2022-07-21 Newsletter of

Concord Friends Meeting

A Monthly Meeting in Dover Quarter of New England Yearly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends

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The Meeting Calendar

Please socially distance for all indoor events and mask when not eating or drinking.

Day	Date	Time	Event
Sun	July 24	10:00 a.m.	Meeting for Worship (hybrid) followed by a potluck then 4th Sunday program at 1pm (see next entry). For Zoom link, email Zoom [at] ConcordFriendsMeeting [dot] org (subject: %E2%80%9CWorship%E2%80%9D%20Zoom%20Link%20Request) .
Sun	July 24	1:00 p.m.	4th Sunday program: Film "The Hunger Ward" & Action for Yemen(see below)
Thu	July 28	7:00–8:00 p.m.	Mid Week Worship (no Zoom)
Sat	July 30	9:00 a.m.	Concord Meeting Booth at the Canterbury Fair (see below)
Sun	July 31	After Worship	Stories of Our Spiritual Journeys, outside in the shade, no Zoom (see below)
Sun	July 31	tba	Dover Quarterly Meeting
Sat-Thu	Aug 6-11	multi-day	NEYM Annual Sessions; Carleton College, VT and Zoom more...
Sat	Oct 22	6:00 p.m.	AFSC-NH Annual Gathering

Fourth Sunday Program and PSECC

PSECC- Peace, Social, and Earth Care Concerns committee will have a hybrid program on the Fourth Sunday - July 24 at 1:00 pm. We are reaching out to the wider community to produce action for peace in Yemen. We will show the short film, Hunger Ward, about the humanitarian disaster in Yemen, which is being supported by US actions. The film highlights the effects of starvation on the children and will move you to action. We will have a short time for action, so you will leave with a sense of hope. The Friends Committee on National Legislation has been leading a concerted effort that is moving Congress to action, but some of our representatives are not yet on board. We need your help to persuade them. Please join us in person or on Zoom. Bring/tell your friends! Join us for a potluck meal around 12 too.

PSECC meets on Zoom on the third Thursday of the month starting August 18.

Our Booth at the Canterbury Fair July 30th

Kids Tent at the Canterbury Fair July 30 Update: Many thanks to Lynda Dyer who has donated her popup tent to the Meeting; we now have two tents which is all we need. We know of about 20 orphaned socks that will be become Sock Puppets for Peace at the kids tent, but we hope to have at least 20 more. Please search your drawer for those lonely socks and let Ruth know if you can bring some to the Meetinghouse by July 24 to be 'up-cycled' into puppets! Lastly, we need more people to sign up to help at the kids table. Examples and instructions will be provided - If I (Ruth) can do it, you can do it!

Adult Tent at the Fair: We have many slots open to help at the adult tent also! Please contact Susan L to let her know which one or two hour shift you can work between 9AM and 4PM. It's great fun and important outreach to potential attenders. We also need help with setup from 8-9 AM and taking the items back to the Meetinghouse at 4PM.

Thank You Received

The Asylum Seekers Fund Support Group recently requested funds to be paid to an immigration attorney on behalf of an individual seeking asylum. The attorney, tetphanie Marzouk, wrote us: Thank you for your ongoing support of new immigrants. Your donations sustain our legal work (and benefit my firm's immigrant employees). We appreciate you and all you do for our community.

Stories of Our Spiritual Journeys

Join M&C outside after meeting for worship for stories about our spiritual journeys. We'll start on July 31st - bring a chair, your coffee, and your open heart.

YRE - Summer Activities with Children on Sundays

We are hoping that Summer will bring some children to our Meeting and are preparing for their arrival. We will offer supervised play for any children that come and will need YRE Helpers for that purpose. This will happen inside or outside as the children and weather dictate. In the Fall we will also need helpers for the teachers when First Day School begins again. If you would like to help with this wonderful work, please reach out to Elaine and she will help you complete the vetting process so that your name can be added to the schedule.

Contra Dancing

Rich K loves to introduce friends to contra dancing. There is a free dance in Milford on Friday evening (mask and vac req). Let him know if you would like to share a ride.

Background Reading for Discernment about Investment of the Meeting’s Financial Reserves

Minute 07.05 (https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/2022-07-10_CMM_Minutes#07.05) of our recent meeting for worship with attention to business included the following paragraph:

The [Finance] committee also requested that there be a Meeting discernment around our attitudes and hopes for investment of the Meeting’s financial reserves. Friends approved planning this for a fourth Sunday in the near future. The committee and others are encouraged to provide Friends some reading suggestions to prepare themselves for this.

A useful place to begin may be Toward a Right Relationship with Finance: Debt, Interest, Growth, and Security (2016 – QIF #9). It is one of a series of books from the Quaker Institute of the Future (https://quakerinstitute.org/books/#RRF), which is available free for the download, but donations are welcome. You can read a review of the book in Friends Journal at https://www.friendsjournal.org/book/toward-right-relationship-finance-debt-interest-growth-security/