The Quaker Meeting for Business:
Discerning the Leadings of the Spirit for Our Community SUNDAY, JUNE 27TH, AT 7:00 PM ON ZOOM. The Worship and Ministry Committee is hosting an evening event to explore a deepening of discernment and decision-making during a meeting for worship with a concern for business. When Arthur Larrabee led the …
Arthur Larrabee, Quaker Leader, to Speak at Newtown Meeting
Arthur Larrabee, lawyer, lifelong Quaker, and former head of Quakers in the Tri-State area, will speak via Zoom to the adult class of Newtown Quaker Meeting at 9:45 a.m. on Sunday, May 23, 2021. Zoom Meeting for Worship in the manner of Friends will follow at 11 a.m. Larrabee’s topic …
Emmet Gowin, Renowned Photographer, to Speak at Newtown Quaker Meeting
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 …
Quaker Kids Raise $3,000 at Hybrid Virtual Lasagna Dinner for Charity
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 …
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 …
Newtown Quakers to get update on the historic Philadelphia Arch Street Meetinghouse
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, …
Newtown Quakers to View Film on Quaker Rainforest in Costa Rica
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 …
Listening Session for Perspectives on Parking at Newtown Meeting
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, 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 …