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Agate
Passage Friends Meeting Meeting
for Worship with attention to Business Minutes
of November 21, 2004
The
Clerk opened the Meeting with silence followed by the reading of
a quote from Howard Brinton: “The
spirit of worship is essential to that type of business meeting in which
the group endeavors to act as a unit….To discover what we really want as
compared with what at first we think we want, we must go below the surface
of self-centered desires….To will what God wills is….to will what we
ourselves really want. Minutes
of the October Meeting were approved as corrected.
Evaluation
of the November 7 potluck meeting concerning the Meeting’s relationship
with Native American tribes. Two
members suggested that they preferred to hear the guest speakers for more
education without pausing at the end for meditative thought about what the
meeting would like to do with the tribe.
Other friends affirmed the educational
value of the Meeting about issues alive in the tribe, as such and hoped to
pursue it at still further length. In
general Friends felt it was an extremely valuable meeting.
It was announced that the tribe has invited everyone to the tribal
center for a unique version of a
potlatch where they will attempt to build community on Saturday, December
4 at Metaphors
for Peace Barbara Morrison presented to the meeting her plans for the annual
celebration of Metaphors for Peace at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, January 9 at Grace
Episcopal Church, the new home for the celebration.
Meeting approved sponsoring this
with our name and by again contributing
$100.00. December
19 Solstice Celebration. A
coordinator was sought to plan the solstice celebration.
Michael Moore
volunteered to work on that
celebration and several other items for the program were decided.
It was decided that the food might be potluck, but that the Meeting
would buy the candles and beverages which we will enjoy.
It was suggested that if individuals
buy something for one of our celebrations and would like to give it
as a donation, they still submit the receipts to the treasurer so the
amount spent can be entered into the budget for the following year.
A
welcoming committee for
Ed Sheridan volunteered. It is
Judy Brown, Barbara Morrison and Lisa Down.
Friends
approved the budget expenditures for 2004 for donations
to AFSC, FCNL, Friends World Committee for Consultation
of $100.00 each. The
treasurer will send those donations. An
item of $300.00 was added to the 2005 budget to
help appointed representatives to Steering committees to NPYM and
Quarterly Meeting pay for
their transportation. It should be announced to the Meeting that this
money is available. Meeting
accepted the preliminary budget for 2005.
It will be finalized January 16th.
Opening
the Meeting House Barbara
Wolf is signed up for November 28 and
Lorena Bruff for November 5.
After that there are no persons committed for the rest of December
and for January. Meeting
closed with silent worship at 12:45p.m. Judith
Brown, Recording
Clerk
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