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 …
Dr. James E. McClellan III, Professor Emeritus and author, will speak via Zoom on “Science and Religion” to the Newtown Meeting adult class at 9:45 a.m. on First Day (Sunday), December 13. A Texas native, James E. McClellan III graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University. He went on to take a Ph.D. in the history and philosophy …
Terry M. Christensen, member of Newtown Quaker Meeting, former ship captain, football and wrestling coach, and educator will present his Spiritual Journey to Newtown Meeting’s adult class at 9:45 a.m. on First Day (Sunday), November 22, 2020 via Zoom. A native of the north Oregon coast, Terry Christensen was the …
Newtown Quaker Meeting children and teens hosted a Virtual Simple Supper to raise funds for their selected charity last week at the Quaker Meetinghouse and raised $1,552 for the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA). In lieu of prices for the soups and desserts available for …
Pamela Haines will speak via Zoom on Economic Justice to Newtown Quaker Meeting adult class at 9:45 a.m., November 8, 2020. A student of economics since childhood, Pamela Haines has spent a lifetime gathering experience, knowledge and perspective to speak with authority on how economic theories and structures shape our …
Anesu Nyamupingidza, a Zimbabwean currently here in America as an International Student at Bucks County Community College and an attender of Newtown Quaker Meeting, will speak via Zoom about her remarkable journey to Newtown Friends Meeting adult class at 9:45 a.m. on First Day (Sunday), October 25, 2020. Anesu is …