Nov 23rd San Mateo Worship Group Newsletter
Cybil Schroder
THIS SUNDAY, Nov 23rd
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
UPCOMING MEETING EVENTS
TBA
REGULAR MEETING 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 Quaker Center’s midweek activities.
Wednesday, 8am Online: Mindfulness Meditation (Zoom)
Wednesday, 4:30pm Palo Alto In-person Midweek Worship
(not meeting Thanksgiving week)
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.
December 5-7, Music and Dance Weekend, in-person. Fifteenth annual event lead as always by participants.
December 28 to January 1, Bringing our bodies to Quaker Center, and the Bible
With Dorothy Henderson and Nora Lisette.
January 23-25, Clerking Today, in-person, with Barbara Babin. learn the basics of the beautiful Quaker practice of Clerking: guiding groups towards collective decisions and actions by helping to discern the Sense of the Meeting. The workshop will be targeted towards clerking committees, clerking the Meeting, clerking oneself as a participant in a Meeting for Business or a committee/working group meeting, and the good order of Friends.
The Larger Quaker Community
Age Inclusion. Emily Provance, a travelling quaker minister, wrote this article. See other topics on her Turning, Turning, Holy Experiments Among Friends webpage.
December 13, 11am- 12:30 pm Exploring Paths to Membership within the Pacific Yearly Meeting. A discussion of the different ways you can become a member and what membership means to you. Give your ideas about their biweekly online Meeting for Worship and explore how you can be a part of their online and in person community.
Pendle HIll Offerings:
December 1, 4:30-6 pm. Hybrid, A Radical Side of the Early Quakers. A First Monday Lecture on the zealous and radical early Quakers of mid-seventeenth century England.
December 3, 2025, 11am-12 pm, online. Loss and Transformation. Loss happens throughout our lives and culminates in death. Transformations, endings, and renewals happen at many levels, from ecological, to organizational, to political.
Advocacy: AFSC, FCNL, FCLCA, QEW, RSWR, Community Groups
FCLCA: Because of your support we have completed 73 years of advocacy based on the guidance of Friends testimonies. A report on our work for the year is online here. This week we begin our end of year fundraising campaign. We invite everyone to contribute, so that together we can continue to bring a strong voice of conscience to the state legislature and be ready in the coming year for the advocacy that is so needed in this difficult time. Please consider donating to FCLCA at www.fclca.org.