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Bulletin 12.10.2021
 
Moving Forward with Meeting for Worship

Is your Quaker meeting or Friends church experimenting with combining worship online and in person? Are you thinking about it? Is it causing conflict or easing tension in your community?

Join Friends in the Pacific Northwest to consult on the lessons we have learned through implementing Hybrid Worship. Kathleen Wooten from New England YM, David Male from Ohio YM, and Gil George, Sierra-Cascades YMF will present some of their experience as well as some key considerations and challenges in both the technical and spiritual practices in our meetings.

You can participate online or in-person. Please click on the link below to register.

Register Now!

The in-person aspect of the event will be held at the Multnomah Meetinghouse. The simultaneous online aspect will be held on Zoom. More details will be provided after registration.

Thank you for your interest in the future of Friends. I look forward to seeing you on Saturday.

Sincerely,
Julie Peyton
Friends World Committee for Consultation Section of the Americas
 


Walking with the Bible

Beacon Hill Friends House is putting on the Walking with the Bible series again, this time in partnership with Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) Section of the Americas! This series will be bilingual in Spanish and English (thus the slightly longer run-time to accommodate for translation).

The full event website is here: https://bhfh.org/caminando-con-la-biblia/

Our presenters are:

- Emma Condori Mamani, from Santidad (Holiness) Friends Yearly Meeting, Bolivia; on Saturday, Jan. 22nd

- Cristela Martinez, from El Salvador Yearly Meeting, on Saturday, Feb. 26th

- Nelson Ayala Amaya, from El Salvador Yearly Meeting, Saturday, March 26th

Peter Blood-Patterson will continue to serve as the series host. All events are taking place from 4-6 PM (ET).

The cost is still pay-as-led, and we're using this newer platform that should make things easier! There is a small box at the end of this registration form that says "name your price," where you can type in any amount, down to $0.

We would love to have you all join us!

In Light,

Jen Higgins-Newman
 


Eclectic Christmas

Eclectic Christmas is BACK in 2021 with 2 options for enjoying the music. Join the EC ensemble in-person live (audience limited to 100 nightly) for performances at the Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg OR on Friday, December 17 or Saturday, December 18 at 7:00 pm. Concert info, venue details and tickets are available at:  https://www.chehalemculturalcenter.org/events-calendar.   Additionally, you can hear the concert via livestream on Saturday, December 18th at 7:00 pm.  Livestream access, donation links, recordings and more information about the group are available on the EC website: https://eclecticchristmas.com. Eclectic Christmas is an ensemble of local musicians who arrange and perform unique musical creations ranging from Bach to bluegrass to jazz to folk and beyond.  

Best to you and yours!  
Aaron Pruitt
 

Announcements
 

What does it mean to live our faith in public? What’s the connection between Quaker leadership and ministry? These are just some of the questions we’ll discuss in our final Quaker Changemaker event of 2021, when FCNL Director of Quaker Leadership Alicia McBride is in conversation with outgoing General Secretary Diane Randall. Register to join us online on Weds. Dec. 15 at 6:30 p.m. EST. Their discussion will cover how Diane came to Quakerism and to FCNL, her leading to public ministry as the head of the organization, and her experiences of living into Quaker faith and practice while serving as the general secretary of FCNL for the last decade. Please join us to reflect and add your perspectives on living one’s faith in the world. Register now!

Quaker Voluntary Service is rediscovering and reclaiming the living tradition of Quaker service for our time, offering new models built on enduring truths. As work camps and other similar experiences did for previous generations of Friends, QVS offers the opportunity to orient young adults to whole lives committed to service and justice, grounded and sustained by their faith. We are eager to share the QVS experience with more young adults, and excited to announce that applications for the 2022-2023 fellowship year are now open! Click here for more information.

Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas seeks a creative Advancement Manager to join our small, friendly and successful team nurturing faith, hope, and resilience. Click here for more information.

Friends Committee on National Legislation is hiring a Director of Human Resources, Grasstops Advocacy Manager, National Field Organizer, and more! Visit Work with FCNL | Friends Committee On National Legislation to learn more and apply.

New England Yearly Meeting is seeking to hire a new full time Children & Families Ministries Coordinator this summer. If you know of a Friend with a call to support the faith formation of Quaker children, youth, and families who is open to living in the New England region, please consider sharing this position with them. Applications are due February 15th. Learn more at neym.org

Every two years, Quaker meetings and churches around the country come together in community to discern FCNL’s legislative priorities for the next Congress. FCNL values your meeting or church’s worshipful input and guidance—we invite you to be a part of creating the legislative priorities that we’ll push for in Washington for the coming two years! A good way to prepare for the priorities process is by getting a discernment meeting scheduled on your community’s calendar now, so that your circle of Friends has completed this process by April when the priorities are due. FCNL can offer support so that your meeting or church feels equipped to engage—whether resources, volunteer/staff facilitation, or another form of support. You can view this guide on how to participate for ideas on how to best engage in your community.

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