Third Haven Friends Meeting (Quaker)

405 S. Washington St., Easton, MD 21601; (410) 822-0293; 3rdhaven@gmail.com; Find Us on Facebook

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Announcements last updated October 15^th, 2026:

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New Announcements:

• News of Friends:
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• October Queries:
  Indigenous Peoples' Day is a U.S. holiday observed on the second Monday of Tenth Month to honor Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians and to recognize their histories, cultures, and ongoing contributions to humanity.
  
  Canada marked the sixth annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 to honor residential school survivors and remember the children who never returned home. On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation people across Canada wear an orange shirt to show solidarity with residential school survivors and remember the children who never returned home. The tradition stems from the grassroots movement Orange Shirt Day, inspired by the story of residential school urvivor Phyllis Webstad. In 1973, when Phyllis was just six years old, her grandmother bought her a bright orange shirt for her first day at St. Joseph's Mission Residential School in British Columbia. Upon arrival school staff stripped her of her belongings, cut her hair and took away her orange shirt, never returning it. Today, wearing an orange shirt symbolizes how the residential school system stripped away the culture, freedom, and identity of indigenous children. Every child matters.
  
  Hence, our queries for this month focus on Indigenous Peoples' Day.
  • How can we show respect for cultures that are different from our own?
  • How does my understanding of “stewardship” change when I consider Indigenous teachings about land, kinship, and responsibility?
• We hold in the Light people from various who are resurrecting TACL, Talbot Association of Clergy and Laity, to support interfaith interactions.
• The October newsletter is now available.
• October 25 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Spiritual Collaborative Presentation:
  Representatives from the PYM Spiritual Collaborative will make a presentation on October 25 after Meeting for Worship and hospitality about the 9 Month Spiritual Formation Program (the "Program") that will begin at Third Haven the weekend of January 22-24, 2027. The hour and half presentation will include a spiritual exercise and an opportunity to ask questions. The presentation is open to all, but those interested in the 9 Month Program are strongly urged to attend, since the PYM representatives wish to talk with the likely participants of the Program so that the Program can be tailored to their interests.
• Peace and Justice Vigil usually held on Thursdays at the court house in Easton has resumed on Thursdays at 5pm in front of the Courthouse.
• Be Heard & Seen in Community, an invitation from the Worship and Ministry Committee. Friends, there's still room to connect and share in the care of one another through your Spiritual Journey. Each month at Third Haven in the common room, we have an opportunity to gather and be seen and heard together. If you would like to share your voice, some of your spiritual journey, and help build community in this way, please contact Sam Steffens or Beth Inabinett.
• First Day School Updates:
  First Day School for children meets in the FDS Room (upstairs of the Brick Meeting House) from 10:15 to 11. Children come to Meeting with their parents and the FDS Committee member hosting the First Day School will escort the children to FDS. FDS offers a curriculum with stories and activities focused on Quaker Values. The FDS committee will meet in September to discuss curriculum, communication and a schedule. If you are interested in working with the First Day School Committee, please contact Paige Tilghman. We have an active committee devoted to the spiritual growth of our children. Please reach out with any questions or concerns. We would love to see all families at our Third Haven worship and extra events.
• Minga Claggett-Borne’s article: How Can Friends Confront ICE has been published in Friends Journal. https://www.friendsjournal.org/how-can-friends-confront-ice/.
• The Quaker Ancestors Reading Group will be meeting on Saturday, October 17th from 4:00 - 6:00 pm at Bayleigh Chase, 501 Dutchmans Lane in Easton. Our book this month is Quaker Writings: An Anthology, 1650 - 1920 Edited by Thomas D. Hamm. It is available on Amazon, on Kindle, and at Bookshop.org. It's a comprehensive anthology from well-known Friends that illustrate the development of Quakerism, shows the nature of spiritual life, spans origins of missionary work, explores daily life, beliefs, perspectives, movements within the community, and activism throughout the world. If you can't read the whole book, pick a few writings that speak to you most and come join us for a lively discussion! Contact Beth Inabinett if you'd like to attend.
• "What Stories Do We Tell About Ourselves?" Monday, October 26 | Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 4:30–5:45 p.m. | Explore Stories from the Shoreline in CBMM’s Welcome Center 5:45–7:30 p.m. | Facilitated conversation, light meal and refreshments in the Van Lennep Auditorium
  
  As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, we’ll use this session to think about the stories we inherit and preserve—and how they shape our understanding of our history, our community, and ourselves. We’ll begin with time to explore CBMM’s Stories from the Shoreline exhibit, giving us a shared experience to bring into the conversation. From there, we’ll consider whose history is preserved, what may be missing from familiar narratives, and how race has shaped the stories we tell about our past. As always, Conversations on Race is free and open to the public. Advance registration is requested. REGISTER HERE.
• Bay Hundred Community Volunteers is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing low income residents of Talbot County with basic home repairs and wheelchair ramps so they are able to remain safe in their homes for longer. They are always looking for funding and volunteers in many capacities (home improvement skills are not necessary) to sustain the work. You may find more information at their website: www.bhcv.org or by picking up a brochure in the Common Room. Checks may be sent to BHCV, P.O. Box 12 McDaniel, MD 21647.
• Care Basket for Neighborhood Service Center Donations:
  
  • Volunteer: for Neighborhood Service Center basket contents delivery to NSC each week in September. Valerie Sypula has been good enough to begin filling this need in October. Can you help? If you can, please contact Kathryn Johnson, who is scheduling coverage.
  • Meeting members and attenders, regularly bring donations of non-perishable food to Meeting for Worship and place their gifts into the care basket outside the meeting house. This is whisked off by John Schreiner to the Neighborhood Service Center and returned to be stored at the meeting until the next First Day. We thank Winslow Womack for initiating this program, John Schreiner for continuing and all the Friends who donate weekly.
• Quaker Call to Action to Protect Elections:
  We at Quaker Call to Action are calling upon each of you to take action to protect our democracy prior to, during, and after the upcoming November election. These three meetings will be held, over Zoom video conferencing, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on these dates: Sunday September 20, Sunday October 18.
  
  Register for the next meeting, or for all three, at this web page. https://quakercall.org/meetings/register.
• Quaker organizations for action: The following organizations represent Quakers nationally, statewide and locally. Their websites reflect current activities and opportunities to participate.
  • FCNL (Friends Committee on National Legislation):
    • Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) urges responses to the US attack on Iran. We do not want another endless war in the Middle East. We urgently need diplomacy, not violence and illegal executive overreach. Congress must say no!
  • AFSC (American Friends Service Committee)
  • FGC (Friends General Conference)
  • PYM (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting):
    • Gather online on Thursday, October 29, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm for an evening discussion on this year's One Pamphlet, One Yearly Meeting. This year’s read is Pendle Hill Pamphlet 495: Patterns of Racial Wounding and Racial Justice in Quaker Communities by Lauren Brownlee and Zenaida Peterson. CLICK HERE to register or for more information.
      • Third Haven Discussion Locally: For Friends wishing to discuss locally: “Patterns of Racial Wounding and Racial Justice in Quaker Communities” the PYM One Pamphlet One Yearly Meeting, please Meet in Common room at 6pm on Thursday Nov 5.
    • Fall Continuing Sessions will be held online via Zoom and in person at Arch Street Meeting House on November 14, 2026. Friend, you and your meeting are invited to join together for worship, fellowship, and the business of our community, under the continued theme Members One of Another. CLICK HERE for more information.
    • PYM Information and Resources Around Conscientious Objection to War
  • Quaker Voice of Maryland: Legislation blocking cooperation between ICE and local law enforcement (287g agreements) has passed the MD legislature and been signed into law by Gov. Moore. We are encouraging them to check out the Quaker Voice website to follow our other priorities this year. A priorities handout is available in the Common Room. The state session only runs for 6 more weeks; please contact your state Representatives and Senators to let them hear your opinions.
• Every Friday, Zoom Happier Hour 7 PM:
  Zoom happier hour conversation is scheduled on Fridays at 7:00 pm. Typically, about 5-6 people use the hour to reconnect, share news and again, offer fellowship. Please consider joining our group this evening.

Events at Third Haven:

Be sure to check out the Calendar for more events not listed here!

Announcements from Third Haven's Committees:

• Hospitality Change News for 2025:
  The Hospitality Committee will do things a little differently for 2025. We've divided our committee up into teams of 2 or 3 people who will hold primary responsibility for certain months of the year. Responsibility of the teams is to RECRUIT other meeting members to contribute food and help with setup / cleanup on certain days, with the team members being primarily responsible for whatever needs doing on those days. We will no longer ask other Third Haven committees to be responsible for Hospitality during certain months, but if any committees want to continue that practice in order to remind themselves to participate, we are grateful for that and will let the Hospitality team members for those months know, so they can coordinate together. The team members and the months they are responsible for will be written on the sign-up calendar which will continue to be on the refrigerator for other meeting members to sign up as well.
• From Worship & Ministry:
  • Be Heard & Seen in Community, an invitation from the Worship and Ministry committee.
    Friends 2026 is approaching, and you're invited into an opportunity to participate in the care of one another with your Spiritual Journey. This year, Sam Steffens from our Worship & Ministry committee will be coordinating the Spiritual Journey sharing at Third Haven in the Common Room. These will most likely be on First day, after meeting for worship once a month. If you would like to share your voice, some of your spiritual journey, and help build community at Third Haven Friends meeting in this way, please reach out to Sam Steffens.
  • Practice exercising your voice in 2026!
    You're invited to read the advices with us. Practicing speaking in front of one another and holding space so others may speak before Friends are true gifts. Help us hold each other in the Light while we practice opening to the ever-guiding presence Friends find in that still small voice. In 2026, the Advices will be presented once each quarter starting in January. The Worship and Ministry Committee is looking for a few more volunteers who would like to gift reading the meeting one of the advices in 2026. If you would like to share in this way we need readers for April, July and October. The advice can be found in the Faith and Practice book. If you need a Faith and Practice book, we have additional copies to share with you in the front coat room of the brick meeting house, the closet in the common room and on the lending library shelves in the brick meeting house. Contact Sam Steffens to accept the invitation for one of the readings this year.
• Facilities Use Committee Zoom Meeting Scheduling:
  This document was prepared by Third Haven Friends Meeting Facilities Use Committee is attached here to guide us through the process of setting up and running our meetings.
• From Testionies & Concerns:
  • The Guide for Giving:
    Testimonies and Concerns Committee has prepared The Guide for Giving, an annotated list of non-profit, charitable organizations who sustain values and priorities in keeping with our Queries. Please click here to view the guide.
  • Minutes for Testimonies and Concerns Meeting, 9/06/20.

Announcements about Local Non-profits or Faith Organizations:

• Detention Center Library:
  A small group from Third Haven and friends maintain the library at the Talbot County Detention Center. This was started many years ago by Ralph and Mary Young. The Talbot County Detention Center Library needs an additional volunteer. It involves one session of about two hours a month. The time is somewhat flexible—what you and your partner decide. The work involves checking books in and out for the guards to distribute to the inmates. Contact Stephanie French if you have time and inclination to join us.
• May Conversation on Race, 5/18:
  You're invited to explore themes of resilience, environmental stewardship, and the ongoing impact of systemic inequities. We'll be viewing excerpts from the film Descendant.
  • Monday, May 18, 2026; 5:30-7:30pm
  • Eastern Shore Conservation Center, 114 S. Washington St., Easton, MD
  • REGISTER HERE.
  A light meal and refreshments will be provided. This event is open to interested community members. You're encouraged to share this invitation with your networks. Even better, bring someone with you.
• PEARLS:
  Stacy Ewing, of the Talbot County Health Department writes to our meeting, "I wanted to let you know about a home visiting program called PEARLS (Programs the one who should be able to get for Encouraging Active, Rewarding Lives)." Please click here for a brochure with more information.
• Maryland Citizens's Health Initiative (MCHI) Request:
  Third Haven has received a request from Nikki Richards of Homewood Friends Meeting in Baltimore asking us to endorse a resolution brought forward by their Maryland Citizens's Health Initiative (MCHI). If our Meeting supports the concept of equal access to quality, affordable healthcare for Marylanders we can help on this new Initiative to improve health equity. Health inequities based on race, ethnicity, and place of residence persist throughout the state, and have been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Maryland Citizens's Health Initiative requests that community organizations, faith groups, small businesses, and others around the state sign on by September 16 in support of this life saving initiative. If it is the sense of our Meeting that we endorse this, our response can be forwarded to them. The Initiative's Resolution can be reached by clicking on this link.
• Feed The Front is organized to connect donors, restaurants and volunteers to feed essential workers in Talbot County.
• Acts of Kindness: A Task Force volunteer provides interpretation services between Mid Shore ProBono attorneys and immigrants. Another volunteer has been reaching out to immigrant children through the arts, as part of an after school program sponsored by the Chesapeake Multi Cultural Resource Center. Another, expert in immigration law, filed objections to proposed regulations that would raise barriers to documented immigrants becoming citizens. 2 volunteers from the task force have reached out to the many other congregations throughout the county to expand the network of congregations associating with the task force. There are 6 local congregations that are already associated with the task force and include Temple B'nai Israel, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship At Easton, Third Haven Friends Meeting, Easton Church of the Brethren, Scott's United Methodist Church and Grace Lutheran Church.Reach out to: Helpingimmigrantstc@gmail.com.
• Opportunity: If you are interested in helping to start a worship service at Eastern Shore Correctional Institute, please call Molly Brian. No set schedule is yet formed on this, but we are trying to see if there is genuine interest in a project there.
• If you would like to make a public statement of your commitment to our Peace Testimony, the opportunity to do so exists eachThursday afternoon. Peace Vigils are held each Thursday from 5 to 6 p.m. The Thursday vigil is held in Easton in front of the Talbot County Court House.

Announcements from Quaker Organizations:

• Updates from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM):
  
  • Registration for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s Annual Sessions is now open!
    
    Annual Sessions will take place from Wednesday, July 22 through Sunday, July 26 online over Zoom and in person on Cheyney University’s campus. The continued theme of sessions, Members One of Another, reminds us that our faith is not just about the places we meet, but the relationships we care for. Wednesday Keynote address 6 p.m. Clinton Pettus from Third Haven Monthly Meeting.
  • PYM Information and Resources Around Conscientious Objection to War
  • UPDATE: The U.S. District Court of Maryland ruled in our favor by blocking the Trump administration’s policy that permitted indiscriminate immigration enforcement actions in houses of worship. This preliminary injunction is a crucial step in upholding the right of all people to worship without fear. However, the ruling applies only to the plaintiffs and is a temporary action. Even so, we are encouraged as it sets a strong precedent as the case moves forward.
    
    Philadelphia Yearly Meeting joined our neighbors in New England and Baltimore Yearly Meetings, as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. You can read more information about the lawsuit in the story published on PYM’s website and in the press release from Democracy Forward which filed the suit. More information can also be found at NBC News.
• From Pendle Hill:
  • Pendle Hill’s summer programming reflects our renewed commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in a time when many members of our community have come under threat. We have many additional events throughout the summer, including several arts programs, all listed in our summer brochure.
• From Friends Committee on National Legislation:
  
  Support The Bill: At the PYM ecojustice conference this past week, information was given on the Clean Energy Protection Program (CEPP). This will be debated in the US Congress in the next few weeks. If you want to support the bill, here is an easy link for you to send an email to our Congress people: https://fcnl.quorum.us/campaign/34603/?utm_source=fcnlaction. The instructions are simple, however it's a good idea to make the email your own by writing at least a personal statement at the start and the finish. The bill would help us move towards clean energy by 2030. For extra punch, mention the Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator (Called a National Climate Bank in the Senate), as this bill would help low income communities with a series of environmentally friendly loans.

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.
• Fridays, Zoom Happier Hour 7 PM:
  Hospitality would also like to remind the community that the zoom happier hour conversation is still happening on Fridays at 7:00 pm. Typically, about 7-10 people use the hour to reconnect, share news and again, offer fellowship. Please contact John Turner for more information.
• Food Pantry Donations: We continue to support our community at the Neighborhood Service Center with donations of nonperishable food. Please remember to bring an item First Day and contribute to the bin outside the Meeting House. Food is then delivered on Tuesdays to the Neighborhood Service Center.

Third Haven Friends Monthly Meeting is a member of Southern Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends General Conference of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Meetings for Worship: Sundays 10:00AM, Wednesdays 5:30PM

Childrens' program: Sundays 10:00AM

Meetings for Worship with Attention to Business: 2^nd Sunday of the Month following Meeting for Worship (except for the months of July and August)

Contact: 405 S. Washington St., Easton, MD 21601; (410) 822-0293; 3rdhaven@gmail.com; Find Us on Facebook

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