by steve.olshevski | Jan 8, 2020 | Meeting Life
On October 6 and November 3rd the Peace and Social Concerns Committee sponsored two Multicultural Communities Awareness Conversations and Coaching sessions led by Andrea Swinton. The first session provided a framework for participants to powerfully relate in...
by steve.olshevski | Nov 3, 2019 | Meeting Life
“The produce of the earth is a gift from our great creator to the inhabitants, and to impoverish the earth now to support outward greatness appears to be an injury to the succeeding age.” from John Woolman 1772
by steve.olshevski | Nov 3, 2019 | Meeting Life
Our annual Cookie Walk fundraiser was a great success. We raised over $2000, which went to the Ardmore Food Pantry at St. Mary’s Church of Ardmore and the Nurturing Minds/The Sega Girls School in Africa. It was wonderful to see how mutually beneficial the event...
by kfmcl119 | Jun 3, 2019 | Meeting Life
Friends believe in simple living. This has historically meant simple dress, plain speech, and unadorned meeting houses for worship. Through the simplicity testimony, Friends encourage one another to look beyond the outward and to the inward.In contemporary terms,...
by kfmcl119 | Jun 3, 2019 | Meeting Life
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair. - Howard Thurman Howard Thurman (1899-1981), was a prominent African-American theologian and philosopher who studied with...
by kfmcl119 | Sep 4, 2018 | Meeting Life
The Peace and Social Concerns committee announced contributions to the following organizations in June 2018: The Broad Street Ministry for the care of Philadelphia’s homeless. Tuition assistance for a SEGA School student in Tanzania Africa. The First Place...
