Upcoming Local Worshiping Communities Events
This page displays the events coming up this month. To see more, please go to the main events page here and select the category "Local Meeting Events".
Join the Quaker family around the world in worship and celebration!
FWCC invites you to join Quakers around the world on 7 October for World Quaker Day, in its 5th year. The theme, Crossing Cultures, Sharing Stories draws us into our shared experience of worship, celebrating our wonderful diversity of expression. Church to church, meeting to meeting, country to country, and section to section, we feel the power of God collecting us into a faithful family. We welcome all expressions of Quaker worship!
How will you celebrate World Quaker Day? Ideas about how to work with the theme can be found on the website.
Whatever you do as a worshiping community, we hope you will share this with others through FWCC. It can be very simple – a description, a poem, a short video from a mobile phone, a few photos – we will post them on this web site so that you can see what other churches and meetings were doing on the same day.
We welcome your participation in World Quaker Day. We are grateful for all you bring to the Quaker world.
Quaker educator Parker Palmer, folk singer Carrie Newcomer, and pianist Gary Walters will present the Weinstein-Rosenthal Forum on Faith, Ethics, and Global Society at 7:00pm. The event is open to the public. For more information, go to https://chaplaincy.richmond.edu/programs/weinstein-rosenthal/.
Carol Zaru is a professor at McDaniel College and leads the Middle Eastern studies program and Arabic language classes. She is a Palestinian who went to Quaker school in Ramallah. She and her family moved to US in 2001. She is speaking about conditions of life for Palestinian people in the West bank and why she and her family decided to leave. Meeting for Worship will begin at 10:00am and the presentation will begin at 11:15. The Meeting’s Reunion will begin with a picnic afterward. For more information, contact Anita Virkus. (anitavirkus@gmail.com)
Get to know Yearly Meeting Committees and Friends from other Meetings! Be a part of important decision making. Join Friends for morning committee meetings and the afternoon’s Interim Business Meeting. Sandy Spring Friends Meeting will host the Tenth Month Interim Meeting. Friends will begin gathering at 10:00am. Committee meetings will begin at 10:30. Check the Yearly Meeting website for more information.
LGBTQ Friends of Homewood Meeting invite all LGBTQ members and attenders to join us for fellowship, a potluck supper and worship. The event beings at 6:30pm and goes till 9. Bring a f(F)riend! We have invited friends from the entire Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting to join us for this all-age event. Please bring a dish to contribute to the meal. Vegan and gluten-free dishes are especially welcome and you are encouraged to write the ingredients on a card. For more information, contact KD Olive (443-930-6277) or Janet Abrams (443-980-1615).
