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Agate Passage Worship Group July 15, 2001 Present: Ed Sheridan (Clerk), Diana Sheridan, Lee Watson, Jim and Dorothy Rana-Meadows, Nancy Dodson, Barbara Wolf, Judy Brown, Bob Major, Barbara Morrison, Carole and Sid Miller, Lorena Bruff. The clerk began the meeting by calling our attention to the Pendle Hill booklet on the spiritual nature of business meetings and requested a moment of silence while we gathered our spiritual selves to this task. 1. Minutes of the last meeting were reviewed and approved. 2. Appreciation was expressed for the contributions of Lee Watson, Roberta Wilson and Ed Dodson who have served in the roles of Clerk, Recording Clerk and Treasurer during the past two years. 3. Housekeeping Details: -We have three keys to the Seabold Meeting Hall, currently held by the Downs, the Sheridans and by Michael Moore who needs to open early for the adult discussion group. Lee Watson agreed to continue taking responsibility for opening and closing the Meeting House or seeing that someone takes this responsibility if he can’t be here. -Signing checks will be the responsibility of Nancy Dodson, Lorena Bruff or Ed Sheridan whose names will be entered on the bank records.
4. Nancy Dodson gave the treasurer’s report: -Since the last business meeting $685 was donated. $305 of this was undesignated. -$1635.00 of the total balance has been designated to reimburse Elizabeth Zwick for tuition to the Sustainable Living Conference she is presently attending. The full amount for the conference is $2100 and further donations may be designated for this purpose. -Hall rent has been paid. -Yearly Meeting Dues have not been paid yet. -Lisa Down will be reimbursed
for the two gift books given by the meeting to graduates, Hanya Zwick and Phil
Sigfried. -A greeting statement for people visiting the meeting for the first time was discussed. Examples from three other meeting groups were reviewed. It was the general feeling that such a handout should be kept very simple and focused on the meeting time itself, rather than including a history of Quakerism and Quaker thought. Judy will write a summary draft to present to the next business meeting. She will be glad to receive any further suggestions. -A threshing session was scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 9th from 1-3 to weigh the option of becoming a meeting. A potluck will replace the social time following meeting that day and will be held at the Brown’s. -Gayle Henry has written to University Meeting to request membership. Two members of that Meeting and two Agate Passage Friends (Virginia Hoyte and Lorena Bruff) will form a clearness committee to meet with her. It was explained that as we are a worship group under the sponsorship of the University Meeting, we cannot accept members or conduct marriages without University Meeting involvement. -Diana agreed to purchase and circulate cards to send to members and attenders who may be ill or have experienced a loss in the family. -Advices and Queries will be read following the first half hour of worship during the first Sunday of the month. Barbara Morrison will seIect and read the queries. Bob Major agreed to substitute for Barbara while she is in Ireland in August.
-Lee Watson reported that as no children or young people have been attending regularly, this has been handled on an informal basis. Children who have attended have stayed with the general meeting for 15 minutes and have been supervised in a walk or other activity by committee members for the remainder of the meeting hour. -Michael Moore stated that the adult discussion group continued to meet at 9:00 a.m. on Sundays when the Meeting is held in Seabold Ha I. He suggested that books for discussing this fall might include Records of the Life of Jesus and/or Approaching the gospels together.
-A meeting of the social concerns committee is scheduled for Thursday, July 19 at 7:00 p.m. at the Poulsbohemian Coffee Shop in Poulsbo. A minute forwarded to us from the Multnomah Monthly Meeting in Portland was given to the committee to review. It concerned a Call to Close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly, The School of the Americas). Their Meeting had requested that we season this before it is brought up in the Annual Session in August.
-The first three Sundays of the month we meet at Seabold Hall. -August 26, Barbara Wolf, 6401 NE Jones Rd. Suquamish, (360) 598-5547 -Sept. 23, Barbara Morrison, 46SWinslow Way East, #310, B.l..(206)842-7417 -Sept. 30, Bob Major, 315 NW Ferry, Lofall, (360)779-3532 -Potluck and Threshing session Sunday, Sept.9th
following meeting, at the Brown’s, 14906 Sunrise Dr. B.I., -Next Meeting for Business, Sept. 16, 2001 Lorena Bruff, Recording Clerk |