Calendar
(acronym list follows)
2/21: MWCB
3/6: ILYM Continuing Committee
3/13: Spring Retreat
3/18-21: FWCC Section of the Americas
3/20: WYM Administrative Council
3/21: MWCB
4/23-25: ILYM Woman's Weekend
5/1: MCGM at Downer Grove Meeting
6/16-21: ILYM Annual Sessions
7/4-10: FGC Annual Gathering
7/30-8/2: WYM Annual Sessions
Acronyms:
ILYM:
Illinois Yearly Meeting
FCG:
Friends General Conference
FWCC: Friends World Committee for Consultation
MCGM: Metropolitan Chicago
General Meeting
MWCB: Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business
WYM: Western Yearly Meeting
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Welcome
We invite you to
join us for worship on Sunday
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Ongoing
Programs
Meeting
for Worship: Sundays
10:30 a.m. Child care is available during Meeting for
Worship.
Fellowship Time follows Meeting for Worship with potluck dinner on
First and Third Sundays.
Quaker Student & Young Adult Fellowship: Weekly Meeting for Worship on Sundays at 6:30 p.m.
First Day
School Program:
Children's religious education program on First and Second Sundays of
the month (Sept.-June) in First Day School room
concurrent with
Meeting for Worship at 10:30 a.m. Program schedule.
1st First Day
Program:
First Sunday of the month after potluck dinner. A time for a variety of programs including
topical presentations and discussions, event reports, and musical
performances. Upcoming
programs.
Adult
Religious Education
Program:
Fourth Sunday of the month (Sept.-April) after Fellowship Time.
Upcoming
programs.
Other
Quaker Events
at
Quaker House
Midweek
worship
under the care of Friends Gathered in Jesus Christ. Wednesday evenings
at 6:30 p.m.
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Discerning Our Gifts and Service
The 1st First Day program for February will be about gifts, the gifts
that God gives to each one of us and to our whole meeting
community. This year's committee and service nominating process
is beginning. Gifts and careful discernment of those gifts are at
the heart of this endeavor. The program will begin with a Faith
& Play story called “Gifts.” This Quaker story about gifts
will be followed by open-ended statements that invite prayerful
wondering. After this, the nominating committee will introduce
themselves and will read the descriptions of each of the meeting's
committees. We encourage seasoned Friends as well as those newer to the
meeting to attend this program, which will inspire deep consideration
of all that is involved in being of service to the meeting. The program
will follow potluck fellowship on February 7.
Midweek Religious Education Program
"Quakerism is Experiential" will be
on Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 7:00-8:00 p.m. This program is for all
people regardless of level of experience with Friends, including the
mildly curious.
ILYM Visioning Progress and Blog
There is now a blog on the ILYM website
where Friends are continuing to contribute to the visioning process.
You can add your comments on the forum or just read the comments
without registering. The major themes gathered at the January 9
workshop are visible as photographs. These include year round
retreats and programs, unity with nature, safe recreation, safety for
children, accessible lodging, kitchen and dining area, caretaker for
property, communal spaces, inreach and outreach, connection with
Clear Creek Meeting, and creation of an Advancement Committee. There
is also a PowerPoint presentation of accomplishments at ILYM since
the last vision workshop held in December, 2001
(3 MB). A
visioning statement will be composed and presented at the March 6
Continuing Committee in Columbia.
Universalist Friends
The latest edition of Universalist
Friends is available online.
This issue includes a report from the Parliament of the World’s Religions and from a Buddhist conference in Thailand.
Gathering of Friends
“Accepting Gifts of the Spirit”
will be the theme of the 2010 Friends General Conference Gathering of
Friends on July 4-10 at Bowling Green State University, Bowling
Green, Ohio. More information at the FGC website.
HPKIC Quarterly Meeting
The Hyde Park &
Kenwood Interfaith Council will have its winter quarterly meeting on
Wednesday, Feb. 10, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. at St. Ambrose Catholic
Church (1012 E. 47th St., Chicago). The evening will start with a
free will donation dinner (6:00-7:00). A program (6:30-8:00) on
“Healthcare: A Timely Concern” will include a panel of speakers from
the Chicago Department of Health, Access Community Health Network,
Southside Healthcare, and possibly others, speaking on the challenges
and opportunities for health care delivery in the current
environment. Following the panel presentation, there will be
small group discussions about the health care issues in our community,
followed by a sharing of thoughts with the larger group and an
opportunity to put questions to our guest speakers. The business
meeting will be from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.
ESR Celebration
There will be a celebration of Earlham School of Religion's 50 years of
ministry of education at Evanston Monthly Meeting (1010 Greenleaf
Street, Evanston) on Saturday, March 13 beginning at 1:30 p.m.
“Non traditional Service: Ministry Among Friends and Beyond” will
include workshops from current students or ESR alums, designed to
highlight the wide range of gifts developed and ministries affirmed by
ESR's educational programs. The event will conclude with dinner and a
brief program that shares the vision for the school's creation and its
current mission. More information on specific workshops is on the
ILYM website (click
on "brochure" in description).
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