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  The Social Concerns Box for JUNE is for the  SOS Children's Villages Palestine

For more than 75 years and in more than 130 countries and territories, SOS Children’s Villages is the world’s largest organization focused on ensuring that children and young people without parental care, or at risk of losing it, grow up with the care, relationships and support they need to become their strongest selves. In more than 540 villages, they provide family-like care and loving homes for children and young people living without adequate parental care. Their mission is to strengthen families to prevent separation, empower the support systems around children, and ensure the successful transition into adulthood so that young people have what they need to become their strongest selves. 

• To donate to this Social Concern, please go to https://www.bethesdafriends.org/Donate-&-Support-the-Meeting, and designate that your contribution is for the June social concern (SOS Children's Villages Palestine). 

Camp Opequon

Special Campaign Fund 

Camp Opequon, one of four Quaker camps managed by Baltimore Yearly Meeting, relocated last year to a new site within Rolling Ridge Conservancy, a property with historic Quaker ties. The new site, a former camp with a lodge and other buildings, requires repairs and improvements.

• Bethesda Friends Meeting has pledged $20,000 to the Camp Opequon Special Campaign.
• For those who would like to make additional much needed donations, individuals can make contributions to BFM's Special Campaign.
• To donate, please go to our online donation page and clearly designate that your contribution is for the Camp Opequon Fund. 

Read more details about the camp and its needs or ask us via our Contact Us form. 

Helping Refugees Group
CALL TO ACTION

The Helping Refugees Group (HRG) has two action lists to help us mobilize in support of refugees

and immigrants in our area 

1. Click here for a broader list of ways that individuals and self-organized groups can undertake refugee and immigrant support in the DC area.
2. We also have a list of specific actions that BFM will begin in Fall 2025, which includes opportunities to volunteer with other folks from BFM at HomesNotBorders, KindWorks, and CASA.  

• Please join us!
• If everyone in our community does ONE ACTION, we will have helped many immigrants on a Meeting-wide basis! 

Please use our Contact Us form for more information.

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 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.