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  The Social Concerns Box for MARCH IS Right Sharing of world resources

The Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR) is an independent Quaker not-for-profit organization sharing the abundance of God’s love by working for equity through partnerships around the world.  With our meeting's 

donations, RSWR can give grants to women marginalized in Guatemala, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and India to fund micro-enterprise projects.

• Right Sharing’s work is grounded in a sense of stewardship for the world’s material, human, and spiritual resources. The start-up money provided promotes self-sufficiency such as the purchase of seeds, well-digging, or the purchase of animals.
• RSWR provides Friends the means by which we can examine our lives of plenty. It offers a practical outlet to assist and share power with economically poor people (some of whom are Quakers), and come to a deeper understanding of economic discipleship as part of our individual and corporate life as a faith community.
• The RSWR web site also has educational resources for youth and adults. 

To donate to the Social Concerns Box in March, please use this link and clearly designate that your contribution is for the social concern, "RSWR".  If you prefer, you may send your check, payable to Bethesda Friends Meeting, to our Assistant Treasurer, David M. (See your Directory), noting "RSWR" in the memo.

The Peace and Social Justice Committee invites you to a

Gender Spectrum Worship Sharing and Discussion

Sunday, March 8 at 12:30 in the Meeting House after worship

Our Gender Spectrum Worship Sharing and Discussion is an empathy-based, query-driven session designed to help participants understand the experience of being a gender and sexual minority and to better appreciate what these individuals might need from the community. 

• This event supports our ongoing “commit[ment] to deepening our understanding… of trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive individuals and communities,” as stated in our BFM Minute from July 2025 (see https://www.bethesdafriends.org/Belief-Statements-(Minutes).
• It will be led by Danielle Carnes, a member of Friends Meeting of Washington who served with the U.S. Agency for International Development from 2016 to July 2025. She has worked to improve the lives of trans people around the world and to help advance understanding of empathy and gender diverse communities.
• Free resources are on our website. https://www.bethesdafriends.org/Library#pflag
• For more information about this event, see this calendar event or use our Contact Us form. 

Do you want to learn more about Quakers?

Here are several choices

• An introduction to Quakerism via seven brief emails in your inbox. 
• Short QuakerSpeak Videos.
• Quakers Today podcast.
• Thee Quaker podcast. 
• An "anytime" self-guided online class in Quakerism that provides an introduction for newcomers and a refresher for members through a diversity of perspectives.
• Friends Journal website, includes access to their magazine articles.
• A monthly "Worship for Newcomers" aims to support Friends and those new to Quakerism.    
• More resources on our Visitor and Resources pages. 

END OF LIFE ISSUES

• BFM has formed an End of Life Group to provide legal, spiritual, and practical resources to help our community cope with the uncertainties and fears surrounding the end of life. 
• The COVID-19 pandemic significantly elevated concerns about the health of family and friends, and the possibility that they could become gravely ill and die. 
• Although conversations with our loved ones about such a possibility are difficult, it’s important to prepare.