THE FRIDAY BEE November 15, 2024

When we rise to offer vocal ministry in meeting for worship, we are seeking to give voice to the inbreaking of the Divine within us… Drawing on an experience of the immediate transforming Presence, we are allowing that Life and Power to speak through us into the present moment... This is the growing edge of continuing revelation. As we reach for the river of eternity, it rises to meet us and carries us along. This is the purpose of ministry – to be channels for Love’s continuing birth in the world. – Noah Baker Merrill, 2013

SCHEDULE FOR SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17

10:20am	Greeter	Lisa Holgash and Dudley Burdge
10:30am	Child Care	Starts in kindergarten building across the driveway from Meetinghouse
10:30am	Meeting for Worship	(Hybrid: In-person & on Zoom)
10:50am	First Day School	Older children attend Meeting for Worship with their families until 10:50 am, when their teachers will lead them to the Committee Room. Questions? Please contact Carla Childs. Note: Children of any age are always welcome to join their families in Meeting for Worship.
11:30am	Introductions & Announcements	Jonathan Busser
11:45am	Refreshments	Becky Johnson & family

PROTOCOL FOR MEETING FOR WORSHIP (Zoom, hybrid, in-person)

Please maintain silence as you enter the Zoom meeting or the meetinghouse so Friends can center and settle into worship.

Our current COVID-19 safety measures for the meetinghouse are as follows:

Masks are optional. Feel free to wear one if you wish. We have a supply if you’ve forgotten yours.
If you have a fever or are feeling unwell, please stay home and join our worship on Zoom.

MEETING NEWS & EVENTS

MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR BOB SEELEY – Saturday, November 16, 2:00pm

Join together to remember longtime Germantown Monthly Meeting member, Bob Seeley.

Where? Germantown Friends Meetinghouse
Can’t make it in-person? Join in on Zoom at 2:00 on November 16th.
Reception will follow
Here’s another lovely write-up about Bob Seeley in the Chestnut Hill Local

REPORT ABOUT GMM’s MINUTE Affirming Support for LGBTQIA people

Germantown Monthly Meeting passed a minute of solidarity with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA) community on June 9, 2024. Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting approved the minute as well and sent it on to Yearly Meeting. At Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s (PYM) Continuing Sessions on Saturday, November 9, 2024, the minute was handed out and read. The new Clerk of Yearly Meeting, Nikki Mosgrove, then asked for comments. Several people spoke in support of the minute, some sharing their own experience as part of the LGBTQIA community. At the end of that segment of business the clerk said that we’d be hearing more about it later. I had spoken to Nikki before the meeting began and she had said that she felt very under the weight of the minute and was quite supportive. I spoke to her at the rise of meeting and said that I felt unsatisfied that there had been no action taken on the minute. She said she was in discernment about how to proceed. I offered to help with that discernment, and she was excited by my offer.

I would like to reach out to the meeting community to ask, who else would like to work on discerning next steps on our minute and its dissemination to the rest of Yearly Meeting?

Please let me know. – Karen Lightner, Clerk, gmmclerk@germantownfriends.org

A copy of the Minute is attached to this week’s Friday Bee email, as modified by PQM and presented to PYM.