The New Garden Friend Newsletter of New Garden Friends Meeting January 7, 2015 Weekly scheduled meeting calendar Wednesday 01-07 6:00 p.m. Choir Rehearsal / Choir Room Monday 01-12 6:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. HSYF “Whine & Cheese” / Qave Mindfulness Meditation / Worship Room Meditation / Parlor BIRTHDAYS 7 Buford Frye 8 Ted Greene 10 Will Baldwin 11 Andy Maynard 12 Sara White 8 9 10 11 13 YOUNG friends N E W S Matthew Greene Tim Murphy Rus McCarter Nathan Parsons Ash Edwards We want to welcome Sean Semmler to our Young Friends family! He is replacing the HSYF leader position vacated by Rose. Welcome Sean!! Calling All Runners/Spread the Word HSYF will again be raising money for their spring trip by jointly running marathons (yep, that's 26.2 miles) on Sunday, February 8. The race director, Mike Clark of Junction 311, has generously agreed to allow our teams to pay only the shirt/medal fee, and then pay the registration fee to HSYF as a donation. If you would like to join us by running one or more laps (each lap is 1.6 miles), please call me. If you know anyone in the community who plans to run the race, please have them call me before registering so I can instruct them on how to register to insure that HSYF will receive their registration fee. Many Thanks! Joanna Flynn, 253-1977 SEEKING? New Gardeners are invited to join members of Ministry and Counsel for a four-week series of discussions in February designed to introduce and spark conversation about wide-ranging topics such as Quaker History, the Inner Light, Consensus and Quaker Business Meetings, and the Quaker Testimonies, both as practiced at New Garden and in the wider Quaker world. If you are curious about Quakerism and New Garden, this is for you! Join us February 1, 8, 15, and 22, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the parlor. Child care will be provided; we ask that you call or email the office to let us know the age of the child/ children so we can be sure to have appropriate coverage. New Garden Quarter Quarterly Meeting will meet Sunday, January 11 at 3:00 p.m. at New Garden Friends Meeting. Allie Corcoran will do a presentation on her Quaker Pilgrimage to Bolivia and Peru last summer. A light meal will be served about 4:30 p.m. Please come and support both Allie and the Quarter. Upcoming Circle Meetings * The Binford Circle will meet on Thursday, January 15 at 10:00 a.m in Room 109 with Dot Mason sharing about her recent trip to Cuba. The New Garden Friend is published each Wednesday. Items for consideration for the newsletter should be submitted no later than noon on the preceding Tuesday. Send submissions via e-mail to Sharon Burton, office@ ngfm.org. Submissions on paper may be delivered to the Meeting office. Questions? Call Sharon at the office. New Garden Friends Meeting 336-292-5487 801 New Garden Road (E): [email protected] Greensboro, N.C. 27410 (W): www.ngfm.org * The Cora Worth Parsons Circle Gathering is set for Wednesday January 21 at 7:00 p.m. in the parlor. Bring finger food if you can. Also, bring a friend! Jennifer Schaal will be presenting: “The Accidental Health Disparities Researcher: How antiracism training led me to an opportunity to be a keynote speaker at an international research conference in Cambodia”. 1