March 08 SMWG Newsletter
Cybil Schroder
THIS SUNDAY, Mar 08
Dear Friends,
Our Meeting for Worship is from
10:00 - 11:00, at 15 Second Ave in San Mateo
or join us online at this link
San Mateo Worship Group Events
March 22nd: After meeting, we will have another worship share. Topic to be TBD.
Palo Alto Events
If you would like to deepen your worship experience throughout the week, we encourage people to join one of Palo Alto meeting’s or Ben Lomond Quaker Center’s midweek activities.
Wednesday, 8am Online: Mindfulness Meditation (Zoom)
Wednesday, 4:30pm Palo Alto In-person Midweek Worship
Wednesday, 6pm Online Mid-week Worship (Zoom) Palo Alto Friends
Ben Lomond Quaker Center
Daily online meeting for worship from 7:30 until 8:00 a.m.
Wednesday mornings, 10 a.m. online worship sharing.
March 14, 9-12 online (free) at Quaker Center: Disaster Preparedness for Friends Meetings, with Rick Narad (online). Some insurance companies have requested that religious groups, including Quakers, develop safety and emergency plans to maintain coverage. Join us for an online workshop with Rick, an emergency management specialist, where we'll review the basics of disaster preparedness and emergency planning, and learn how Quaker Meetings can develop their own plans.
March 20-22 (in-person) Rising to the Call with Keith Runyan. Through reflection, Quaker worship, and dialogue, we will explore our shared times as a collective rite of passage – shedding illusion, grounding in conscience, and awakening to our unique callings.
Tuesdays in May (May 5, 12, 19 and 26) online 6:30 to 8 p.m. Organizing for Climate Resilience with Cherice Bock. As we begin to feel the impacts of climate change, it’s important to help shape our local communities to be more resilient. We will need the ability to respond and recover when there are climate emergencies, and the ability to work together to lower our climate impact. Faith communities could have an important role as hubs for community connection, and find ways to use their buildings and grounds in ways that help heal their local ecosystems.
The Larger Quaker Community
March 10, 4-6 pm Online. Focusing on Dreams: A six-week online course with Marcelle Martin on dreams in the prophetic tradition and dreamwork by early Quakers.
March 13, 4:30 - 5:30 pm Online. Taste of Kairos: An invitation to practice spiritual grounding and learn about the June Kairos retreat with Francisco Burgos.
Mar 29, 9:30-5:30. Hybrid. Quaker Trans Day of Visibility at Swarthmore - Hybrid: Friends are invited to a day of worship, witness, and discernment centered on transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Quaker lives
Tuesdays March 31- April 28, 11am -1 pm Hybrid. Primitive Quakerism Revived: Rediscovering Friends’ Roots as a Radically Transformative Prophetic Movement
Saturday, March 21, 9:00 am- 2:30 pm online. FWCC, Section of the Americas, Section Meeting. Colin Saxton as this year's speaker. This is a time to connect in community, share conversation, and carry forward the business of FWCC as we listen deeply to one another and strengthen the bonds of fellowship across our diverse traditions and cultures.
Saturday, April 4, 9-4 at Hidden Villa. Regional gathering/joint retreat with Palo Alto, Live Oak, Central Coast, Monterey Peninsula, San Jose and San Mateo. The theme will be Open for Transformation. Flyer here. Click on links in the flyer to see the schedule, youtube video, and to register.
Pacific Yearly Meeting online meetings for worship: Saturdays 10-11:30 a.m.; Tuesdays 7:30-9 p.m.; and Wednesdays 7-7:30 p.m. Join from the PacYM website.
Advocacy: AFSC, FCNL, FCLCA, QEW, RSWR, Community Groups
FCNL, AFSC and other Quaker organizations are calling on Congress to cosponsor and vote for the Iran War Powers Resolution (S.J.Res.104 & H.Con.Res.38), and to reject another endless war in the Middle East. Read more here.
Friends Committee on National Legislation has a current campaign of delivering 50+ letters to every member of Congress saying “Not another penny for the Department of Homeland Security unless there are major reforms to ICE.”
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