About “Hybrid” Meetings

by Richmond Shreve, Clerk – Ad Hoc Technical Committee on Hybrid Meetings, NFM[updated April 14, 2021] Our committee was asked to make recommendations for making it technically feasible to have Friends attend our in-person Meeting for Worship using the Zoom Meetings technology and the Internet. We recognize that such technology …

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Danny Thomas, Head of Bucks Peace Center to Speak to Newtown Quakers

Danny Thomas, Executive Director of the Bucks County Peace Center, will provide via Zoom “Update on The Peace Center and Its Activities” Sunday, February 14 at 9:45 a.m. to the adult class of Newtown Meeting.   The Peace Center describes its mission as: “To educate, empower and support individuals and organizations in efforts to prevent violence, promote peaceful resolution of conflict …

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The Immigrant Experience: From Hungary to the US in 1981

Peter Vari, member of Newtown Quaker Meeting and engineer, will speak via Zoom on From Hungary to the US: The Immigrant Experience of 1981 to the adult class of Newtown Quaker Meeting on Sunday, January 17 at 9:45 a.m.   Peter Vari graduated from the Polytechnic University of Budapest (BME) in Hungary in 1979 with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and …

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