Telling Our Stories-Strengthening Our Community
A one-day retreat with Ernie Buscemi, New York Yearly Meeting presiding clerk, on Sunday, October 21, 2007 at the Amawalk Friends Meetinghouse, 2467 Quaker Church Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Schedule for the day:
8:30-9:00Â Â Â Â Registration, Bagels & Coffee
9:00-10:15Â Â Â Â Introductions & opening remarks by Ernestine Buscemi
10:15-10:30Â Â Â Break
10:30-11:30Â Â Â Meeting for Worship,
11:30-12:30Â Â Â Extended afterthoughts
12:30-1:30Â Â Â Â Simple Lunch of Soup & Bread
1:30-2:45Â Â Â Â First afternoon session with Ernie Buscemi
2:45-3:00Â Â Â Â Break
3:00-4:00Â Â Â Â Final session with Ernie (Notice, we will get more familiar with one another as the day goes on!)
During this interactive retreat, we will build community by telling our stories to one another, melting away the assumptions and bringing our corporate expectations closer to the Eternal. Â We will worship, answer queries, worship-share, laugh and move: weaving the threads of community together.
Hope to see you there!
Robin Alpern