Affiliated Organizations Events

Part hike, part walking meditation, this hike will be led by Michael Moore, FWC board member. Please contact Sheila Bach (304-728-4820 or snbach@earthlink.net) to let her know you will be coming. Suggested donation is $10.00 per person. www.friendswilderness.org

Qi Gong is the 4,000 year-old Chinese practice of aligning breath, movement, and awareness for exercise, healing, and meditation. Come and learn the basics of this ancient tradition and feel what energies it can free up in your mind and body. RSVPs are required. Contact Sheila Bach (304-728-4820 or snbach@earthlink.net). Suggested donation is $10.00 per person. www.friendswilderness.org

The Human Rights Learning Project, a local coalition led by the AFSC, works with 160+ public school students every semester to help them learn about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in order to identify issues within their school, neighborhoods and community and then to develop projects to address those issues. Currently, the program works with eight interns from Georgetown, American University and Howard University in three local high schools: Wilson HS (NW), Dunbar HS (NE) and Friendship Collegiate (SE). Presenter Jean-Louis Ikambana serves as the Area Director of the American Friends Service Committee and overseas this program. William Penn House’s potlucks begin at 6:30 pm. (515 E Capitol Street SE, Washington, DC or williampennhouse.org)

The Baltimore office of the American Friends Service Committee is hosting a conference call at 7:00 pm to give all interested Friends a chance to learn about the work they are doing. The call will be hosted by Dominque Stevenson, director of the A Friend of a Friend Program, and Mia Jones, the director of the Youth Empowerment program. To participate, simply call the toll free number (866-740-1260) and enter the access code 2419982.

Kenya Casanova Sale of Cuba Yearly Meeting will be speaking at 3:00 pm on how the Living Water of Quaker Ministry flows today among Friends in Cuba. For more information or to RSVP, contact John Salzberg. (301-774-6815 or john.salzberg@verizon.net)

Greenbrier Valley Worship Group invites Friends to join Friends from across West Virginia for a weekend of worship, fellowship, and good food. The cost is $45.00 per person and includes three meals and overnight accommodations in a cabin at the camp. Registration begins at 9:00 am Saturday morning. Rick Wilson of AFSC will speak on Sunday at 10:00 am about their activities in West Virginia. For information, contact Cathy Abernathy. (304-772-5856 or abergrump@aol.com)

Caroline Pelton and Lisa Payne, member of the Friends Wilderness Center Board, will lead this non-political program of silent worship in which we will meet to hold both the nation and world in our hearts and prayers as we prepare to go to the polls in November. RSVPs are requested. Contact Sheila Bach (304-728-4820 or snbach@earthlink.net). Suggested donation is $10.00 per person. www.friendswilderness.org

Note that this has been re-scheduled from September 22, as previously announced!

Greenbrier Valley Worship Group invites Friends to join Friends from across West Virginia for a weekend of worship, fellowship, and good food. The cost is $45.00 per person and includes three meals and overnight accommodations in a cabin at the camp. Registration begins at 9:00 am Saturday morning. Rick Wilson of AFSC will speak on Sunday at 10:00 am about their activities in West Virginia. For information, contact Cathy Abernathy. (304-772-5856 or abergrump@aol.com)

The Friends Committee on National Legislation invites Friends to Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC for an inspiration dialogue with Robert Levering, the Quaker behind Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For in America. The program will begin at 4:00 pm and light refreshments will be served. For information, contact Sandy Robson. (202-903-2522 or sandy@fcnl.org)