am in person, Everyone is warmly welcome to join, in person at our meetinghouse, our sacred circle of chant and dance. It is an ancient way of celebrating community and togetherness. Through our gentle movement and very simple chants, the body, mind and heart tend to become integrated while we connect with our Center and the other dancers. It is a spiritual and interfaith practice in which one may experience a deep sense of the Divine. So, come, relax, and find the joy and beauty of the Light within, between, and all around us. Masks and physical distancing are optional. There will be no Zoom connection.

For more information, please contact Sylvia O. at info@annapolisfriends.org.

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Healing Crystal Grid Class

On December 11 (Sunday) at 1 pm to 5 pm in person, Bee-Amazing Crystals’ Heart will hold a Healing Crystal Grid Class. With your intentions, through the use of Crystals and their interplay, you will connect Universal Energy to your Heart.  You will be building a Heart Healing Grid.  Over a dozen Crystals and an introductory 9″ x 12″ grid board will be supplied for each student to take home.  This will be an interactive class meaning students can ask lots of questions. $125.00 per person.

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Serenity Massage Therapy

On December 12 (Monday) at 7 pm to 8:20 pm in person, come to relax, release and reset.

Through the peaceful tones of Peter Hess singing bowls, wind gong, koshi chimes and voice, you will be guided to release and relax your cares and to focus on the peace and joy of this magical time of year.

Contact Sheri Owen at (410) 541-6853.

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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.

Quaker Holiday Market at Annapolis Friends Meeting