Bulletin, November 19, 2009
November 19, 2009
The bulletin informs the Chestnut Hill Monthly Meeting
community of news and events as a supplement to
the monthly newsletter. This interim communication
focuses on time-sensitive information and is distributed
as needed to provide timely information.
CHESTNUT HILL FRIENDS COMMUNITY
Meeting for Loss and Grieving
We will gather at 7:30 on December 4 in the middle
school room to worship with Friends who have suffered
loss or are otherwise grieving. For information call
Meg Mitchell.
Meeting for Holding in the Light:
For a long time now Christine Oliger has had a leading
that she now feels ready to pursue. She would like
to start a once a month meeting for holding in
the light. She will have a note book in the gathering
room where people can write their joys and concerns
(as short or long as they wish). It will also list
the next Meeting for holding in the Light date.
At the Holding in the light meeting, the book will
be read and the participants will be asked to focus
on holding the messages in the light. Christine
plans to hold this the 2nd Wednesday of the month
continuing November 11 at the Meetinghouse, 7-8pm.
Members of the Evergreen Worship group have graciously
offered to help open and close up the building.
Property Committee Needs Your Help
Burial ground leaf raking and clean up. Saturday
December 5th, 9 -12. Plymouth Meeting Friends,
corners Butler and Germantown Pikes. Wonderful
soup lunch served after.
Slippery Snow and Insidious Ice are on the way. Please consider signing up for a week or two of snow shoveling standby coverage for the meeting sidewalks and steps. Sign up sheet on the bulletin board, shovel and salt on the back porch. Priority is front and rear entrance within 24 hours.
Fire makers. Anyone interested in taking turns making and tending fires for the 10:30 AM meeting for worship, please contact Irene McHenry, pyrology coordinator.
Heifer Holiday Gifts Fundraiser
You're invited to give a Heifer donation in honor
of at least 1 person on your holiday gift list.
You make a donation of "an animal" to
Heifer, and give your recipient a Heifer gift card
announcing your gift. Suggestions for token gifts
to give to your recipients to represent your donation
will also be available. (For example, if you're
giving a donation of bees, honey will be available
for you to buy to represent your gift.) A table
will be set up the 1st and 3rd Sundays of Nov and
Dec where you can choose an animal donation and
get a Heifer gift card. See Sarah Whitman for details.
Art Show
Mark your calendars for February 14 through 21 as
the annual Chestnut Hill Art Show. Setup will be
on February 13. More information to come
OUR MEMBERS
Meals for Jim Cox and family
Thanks for all the great meals folks made for Jim
Cox and his family. Now that Jim is home from rehab,
let Betsy Wallace know if you can cook another meal
kenbetsw2@verizon.net
Wisdom to Know the Difference
In case you missed her earlier appearances, Eileen
Flanagan will be speaking at the Falls of Schuylkill
Library on December 2 at 7:30PM. She'll be reading
from her new book, The Wisdom to Know the Difference:
When to Make a Change-and When to Let Go. For anyone
who wants to purchase copies as holiday gifts,
there will be middle school volunteer gift wrappers
available. You can read more about the book at
http://www.eileenflanagan.com
WIDER QUAKER COMMUNITY
Documentaries and Discussion film series by the Green
Street Friends Meeting
45 West School House Lane | Philadelphia 19144
The Second Saturday of each month, 7:00 PM - 9: PM
Popcorn | Cider | Parking | Politics | Child Friendly | Free
Join us for this opportunity to meet people in the community & watch a powerful documentary and talk about it.
Saturday 12 December - Hanukkah - No Film Showing
Saturday 9 January Concrete, Steel and Paint: A Film about Crime, Restoration and Healing
Co-Directors/Producers: Cindy Burstein and Tony Heriza
Panel Discussion: Filmmakers and a Criminal Justice Panel
About the film: When men in a prison art class agree to collaborate with victims of crime to design a mural about healing, their views on punishment, remorse, and forgiveness collide. At times the divide seems too wide to bridge. But as the participants begin to work together, mistrust gives way to genuine moments of human contact and common purpose. Their struggle and the insights gained are refl ected in the art they produce. * funded in part by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council
Quaker Youth Pilgrimage, sponsored by Friends World Committee on Consultation (FWCC), brings 28 high-school aged youth (ages 16-18) from all parts of the world and all forms of Quakerism for a month of travel, learning, and service. The 2010 Pilgrimage will take place in the Pacific Northwest July 16 - August 13, 2010. Please go to the Pilgrimage website for more information.
Applications for pilgrims and leaders should be received in the FWCC Philadelphia office by November 30, 2009.
Who Do You Say That I Am? Speaker series at Pendle Hill coordinated by Marcelle Martin Fall 2009 Tuesday evenings, October 13 to December 8 7:30 to 9:00 pm in the Barn
Nov 24 Lloyd Lee Wilson: Who Do You Say I Am?
Dec 1 Christopher Sammond: Fire in the Storm: Jesus as Lover, Healer, and Persistent Invitation
Dec 8 Colin Saxton: "Thou art the Christ!"
Job opening
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting seeks Administrative Assistant to the General Secretary. Learn more at http://mysite.verizon.net/chestnuthillquakers/Exec_Asst_to_GS_PYM_10-9-09.pdf
OUR WIDER COMMUNITY
WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR? DEVELOPING A THEOLOGY AND PRACTICE
OF RADICAL HOSPITALITY
Tuesdays, October 20 - November 24 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Project H.O.M.E. 1515 Fairmount, Philadelphia
As people called to be a blessing, Jewish and Christian communities have rich and ancient histories of practicing hospitality--the love and care for the other, the outsider, the alien in our midst. In contrast, church history is also replete with examples of institutionalized exclusion, often in grotesquely violent terms. Modern, mainstream church teaching has done little to articulate a theology of hospitality or to inspire Jesus ' followers to imitate his example of radical inclusion. Synthesizing a shared vision and mission to practice hospitality both in the Church at large and in our local communities of faith could be a key for working through so many issues of "otherness" that challenge us in our world today - including issues like immigration, economic justice, ethnic and racial strife, gender and sexuality. This six-week course will examine some beautiful traditions of hospitality from Jewish and early Christian roots through more modern expressions, especially in the Catholic Worker movement, Quakerism, and Anabaptist communities. In addition, we will explore writings on hospitality by Henri Nouwen and Christine Pohl, as well Miroslav Volf ' s vision of the divine embrace--as we struggle to respond to Jesus' radical challenge: "Who is my neighbor?"
This course will be facilitated by Liz Richner, a self-described "calico Christian"-born and baptized in the Roman Catholic Church, raised (and re-baptized) in an Appalachian-flavored fundamentalist congregation, and nurtured into adulthood in a Mennonite community. Along the way, Liz has done stints in evangelical Bible college and academic psychology, where she has learned, taught, and thought about identity formation, social understanding, narrative, play, gender, sexuality and spirituality.
The cost for the course will be $60 (or whatever you can afford), which will include the cost of textbooks and written materials. Register right away with Will O'Brien WillO'Brien@projecthome.org
Open House at Wissahickon Charter School
Wissahickon Charter School will hold an open house
for parents to enroll kindergarteners for Fall
2010 on Thurs. Nov. 12 6:30-8:00 PM at the Wissahickon
Charter School, located on Wissahickon Ave. just
south of Roosevelt Boulevard. Wissahickon is a
progressive, tuition free-public school which has
many of the values and practices of Friends Schools.
Application deadline is Nov. 30. For more information
see wissahickoncharter.org or call 267 338 1020.
PERSONAL
Sarah Whitman is looking for furnished office space
in Chestnut Hill to sublet 1-2 days per week. Sarah
is a psychiatrist, so needs a space appropriate
for her therapy practice. Wheel-chair accessibility
required. Contact her at Sarah.Whitman@drexelmed.edu or 267-265-2082.
Are you considering counseling?
Friends Counseling Service is a network of Quaker
mental health professionals for Quaker members
and attenders which is affiliated with PYM. Counselors
are available with a variety of expertises and
include psychologists, social workers, therapists,
family therapists, and a psychiatrist. The mental
health professionals in the Friends Counseling
Service have been chosen for this service because
of both their counseling experience and a commitment
to Quakerism. Some financial support is available
if needed.
Both Betty Hartzell (therapist) and Sarah Whitman (psychiatrist) participate in the Friends Counseling Service, and although they don't provide services to those is our Meeting, either would be happy to share more information about this service. Information can also be obtained from the PYM website.
STANDARD REMINDERS
Please help center Meeting for Worship: Friends are
invited to arrive early for meeting for worship
to help the meeting settle and provide a more meaningful
worship experience for children and adults alike.
On-line calendar for Chestnut Hill Monthly Meeting can be viewed at http://www.quaker.org/chestnuthill/e-calendar.htm Please submit updates to calendar@chestnuthillquakers.org
Bulletin announcements Please submit copy-ready announcements to secretary@chestnuthillquakers.org or 215-247-3553 by Noon on Thursdays
Use of Meeting House.
Please ensure that the Meeting House is reserved
and confirmed through the secretary before publicly
announcing events. Include purpose of event, number
of people expected, room(s) required, date and
times needed (start and end), and contact information.
The on-line calendar can be viewed at http://www.quaker.org/chestnuthill/e-calendar.htm If reserving by e-mail, use caledar@chestnuthillquakers.org
Leaving the Meetinghouse.
Whenever you are the last one to leave the meetinghouse,
you must turn off lights and lock doors. You can
lock the meetinghouse and leave even if you not
have a key. If you find yourself being the last
to leave the meetinghouse but do not have a key,
lock the other doors from the inside. Then, leave
the building through the door beside the "office." This
door can be opened from the inside but is always
locked from the outside. Please check the door
from the outside as you leave to be sure that the
door is tightly closed.
Please leave the meetinghouse at least as orderly as you found it. The meetinghouse is used by several groups throughout the week. In order to respect their needs as well as ours, please move furniture back to the way it was when you moved it for your use and put all trash to the large can in the kitchen. If the large can is full, please take the trash to the dumpster across the driveway.
If you or your children remove things from the RE closet or the bookcases, please return them. If you use dishes in the kitchen, please wash, dry and put them away.
Stuff Left Around the Meetinghouse
"Stuff" has begun to appear in the meetinghouse.
The property committee is charged with keeping the
meetinghouse orderly and uses the tag sale to dispose
of things (coats, furniture, dishes) that have no
purpose. Please talk to someone from the property
committee if you need to leave something in the meetinghouse
and please label it (including a date when it will
be removed) so that we won't think it was intended
for the tag sale.
Assistive listening devices:
A "hearing helper" system amplifies spoken
messages in meeting. These devices can also be used
for people in the gathering room who wish to hear
spoken messages in the worship room. Contact a member
of Worship and Ministry if you want to learn more.
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Viv Hawkins secretary@chestnuthillquakers.org
Secretary, Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting
100 E. Mermaid Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19118
215-247-3553