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Friday April 3 – Timer Meeting – a chance to share with others at the home of the Browns at 3:30 PM C()D%+2645)/-./)/-")5%;-/)5".21)41)%+)2%66"#"+/),.01@)-3,)23)034)2"83+1/#./")034#)
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David Richman's house, 304 Calle Florista in Las Cruces.
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Fiesta at First hristian Church, 901 Arizona Avenue, El Paso Sunday
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Saturday April 18th – NM Regional Meeting in El Paso 8:30 am – 5:00 pm First Christian Church, 901 Arizona Avenue, El Paso Sunday April 19th – Meeting for Worship 10 am (visitors from NM Regional) Meeting for Worship with attention to business following rise of Meeting. Sunday April 26th – Meeting for worship 10 am Spiritual Practice session following rise of meeting , we will be proceding with our focus on death and dying. Friday May 1st -‐ Timer Meeting – a chance to share with others at the home of the Browns at 3:30 PM Sunday May 3rd -‐ Meeting for Worship 10 am Peace Social and Environmental Concerns Committee meets following rise of Meeting (focus on Social Concerns, Jean will facilitate) Up Coming Events
NM Regional: April 17 – 19th 2015 in El Paso,TX
Registration materials available on our website
http://www.lascrucesquakers.org/
NM Women’s Retreat: May 15 – 17th in Silver City, NM
IMYM 2015 Gathering June 7 – 14
IN THE LAS CRUCES COMMUNITY
April 12th Moral Injury meeting at First Christian Church in
Las Cruces at 3 pm
Action Minutes from March Meeting for Business
State of the Meeting report read and approved*
Nominating Committee:
Clerk
Recording clerk –Miki and Rachel
Library – Anna
M & O – Al to clerk, David, Erica, Lynda until she
leaves, Miki
PSEC – as before
B & G – Harold, Larry, Anna would like to work on the
outside of the building to make it more inviting .
Queries – Helen
Newsletter – Vickie
IMYM Rep meeting
Peace Team Rep – Vickie
IFC – Rachel
Spiritual Practice – Karin, Jean, Larry, Vickie
Approved
There was discussion of the fact that we have no
Clerk. It was felt that M&O could pick up some of the
slack and perhaps we could rotate clerks for the
Business Meeting.
* See below
Community Notes
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Happy 20 wedding anniversary to Tim Reed and Vickie
Aldrich they were married under the care of Las Cruces
Friends Meeting April 8th 1995. The wedding was outside at
the Meeting House on Solano with many children in
attendance.
From Vickie: Last month we were blessed to be present at
our daughter Jenny’s wedding to Chris Hyde in Austin, TX.
We were grateful that Teresa Brown and Rebecca Richman (a
bridesmaid) were also able to attend.
Rebecca Richman and Teresa
Brown
The day after the wedding
LAS CRUCES RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
State of the Meeting
March, 2015
We continue to be a small group of energetic,
conscientious, supportive and occasionally brilliant
members and attenders. We’ve had a very slight increase in
attendance during the past year, happily graced by some
young people and even a welcome infant. We’re blessed with
a comfortable meeting house and enjoy the following pattern
of get-togethers after meeting for worship:
First Sunday:
Peace, Social and Environmental
Concerns Committee
Second Sunday: Potluck
Third Sunday:
Meeting for Business
Fourth Sunday: Spiritual Practice
Fifth Sunday:
Whatever and Whatnot – including
meetings at various
places with El
Paso friends
Following are some of the highlights of the year (in random
order):
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Display of Peace Crane Memorial at Mesilla Day of the
Dead celebration. The Memorial consist of a large
number of panels which hold origami cranes, each of
which commemorates a member of the armed forces who
has been killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Spiritual practice sessions on how we experience and
use the Light.
Some of our members visited a friend who was interned
in an immigration detention center.
The creation of our website –
www.lascrucesquakers.org.
Unauthorized use of the house for lodging by persons
who might well have gone undetected for some period of
time had they not appropriated some of our furniture,
appliances, utensils. Subsequent work on increasing
security.
Searching for consensus on the question of how to
clean the meeting house. Arrived at a hybrid system
in which members and attenders clean the house on a
regular basis and we pay for a cleaning service every
six months or so.
Members and attenders have participated in
Intermountain Yearly Meeting committee meetings and
Gathering, New Mexico Regional Meeting, New Mexico
Women’s retreat, Mountain Friends Camp and Friends
Peace Team PeaceQuest.
Attended Hiroshima Day with Gila Friends in Silver
City.
Had a weed whacking party in late summer.
Group celebrations of Easter, Thanksgiving and
Christmas.
Eco Friendly Pet Parent Tips
°Use biodegradable doggy bags for picking up after your pup or an eco friendly cat litter such as
pine pellet little, newspaper litter, corn or wheat based litters.
°Choose flea and tick treatments that pose the least health risk for your pets and humans in the
household. Weigh risks vs benefits, indoor cats may not require flea and tick prevention.
°Making your own treats and food can minimize waste and maximize health for your pets. Make
sure to follow a balanced meal plan, cooked diets will require supplementation.
° Manage your pets reproduction with spay/neuter (especially recommended for cats) or other
appropriate measures (may be manageable for dogs).
° Dirty fish water may be recycled for watering plants
Lucien
Miki Webb’s garden in
spring