HMM News
State of Society Queries – 2006
Friends, At our November Meeting for Business we decided to consider the queries on January 28 after meeting for worship with a potluck lunch and worship sharing. Below is the Queries. If you’d like to download these and print them, please click here. Dear Friends, Once again, it is time for the Coordinating Committee for…
Read MoreInternational Visitors at HMM – 10/29
This Sunday October 29 Housatonic Meeting will host two international visitors, members of the Quaker United Nations Committee which is holding meetings in New York this week. David Kikaya is an international relations professor from Nairobi, Kenya and Brewster Grace is the former director of QUNO – Geneva. A fter joining us for worship and…
Read MoreUpcoming Retreat – November 3/4/5
We will have two outstanding Friends as facilitators: Joe Garren, from Brooklyn Meeting, and Ernie Buscemi, who is now the Clerk of the Yearly Meeting. The plans are for the retreat to start with a potluck on Friday evening, and take the entire day of Saturday. Joe and Ernie will remain with us for worship…
Read MoreMeeting film showing a success
Dear Friends, Last First Day, April 30, we held our pilot project film showing and discussion. The films were powerful , the discussions lively, and the refreshments delicious. Eight people from the communities of Danbury, New Milford, Woodbury, Morris, and Washington Depot attended as well as 8 HMM Friends. We feel the day was a…
Read MoreQuaker Film Series – April 30th – 3:00PM
“A Force More Powerful†Award-winning documentary of non-violent strategies* used successfully around the world to resolve conflict and bring about justice Sunday, April 30 3:00-5:00 pm Quaker Meetinghouse, New Milford Film showing followed by discussion Refreshments will be served Free – All are welcome *1930’s Gandhi’s use of civil disobedience and boycotts freeing India from…
Read MoreReminder: Business Meeting Feb 11th
Friends, This Sunday is Meeting for Business following worship and a brief break. Laura will be clerking. Please notify Laura by Friday if you have items for the agenda: clerks@housatonicmeeting.org
Read MoreStamford-Greenwich Friends Meeting 2/19/2006 at 3:00pm
Stamford-Greenwich Friends Meeting 572 Roxbury Road, Stamford, Connecticut Purchase & New York Quarterly Meeting Friends are warmly invited to join us for Meeting for Worship on Sunday, February 19, 2006 at 3 pm Meetings for worship at Stamford-Greenwich are strong and deeply spirit centered, yet we are worried about the future of our meeting, given…
Read MoreQuery for State of Society Report
Every year we are asked to write about the state of our Meeting and send our response to the New York Yearly Meeting office. To start the process Paula has offered to receive our individual responses. Please email som@housatonicmeeting.org. I’m encouraging responses from anyone, member or attender, young and old alike i.e. anyone who wishes…
Read MoreSucessful Meeting work day! A few jobs still to be done…
Dear Friends, This past FIrst Day a lot of energy with good spirit was expended as we cleaned, raked, scrubbed, dusted, vacuumed, sorted and organized. Outdoors we got everything in order for the winter and indoors we did our first thorough cleaning of the meetinghouse in a year. Many thanks are extended to Larry, Laura,…
Read MoreHousatonic Monthly Meeting Retreat – 11/19
Housatonic Monthly Meeting Retreat Saturday, 19 Nov 2005 9:00 – 4:00 (or so) with a Potluck Lunch at noon Linda Chidsey will facilitate, using the Pendle Hill pamphlet: Members One of Another: The Dynamics of Membership in Quaker Meeting, by Thomas Gates “In Quaker faith and practice, the individual and the meeting are in a…
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