gc newsletter december 2015
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Goose Creek Friends Newsletter December 2015TRANSCRIPT
Queries for Twelfth Month:
MembershipHow can I actively support the meeting community?
How can I support the Clerk of Meeting and clerks of committees?
How am I maturing into the fullness of membership in this spiritual community?
From “Voices,” Baltimore Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice:
“Worthiness has nothing to do with membership. God has already accepted us in our imperfection and is loving us forward toward a more perfect image of God’s self. The real issue in membership is commitment on the part of both the meeting and the applicant to remain faithful to the development and requirements of the process within Quaker tradition.” ( Patricia Loring, Listening Spirituality, Vol. II, 2009)
Monthly Meeting for Worship with a
Concern for Business: Twelfth MonthCalendar items for the Meeting House, approved:
League gift wrapping
Richard Gillespie
for Public Policy (assuming that they can meet so as to accommodate the scholarship essay writing that morning)
League yard sale
The list of new committee members and clerks for
you have not heard from a member of the Nominating Committee, or if you’d like to discuss a change in your
and their amounts. Meeting approved a donation to
for individual Friends’ donations. It was agreed that smaller, incremental increases in donations that are recommended by committees need not be approved
from committees have not yet reached the Finance Committee, and some were referred to committees for their recommendations. With respect to the capital
ongoing projects to see what funds will carry over from
Meeting approved with pleasure a membership request from Chuck Hough, as recommended by the Ministry and Oversight Committee. Friends will visit Chuck to welcome him.
need a convener, and someone willing to write a draft of the report we will submit to Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
of Meeting.
The new Meeting House sign is being fabricated and will soon be hung. The Outreach Committee was asked to consider the possibility of some sort of welcome sign to be
Goose Creek Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Lincoln, Virginia
Goose Creek Friends
Newsletter December 2015
First Day School Class, November 22! Photo by Peggy King.
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Friends Journal
Friends, I’m writing as a member of the Friends Publishing Corporation Board of
years to improve the quality of its publication and to
viewpoints and ideas.
media in a big way, most notably through its video
interviewed Quakers from different traditions and all parts of the country, Friends young and old, some well
other hand, they are polished and engrossing, and have become what I believe to be Friends’ most successful outreach tool. They are viewed by people of all faiths and
even without the grant, and now QuakerSpeak has passed
Here is a link to the QuakerSpeak web page: www.quakerspeak.com
However, these improvements in quality and outreach
job of cutting production costs and overhead to the bone,
major fundraising campaign is newly under way: www.friendsjournal.org/grow
I also encourage everyone to view the QuakerSpeak series, and to subscribe to the print journal.
welcome at this point in its history.
credit card at www.friendsjournal.org/donate. Or a check
Thanks, Catherine Cox
From Baltimore Yearly Meeting
Wilderness
guide on this annual meditative hike. In the rich silence of the cold mountain air in the woods surrounding the Niles Cabin with its faithful, warming wood stove, take time out to ponder the joys and sorrows of the year almost past and welcome in the possibilities of the year
fellowship and good food.
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Women’s Retreat –
January 29-31, 2016 The BYM Women’s Retreat has a new website and a new location. Visit http://
in Reisterstown, Maryland. You can register online and read about the workshops that have been planned.
Goose Creek Meeting News
mornings, but he has been an active member of the Wednesday evening discussion group and the Peace and Social Concerns Committee. We are happy and fortunate to have him with us.
Goose Creek Women:
Conversation at the
Meeting House
From the Camping Committee
On January 10, the Camping Committee will visit
Children and adults are all welcome.
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From the Religious Ed. Committee
We are always looking for new teachers and lessons please feel free to email any ideas to
Maria: [email protected]
from Meeting and the community are welcome to donate a knitted square of any material or pattern.
The Goose Creek Farm by our First Day School Friends, December 6th.
Christmas 2016December 13, 11:00 am
December 20, 6:00 pmThis year’s Christmas potluck supper and carol
After dinner:
December 25, 7:00 pm
Gift Exchange
simple homemade gifts, write your name (and age or “adult”) on a slip of paper and put it in the
Sundays
Worship and Discussion Group
CALENDAR
DECEMBER
JANUARY
for Business
Change of address
New Member
“We wish you
a merry Christmas” decorating and gingerbread house making for all to enjoy.
We will read and discuss the holiday classic, The Littlest Angel, and then we will make small ornaments for the Christmas tree.
The children will have a chance to be reporters and interview two of our Meeting's friends. These interviews are being documented by audio recordings and photographs.
Martha Mason Semmes
Debbi Sudduth
Please sign up on the list in the gathering room if
you would like to provide refreshments for Meeting.
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NEWSLETTER
The Goose Creek Friends Newsletter is published monthly
by the Goose Creek Friends
CLERK
ASSISTANT CLERK
TREASURER
NEWSLETTER EDITOR
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DONATIONS
Please direct donations for Goose Creek Friends Meeting to
Elise Boulding,