Fall Quarterly this weekend, registration, conversations, links, schedule
Jerry McBride
7 p.m.: Worship
8 p.m.: Welcome followed by two 15 minute small group conversations
Saturday, October 16:
7:30 – 8:30 a.m.: Bible study
9 – 10:15 a.m.: Worship followed by introductions and a short business session
Roll Call/Announcements
Nominating – Treasurer, approval of Ministry and Oversight
Naming
Sierra Friends Center Report
Announcements
10:30 a.m. - Noon: Worship Sharing
Noon – 1 p.m.: Lunch – on your own
1 – 2:30 p.m.: Facilitated Conversations on a theme – See below.
3 – 4 p.m. : Concluding Business
Nominating – possible approval
Naming – possible approval
Report from Registrar
Report from Treasurer
Report from Woolman weekend
Announcements
4 – 5 p.m.: Worship Sharing as a whole
7 – 8:30 p.m.: Family Night.
Sunday, October 17
8 – 9 a.m.: Bible study
10 – 11 a.m.: Worship with Grass Valley Meeting
CPQM Facilitated Conversations, Fall 2021
1. Lectio Divina -- Barbara Birch
This conversation deals with the practice of sacred reading to nourish spirituality, for long-time or beginning sacred readers, or for Friends just interested in learning more about the topic. We will share the what, how, and why sacred reading is an important part of our journey. "To read religiously is to read as a lover, wanting to savor the experience. The religious reader approaches what is to be read with the sense that it is a gold mine of riches that can never be exhausted." Paul Griffins
Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), page 16.
2. At the Intersection of Spirit and the Arts – Barbara Babin
If you knit, quilt, make things with wood, paint, sing, dance, write, tell stories, etc. etc. you are a creative. In this conversation we will share our experiences of inspiration, practice, flow, and creation and will reflect on the similarities between the creative process and how Spirit works in our lives.
3. Walking In Racial Unity –Barbara Christwitz
Exploration of anti-racism and how it applies to our experience in our personal lives.
4. Mysticism among Friends - Eric Sabelman
We will continue an interest group begun at 2021 PacYM annual session, when time was so short we barely finished a round of introductions. As Friends, we sit and wait for mystical experiences—hearing the divine voice or having a vision or just having a sense of the need to stand up and speak a truth in Meeting for Worship. But how does that happen, and how can we grow that side of ourselves?
5. Activism and Issues with FCL-CA- Kevan Insko
A conversation about activism on state level issues – what mechanisms exist now, organizing in Meetings, issue areas people are interested in, etc.
6. Quaker Concepts of God – William E. Donovan
We will expect participants to present their concepts of God, and after all have had a turn, we will hopefully have time to discuss and contrast the views.
7. Gardeners and Farmers- Sandra Farley
8. Fossil Fuel Addiction- Muriel Strand
This would be a conversation about fossil fuel addiction. Therapists recommend replacing an addiction with something healthy. The conversation would be about people’s visions for such a replacement.
9. Loneliness during the pandemic and ways to help safely alleviate it – TinaMarie Jackson
10. When is simplicity possible? –Carl Anderson
I love facts & ideas. Sometimes details and nuance are really valuable. When is simplicity possible? When not? I had a recent experience where I could express an important opinion in only 6 syllables. Occasionally listeners were interested in more, but the most important item could be expressed in just the 6 syllables. (Topic is political.) On another topic, at least 3 ideas are often presented. -- 1 of them is a distraction, 1 of them is valid but seriously incomplete, and the 3rd is heard much less.