Upcoming Local Worshiping Communities Events

A number of Quakers throughout the tri-state area have the opportunity to participate with Friends in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia and DC who have been actively involved in witnessing the toxic threat of the Potomac Pipeline and the construction of a fossil fuel burning factory Rockwool. Many have participated in Hands Across the Potomac. there are also Friends at Shepherdstown Meeting in WV and at Goose Creek Meeting in VA who have been inspired by Tracy’s Walk in Denmark and have begun helping to coordinate the Solidarity Walk on the C&O Canal from Harpers Ferry to DC. We would welcome members of BYM and its Unity with Nature Committee to participate and publicize the C&O Solidarity Walk and our efforts to stop the construction of Rockwool. For more information, email paphillips321@gmail.com, text 703-786-8594, or see the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/SolidarityCOWalk/. You can choose to walk any day along the way or the whole thing.

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. Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Stony Run will host the Eleventh 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.

Please join us on Sunday, November 3, 3-6pm, in honor of the Baltimore Ceasefire for the opening of Peace and the Work of Art: New Work by Jo Brown at Homewood Friends Meeting. This free show by Baltimore Ceasefire Ambassador Jo Brown connects the work of peacemaking with the work of artmaking. Enjoy live acoustic blues music by the Fleet Street Blues Band, and food by Motzi Bakery and friends. Jo will give a very brief artist talk at about 4:00pm. All are welcome; young children will need close parental supervision. The downstairs gallery is fully accessible by elevator, and the show contains tactile elements. The show will run through Nov. 17. Hours are 10am-2pm, M-Th and Sundays, and by appointment. Contact Mina Brunyate at homewoodfriends@gmail.com. Sponsored by Homewood Friends Working Group for the Arts.

The Yearly Meeting wants to help support local Meeting clerks, so we would like to invite you to a retreat for Meeting Clerks, past, present, and future, at Annapolis Friends Meeting in Maryland on 11/9/2019 from 10:30am - 4pm. While focused on Meeting clerks, anyone with an interest in how we build and sustain our Meeting communities is most welcome to attend. Please write to ymclerk@bym-rsf.org to let us know you’re coming. Also let us know whether you seek overnight hospitality or child care, have special dietary needs, or have any questions, so we can try to accommodate. This event is intended more as a retreat than a workshop, though we can try to make it whatever you would find most helpful. Please let us know your thoughts on that. Primarily, this is a day for spiritual refreshment, fellowship, and sharing our collective wisdom. We’ll have time to share our joys and challenges and ask questions and hear responses from those gathered. We’ll also have time to hear what sort of support you would find most helpful from the Yearly Meeting and make sure you are aware of support we do provide. In particular, one topic might be to explore diversity or anti-racism concerns, especially in light of the anti-racist declaration approved at Annual Session. Let us know if you’re interested in that.

Programmed Quaker Worship in the Kenyan tradition, followed by social time. Everyone is invited to this monthly worship (on the second First Day) with Kenyan Quakers in the Baltimore area. For information, contact Gilbert Imbayi at gilbert.imbayi@gmail.com.

At 3:00pm, the Indian Affairs Committee presents Monacan Chief Kenneth Branham who will speak about Monacan history, including the former capital of Rassawek and the importance of federal recognition. Learn about what you can do to support and resolve Native concerns. There will be a light supper followed by a showing of a film at the Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival at the Byrd Theater in Richmond. For more information, contact the committee at indianaffairs@bym-rsf.org. Click here to download the flyer of the event.

Adelphi Friends Meeting invites you for an authentic, homemade African dinner and presentation from the Cornstalk Project, an outreach project to support widows and children in Magada, Kenya by funding education and small business enterprise. Saturday, Nov. 23, 6pm-8pm. at Adelphi Friends Meeting House. RSVP kindly requested to Anna Sommers at ASommers676@gmail.com.

Teen-age environmentalist Greta Thunberg challenges us to "Go vegan!" Can you agree with her views about climate change and still eat meat? Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a groundbreaking 90-minute environmental documentary following an intrepid filmmaker as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today—and investigates why the world's leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it. As inspiring as An Inconvenient Truth, this shocking yet humorous documentary reveals the absolutely devastating environmental impact large-scale factory farming has on our planet and the personal actions we can each take to mitigate it. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Working Group on Right Relationship with Animals. RSVP here. "Humanity is now standing at a crossroads. We must now decide which path we want to take. How do we want the future living conditions for all living species to be like?" ~ Greta Thunberg