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September 2016 BROOKLYN MEETING NEWS A publication of the Brooklyn Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends brooklynmeeting.org September 2016 New York Yearly Meeting experienced the gathered body as more inclusive this year. Another In this year of terrible racial violence, Epistle, 2016 innovation was “Whisper Buddies,” we were especially tender about the pairing of experienced Friends barriers to community that arise from To Friends everywhere: with those new to Meeting for the persistence of racism: how Business, to explain the work of the difficult it is to expel the legacy of New York Yearly Meeting met at Meeting. white privilege, how painful it is that Silver Bay, New York, on the seventh so many Friends and potential Friends month, from 24th day through the 30th Friends who attended the Friends are kept from us by mass day, in this our 321st gathering for World Committee for Consultation incarceration and an unequal criminal Summer Sessions. In attendance were conference in Peru reported rich legal system, by money and time 476 Friends including constraints. 106 in Junior Yearly We Meeting. marveled anew at the We lived and reflected strength of upon how Friends best spirit with nurture the Blessed which some Community at every age. Friends We recognized that the surmount blessed community these exists among us to be obstacles. faithfully discovered Friends’ anew at every turn. We awareness can nurture the blessed of racism community with faithful and listening and a readiness privilege to grow and change, was even—perhaps amplified by especially—when more than growth and change are hard. We encounters with Friends around the one hundred New York Yearly learned from our new Children and world, with great energy around the Meeting Friends’ attendance at the Youth Field Secretary, our Young work of young adults. Seventeenth White Privilege Adult Field Secretary, our ARCH Conference. We rededicated ourselves [Aging Resources Consultation & We yearn for a more economically to advancing a more equal society that Help] Director, and our General and racially diverse body. We actively recognizes that of God in every Secretary, many ways that, by hearing await leadings that envision action to person. Our search for Truth as deeply the needs of Friends and move toward that yearning, including individual Friends and as a body potential Friends, we can grow our discernment around the Pay as Led demands that we seek to create a faithful community so we welcome payment system. In Meeting for Blessed Community that is available and learn from one another. This year Discernment, Friends dwelt on the to all. As Jesus instructed his we began two experiments. One was need for trust as leadings unfold: trust followers at the end of a chapter we starting each day with a gathering of in one another and trust in The considered in Bible Study, “love one the whole community in worship; we Source. We honored those who have another, as I have loved you” (John found beautiful ways, in storytelling, cared for our Yearly Meeting, some of 13:34). song, play, and one-on-one responses whom are stepping down after long to queries, to share the indwelling service. As change comes to the -- Lucinda Antrim, Clerk NYYM spirit with young and older friends. Yearly Meeting, we consider what we Several Friends remarked that they wish to become. A Minute of Appreciation visitors and staff. His witness has stress on the present financial helped spread the word of the situation. for Joe Garren Religious Society of Friends. Through these years, Joe has Following up on the financial and Joe Garren is moving on from his continued to serve New York Yearly membership concerns he has raised, position as Pendle Hill’s director of Meeting to which he will return as he the Yearly Meeting, looking forward operations. In recognition of his work departs from Pendle Hill. He leaves us to a new General Secretary, needs to the, the following minute was issued. with memories of his ministry, hard build on Christopher’s efforts by work and long hours, exquisite flower finding a leader who will continue to arrangements, singing in the work creatively on expanding hallways, deep presence in membership. One example might be daily worship, and his prompt starting new Meetings or Worship and loving attention to our groups in population centers and visitors and his joyful smile. Universities in the state. -- Gretchen T. Hall, on behalf -- Molly Rusnak of the Pendle Hill Board July Meeting for New York Yearly Business: Committee Meeting General Reports and Requests Secretary Announces Book Table Committee Gives Resignation Annual Report After twelve years of leading The Committee sold basic Quaker New York Yearly Meeting, books and pamphlets every First Day Christopher Sammond during Social Hour. This past year it announced at Yearly Meeting held a used book sale from which Summer Sessions that he will $500 was donated to the Meeting. The be leaving his position. Committee is considering whether to continue holding book sales. Christopher described the ways he and his staff have Peace and Social Action Committee Our cherished Friend Joe Garren has strengthened the Monthly Meetings recommends a Donation been an integral part of the Pendle through a spiritual nurture program Hill community since May 2008. (“Tending the Garden”), an improved The Meeting approved a suggested Bringing skills from years of website, workshops designed to help socially responsible donation from the restaurant, hospitality, Quaker Meetings share their “gifts” with their Peace and Social Action Committee volunteerism, and event services, Joe communities and social witness for $1000 to “City Voices”, a has served as the Director of including a well-attended “White publication for mental health Operations, a core role for all that Privilege” Conference. consumers. to replace revenue from unfolds at Pendle Hill. Joe also discontinued pharmaceutical brought with him deep and abiding Aside from maintaining and nurturing advertisements. spiritual gifts and experience from the Yearly Meeting, he has also faced which we have benefitted greatly. the daunting prospect of a gradually “City Voices” sponsors conferences During his tenure, Joe has helped lead decreasing membership, particularly and workshops, publishes personal the effort to establish fiscal in upstate New York, resulting in recovery stories and provides a career responsibility along with increased financial problems present and future. ladder for Peer Specialists in Mental income through improved services. In his report to the membership this Health. He has guided and overseen an summer, he explained addressing this incredible number of staff members situation by hiring a Youth Field Ministry and Counsel Committee who make the food and the beds, and Secretary and building up youth and Receives Additional Funds most especially, welcome our many children’s activities. This was an guests with radical hospitality. Imbued investment in future membership but, The Meeting approved a $2000 with his Quaker faith, Joe has created as he pointed out, it placed additional increase in the budget of the Ministry a ministry of seeking and outreach to and Counsel Committee to cover scholarship for Meeting Friends to Jews and didn’t care how or perhaps Recharge, Renew, Rejoice attend Friends General Conference, there was the memory of how the White Privilege Conference Quakers had helped Germans after On August 12-14, the Fellowship of sponsored by New York Yearly World War I. Friends of African Descent held their Meeting and Summer Sessions of annual gathering at Arch Street New York Yearly Meeting. Kenworthy writes that ”From June, Friends Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. 1940 to June 1941, I worked in Nazi On August 7, Special Called Germany as Director of the Quaker The theme of the gathering Meeting Welcomes New Members International Center in Berlin under was Recharge, Renew, Rejoice. the auspices of the American Friends Affirming the presence of God in all Two Friends were accepted and Service Committee and a steering people, Friends gathered for three welcomed into membership in committee composed almost entirely days of worship, worship with a Brooklyn Meeting. They are of German Quakers. In that capacity I concern for business, presentations Columbine Loza, who will be aided persons, who had been labeled and fellowship. The gathering attending Whittier College in ‘Jewish’ by the Hitler government, in explored the concerns and crises California and Maureen McGovern, emigrating from that troubled land.… facing the African American transferring from Fifteenth Street It was a strenuous year for a young community, including state- Meeting. man in his late 20’s -- the most sanctioned violence against men, demanding of my life. But it was also women and children of African -- Molly Rusnak the most fascinating and rewarding.” descent. A minute was created to In his account, Leonard estimates that express the Fellowship’s testament From Our Library: “An approximately 1000 people were concerning the state-sanctioned American Quaker Inside helped to emigrate from Germany by violence against people of African the Center, about 100 during the year descent. Nazi Germany” he was there. It was difficult to find Other topics included an upcoming countries who would accept these trip to Ghana, which grew out of the Hiding in our library is a treasure: the immigrants. Among the countries that personal story of Brooklyn Meeting did were Ecuador, Cuba, Brazil, the mission of the Fellowship to uplift member Leonard Kenworthy U.S. and Japan. Obtaining passports Quakers of African Descent around regarding his Quaker service in Nazi was complicated and difficult. the world; the finances of the Germany in 1940 and 1941. Very few Fellowship and the need for more Brooklyn Friends still remember The Center was supported by the financial support from the wider Leonard Kenworthy, once an active Berlin Friends Meeting, which met Quaker community; workshops on member of our Meeting, who served openly at that time.
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