Upcoming Local Worshiping Communities Events

Adelphi Friends Meeting will hold its 2015 Strawberry Festival from 10:00am to 3:00pm. The Strawberry Festival is a long-standing community event and day of fun for the whole family. The Festival added a live-entertainment stage and outdoor grilled-food tent last year, and these will continue along with the indoor cafe and sale of quarts and flats of just-picked strawberries from Oak Grove Farm in southern Pennsylvania. The large rummage sale also continues, with additional areas for silent auction, clothing, plants, and a full room of used books. The children’s area has a bounce house, train rides, face painting, and games. Come for the fun and leave with great bargain purchases of clothes, electronics, books, and more. Join us as we celebrate the abundance of summer and the richness of our community! The Strawberry Festival is a rain or shine event. For more information see adelphifriends.org/strawberry or email John Stith.

Nottingham Quarter invites Friends to their picnic at Sarah and Mark Brabson’s farm (443 Little Britain Road, Peach Bottom, PA). The picnic will begin at 1pm. All are welcome, just bring something to share for the potluck and a lawn chair.

Since the publication of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, concerned citizens have been inspired to study her recommendations and consider how we can become change-agents. Events across the country and most recently a few miles away in Baltimore, where citizens are expressing their outrage over years of neglect and heavy-handed police behavior leading to brutality and incarceration of black and brown youth, have led Bethesda Friends Meeting and the Cedar Lane Unitarian/Universalist Church to plan an event on June 14 at 5:00pm, and we hope you will attend. The program we are planning features Donna Rojas and Alisa Smedley, co-directors of a training program at the Montgomery County Detention center in Boyds that is preparing its residents for release with job skills and education that will help them find employment after their release and become valued members of our society. We also want to hear what you and your community organizations and churches are doing to support those incarcerated.

Midlothian Friends Meeting will be having a Celebration Gathering to commemorate the completion of a nearly three year process to make the Meeting House universally accessible. The Meeting has added step-less walkways for entry into the Meeting House and the Religious Education building. Additionally, a large front porch spanning the entire front of the Meeting House has been added. If you have not been to the Midlothian Friends Meetinghouse for a number of years, you may also be surprised at the renovated Meeting House interior, Fire Circle, and Meditation Garden. The event will begin with worship on Sunday, June 28th at 11am. Following worship at approximately 12:30pm, there will be a shared potluck meal. All are invited to come for both or just potluck. This event will be "kid friendly". Kids will enjoy the four wooded acres of the Meeting House grounds, the adjacent Llama Farm, the hammocks, the playground, the Meeting House deck, the Meditation Garden, the trails leading into an adjacent one hundred acre Preserve neighborhood, and the babbling stream bordering the Meeting property. There will be an old-time Ice Cream Social on the new front porch to end the celebration.