Prospect Hill Friends Meeting

an open and welcoming faith community

 

The current version, which was updated on Second Month (February) 15, 2012, describes certain aspects of Prospect Hill Friends Meeting. A brief, and yet quite complete, description exists in a brochure distributed to visitors and other interested persons. A copy of the text within that brochure has been posted as a separate web page titled About Prospect Hill Friends Meeting. Prospect Hill Friends Meeting also maintains a small library. A listing of the library catalog is also posted; members and attenders of the Meeting are encouraged both to use the catalog to request to borrow books and also to suggest other appropriate titles.

Topics at the current site include, but are not limited to, those in the following list; each is linked to the appropriate section on this web page:

First Day (Sunday) Meetings for Worship

On the first First Day (Sunday) of each month, the (unprogrammed) Meeting for Worship starts at 4:00 p.m. (doors are open by 3:45 p.m. to allow time to settle) and is followed by a potluck at 5:00 p.m.

 

One the second First Day (Sunday) of the each month, the (unprogrammed) Meeting for Worship begins at 4:00 p.m. (doors open by 3:45 p.m. to allow time to settle) and is followed by the Monthly Meeting with Attention to Business.  The next Monthly Meeting with Attention to Business is scheduled for January 8, 2012.

On the other First Days (Sundays) of the month the programs will start at 4:00 p.m. (doors open by 3:45 p.m. to allow time to settle). This is followed by the (unprogrammed) Meeting for Worship which begins about 4:45 p.m. The programs are varied; usually related topics are spaced about one month apart. It is intended that the following list be updated frequently. If it is out of date, please do regard it as an indication of the types of programs we offer at Prospect Hill Friends Meeting.

                         Prospect Hill Friends Meeting is presently sojourning at the Twin Cities Friends Meetinghouse, 1725 Grand Avenue, in St. Paul from 4 p.m. – 6p.m.  (scroll down to the bottom of this website for directions)

For meeting location, driving directions or/and more information please contact is Lyn Egolf Grider (612-788-0303), clerk, or Ralph Jacobson (651-647-0758), recording clerk. If you have a concern, you may speak to the clerks or any of the Clerk’s support team: Cynthia Bartoo, Marie Knowlton, Marybeth Luing, Becky Rickley, Nancy Sather, Barbara Simmonds

Programs scheduled starting on the Second Month (February) 5, 2012 are (or were):

Date

Topic

Facilitator/Speaker

January 22nd

Great Lake Initiative presentation

Judy Sausen

January  29th

Finding the ‘precious jewel’ in our difficulties

Betsy Proechel

February 5th

Meeting for Worship at 4:00pm followed by Potluck and Community-Building

Meeting

February 12th

Meeting for Worship at 4:00 followed by Meeting with Attention to Business

Clerk and Clerk’s Team

February 19th

Singing – Bring Rise Up Singing and Worship in Song

TBA

February 26th

Quaker Quest                          .

Cynthia Bartoo and Jerry Wescott

March 4th

Meeting for Worship at 4:00pm followed by Potluck and Community-Building

Meeting

March 11th

Meeting for Worship at 4:00 followed by Meeting with Attention to Business

Clerk and Clerk’s Team

March 18th

Sufism, Interfaith Worship

Will Hale

     (tba = to be announced     na = not assigned)

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Northern Yearly Meeting and Friends General Conference

Prospect Hill Friends Meeting is a member of the Northern Yearly Meeting. The latter is part of Friends General Conference. More information about Northern Yearly Meeting is available at the Northern Yearly Meeting website. However, please click here if you desire for more information about Friends General Conference.

Northern Yearly Meeting does not have Quarterly Meetings. Some of those functions are met by the Metro Friends Coordinating Committee which has representatives from the four Monthly meetings in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Their programs are listed as appropriate on their own page.

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Third Friday Gathering

These programs enable the members of the Meeting to get to know one another better. The potluck starts at 6:15p.m. (unless otherwise noted) at the outset, serves to produce an informal, friendly aura. A somewhat related function is provided by the social gathering.

January 20th (Friday):  An evening of storytelling and hot chocolate, beginning at 7 pm with finger food and snacks. Hosted by Cynthia Bartoo and Ralph Jacobson. Bring a snack and a story while sharing with the best! Contact Bartoo-Jacobsen home for directions.

February 17th (Friday): Hosted by David and Sigrid Coats, in their home. Meeting will gather to read the NYM letter supporting Meetings and begin work of writing the first draft of the PHFM State of the Meeting report for NYM.

 

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Appointments

Prospect Hill Meeting uses the calendar year as its fiscal year. All Meeting appointments are also scheduled for the calendar year. The clerk for calendar year 2012 is Lyn Egolf Grider and Cynthia Bartoo as the Assistant Clerk; the recording clerk is Ralph Jacobson; and the treasurer is Michael Russelle. Appointments to other organizations and committee assignments include the following:

 

Ad Hoc Committees

Audit and Budget Committee

FCNL Representative

QEW Representatives

Metro Friends Representatives

Newsletter Editors

Nominating Committee

NYM Representatives

Program Committee


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Social Gathering

The Twin Cities Metro Friends Coordinating Committee is Sponsoring

 

AN EVENING OF JAZZ AND POETRY

 

This years winter festivities is on Saturday, January 28, 7 pm to 9:30, at Minneapolis Friend Meeting House, 4401 York Avenue South. Come there and be ‘cool’. (That will be easy, in January in Minnesota!)

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Activism and Links

The members and attenders of Prospect Hill Friends Meeting have been active in a number of Quaker related organizations. These include:

  • Metro Friends Coordinating Committee (MFCC)
  • Twin Cities Friends Meeting (TCFM)
  • Minneapolis Friends Meeting (MFM)
  • Cannon Valley Friends Meeting (CVFM)
  • St. Croix Valley Friends Meeting (SCVFM)
  • Northern Yearly Meeting (NYM)
  • Duluth-Superior Friends Meeting (DSFM)
  • Friends General Conference (FGC)
  • Friends for a Non Violent World (FNVW)
  • Friends School of Minnesota (FSMN)
  • Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)
  • Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC)
  • American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
  • Northern Spirit Radio (northernspiritradio.org)          These programs, produced for radio, are prepared by Mark Judkins Helpmeet under the care of Eau Claire Friends Meeting as a

                                                                                           Northern Spirit Radio Project. The intent of these programs is to provide religious and spiritual radio programming with an aim to

                                                                                           identify and nurture progressive living, to create a culture of mutual growth for those working hard to heal the world, and the

                                                                                           religious communities who support such work. They intend to shine the Light where folks too seldom look, and encourage joy and

                                                                                           energy for the physical work bringing Divine Love to the planet.

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New Driving Directions

The location of Prospect Hill Friends Meetings for Worship and Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business:

                                                         We are presently sojourning at Twin Cities Friends Meetinghouse, 1725 Grand Avenue in St. Paul

Our Meeting can be reached by driving on I-94 and taking the Snelling Avenue exit and then heading south. At Grand Avenue turn right (west) and drive for two long blocks. The building is located on the right, first building west of the school playground. Parking is available on the street or in the parking lot in back.

                                                      If you are away from home, check out the locations of other meetings at (Quakerfinder).

Please send email to: jwescottmn@gmail.com regarding any comments or questions about this web site.

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