Affiliated Organizations Events

Led by FWC Board member Hayden Matthews, we’ll open with some thoughts on how we place ourselves and how we conceptualize and experience place. Hayden will share excerpts from poems and prose to illustrate and expand. There will be a one-hour lunch during which you will be free to eat and journal about a special place. The program will conclude at 4:00. Space is limited to 15 people, so you must register. For more information or to register, contact Shelia Bach. (304-728-4820 or snbach@earthlink.net) To learn about Friends Wilderness Center, see their website. (www.friendswilderness.org)

Father Sean McManus has deep roots in the conflict and subsequent peace in Northern Ireland. He arrived in the US in 1972 and founded the Irish National Caucus, a lobby group that campaigned for the US adoption of the Macbride Principles, a code of conduct for companies doing business in Northern Ireland. The February potluck will begin at 6:30 pm. For more information, see the William Penn House website. (www.williampennhouse.org)

Calling Friends (Quakers) and Fellow Spiritual Travelers of all descriptions who hold lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people close to your hearts! You are enthusiastically invited to gather at the Bryn Mawr Mountain Retreat and Conference Center in the Poconos of Pennsylvania, February 15-18, 2013. Together we will seek spiritual growth and renewal through unprogrammed worship, learning, fellowship, and play under the care of Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns (FLGBTQC). We will be blessed by the ministry of Friend Niyonu Spann, founder of Beyond Diversity 101 workshops. For more information and to register, go to flgbtqc.quaker.org/ and click on Midwinter Gathering or contact us. (267-713-8694 or flgbtqcmidwinter@gmail.com)

Calling Friends (Quakers) and Fellow Spiritual Travelers of all descriptions who hold lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people close to your hearts! You are enthusiastically invited to gather at the Bryn Mawr Mountain Retreat and Conference Center in the Poconos of Pennsylvania, February 15-18, 2013. Together we will seek spiritual growth and renewal through unprogrammed worship, learning, fellowship, and play under the care of Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns (FLGBTQC). We will be blessed by the ministry of Friend Niyonu Spann, founder of Beyond Diversity 101 workshops. For more information and to register, go to flgbtqc.quaker.org/ and click on Midwinter Gathering or contact us. (267-713-8694 or flgbtqcmidwinter@gmail.com)

Calling Friends (Quakers) and Fellow Spiritual Travelers of all descriptions who hold lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people close to your hearts! You are enthusiastically invited to gather at the Bryn Mawr Mountain Retreat and Conference Center in the Poconos of Pennsylvania, February 15-18, 2013. Together we will seek spiritual growth and renewal through unprogrammed worship, learning, fellowship, and play under the care of Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns (FLGBTQC). We will be blessed by the ministry of Friend Niyonu Spann, founder of Beyond Diversity 101 workshops. For more information and to register, go to flgbtqc.quaker.org/ and click on Midwinter Gathering or contact us. (267-713-8694 or flgbtqcmidwinter@gmail.com)

Calling Friends (Quakers) and Fellow Spiritual Travelers of all descriptions who hold lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people close to your hearts! You are enthusiastically invited to gather at the Bryn Mawr Mountain Retreat and Conference Center in the Poconos of Pennsylvania, February 15-18, 2013. Together we will seek spiritual growth and renewal through unprogrammed worship, learning, fellowship, and play under the care of Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns (FLGBTQC). We will be blessed by the ministry of Friend Niyonu Spann, founder of Beyond Diversity 101 workshops. For more information and to register, go to flgbtqc.quaker.org/ and click on Midwinter Gathering or contact us. (267-713-8694 or flgbtqcmidwinter@gmail.com)

“The Plastic Brain,” will be a three-day conference with Margee Iddings as plenary speaker. Plenary sessions will explore what neuroscientists are learning about the brain and what neurotheologians are learning about “brain changers” that come from disciplined use of spiritual practices. Join us as we examine, explore, and experience how practicing ancient spiritual disciplines can actually improve the brain. Margee Iddings enjoys designing experiential ways of exploring complex subjects, and has shared these at the Washington National Cathedral, in various adult education programs in DC area churches, and with students in medical studies at George Washington University. You’ll also choose one of five interest groups that will meet during the conference: Parsing the Plenary; Mandala Art to Awaken the Spirit; Mantra Movement; The Initiatory Mysteries; and Poetry, Meditation, and Movement. For more information, including registration instructions, go to fcrp.quaker.org.

A reunion for former Camp Celo campers, parents, and staff, and interested Friends and families, will celebrate this Quaker summer farm camp located in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Mary Lane of Adelphi invites BYM families and friends on Feb. 24 at Sidwell Friends School, sponsored by Friends of Camp Celo. Friends of Camp Celo supports a ministry of the family-run Camp to serve children who otherwise would be unable to share the Quaker values implicit in the Celo experience. Sidwell’s scheduled Meeting for Worship is from 11 a.m. to noon. Then the Celo gathering just down the hall from 3 to 5 p.m. Ample free parking, direct bus and Metro service, plenty of places to eat within walking distance. For more information, contact Gib Barrus (gib@campcelo.com) or Mary Lane (202-320-6889 or mary8lane@gmail.com).

William Penn House is hosting their first annual dinner honoring the Peacemakers in our midst. These are the people who do their work out of the limelight, simply following their own leading and proceeding as way opens. The inaugural honoree will be Mike Gray. For more than 30 years, Mike has been active in supporting the rights of native and indigenous communities from Mexico to the Bayou to South Dakota. His work may take the form of workcamp leader, activist, or advocate, but it is his fellowship and friendship that brings life to it all. Dinner will begin at 6:00 pm. More details are on the William Penn House website. (www.williampennhouse.org)