AGATE PASSAGE FRIENDS MEETING
MEETING FOR WORSHIP WITH ATTENTION TO BUSINESS
JUNE 20, 2004

Present: Lorena Bruff, Lisa Down, Gayle Henry, Lucy Johnson, Kathryn Keve, Bob Major, Jim and Dorothy Rana-Meadows, Barbara Wolf, Judy Brown, Michael Moore, Clerk

Meeting opened with silence at 11: 25 a.m.

Announcements were called for: The Northwest Earth Institute will be
asking our Meetings Peace and Social Concerns Committee to join with it
in sponsoring a nine week discussion group for some nine or ten persons
to be held at the Poulsbo Public Library on Wednesday evenings beginning
in early October. The discussion course materials are entitled "Choices
for Sustainable Living" If Meeting approves, the Nancy Woodman and Judy
Brown will recruit participants both from the Meeting and from the
community.

There will be only one business meeting in August. It is presently
scheduled for August 15, but there was a move at the finish of this
meeting to alter the date to August 22.

The clipboard for volunteering to open Meeting was circulated and there
were many blank Sundays left when it had been around.

Peace Testimony Pamphlet: It was decided to accept the recommendation of
the second threshing session held June 17 to print the pamphlet as in the
final rendering by Kathryn Keve with an addition of a phrase which we
trust Kathryn and Lorena can fashion to invite persons to share their
thoughts and questions about it by coming to Meeting for worship. It was
decided to print the number of them which would be optimum cost-wise
--perhaps 4 or 5 hundred. We envisioned using the pamphlet at
our vigils for peace and other public meetings, as well as having them in
our homes to distribute to our friends.

Expression of thanks went to Kathryn for her patience and perseverance in
the face of difficulties at a time when she is considering joining the
meeting. Appreciation was for the fact that now we will have something to
give to people in writing when we are speaking of and demonstrating about
the Friends' peace testimony.

Several years back Virginia Barnett spoke to us about allowing silence
after the ministry of any one person in Meeting for worship. Lisa has
volunteered to try to find that writing and make it available to
attenders of Meeting.

Virginia would like to come to Meeting, but she is confined to a
wheelchair at present and would need some mode of achieving access. Norm
will contact Seabold and see if they will allow us to build a ramp. It
was also suggested that small groups might go to Virginia for a Meeting
in the meantime.

Lisa reminded us that Nina Bordeaux and Michael Zwick were both
graduating from Bainbridge High School at this time and it was decided to
acknowledge their graduation by sending them cards and a gift certificate
for twenty dollars at the FGC bookstore.

Bob Major updated us on the decision of the Peace Park Seattle Committee
to move the statue of Sadako to a spot at Green Lake near the Bathhouse
theater. Meeting will consider a contribution to the effort for the new
Peace Park at our August Meeting.

Peace and Social Concerns: Kathryn reported that the committee is in the
process of writing a letter to express our affinity with the two Native
American tribes in our immediate area and offer them our support when
they are involved in processes which require a reconciling presence.
Kathryn said a second issue which we hope to keep alive in the Meeting is
the problems of racial diversity and what it can mean, particularly for
our children.

In connection with the booklet "If War Is Not the Answer, What is?
Peaceful Prevention of Deadly Conflict" Gayle Henry made the following
suggestion :
Those of us who wish to contact the Democratic National Committee
can log on to www.platform@DNC.org , attention Rebecca, and ask that they consider
incorporating as Testimony in the Democratic platform the PDF document
from the FCNL website www.fcnl.org The FCNL phone number is 1-800 630
1330

Gayle was asked to order 50 copies of the booklet totaling $32.50 from
Meeting funds.

Administrative Committee: The Clerk, Michael Moore, submitted to the
Meeting a first draft outline of the duties of a new committee to be
called the Administrative Committee.

The basic function of this committee, which might be better named the
Coordinating Committee, would be to keep track of the details of the
meeting while seeing the whole picture. A number of questions arose and
it was decided that there was "rich potential for discussion" about this
matter. Further discussion was postponed until the summer Meeting for
Business.
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It was also suggested that our Meeting might have a need for a Building
needs committee. Storage and handicap accessibility, are two needs which
came to mind that are presently not being met.

We read the Statement of the Adelphi Meeting in Maryland asking
forgiveness of the people of Iraq for the wrongs done in prisons and
other operations of the Iraq War. After brief discussion we asked the
Clerk to write to the Adelphi Meeting to tell them we were generally in
support of their statement but felt the issue was too complex to fully
support in the time we had left in our Meeting for Business.

Meeting closed with silence at 1:15 p.m.
Judy Brown, Recording Clerk