Emmet Gowin, Professor Emeritus of Photography of Princeton University and a member of Newtown Meeting, will speak about his latest works via Zoom to the adult class of Newtown Quaker Meeting at 9:45 a.m. on Sunday, May 9, 2021. Zoom Meeting for Worship in the manner of Friends will follow …
The Quaker Kids of Newtown Quaker Meeting have done it again! Hosted an extraordinarily successful fund-raiser during a pandemic and raised over $3,000! The designated charity for their event this year was the Mercer Street Friends Summer Pre-School Program in Trenton, NJ, a “a Quaker-affiliated, nonsectarian organization focused on hunger, poverty …
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 …
The adult class of Newtown Meeting will get an update via Zoom on activities of the historic Philadelphia Arch Street Meetinghouse from new Executive Director, Sean Connolly at 9:45 a.m. on First Day (Sunday), March 21, 2021. Sean Connolly will discuss how Arch Street Meeting House has weathered the pandemic, …
The adult class of Newtown Quaker Meeting will view via Zoom the film Sweet Home Monteverde at 9:45 a.m. on March 14, 2021. The film tells the true story, beginning in 1950 just months after the U.S. entered the Korean War, when four Quaker war-resisters from Fairhope, Alabama led some …
The Peace & Justice and Buildings & Grounds Committees will host a Listening Session for Perspectives on Parking at Newtown Meeting in the Adult Class, February 28th at 9:45am. The meeting is faced with decisions and opportunities due to the impending loss of parking in the lot adjacent to the meeting house. This …
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 …
On Sunday, January 24, at 9:45 a.m. on Zoom, members of the Worship and Ministry Committee of Newtown Friends Meeting will present and lead the program, Searched by the Light. The term, “Light,” is central to many descriptions of Quakers and the Religious Society of Friends. Quakers speak of the Light Within as that …
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 …
On January 10, the Newtown Quaker Meeting adult class will have a Zoom session with Norma Kaplis, at 9:45a.m. Sunday on: “Deepening the Silence Together in Meeting for Worship” Kaplis says, “Silence is the heart and soul of Quaker Meeting for Worship. Vocal ministry comes without advance preparation or the need for a …