Announcements last updated November 25th, 2022:
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Update on Third Haven Zoom Account and Live Group Meetings:
Dear Friends, Meeting for Worship will be held in the Brick Meeting House this Sunday at 10 am. with simultaneous virtual meeting. Friends are reminded that Zoom allows all members and attenders to participate fully in the life of the Meeting. Everyone's cooperation is vital to this effort. If we are in favor of diversity, equity and inclusion, Zoom puts our values into practice. Your message is important so it's important that all can hear it. Please stand on the mat so you can be heard by all.
Friends are encouraged to continue covid precautions, watch for symptoms, test and quarantine as may be needed. Thank you all for your care and concern for our beloved Third Haven Friends Meeting community. Thanks all. Be safe. Have fun.
~Tom Corl, Co-Clerk
New Announcements:
- December 3 [Saturday], Fall Clean-up Day:
The Property and Grounds Committee will hold cleanup day from 8:30, to 11, in the morning. Please join us to help improve our beautiful grounds. - December 3 [Saturday], Third Haven Friends Art Show & Sale 2022:
Join us for the Art Show & Sale on Saturday, December 3rd from 11am-3pm in the Common Room. Third Haven Friends Meeting affiliated artists will be displaying their artwork & crafts. Paintings, prints, pottery, glasswork, baskets, photography, knit items, holiday gifts, baked goods and more will be for sale. There will be many affordable handmade items and the First Day School has made ornaments! Please consider shopping for your holiday gifts at this event. By purchasing items at this event, you will be supporting artists who will donate a portion of their artwork sales to Third Haven. These donations will help fund the renovation of our historic buildings and grounds. This event is free and open to the public. Please share the invitation! If you are interested in participating or have questions, please contact: Marie Leonard. - December 3 {Saturday}, Easton Holiday Parade:
The Meeting will parade our Dove of Peace starting at 6:30 PM after the Tree Lighting. We pull a trailer behind the Dove with Friends celebrating Peace on Earth and singing their hearts out. Parade participants would need to be at our staging location in the Easton Utilities parking lot off Washington street no later than 5:45 PM so we can get our float into position. Once on the float, participants must stay on the float until it has completed its circuit around the parade route (about 45 minutes; we are usually in the first half of the parade so are done before 7:30). Given the cold weather, we are exploring ways to display the dove without a trailer; but if there is interest, we can accommodate about 8-10 people on the trailer. If you are interested in being part of the trailer crew, let Jeanne Halpin know so we can plan the seating on the trailer. Contact Jeanne Halpin if you are interested in joining us on the float! - 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. - First Day School Updates:
- There were 5 families with 9 kids present at the November 20 children's program. Many thanks to Lisa and Drew Grundlach for bringing in cleaned oyster shells and paint so the kids could decorate the shells as Christmas ornaments. The children have been making their own art to sell at the December 3 Art Show at Third Haven. Also thanks to the Virdee/Whalen family and to the James Womack family for helping support FDS this month. All the families were presented an Advent calendar today from the Pastoral Care committee. The next children's program will be Dec 4 when we will return to the Testimony of Peace.
- December 4 & 18—Peace
- December 18—holiday program—10am - noon
- There were 5 families with 9 kids present at the November 20 children's program. Many thanks to Lisa and Drew Grundlach for bringing in cleaned oyster shells and paint so the kids could decorate the shells as Christmas ornaments. The children have been making their own art to sell at the December 3 Art Show at Third Haven. Also thanks to the Virdee/Whalen family and to the James Womack family for helping support FDS this month. All the families were presented an Advent calendar today from the Pastoral Care committee. The next children's program will be Dec 4 when we will return to the Testimony of Peace.
- December 1 [Thursday]: Conversations on Race is going on the road. We're partnering with the Academy Art Museum for our next facilitated discussion about the impact of race on our lives and in our community. 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Academy Art Museum (106 South Street, Easton). Light meal and refreshments will be provided. New and returning participants are welcome. Register here.
- Spiritual Journeys: Ben Tilghman will share his Spiritual journey, on December 4. The Worship and Ministry Committee plans to continue Spiritual journey presentations in 2023.
- December 7 [Wednesday], A conversation about White Fragility:
Friends Center, 1501 Cherry St, Philadelphia, PA 19102
7:00pm to 8:30pm, doors open at 6:30pm a livestream will be available
Join authors Toni Graves Williamson, Ali Michael, and Dr. Robin DiAngelo (virtual) for a conversation about White Fragility (Adapted for Young Adults): Why Understanding Racism Can Be So Hard for White People. RSVP Here.
News of Friends, or friends of Friends:
- Please Hold In The Light: This is to notify of the passing of Katy (Kathy) Kemp at Talbot Hospice this weekend after a long illness. Katy was the mother of Sarah Kemp Newton and former wife of Drake Kemp. Please hold her and her family, especially her daughter, Sarah Kemp Newton, in the light.
- Please hold Steve Meixner's Mother and their family in the light.
Gretchen Meixner was 99 years old, and is survived by her husband of 80 years, David, all six of her children, 9 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren, who lovingly called her Dandy, the name given to her by her first grandchild. Gretchen and David raised their family near Philadelphia, then retired to the Tampa Bay area, and enjoyed an active retirement for 34 years. She was a community volunteer, award winning stained glass åartist, and state champion lawn bowler. She was active, lucid and alert until her passing. - Our condolences to Susan Dabney on the loss of her son Robert following surgery. Please hold the family in the Light.
- Please hold in the Light our beloved member M. Joyce Zeigler and her family. She passed away September 2. A Memorial Service for Jovce Zeigler will be held at Third Haven on Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 1 PM.
Obituary:
Mary Joyce Crouse Zeigler, formerly of Ridgely, Maryland, passed away at Arcadia Assisted Living in Denton, MD on Friday, September 02, 2022. She was 88 years old.
Born during a blizzard in the sewing room of Mill Meadows Farm, Queen Anne, MD, (now Tuckahoe Equestrian Center) on February 19, 1934, Joyce was the youngest child of Clifton Gibbel Crouse and Esther King Crouse. Growing up on the family dairy farm, she developed a deep love of animals and nature in general, which had a great influence on her future career. She also enjoyed cooking, sewing, and horseback riding.
After graduating from Ridgely High School in 1952, she married Lewis Cherry and had 2 daughters, Patti and Sue.
Joyce's passion for a painting career began in 1959 while taking her first art lessons from Nancy Ascher in Denton, MD. She subsequently followed a lifelong study of technique and beauty, taking classes, lessons and workshops throughout the United States and Canada, especially Scottsdale, Arizona, where she forged lifelong friendships with some of the greatest contemporary Plein Air teachers and painters. In turn, she shared what she had learned and her own teaching endeavors spanned over roughly forty years. Despite traveling all over North America with her oil paints (en Plein Air), she got the most pleasure from depicting livestock, waterfowl and flowers reminiscent of her childhood.
She remarried on May 29, 1969 to Frank D. Zeigler, Jr., who helped her realize her artistic potential and dreams of travel. After working as a bank teller in Ridgely and Denton as well as Frank's secretary in his Nationwide Insurance business in Denton, she began to enjoy biennial national and international travel with her oldest sister Helena, which lasted for several decades.
Having grown up in 4-H, Homemakers Club and in her mother's kitchen, she mastered her culinary skills. She especially loved baking a wide variety of cookies and delighting people at innumerable social functions. She loved to entertain large groups of friends and family, trying out new recipes with an artistic tweak of ingredients that was legendary. She enjoyed highlighting her skills when she and Frank opened their home as Dunning Studio Bed and Breakfast in the early 90's, where they entertained hundreds of guests—educators, artists, writers, musicians from all over the world.
In 1983, she and five other professional artists (Martha Hudson, Roberta (Bobbie) Seger, Mary Ekroos, Barbara Jablin and Betty Ruhl) agreed to take a trip to Smith Island, MD, to paint together. They were so productive and had so much fun that they named themselves The Traveling Brushes and traveled to scores of places over several decades, from the Chesapeake Bay area to Nantucket and Colorado. Their "sisterhood" was sustained for the rest of their lives.
In addition to her many awards, in 2015 she was presented with a Governor's Citation from Larry Hogan's office for 50 years of creating and sharing oil paintings depicting Maryland's Eastern Shore scenery and wildlife. She was a charter member and annual exhibitor of the Waterfowl Festival in Easton, MD and the Oxford Fine Arts Show. Joyce also regularly exhibited in the Chestertown Wildlife Show, Chincoteague Art Show, East Carolina Wildlife Show, the Ward World Wildlife Exhibition, the Swiss Bear Wildlife Art Show, among numerous others.
She was also a member of Oil Painters of America, Plein Air Painters of America, Academy of the Arts, Working Artist Forum, Maryland Federation of Arts, Delaware Foundation of the Visual Arts, Caroline County Arts Council, and various other groups.
As a member of Third Haven Society of Friends, Joyce and Frank often participated in many Peace marches in Washington, DC and New York City.
She is survived by her daughters, Patti Cherry Shaffer of Greensboro, MD, and Sue Ellen Cherry (Richard Smith) of Ridgely, MD, a step daughter, Ellen Zeigler Jones (Larry) of Richlands, NC, six grandchildren: Brian Jewel (Meredith) of Kissimmee, FL, Michael Jewell (Brianne) of Linthicum, MD, John "J.B." Bishop (Cassie) of Goldsboro, MD, Cody Bishop (Amber) of Greensboro, MD, Wade Myers (Emily Eisenacher) of Arnold, MD, and Alex Smith of Ridgely, MD; 4 great grandchildren: Lizzie Jewell, Kyle Jewell, Damian White and Gracie Bishop. Also surviving her are 2 of her siblings, Lois Teeter of Kingman, AZ and Merle Crouse of St. Cloud, FL., and a large extended family.
In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her beloved husband on June 29, 2017, and her sister Helena Hand Bak in 2016. Her sister, Verna Calloway, passed away on September 5, 2022.
A memorial celebration in the manner of Friends will be held at Third Haven Friends Meeting House, 405 S. Washington St. in Easton on Saturday, October 15, 2022. The time of the celebration will be determined and announced later. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Joyce's memory to: Third Haven Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 2379, Easton, MD 21601, or Third Haven Meeting House, P.O. Box 2379, Easton, MD 21601. 
In the Light: Margaret Farquhar Adelfio
"Please let the Meeting know that my mother died on Saturday in Palermo, Italy. She was a vibrant, creative, and beautiful 96 years old. She lay down in bed to take an afternoon nap and never woke up. Third Haven meant a lot to my mother as did her childhood Sandy Spring Meeting. There will be a Meeting for Worship to honor her at SSM: The service for my mother will be at 11 am on August 27." Luisa Adelfio- Please hold Clay Owens and his mother in the light. They have lost close family members in the past two years including Clay's father, who died earlier this summer and his step-father, Lee Cooper, who died in early August.
- Please hold Steve Escher and his family in the Light. He passed away August 10, 2022. A Memorial Service for Steve Escher will be held at Third Haven on Sunday, September 25, 2022 at 1 PM. The service will be held in the Old Meeting House and on Zoom.
Stephen Martin Escher, Jr. Obituary:
Stephen was born May 27, 1924 died August 10, 2022 at the age of 98 peacefully in his home on the beloved Lowe's Farm. Stephen was born in Trenton, New Jersey to Stephen Martin Escher Sr. and Anna Bernhardt Escher (both predeceased) both immigrants from Romania, which was part of the Austria-Hungary Empire at the time.
Stephen married Jane Virginia (Scudder) Escher on October 7, 1950 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Jane preceded him in death on March 21, 2021, after celebrating their 70th Wedding Anniversary in October 2020. Stephen would say, "the key to a good marriage is communication, let's talk about it." Stephen is survived by his son Stephen Martin Escher III and his wife Patricia and daughter Virginia Shaw and her husband Douglas, their 3 children, William Shaw, Elizabeth Morris, her husband Ray and their new baby, Amelia, May Shaw and her fiancé Mason Hoppe. There are other family members including niece Janney Groome and nephew Roger Groome and other cousins.
Stephen was a man of peace and religion. He prayed daily for everyone. "I'll pray for you," was his saying after having a conversation. Stephen enjoyed classical music, old western movies, ice cream, and birds.
Stephen Escher, Jr. worked many jobs during his long life, most notably as a traffic engineer with DVRPC in Philadelphia. In addition to those careers, Stephen was a farmer, co-owner of a family poultry business, mail delivery, steel mill worker, and a real estate agent. He was a long-time member of the Easton Elks Lodge 1622 and a member of the 3rd degree of the Knights of Columbus. What gave him great pleasure in his later years was caring for the farm's birds and cutting the several acres of lawn around the farmhouse on his John Deer mower, which he was able to do until a few days before his passing.
He was devoted to his family and friends. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, September 25, 2022 from 1:00pm until 3:00pm at Third Haven Friends Meeting House in Easton, MD. - First Day School welcomes our youngest member, Leila born to Kulveen Virdee and Luke Whalen on July 2, 2021. She joins older brothers Daven and Fio.
- In The Light:
Our revered member, Esther Leeds Cooperman died on June 21. Please hold her and her family in the light. Her daughter, Emily Cooperman writes, "Good Job, dear I Leeds. All your trials are over." Please click here to read her obituary. Memorial Service for Esther Cooperman will be Saturday, September 10th, at 2pm at Crosslands Life Care Community, 1660 E Street Rd, Kennett Square, PA 19348 . - Let us all hold Connie Lewis and Larry in the light.
- Please Hold In The Light: Please hold in the Light the family of our beloved member Mark Beck who passed away on December 16.
Events at Third Haven:
Be sure to check out the Calendar for more events not listed here!
- Saturday, December 3rd, 8:30am to 11am: Fall Clean-up Day
The Property and Grounds Committee will hold cleanup day from 8:30, to 11, in the morning. Please join us to help improve our beautiful grounds. - Saturday, December 3rd, 11am to 3pm: Third Haven Friends Art Show & Sale 2022
Join us for the Art Show & Sale on Saturday, December 3rd from 11am-3pm in the Common Room. Third Haven Friends Meeting affiliated artists will be displaying their artwork & crafts. Paintings, prints, pottery, glasswork, baskets, photography, knit items, holiday gifts, baked goods and more will be for sale. There will be many affordable handmade items and the First Day School has made ornaments! Please consider shopping for your holiday gifts at this event. By purchasing items at this event, you will be supporting artists who will donate a portion of their artwork sales to Third Haven. These donations will help fund the renovation of our historic buildings and grounds. This event is free and open to the public. Please share the invitation! If you are interested in participating or have questions, please contact: Marie Leonard. - Sunday, December 4th, 11:30am: Spiritual Journey
Ben Tilghman will share his Spiritual journey, at the rise of meeting for worship after hospitality, on December 4.
Announcements from Third Haven's Committees:
- From our Treasurer/Budget & Finance:
- The Budget and Finance committee is pleased to note that we finished fiscal year 2021-22 in excellent shape. Income was 101.5% of our budgeted income of $70,250.00, and expenses were 100.1% of budgeted expenses at $70,250. We ended the year with a surplus of $992.73. Actual expenses showed a fairly wide variation, both positive and negative, from the budgeted amount, indicating that we need to pay closer attention to our budgeting process, but happily, the variations were on both sides of the ledger. The two major overages were in Communications and Planning. I both cases the overages were the result of deliberate decisions on our part which took into account the underages in other categories. Many thanks to all for making FY 21-22 a financial success.
- The following are now available: FY 2022-2023 Budget, Income & Expenses Budget vs. Actual Year-to-Date, 6/19/22
- How to Support Our Quaker Meeting:
Since its incorporation in 1948, the Trustees of Third Haven Monthly Meeting have been able to grow an endowment fund for the support of the Meeting through gifts, bequests and thoughtful investing. Thanks to these financial reserves, the Trustees are able to pay the annual insurance bill and assist each year with capital expenses that are beyond the budget of the Property and Grounds Committee. Projects have ranged in size from recent improvements to the Common Room to the 1990's major restoration of the Old Meeting House, at a cost of $435,000.
The majority of the funds held by the Trustees are invested in three accounts at Friends Fiduciary Corporation, a Quaker non-profit organization that provides socially responsible investment services to Friends meetings, schools and organizations. Third Haven Friends Meeting also has been judicious in its expenditures and managed investments, some of which are held at Friends Fiduciary as well.
Friends Fiduciary offers help with Planned Giving for individual Friends. The Trustees of Third Haven Meeting's mission of preservation of our historic property and Third Haven Friends Meeting, our active Quaker meeting, are certainly two worthy recipients of our donations.
Gifts to the Trustees are vital for maintaining and improving our buildings and grounds. Donors may consult this pamphlet for help "letting their lives speak" during their estate and contemporary donation planning. Please consider an outright gift or a planned gift to the Trustees of Third Haven Meeting, c/o Diana Rein, Treasurer, 9249 High Banks Drive, Easton, Md. 21601
Gifts to Third Haven are essential to sustaining our operating budget. Donations are encouraged annually and through estate planning to Third Haven Friends Meeting, Cynthia Quast, Treasurer, P.O. Box 2379, Easton, Md. 21601.
- Thoughts on a more Settled Meeting: Quakers have come up with practices that are most conducive to a settled meeting. Please review the following link.
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.
- There were 5 families with 9 kids present at the November 20 children's program. Many thanks to Lisa and Drew Grundlach for bringing in cleaned oyster shells and paint so the kids could decorate the shells as Christmas ornaments. The children have been making their own art to sell at the December 3 Art Show at Third Haven. Also thanks to the Virdee/Whalen family and to the James Womack family for helping support FDS this month. All the families were presented an Advent calendar today from the Pastoral Care committee. The next children's program will be Dec 4 when we will return to the Testimony of Peace.
- December 4 & 18—Peace
- December 18—holiday program—10am - noon
- 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:
- November 24, Thanksgiving Meals:
Asbury Methodist Church is resuming preparation and delivery of Thanksgiving meals to those in need in our community. Third Haven is part of an Interfaith Coalition who are working with Asbury to prepare and deliver meals for approximately 200 people. We still need people to prepare some of the food and bring it to Asbury, 18 S. Higgins St., Easton, left rear entrance, at 8:30am on Thanksgiving morning. We will also need servers to dish up the food into take out containers and people to deliver the food around Easton. If you would like to sign up to help or have questions, please contact Cynthia Quast. - 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 group would benefit from added members to replace the ones we've lost in the past couple years. Each volunteer works with a partner about once a month for about two hours. It involves checking books in and out with contact only with detention center staff. If you have time and inclination to join us please contact Stephanie French or Molly Brian. - Help Needed to Reopen Asbury:
Work at the Asbury United Methodist Church in Easton is nearing completion. Friends helped last year with major fundraising which enabled complete safety renovations for stable floors and improved indoor air quality. During renovations in 2021, town inspectors identified and required certain design changes which have delayed reopening and increased construction costs by $50,000. More than half of that burden has been raised. A funding gap of just over $20,000 remains. The contractor believes that temporary access for congregants can be granted for use of the sanctuary in September, with completion of the first floor fellowship hall and kitchen some time in October. If Friends are moved to help reopen the doors for Asbury's food mission, contributions should be sent to:
Historic Easton Inc., P.O. Box 1071, Easton, MD 21601, marked "Asbury Building Fund".
Alternately, a GoFundMe fundraiser for Historic Easton's Help Reopen the Church that Feeds Our Neighbors Campaign can be accessed by clicking here. - Talbot Interfaith Shelter:
- Talbot Interfaith Shelter July statistics:
We are currently serving 48 people, including: 10 single individuals, 12 families, 22 children—guests range in age from 3 months to 60 years old. Third Haven is volunteering the day-time staffing and dinners for the Shelter each month on the 17th. Don't forget to help out. Please contact Sarah Sayre for more information. The Testimonies & Concerns Committee has agreed to reimburse the cost of food to anyone who prepares a meal for Talbot Interfaith Shelter. Our committee just needs the receipts. - Letter in Support of Talbot Interfaith Shelter
- Good News from the Talbot Interfaith Shelter: "We had a hearing with the Town of Easton Board of Zoning Appeals (BOZA) to determine whether we would receive a special exception permit to operate a second shelter facility at 109 Goldsborough Street, directly next door to Easton's Promise. We are thrilled to announce that the Board of Zoning Appeals voted unanimously to award us our permit, and that we will be moving forward with the purchase of 109 Goldsborough!" For more details, click here.
- Talbot Interfaith Shelter July statistics:
- 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.
- Talbot Interfaith Shelter:
Talbot Interfaith Shelter is opening their second house! Talbot Interfaith Shelter will be able to open the doors of "Evelyn's Place" right next door to the original shelter, "Easton's Promise." This means that more people will be able to benefit from the extraordinary program TIS provides to help people get from homelessness to self-support. For Third Haven Friends Meeting this means that our commitment must increase as well. Instead of every other month, alternating with Grace Lutheran Church, our meeting will provide dinner to one of the houses every month. We will work with Grace Lutheran to fill the shift teams. Sarah will not be in town on June 17, July 17, or August 17 this summer. We need volunteers from Third Haven to take the lead on these three dinners. Sarah has plenty of ideas for menus which can be easily put together, as well as instruction for delivery. The number and ages of the dinner guests will be provided a week or so ahead. Please contact Sarah Sayre for more information. The Testimonies & Concerns Committee has agreed to reimburse the cost of food to anyone who prepares a meal for Talbot Interfaith Shelter. Our committee just needs the receipts. - 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:
- Legislative survey by Quaker Voice of Maryland:
Quaker Voice of Maryland is taking an input survey, and asks F/friends across Maryland to share with us what legislative topics speak to them. Learn more and complete the survey by going to our website: https://www.quakervoicemd.org/get-involved/provide-input-on-issues. - Updates from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM):
- Fall Continuing Sessions:
November 4th – 6th, 2022
Join Friends of all ages from across Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in our first fully hybrid (online & in-person) Sessions! Our Sessions theme "Living communally with our neighbors, seeking to build beloved community", calls us to come together in the joyful work of reweaving our connections. - An Urgent Call to the Religious Society of Friends:
This call to action from PYM was authored by a group of nineteen Quakers, who see forces at work in our country that undermine some of our basic values of equality, truth-telling, and deep listening. - Supporting Children & Teens After Violent News:
In the last two weeks we have been repeatedly confronted with gun violence. The 3 recent events have happened in the kinds of everyday places that should be safe—the grocery store, church, and school. How do we talk to children about gun violence? - Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Response to the Crisis in Ukraine: Quakers from around the world are in anguish and deeply concerned with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Our hearts are with the people of Ukraine and Quakers in the affected areas in this dark time. As a historic peace church, we join our call for peace in the world to their cries for peace and help.
- Quaker Fund for Indigenous Communities:
Quakers from all parts of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting who support Indigenous communities through grants as well as advocacy. have adapted a new name, Quaker Fund For Indigenous Communities (formerly known as the Quaker Indian Affairs Committee). The Quaker Fund for Indigenous Communities provides seed money for projects identified and implemented by Native communities in the Philadelphia area and throughout North, Central and South America. These include projects to support language and culture so that children and youth benefit from the transmission of unique heritages from elders in their communities. This is an area with urgency as the elders of Native communities pass away and take with them irreplaceable knowledge. The committee hopes to build the fund, based on restricted endowments, to develop long term projects. - Quakerism and Constructive Conflict Addressed by Dr. Sa'ed Atshan
Dr. Sa'ed Atshan offered the closing keynote to 106 Friends at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's 341st Annual Sessions with a talk on managing conflict within the Religious Society of Friends. He spoke of the powerful healing force of a humble, empathetic approach to difficult conversations. - Introducing Annual Sessions 2021 Keynote Speakers:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's 341st Annual Sessions will be held virtually this year from July 27 through August 1, 2021. This year we have five keynote speakers, one for each day of Sessions week. We will be offering five and a half days of programming—including a retreat, All-Ages worship, business, youth programs, affinity groups, worship sharing, and bible study. - Part 2: Where are we going? Supporting Families and Religious Education in Meetings
This is the second of a two-part story focused on local meetings and the people who support children and youth programs and families in their community. Part two looks ahead to what's next in building all-ages spiritual community, with ideas and tools for meetings to use as they think about continuing or resuming RE programs in the fall. How can we balance new possibilities, health and safety, and support for adults who care for young people? - Help Us Address Racism
A sprint (a goal-oriented short-term team that tackles a project and does the work quickly) has formed under the care of PYM's Administrative Council to propose ways for our yearly meeting community to intentionally hold the work of anti-racism and anti-oppression. Learn more on how you can help. - Pathways to Ending Gun Violence: Legislative Solutions
On Saturday, April 10, the Legislative Policy Collaborative of PYM sponsored a virtual workshop on Pathways to Ending Gun Violence: Legislative Solutions. Nearly 120 people registered for this event—clearly, this is a topic of great concern to F/friends, as representatives from more than 30 meetings tuned in to get informed and to get involved. - Epistles And Minutes:
Before the first reading of the PYM epistle on Saturday night, PYM rising clerk, Melissa Rycroft, described an epistle as a letter that is "not written for those of us in PYM. It is our outgoing letter to others in the world". Epistles are not meant to be a recitation of everything that happened, instead minutes capture those details. Nor are epistles a travel-log or documentary. Melissa emphasized that an epistle actually tracks how the spirit has moved among us.
- Fall Continuing Sessions:
- From Pendle Hill:
- October 14 [Friday] Fall 2022 at Pendle Hill, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Spiritual Formation Retreat:
This year's focus is the formation of Spiritual Companion Groups as a tool to discover and revitalize the essence of Quaker practice. During our time together, we will explore these queries: Why are we Friends? How do we embody Quaker faith and practice in daily life? How do Companion Groups support our spiritual growth and practice? Please Join Us- When: Friday, October 14, 2022- 4PM – Sunday October 16, 2022 - 2PM
- Who? Those seeking to deepen their spiritual lives. This is an excellent retreat for those new to Spiritual Formation, past participants of the program and those in ongoing SF groups. It is a great way to revitalize your group. It is not necessary to be a Friend/Quaker.
- For more Information and to Register - https://secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=wxN9N2.
- September 15, 2022 is the last day of registration, space is limited.
- Live Streaming links
- Online Meeting for Worship at Pendle Hill: In these challenging times, with social distancing particularly important for the safety of all our community members, Pendle Hill will now be offering online Meeting for Worship via Zoom each morning at 8:30am from the comfort of your home.
- October 14 [Friday] Fall 2022 at Pendle Hill, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Spiritual Formation Retreat:
- 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.