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Published poet, Tom Donlon, and FWC Board Member, Hayden Mathews will co-facilitate this program that will explore the power of poems to enrich our lives with their power to enlighten, challenge, and expand us. Drawing from poems that resonate strongly with them and poems that participants bring that are their particular favorites, the group will weave a warm mid-winter blanket of words to warm the soul. Absolutely NO prior experience in reading or writing poetry is necessary - only a desire to explore our inner reaches using the magic carpet of poetry. Please RSVP to Sheila Bach (snbach@earthlink.net) and when doing so indicate whether you would like to have a home-cooked lunch (a $10 cost).

The annual Quakers in Pastoral Care & Counseling (QPCC) conference has been rescheduled for March 23-26, 2017 at Quaker Hill Conference Center in Richmond, Indiana. The conference program, Centered in Wholeness: Body & Spirit, will be led by Stephanie Ford, known to many as a longtime Associate Professor of Spirituality at Earlham School of Religion. Stephanie is now Minister of Christian Formation at Binkley Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, NC. She also teaches with the Friends of Christ School (a local ecumenical group), and the Upper Room Academy for Spiritual Formation. The retreat schedule will include discussion and exercises led by Stephanie, small group sharing, and ample time for recharging/reconnecting with F/friends, nature, Spirit, and yourself. Massage, yoga, centering prayer, aromatherapy, and other self-care opportunities are on the menu as well. For more information about the conference, speaker, and QPCC itself, go to our website (www.qpcc.us). To register, go to https://www.regonline.com/register/login.aspx?eventID=1837205&MethodId=0&Events.

The early-bird registration deadline for the 31st Friends United Meeting Triennial is coming soon! Make plans now to gather with Quakers from all over the world in Wichita, Kansas—July 12- 16, 2017. We will be meeting on the campus of Friends University five days of worship, fellowship, learning and service. Register before March 31st and save $30! Full information and registration is at https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1877598.