Weekly Announcements for November 4, 2022
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Tomorrow! Interim Meeting, 9:30am - 12:30pm Schedule, agenda, & advance docs online.
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Tomorrow we will gather in-person and online to do the quarterly business of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. The schedule, agenda, and advance documents are available online. Registration is still open.
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Rising from the Ashes: A BYM Programmed Meeting Toward Connection and Repair of the Harms of Racism, Dec 3rd
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Friends will gather on December 3rd to acknowledge and honor the pain of racism experienced by Friends of Color within our Yearly Meeting, to help White Friends see their complicity in that pain, and to take the next steps on the road to repair of our beloved community. The programmed agenda will include silent and spoken worship, music, movement and body practices, deep listening, and the sharing of Testimonies of Complicity. We expect to end on a gathered commitment to next bold steps in living into being an anti-racist faith community.
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Invitations from BYM Unity With Nature Committee
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The Unity with Nature Committee hopes that Friends watch the activity at COP27, the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties, Nov 7-18 as the global community works to improve its chances for earth's health. Interested in environmental issues? Join the next Unity with Nature Committee meeting on November 27 at 8 pm. Email unitywithnature@bym-rsf.org for the zoom link.
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Testimonies to Mercy Series
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Testimonies of Mercy is a seven-part traveling, 2-day retreat series led by Windy Cooler (Sandy Spring Meeting) and a co-presenter from Quaker public ministry. The series invites us to imagine how to reconnect and rebuild our lives together. The series continues this winter with offerings on Equality by BYM STRIDE Coordinator, Khalila Lomax, and Emotional Separateness & Oneness by Kody Hersh. Friends may attend one or all events in the series.
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Friends Foundation for the Aging Awards Grant to BYM End of Life Working Group
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Friends Foundation for the Aging has awarded BYM a grant of $10,000 to support the End of Life Working Group in the publication and printing of their forthcoming book, A Tender Time: Quaker Voices on the End of Life. The new BYM publication builds on the beloved "Langley Hill Booklet" and includes discussions of the practical, spiritual, family, community and pastoral considerations at the end of life. A print copy will be sent to all BYM Meetings and Friends organizations across the country in 2023. Print and digital copies will also be available for purchase online.
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Caste Reading Group Continues this Weds, Nov 9
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The BYM Working Group on Racism invites Friends and local Meeting change groups to the next Caste reading group session, this coming Wednesday. It's not too late to join!
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Plant-based Holiday Meal Suggestions
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Check out these holiday meal suggestions from the members of the Working Group on Right Relationship with Animals. Friends who are new to plant-based cooking might find themselves stumped when planning for the holidays. It turns out that not only does the joy of the season not depend on eating a turkey or a lamb but going the plant-based route can also be quite a time and money saver.
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More News & Notes
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