Weekly Announcements, 6.25.17

"We are a people that follow after those things that make for peace, love, and unity; it is our desire that others' feet may walk in the same, and do deny and bear our testimony against all strife, and wars.” – Margaret Fell

June 30 – July 2 –Silent Retreat for Baltimore Yearly Meeting Friends, Dayspring Retreat Center (Germantown, MD) Take this opportunity to hear the Still Small Voice while walking in the meadow or warming at the hearth. Cost is $220. Registration deadline is June 23 or when full. For more information or to register, contact Jean Christianson. (jschristianson@gmail.com [1] or 410-544-1912)

July 1:  Help make breakfast for our vulnerable neighbors. Convene at 6:15 am at So Others Might Eat. For more information, contact Tim Schleicher at timothy.c.schleicher@gmail.com [2]

July 2-8: FGC Gathering, Niagara, NY We invite you to join the energy of a thousand Quakers converging from far and wide at Niagara University for a week of worship, socializing, learning, deepening, fun and more. http://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/gathering [3]

July 5: Help make sandwiches for the Grate Patrol to take to our vulnerable neighbors, starting at 5:30 pm. For more information, contact Steve Brooks at sbrooks@uab.edu [4]

July 9:  South American Folk Harp Concert, McLean, VA, 3:00 pm. Langley Hill Friends Meeting House, 6410 Georgetown Pike, McLean, VA 22101 (five minutes from the Beltway or George Washington Parkway). Donations benefit Friends Wilderness Center, a Quaker retreat center near Harpers Ferry, WV. (www.friendswilderness.org [5])  Info: Sheila Bach, 304-728-4820 or snbach@earthlink.net [6]

July 31 - August 6 – Annual Session 2017, Hood College (Frederick, MD)  Go to http://www.bym-rsf.org/events/annualsession/ [7] for all of the information and online registration. Register by June 26 to get the lower rates!

Head of Meeting Schedule

June 25: Simpson Scholarship Ctte; July 2: Ad Hoc Group