Announcements last updated March 25th, 2025:
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New Announcements:
- Construction on Brick Meeting House:
Access to the Brick Meeting House is now limited to the front door and following the driveway path to the Common Room. Please avoid this work site. - News of Friends:
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- First Day School Updates:
- March 30: Calling all tree lovers. On Sunday March 30, Sheryl Southwick will lead the children (and any adults!) on a tree wisdom experience. We will walk the grounds examining our wonderful tree world and all they offer- sight, sound , touch exploration. March 30 Following the outdoor tree program, we will rejoin Meeting for a large Spring potluck honoring new members and attenders from 11:15-1pm in the common room. We hope to see all families as we celebrate the returning of Spring and being together.
- April 20: Easter celebration
If you have an idea that may contribute to the longevity of our youth and Quaker faith, please contact Sarah Hilderbrand or Susan Claggett. We LOVE having you worship and learn with us !!
Third Haven Summer Mindfulness Camp for the 2025 season. First Day School is looking to start a working group to facilitate our annual summer camp. The group will help with all areas of promoting the camp and will meet via Zoom at times to be determined before Spring. Topics to be discussed include the possibility of growing the camp beyond the recent one week session. If you are interested and have gifts to share, please contact Susan Claggett or Kristen Hawkinson. - Sharing Spiritual Journeys:
The Worship and Ministry Committee (WMC) will resume Sharing Spiritual Journeys. The presenter is invited to tell the story of her or his Spiritual Journey and coming to Third Haven Friends Meeting. This entails some autobiographical information and reflections on Spiritual developments and milestones. Length and detail vary a good deal. These sessions customarily take 20-30 minutes with questions from attendees and responses from the presenter. Third Haven Friends appreciate learning more about one another through these presentations. Attendance has been strong and interest deep. The sharing of Spiritual journeys helps strengthen our Quaker faith community at Third Haven. The Spiritual Journey presentations follow hospitality on First Day, location to be determined by the presenter, common room or meetinghouse. The presenters scheduled so far for 2025 are Jonathan Williams, April 27; and Clinton Pettus, May 25. If you are willing to make a Spiritual Journey presentation, contact Tom Corl. - Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Spiritual Formation Retreat:
Register for the Spiritual Formation Spring Retreat 2025: Finding Peace and Hope in Spiritual Community
Friends, there is still space for this retreat at Pendle Hill. Scholarship help is available!
Finding Peace and Hope in Spiritual Community: Annual Spiritual Formation Retreat, April 4 - 6, 2025
Pendle Hill | Wallingford, Pennsylvania
To register: Spiritual Formation Spring Retreat 2025 - Care Basket for Neighborhood Service Center Donations:
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 organizations for action: The following organizations represent Quakers nationally, statewide and locally. Their websites reflect current activities and opportunities to participate.
- March 28 (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:
- 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.
- 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. - First Day School Updates:
We have started our children's program at Third Haven every Sunday at 10am. January's theme is "Gifts". From Jan- March we hope to play "Secret Friend". Your child will be paired with a “secret Friend” from Quaker Meeting (an adult) The pair will correspond and share gifts.
If you are interested in spending more time with Quaker families please check out this message below from our Kristen Simmons the PYM Religious Ed coordinator: And if any of your families are interested, we have a Family Overnight coming up on February 22-23. It's held at Camp Onas, and it's a great way for families to get to know other children/parents around the Yearly Meeting. Please click here for more information.
If you have an idea that may contribute to the longevity of our youth and Quaker faith, please contact Sarah Hilderbrand or Susan Claggett. We LOVE having you worship and learn with us !! - 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.
- The Guide for Giving:
Announcements about Local Non-profits or Faith Organizations:
- Shrove Tuesday at Asbury United Methodist:
Friends are invited to join Asbury in celebrating Shrove Tuesday, March 4 with a pancake dinner from 4-7 p.m. This is a fund raiser for the United Women in Faith missions. - Climate Change Activity If you'd like to add just a little elbow grease to dealing with climate change, Talbot Green Hands will be screwing together the frame of a new composter and parting-out the old at the Presbyterian Community Garden Tuesday (7/23) in the afternoon. Bring a battery drill with a 25T bit to assemble and/or a fencing tool or needle nose pliers to re-use the hardware cloth.
- 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. - 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):
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Spiritual Formation Retreat:
Register for the Spiritual Formation Spring Retreat 2025: Finding Peace and Hope in Spiritual Community
Friends, there is still space for this retreat at Pendle Hill. Scholarship help is available!
Finding Peace and Hope in Spiritual Community: Annual Spiritual Formation Retreat, April 4 - 6, 2025
Pendle Hill | Wallingford, Pennsylvania
To register: Spiritual Formation Spring Retreat 2025 - 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.
- 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.
- 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.