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Summer Sessions SPARKNew York Yearly Meeting The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Volume 50, Number 1 15 Rutherford Place, New York, NY 10003 January 2020 What’s Happening Now Our Quaker Family Responsibilities Sunday Suppers as Neighbors Ann Pettigrew Nunes Clerk, Wilton Children’s Sunfire Meeting Easton Meeting Quaker meetings can sometimes I was raised in the Methodist feel small, and parents of young Registration Church. Every Sunday, when the and busy children may struggle for Summer ushers had collected the offerings, to attend. A handful of children Sessions opens they marched down the aisle with attend our own meeting in Wilton, the collection plates while the choir and while we feel supported by the Feb. 1! and congregation, without prompt- Eleven NYYM Friends attended a seminar titled “Who is My Neigh- community of regular attenders, bor?” on October 22 at Pace University Law School. The event was ing or printed words, sang: sponsored by the New York State Council of Churches (NYSCOC), of which connection with other families NYYM is a member. More seminars will be held around NY state in the coming We give Thee but Thine own, deepens our experience and sense months. For more on the seminar, read the article “Our Responsibilities as whate’er the gift may be; of belonging like nothing else can. Neighbors,” by Sunfire, in this issue. all that we have is Thine alone, Our family has found that Powell a trust, O Lord, from Thee. House weekends and Summer World Ministries Summer Sessions The idea that people have a Sessions connections have opened July 19-25, 2020 up relationship with many other responsibility for the stewardship Committee Silver Bay, NY of what they possess is part of the families, a number of whose embracing meetings are in similar situations 2020 is New York Yearlyour pastMeeting’s heritage of all religious traditions. Susan Weisfeld envisioning to ours. The quiet of adult worship 325th year! Inspired by this anniver- Those of us who have attended Scarsdale Meeting 325 our future recent Summer Sessions know that is comforting, but our children also sary and current period of change, Silver Bay is on land that was once need the fun—and challenge—of The World Ministries Committee the theme for Summer Sessions is part of a hunting ground used in connecting with other kids. (WMC) is a wonderful and unique Embracing our Past, Envisioning common by all the Indian nations The Wilton Children’s Meeting committee in that it provides a our Future. Payment will again of the area, and that the treaty they Committee sought to support means whereby individual NYYM be Pay as Led. See more Summer had with each other was called “the parents in our meeting and our Friends and meetings can bring Sessions information on pages 6-8. dish with one spoon,” showing that adjacent preschool through a “Quaker love to the wider world.” Registrationembracing opens February our 1! past each nation should take from the book discussion of Paths to Quaker This is the committee’s ministry: to 325 envisioning our future land only what they needed. Parenting. This quickly led to further make possible leadings and projects More Inside: Now, in a Eurocentric society connection through the Quaker which promote peace, healing and with a capitalist economy, land titles Parenting Initiative online discus- material help for those who need Around Our Yearly are contingent on having deeds and sion group led by Harriet Heath. By support worldwide. paying taxes, and land rights are chance, three parents in the initial The WMC has been an active part Meeting page 2 regulated by law. This may incline us online discussion group came from of the NYYM since 1889. Although the same quarter. We met online WMC is a grant-funding committee, to forget the theological idea of our embracing land being held in trust from God. and wondered about possibilities for it is more than just a distribution our past On October 22, more than local gatherings. point of money. It makes possible envisioning 325 our future seventy people of faith were regis- At the suggestion of Melinda new books delivered to a rural tered for an all-day seminar at Pace Wenner Bradley through the Vital school for orphaned children in Summer Sessions University Law School sponsored Meetings Partnership Project from Kenya; trauma healing workshops pages 6-8 continued on page 4 continued on page 4 continued on page 5 Around Our Yearly Meeting Notices to get their work done and to share Freeze! Through improv games and weekend, so the stars will shine New Members that work with others, and is open other creative activities we’ll try on brighter. The far-away stars will Ami Corleto-Bales — both to those serving on NYYM different ways of being and connect- spark our close-to-the-heart discus- Mohawk Valley committees and those interested ing in the world. Then we’ll thaw sions around energy and light and Samuel Corleto-Bales — in the work of NYYM committees. with relaxation activities and warm feeding our souls. Mohawk Valley Please register at poho.org A S AP. nourishing treats. Upcoming Programs for Scott Blumenthal — Winter Meeting for Discernment Stars & Space — 9th–12th Grade, YOUNG ADULTS Morningside Feb. 8, 2020 (snow date: Feb. 15) February 21–23 • Retreat: Discovering and Living Samuel Hartman — Ithaca Meeting “Light comes from a time already into my Spiritual Gifts, Feb. 8–9, Manasquan Meetings for Discernment are gone.” It is a new moon this 2020, (6:00 p.m. Sat.–4:00 p.m. Sun.) Robert Schwab — periods of extended, waiting (begins with Meeting for Discern- Morningside worship designed to discern Junior Yearly ment on Feb. 8), at Ithaca Meeting Daniel Won — Manasquan leadings and strengthen connec- • Workshop: Giving Vocal Minis- tions in our yearly meeting. Meeting (JYM) Transfers try and Lifting my Quaker Voice, Worship will begin at 9 a.m. and will Volunteers Needed March 14, 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., at Annie Bancroft, from Butter- continue into the afternoon with a Manasquan Meeting (NJ) nuts to Poughkeepsie. break for lunch in the middle. The Do you or someone you know For registration: www.tickettailor. Sarah Faith Dickinson, from following topic and queries are have a gift and a leading for com/events/newyorkyearlymeeting Butternuts to Poughkeepsie. offered as focal points for worship: working with children? It’s not youngadultfriendactivities/ too early to start thinking about Seeing and being seen in Anti-Racism Workshop Marriages volunteering with Junior Yearly community: reflections on The Center for the Study of White David Obermayer, member of Meeting at Summer Sessions Friends’ experiences of power American Culture’s next workshop Binghamton, to Marie Sager, 2020. The time you give to our and authority. is “Why Color Matters” — a three- on October 18, 2019. young Friends at Summer • When have unequal power part online webinar that examines Sessions has a great impact dynamics gotten in the way of racial colorblindness and considers Deaths on their lives. For many of our your/our best spiritual discern- the alternative of color conscious- Jeff Hinkle, member of Albany, youngsters, that week at Silver ment? ness as a pathway to achieving on November 5, 2019. Bay is the highlight of their year. • When have you felt powerful? racial justice and equity. The Registration for Summer When have you felt powerless? webinar meets February 1, 8, & 15, Sessions (July 19-25, 2020) will Please register at www.nyym.org/ 2020, at 5-7 p.m. EST. MEETING NEWS open on February 1. If you’re meetingfordiscernment2020 or Visit www.euroamerican.org for interested in volunteering with New NYYM Witness Video Series! call the registrar, Bronwyn Mohlke: more information. “Witness in the World” is a new 607-220-3219. Meeting for Discern- JYM, please contact us before series of videos about Friends in ment will be followed by a retreat you register, as being a JYM SPARK (ISSN 00240591) NYYM who are active in Witness for young adults; see “Upcoming volunteer includes financial support for attending Summer New York Yearly Meeting News activities. The series is produced by Programs for Young Adults.” Published five times a year: Sessions. Leo Quirk, co-clerk of the Witness Powell House is for you! January, March, May, September, JYM volunteers will meet November by Coordinating Committee, and Powell House is NYYM’s conference together at the JYM Planning New York Yearly Meeting stars NYYM Friends like you. View and retreat center in Old Chatham, Weekend held at Powell House Religious Society of Friends the videos on the NYYM YouTube NY. Visit powellhouse.org or call 15 Rutherford Place on June 5-7. The weekend will channel—go to YouTube.com and 518-794-8811. Upcoming events: New York, NY 10003 give us a chance to get to know 212-673-5750 search for “NYYM Videos.” Friends Decision-making and each other, both as the whole [email protected] Clerking: Participating in Meetings www.nyym.org JYM volunteer crew and within UPCOMING EVENTS for Business with Joy and Confi- Editorial Board: each of the groups. Before the Coordinating Committee Weekend dence with Arthur M. Larrabee and Communications Committee end of the weekend, we want to Jan. 24-26, 2020, Powell House Steve Mohlke, Jan. 31–Feb. 2, 2020. Editor: Sarah Way enable you to have fully fleshed Coordinating committees (CCs) This workshop is for everyone who SPARK deadlines are the first week out plans for Summer Sessions of the month preceding the publica- coordinate the work of NYYM wants to deepen their understand- and have letters written to your tion month.
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