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Dover of the Religious Society of Friends 11th Month Newsletter 2015

Beliefs  : A quote Writer’s note:

This year I had the pleasure of taking a long silent retreat in Creston , CO, at Nada, a Carmelite retreat use the center. There were two other Quakers on retreat there. term Query to refer to One who was continuing in his pastoral care studies; he a question or series of was from Chicago. The other quaker retreatant was a questions used for reflection and in long time quaker from Indianna. Both spoke about the spiritual exercises. similarities between the Carmelites and Quaker Friends have philosophy. It was the last day of the retreat and it was used Queries as tools during our Sunday morning breakfast gathering during for offering spiritual challenges to the which we spoke. community for much of their history. Crestone CO is a town where many walks of faith have On the next pages you established retreat centers. Many have combined ideas, will see an explanation such as Sufism and Christianity, Buddhism and of Query and an Christianity, etc.. So I thought I would include this quote example on how the in our newsletter, though not a quaker quote, I thought query can help us all it would be one which falls into the precepts of get to know one Quakerism. another better and deepen the enrichment

of community. “ When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on the notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us." Thich Nhat Hanh -Living Buddah, Living Christ.

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Newsletter - Evalyn Sorrentino  :  Email: [email protected] Website – Margot Doering  Email: [email protected] Weekly Memo - Verdi Johnson Email: [email protected] Integrity

The Quaker of Integrity is essentially a Quaker Spices call for consistency between what a person S implicity professes and their actions in "real life." It entails a P eace recognition that, in order for a person to attain I ntegrity godliness or perfection, there needs to be C ommunity concordance between what they think, say and do; E quality which is to say, there must be a harmony between S tewardship one’s physical and spiritual existence. The Quaker call for integrity is also connected to the , insofar as honesty is to peace as Editor’s Note: Integrity

deception is to war. Ironically, the commitment of  See left block early Friends to openness in telling the truth often resulted in their persecution, as it prevented them from swearing oaths (for so swearing would have implied that they did not necessarily tell the truth when not under oath). In later years, though, Quakers came to be renowned and esteemed for their honesty as manifested, for instance, in their development of the single pricing market system. 

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Business Meeting:

Two hundred and fifty years after , London  of Friends described how Friends should conduct business meeting: WIFI is working at It is our hope that in our meetings the will of God the Meetinghouse shall prevail rather than the desires of men, we do not set now - DFM greenleaf great store by rhetoric or clever argument. The mere - this is on the bottom gaining of debating points is found to be unhelpful and of the router alien….Instead of rising hastily to reply to another, it is better to give them time for what has been said to make its  own appeal, and to take its right place in the mind of the meeting. We ought ever to be ready to give unhurried, weighty and truly sympathetic consideration to proposals brought forward from whatever part of the meeting, believing that what is said rises from the depths of the meeting….We should neither be hindered from making experiments for fear of undue caution, nor prompted to make novel suggestions to ill-considered courses.

1. NOON – expectant waiting 2. treasurer 3. finance 4. M&W friendly sixes restructuring – proposed name for nominating committee

5. CLOSE at 12:45 pm –

Purposing to meet in this place, 12th month 13th 2015, at NOON.

Expectant waiting - 

Trustees Note:

The Trustees Committee, with much assistance from Fran Chickering and Jean Blickensderfer, has been researching green burial and other burial options at the T. Wistar Brown Cemetery. We recently had a cemetery walk at the T. Wistar Brown Cemetery with Grover Tasker of the Dover Cemetery Board and Tom Duffy, to discuss details of green burial. We are preparing a brochure on burial options at T. Wistar Brown cemetery. We are looking into offering another workshop about green burial. Please contact Ginna Schonwald ([email protected]) if you are interested in finding out more.  Page 4 of 6

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Save the date  Business meeting 11/8/15 after meeting for worship, approx. 12:00pm

Business meeting 12/13/15 after Meeting for Worship approx. Noon

Spiritual Breakfast First 1st Day of December 12/6/15 : 8am pancakes and spiritual journey of a friend Pawtuckaway Farm- host: Chuck Cox 36 Captain Smith Emerson Road, Lee, NH,

Business meeting 12/13/15 after meeting for worship, approx.. 12:00pm

Dec 19 Saturday Noon

Your junk is another’s treasure. Pastoral- care swap, meals, & music

Page 5 of 6 Miscellany

Simple art: a simple Mandala

Page 6 of 6 Dover Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends  9th Month Newsletter 2015

141 Central Ave., PO Box 98 Dover, NH 03821-0098, 603-749-2302

Our website www.fgcquaker.org/cloud/dover-friends- meeting First Day Meeting for Worship begins promptly at 10:30 a.m. First Day School grades K-2 and 3-5 Meeting for Worship for the Conduct of Business is on the Second First Day of the month at approximately 12:15 p.m.

2015–2016 Officers and Committee Clerks : Jean Blickensderfer PO Box 297, Eliot, ME, 03903-0297;(H)207-439-0165 (c) 207-252-4573 Recording Clerk: Margot Doering 300 Jones Ave, Portsmouth NH 03801; 603 828-4477 Building and Grounds: Jon Mullen 14 Lavoie Dr, Nottingham NH 03290; 603 679-8610 Finance: Margot Doering - 300 Jones Ave, Portsmouth NH 03801; 603 828-4477 Historian/Archivist: Vacant Hospitality: Maggie Fogarty 16 Florence St., Dover, NH 03820; 603-988-7115 Jail Ministry: David Herman 46 Hansonville Rd., Gonic, NH 03839; 603-335-2066 Library: Sarah Dawson 19 Jenkins Ln., Lee, NH 03861; 603-659-5612 Ministry and Worship: Carolyn Thomas - 17 Hampshire Rd, Portsmouth NH 03801; 603 433-1795 Newsletter: Evalyn Sorrentino [email protected]; 207-439-6938 Nominating: Vacant Pastoral Care: Connie Weeks Back Fields Farm, 34 Odiorne Ln, Eliot, ME 03903; 207-439-2837 Peace & Social Concerns: revolving monthly Recorder: Verdi Johnson 25 Benjamin Way, Dover, NH 03820; 603-740-0867 Religious Education: Vacant Treasurer: Sandy Hargy 97 Middleton Rd, Wolfeboro, NH 03894; 603-834-5529 Trustees: Ginna Schonwald 161 Second Crown Pt Rd, Barrington, NH 03825; 603-332-1434 Steve Curwood 102 Mitchell Rd., Nottingham, NH 03290; 603-868-5193 Nancy Lukens 6 Cote Drive, Dover, NH 03820: 603-749-0066

Dover Coop Ministries: Claire Curtis 30 Brattle St., South Berwick, ME 03908; 207-384-3277 NH AFSC Representative: Mimi Winder 20 Little Hook Rd., Lee, NH 03861; 603-659-7062 UNH Campus Ministries: Sophy Trusty 31 Nichols Ave, Newmarket, NH 03857: 917-797-3560

New England Yearly Meeting: Earthcare Ministry: Phyllis Killam-Abell 10 White Oak Dr #321, Exeter, NH 03822; 603-580-1934 Ministry and Counsel: Jnana Hodson 23 Hill St, Dover, NH 03820; 603-742-2110 Nominating Committee: Vacant Racial, Social & Economic Justice: Nur Shoop PO Box 277, Kittery, ME 03904; 207-439-2515 Sarah Curwood 103 Mitchell Rd., Nottingham, NH 03290; 603-868-6648