Schedule of Events at Tacoma Friends Meeting---Second Hour (11:30 – 12:30 or so)
April 8—Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
April 15—Be Not Afraid, Session 1, to be led by Carolyn Laskowski (see below for description)
April 22—Discernment - How to create an environment where leadings can be tested.
April 29—Singing: Gathering around the piano, or with guitar accompaniment, choosing songs from Worship in Song (Quaker hymnal) or Rise Up Singing. It’s what we plan when there is a fifth Sunday in the month!
May 6—Potluck
May 13—Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
May 20—Be Not Afraid, Session 2 to be led by Carolyn Laskowski (see below)
May 27—to be announced
May 19 Special Evening with Joe Snyder, Knit Us Together Traveling Friend
The Outreach and Visitation Committee of North Pacific Yearly Meeting is sending Joe Snyder, who is a member of Multnomah Meeting in Portland, OR, to visit meetings in western Washington in April and May of this year. His home meeting has prepared a traveling minute that describes Joe’s interests and intentions for the meetings he will be holding with us and other meetings and worship groups. The traveling minute is attached at the bottom of the page.
Be Not Afraid:
At North Pacific Yearly Meeting 2017 Joyce Zerwekh, Betsey Kenworthy, Joe Snyder, and eric maya joy facilitated an interest group titled “Exploring Root Causes of Crises Facing Humanity Today and Gifts Friends Have to Offer for Healing.” Subsequently we came to unity around fear being a significant and perhaps the #1 root cause.
We also discovered that the newly approved NPYM Faith and Practice document contains a new section titled “Be Not Afraid” that speaks directly and clearly to the topic of fear and guides us through exploring this topic with queries relating to fear and some of its implications.
We (the organizers and participants in the discussion at annual session) decided to compose this introductory letter and send it out to all monthly meetings within NPYM and perhaps all meetings in the Pacific Northwest and encourage all monthly meetings to explore the topic of fear, in the manner of Friends (worship sharing, threshing sessions, ...), using this new section and its queries as a guide.
April 8—Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
April 15—Be Not Afraid, Session 1, to be led by Carolyn Laskowski (see below for description)
April 22—Discernment - How to create an environment where leadings can be tested.
April 29—Singing: Gathering around the piano, or with guitar accompaniment, choosing songs from Worship in Song (Quaker hymnal) or Rise Up Singing. It’s what we plan when there is a fifth Sunday in the month!
May 6—Potluck
May 13—Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
May 20—Be Not Afraid, Session 2 to be led by Carolyn Laskowski (see below)
May 27—to be announced
May 19 Special Evening with Joe Snyder, Knit Us Together Traveling Friend
The Outreach and Visitation Committee of North Pacific Yearly Meeting is sending Joe Snyder, who is a member of Multnomah Meeting in Portland, OR, to visit meetings in western Washington in April and May of this year. His home meeting has prepared a traveling minute that describes Joe’s interests and intentions for the meetings he will be holding with us and other meetings and worship groups. The traveling minute is attached at the bottom of the page.
Be Not Afraid:
At North Pacific Yearly Meeting 2017 Joyce Zerwekh, Betsey Kenworthy, Joe Snyder, and eric maya joy facilitated an interest group titled “Exploring Root Causes of Crises Facing Humanity Today and Gifts Friends Have to Offer for Healing.” Subsequently we came to unity around fear being a significant and perhaps the #1 root cause.
We also discovered that the newly approved NPYM Faith and Practice document contains a new section titled “Be Not Afraid” that speaks directly and clearly to the topic of fear and guides us through exploring this topic with queries relating to fear and some of its implications.
We (the organizers and participants in the discussion at annual session) decided to compose this introductory letter and send it out to all monthly meetings within NPYM and perhaps all meetings in the Pacific Northwest and encourage all monthly meetings to explore the topic of fear, in the manner of Friends (worship sharing, threshing sessions, ...), using this new section and its queries as a guide.
| joe_snyder_traveling_minute.pdf |
