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Christmas Newsletter 2015 London Grove Monthly Meeting Christmas Newsletter 2015 A message from our Clerk : Dear Friends, As a faith community our London Grove family had a vibrant year marked by a noticeable sharing of joys & sorrows and a desire to positively impact the world we touched. 2015 was a year of new beginnings that, as way opens, will carry us forward into the next year and beyond. We felt and acted upon a desire to support our current membership as well as our historical roots by establishing both the Leadership Grant Fund and the Helen Corson Biography Project. We were led to emerge as a positive presence in our surrounding community by formalizing the Quaker Care Committee and actively providing resources and a loving presence to those in need. We promoted the use of our historic facility for numerous memorable events such as the Kennett Underground Railroad Council Research Symposium in May, Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Seminar by our own Winden Rowe on Veterans Day and numerous family reunions. We also mourned alongside the families of too many of our members who we lost this past year. And yet in true Quaker fashion, we also celebrated their lives and their contributions in deeply centered worship. And so we now turn our attention to the coming year. We do so with a confident expectation that London Grove Monthly Meeting will continue to grow as a spiritual sanctuary and a vibrant community engaged with each other and with the world outside our four walls. As we take this time to reflect on the events of this past year and the promise of the next, let us consider the call to “walk cheerfully over the world answering that of God in everyone.” It is a fundamental concept that defines us as members of the Religious Society of Friends, a call to faithful living that has served us well for almost 400 years. Hoping the Spirit is well with each of thee. Robert Frye, Clerk, London Grove Meeting 1 Care Committee Greetings from our committee. We have had a busy year. We were approved as a standalone committee last December. We helped with the Kennett Food Cupboard fund raiser, gave Giant gift cards to two people who were experiencing hunger and worked with the kindergarten to collect many bags of food and $375.00 in gift cards for one elderly man who was living on rice and potatoes. In spring, we used leftover plants from our Plant Sale and seeds from last year to work with residents to plant flower and vegetable beds at Friends Home. When I chanced to visit, they had put out a bench and several chairs for all the residents to enjoy. We just sponsored the Simple Meal and raised funds for UNICEF ($284.97) and Family Promise ($249.00). We are working with Peace Committee to further the homeless efforts in our area. We are also helping the Kennett Food Bank provide fixings for 550 Christmas baskets they are giving out to the community. We collected many bags of can goods and nonperishable food all year to give to Kennett Food Cupboard. For the future, we are hoping we will continue to combine our efforts with all committees to benefit those in our Meeting and the community who need us. We do not know where the Spirit may lead us but wait for that inner light to give us direction. Thanks to all who have given of your time and gifts this past year. There is more work to be done and I think we are ready for any new challenge. Love and Light, Georgia Delaney, Clerk Plant Sale The Plant Sale was held this year on May 9. The weather was showery all day, but the plants and the public who came to buy our plants were happy!! We sold nearly everything we had and were all cleaned up, the grounds were back to “normal” by 4 PM. By the following Sunday every single plant had found a good home. The Plant Sale Committee is already preparing for the 2016 Plant Sale. Orders have been placed for plants from our growers and the committee will be meeting monthly until Plant Sale Day on May 7. This will seem a bit earlier than usual but Mother’s Day is May 8th and we ALWAYS have our sale the day BEFORE Mother’s Day. We are very grateful to our Meeting community for all the support….especially to the Myers family for the use of their field for parking, to Allen Thomforde for the use of his big tent, to Doug Mooberry for the use of his truck for hauling many loads of plants and to Elinor Thomforde, Pat Mooberry and many others who make huge donations of plants that they dig from their gardens. We are happy to be able to contribute the proceeds of over $17,000 to the following Quaker and Community organizations: American Friends Service Committee, Friends Home of Kennett, London Grove Friends Kindergarten, Kennett Area Community Service, Tick Tock Early Learning Center, His Mission, Kennett Senior Center, Friends Journal, Friends Committee on National Legislation, La Communidad, and Path Stone (Alliance for Better Housing). Betsy Walker, Chairperson 2 Recorder’s Report Membership (as of November 2015) 286 Adults and 27 Children NEW MEMBERS: By transfer in: Robert A Lowe – from Lancaster Monthly Meeting By application: Winden S Rowe LOSS OF MEMBERS: By death: James M Brofee (2/16/15 C. James Yeatman (4/7/15) Patrick K. Chase (9/28/15) Phyllis H. Wickersham (11/5/15) George P. Wickersham (11/14/15) By Transfer-out: Evan and Pamela Draper to Green Street Meeting, Philadelphia., Pa. 3/1/15 Betsy Walker, Chairperson Nominating Committee Holiday greetings from the Nominating Committee. Nominating Committee is charged with discerning the talents and leanings of members and attenders and nominating the right individuals for committee and leadership positions. The new committee service season is well underway and as we near the holidays we are pleased to report that all committees are well staffed and functioning as intended. This year we were fortunate to have Bob Frye move up to LGMM Clerk and Susanna Davison accept the position of Assistant Clerk, in preparation for moving up to Clerk in two years. Today our committees are dealing with many important issues from maintaining our beloved meeting house, to providing stimulating First Day School for our children and adults, to searching for ways to deepen our spiritual connection to each other. We are grateful to all of you who have stepped up to serve on committees and to do the work that keeps our Meeting thriving. The Nominating Committee wishes everyone a joyous and prosperous new year. Sam Cypressi, Clerk 3 Property Committee The London Grove Friends Property Committee continues to support the spiritual and social life of our Meeting by enabling the active use of its buildings and grounds by their good maintenance. Due to the good works of those who preceded us, we are blessed with a beautiful historic Meetinghouse and its’ associated London Grove Oak whose large arms reach out and embrace all who have worshiped here. Our facilities not only provide a place for worship as a spiritual community, they serve as well as a place for marriages, memorial services, family reunions, recitals and public forums in our greater community. This past year, the Keeper of the Calendar reports that our Meetinghouse had scheduled 402 events involving 186 days of school, 76 committee meetings, 69 community events and 71 meetings for worship. Added to these numbers are the hundreds of community people who come to our annual plant sale held on the meeting grounds. Our work this past year has focused on a diverse set of areas. The first is to continue the maintenance of the meetinghouse and driveways. To this end, we sealed the surface of the new driveway and the walkway to the meetinghouse entrances. A hearing loop to enable assistance to those with hearing devices was installed. Ceiling fans in the social room were cleaned and ceiling tiles in the half-day classroom were repaired and painted. Toilets were repaired or replaced. In the surrounding grounds we plan the removal of three trees, which have either died or are nearing the end of life. The committee has also approved the design of an information stand, which can hold information about the Meeting, the tree and burial ground. We will reach out to other interested committees to help in the wording of the flyer. Progress has been made on needed repairs to the caretaker’s house. Two windows have been replaced and the powder room floor has been replaced. The remaining repair of four additional windows and the west gable end re-stuccoing will be completed in the coming year. Looking toward the future, the meeting will need to attend to its septic system performance as well as improve the meetinghouse energy usage. The later will involve more insulation for the attic and improved storm windows. Over a longer horizon, we should aspire for a different heating and cooling system based on hydrothermal energy. Mark Myers, Clerk of the Property Committee 4 Peace and Social Justice Committee The members of the London Grove Peace and Social Justice Committee look forward to a time of assessing our call to service and our capacity to follow that call with care. Currently, we are supporting a study of the life and work of Helen Corson. Helen was a long time member of London Grove whose work in areas of social justice inspired a monetary award given to local high school students.
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