Announcements last updated June 14th, 2017:
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New Announcements:
- From Our Treasurer:
- Approved Budget FY 2017-2018
- Here is a recap of the treasurer's financials as of the end of May, July 2016 – May 31, 2017:
Member Contributions = $47,824 = 90% of annual budget
Total Income = $60,947 = 98% of annual budget
Total Expenses = $55,736 = 89% of annual budget
Net Income = $5,211 - The following reports are now available, current as 5/31/17: Balance Sheet, Income & Expenses Budget vs. Actual Year-to-Date, and Income & Expenses Budget, Prior Year Comparison.
- The June newsletter is now available.
- On June 24th, we found a way to cool off while raising money for the athletes who train and compete with Special Olympics Maryland—a Cardboard Boat Race! Please join me in being a part of this great event, as we come together for SOMD. For more information, visit www.oxfordcbr.com.
News of Friends, or friends of Friends:
Events at Third Haven:
Be sure to check out the Calendar for more events not listed here!
- Thursday, June 22nd, 10am to 3pm: Inward Bound Quiet Day
Join us for a day of peace and inward renewal. On June 22, 2017, 10am to 3pm (pot-luck lunch at 12 noon) in the Common Room and grounds of Third Haven Friends Meeting. Join us in a silent retreat that offers a day of listening for the Light within, contemplation, reading, walking the grounds, writing, and self-chosen art activities. We enjoy a shared, silent potluck lunch, and end our session with a short sharing session. Come for all or part of the retreat. Information and/or RSVP: Candace Shattuck or Katherine Johnson.
Announcements from Third Haven's Committees:
- From Our Treasurer:
- Approved Budget FY 2017-2018
- Here is a recap of the treasurer's financials as of the end of May, July 2016 – May 31, 2017:
Member Contributions = $47,824 = 90% of annual budget
Total Income = $60,947 = 98% of annual budget
Total Expenses = $55,736 = 89% of annual budget
Net Income = $5,211 - The following reports are now available, current as 5/31/17: Balance Sheet, Income & Expenses Budget vs. Actual Year-to-Date, and Income & Expenses Budget, Prior Year Comparison.
- Kids' Mini Benefit Concert: June 17, 2 pm at UUFE
In recognition of World Refugee Day, kids from Third Haven First Day School are teaming up with kids from the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Easton (UUFE) for a mini benefit concert on Saturday, June 17 at 2 PM, at the Fellowship, 7401 Ocean Gateway (US 50) Easton, Maryland. Featured will be a short set of kid performances—piano pieces and songs—with tickets purchased at the door for a couple dollars. The kids will also provide sweet treats for snacks. All proceeds will be donated to the Maryland office of the International Rescue Committee to help refuges around the world find homes and rebuild their lives. All are welcome to see the music fun and benefit important work! - From Testionies & Concerns:
- The Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform has issued A Call To Change Maryland's Unfair Money Bail System. Please click here to take action and for more information.
- Testimonies and Concerns would like to thank those from Meeting who generously donated money to aid Syrian refugees who are being resettled in the Philadelphia area. Through Green St Meeting's connection with the Nationalities Service we were able to send items that will help these refugees begin their lives in this country. We collected a total of $270.00 with one separate donation of $100.00 worth of items sent a few weeks prior to this collection. Included in the $270.00 donation from Meeting were: several sets of bedsheets, pillows, towels, kitchen trash cans, flash lights, and alarm clocks as well as some cleaning supplies. We have received thank- you messages from the Nationalities Service Center as the items arrived. THANK YOU again for your generosity!!!!
- Amazon Wish List: You can also donate goods through our Amazon Wish List, which has a more thorough list of items needed to prepare a home for one of our refugee families.
- Housing: Nationalities Service Center has worked to develop relationships with great landlords, but the landlords on our current roster don't have enough housing to meet the urgent need for apartments this month. Do you know of a landlord who would be willing to rent an affordable apartment to a refugee? Contact information: housing@nscphila.org. Thank you so much for your support! Testimonies and Concerns contact: Leigh Anne Dodge.
Announcements about Local Non-profits or Faith Organizations:
- On June 24th, we found a way to cool off while raising money for the athletes who train and compete with Special Olympics Maryland—a Cardboard Boat Race! Please join me in being a part of this great event, as we come together for SOMD. For more information, visit www.oxfordcbr.com.
- If you would like to make a public statement of your commitment to our Peace Testimony, the opportunity to do so exists each Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. Peace Vigils are held each Tuesday and Thursday from 5 to 6 p.m. The Tuesday vigil is held in Centerville in front of the Queen Anne's County Court House and the Thursday vigil is held in Easton in front of the Talbot County Court House. You are welcome to come at any time during the vigil and stay as long as you wish.
Announcements from Quaker Organizations:
- From American Friends Service Committee (AFSC):
- American Friends Service Committee has announced that Joyce Ajlouny will become its next general secretary starting in September 2017. Friends Journal senior editor Martin Kelley caught up with Ajlouny to talk about her work as director of the Ramallah Friends School and her hopes for AFSC. To read this interview, please click here.
- From Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM):
- Annual Sessions, July 26th to July 30th:
Dear Friends,
You are enthusiastically invited to join with me and your many other Friends from four states and 103 monthly meetings for Annual Sessions 2017: Faith Magnified, July 26th to the 30th, at The College of New Jersey! If you have questions or want more details please visit the PYM website. Or, if you are ready to register you can go directly to the registration form. Also, you can contact me at sessions@pym.org or 215 241-7238.
I look forward to being with you in July,
Tricia Coscia, Community Engagement Coordinator, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
- Annual Sessions, July 26th to July 30th:
- Friends Music Camp:
This message is from Pam Wilkinson, a co-director of Friends Music Camp, a Quaker-run music camp which takes place at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana:
"We are actively seeking campers for our sessions this summer. I'm sure it's hard to imagine planning the summer when 2017 is barely upon us but I know many people make decisions about their summer early in the year, so I wanted to get in touch to offer a little more information! The camp is open to campers from 10 to 18 years old at all musical levels. Our session this year runs from July 9 to August 6, 2017. For campers between 10 and 12 years old, there is an option for a two-week session only, which runs from July 9 to July 23. During the summer, campers attend lessons, sing in the chorus, play in large and small ensembles, act in a musical theater production, take classes, and, of course, have ample time for hanging out and having fun. We ask that prospective campers have had lessons for at least one year on their chosen instrument, OR that they have participated in a school orchestra, band or choral program for at least one year. Evening activities include capture the flag, a dance, outside speakers, visits to the local pool, and other fun activities. Both students and staff perform at weekly recitals and on weekend concerts. This is a wonderful experience for any young music student. There is a great deal of information about FMC on our website, www.friendsmusiccamp.org. Please feel free to take a look and pass this information along to anyone who might be interested in FMC! You will also be receiving some materials by snail mail sometime in the next month or so. If you have any questions about FMC, feel free to contact me at any time!" Sincerely, Pam Wilkinson. - Climate Conference: Fallsington Friends Meeting notice about climate conference
"Friends, my name is Tom Wells, from Fallsington Meeting in Bucks Quarter. I am emailing you regarding a Citizen's Climate Lobby Regional Conference which I am helping to organize. The Conference is all about the local impacts and solutions for Climate Change in our region (PA, NJ, MD, DE). I am hoping you will sent the attached flyer to the Monthly Meetings in your Quarter. Holly Olson, coordinator of Bucks Quarter has done this in our Quarter already. The Conference will be held at Chestnut Hill College in NW Philadelphia, close to the Pa Turnpike, exit 339. Thanks for helping with this. Also, if any Meeting in your Quarter, or at your Quarterly Meeting, would like me to come to speak about Climate Change and the Citizens' Climate Lobby legislative proposal called Carbon Fee and Dividend, I would be happy to do so. Tom Wells 215-378-4048, texting is good. tom@tgw-construction.com. Please click here for more information.
Regular Announcements:
- Please remember to greet visitors to meeting—answer what questions they have about Friends, our buildings, our programs and activities. We are all emissaries of Third Haven.
- Contributions to the meeting can be made by way of the contributions box in the Brick Meetinghouse entranceway. Checks can also be sent to THMM, P.O. Box 2379, Easton, MD 21601; or by clicking on the button below:
- Are your names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail listings all correct in the Third Haven Directory? Please review your information at Directory. The online directory remains protected: please e-mail taniahharrison@gmail.com or hawkjm@goeaston.net if you need the password. If you have corrections for the Directory, please send them to 3rdhaven@gmail.com.
- Faith and Practice can be read and portions extracted from the PYM website at this link.
- If you have material for the newsletter, additional announcements, or added information about any of these posted events, please send it to 3rdhaven@gmail.com.