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• Mid-week Worship

  • When
    April 21, 2021
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    8:00 PM - 8:30 PM (EDT)

  Over-Zoomed? Join BFM Friends’ “low tech” email mid-week worship on Wednesdays from 8:00 to 8:30 p.m. Each of us worships in our homes without video or audio. While some simply join in spirit, those wishing to touch base with the others receive emails at the start and end of worship. At rise of meeting, email participants are invited to worship-share via reply-all with the evening's email group.

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• Memorial Mtg for David Zarembka

  • When
    April 24, 2021
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    1:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    via Zoom

  On Saturday, April 24 at 1:00 p.m., a Memorial Meeting for Worship will be held to honor the life of David Zarembka. David (and his wife Gladys Kamonya) both died in western Kenya within a week of each other of Covid. 
  

  For the Zoom link for the BFM memorial, please see your weekly Bulletin or send us a note via our Contact Us form.

  The meeting will open at 12:30 to view rotating slides of David's life. 

  There are wonderful tributes from FUM staff in Kenya and the US at

  https://www.friendsunitedmeeting.org/news/david-zarembka-and-gladys-kamonya Other background information is available at https://www.mykeeper.com/profile/DavidZarembka/ including reference to a memorial meeting for both David and Gladys at St. Louis Friends Meeting on May 8.

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• Meeting for Worship

  • When
    April 25, 2021
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    11:00 AM (EDT)

  Bethesda Friends continue to worship together each Sunday at 11:00 a.m. Friends can participate by videoconference using Zoom, or join a socially distanced group meeting outside under a large tent on the Sidwell Friends Lower School campus.

              Zoom meeting for worship. Friends who will be joining worship via Zoom are invited to log on beginning at 10:45 a.m. for the chance to chat before settling into silence around 10:55 a.m. There will be another opportunity to chat with one another at the rise of Meeting for Worship. For the Zoom link, send an email to contact. It is a real joy to see so many out-of-town Friends joining us each week.

              By telephone. You can join the Zoom Meeting for Worship by telephone (without video) by dialing 301-715-8592. When prompted for the Meeting ID, enter 882 9784 9424 followed by #. You will be prompted to enter your unique participant ID. Press # to skip this step and join the meeting. If you get a busy signal, please try again; it simply means that someone else was trying to join by phone at the same time as you.

              Opportunity to worship outside. Friends have the option to worship together outside under a large, open-sided tent at the Sidwell Friends Lower School. Friends participating in this in-person worship must wear a face mask at all times and maintain social distancing. If you would like to participate in person, you must register in advance.

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• Coordinating Gathering

  • When
    April 25, 2021
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    1:00 PM (EDT)

  Representatives of most BFM committees meet during the week before Meeting for Business to discuss the upcoming agenda and to share our reflections on the spiritual state of our community, specific tasks, and Quaker processes. These meetings are open to all who wish to attend. There will be one at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 25.       

   

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• Pendle Hill: Fierce Biblical Women Speak Power Today

  • When
    April 25, 2021
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    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (EDT)

  For five Sunday afternoons, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. from April ll to May 9, there will be workshops on Fierce Biblical Women Speak Power Today. The sessions are described this way:  In the Hebrew and Christian Bible, many women – sometimes nameless and often forgotten – use their strength to challenge systems and claim justice. Whether covert and quiet or bold and public, most seem fearless! We will draw upon the stories of fierce biblical women and the fierce women of our own lives. What made them fierce and how did they ground their power? Through collage, journaling, sharing, and listening, we open space for these women to empower us today. In doing so, may we dare to find our own fierce place in the world. Here is the link:

  https://pendlehill.org/events/fierce-biblical-women-speak-power-today-2/?bblinkid=249303711&bbemailid=29667691&bbejrid=1892637409 or https://pendlehill.org or John Meyer, the Communications and Outreach Director at 610-566-4507, ext 129.

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• Radical Spirituality: The Early History of the Quakers

  • Start
    April 25, 2021
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    7:00 PM (EDT)
  • End
    May 16, 2021
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    (EDT)
  • Location
    Free: online

  Lancaster University and the Woodbrooke Quaker Center in England are offering a free online course on early Quakers, starting Sunday April 25 and lasting three weeks (access for five weeks). You do each week's work on your own at your own pace. To register for the course, go to:

  https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/quakers.  Scroll down to see course summary and comments from former students. 

   Do you want to join a BFM group to talk about what we have learned each week? Meet via Zoom on Thursdays at 7:00 p.m., starting April 29. Please contact Alex B. or use our Contact Us form.  

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• Experiment With Light Sessions

  • When
    April 25, 2021
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM (EDT)

  How do we quiet our brains enough to hear the still, small voice within us? How might we deepen our experience of meeting for worship? Experiment With Light is a meditative and centering practice based upon Rex Ambler’s book Light to Live By, which describes early Quaker meditative habits and translates them into a highly accessible process of clearness and understanding. There will be two Sunday evening sessions in April, on April 11 and 25, from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Starting at 7:30 p.m., you can follow the prompts at home and write or draw responses you have experienced during those prompts. Here is the link to the prompts:

  https://experiment-with-light.org.uk/meditations/ We usually use the meditation on the individual in modern language, full length, 37 minute version. Then around 8:30 p.m., if you would like to worship-share from your meditation experience and want to join in a Zoom gathering, please use the links below .  We anticipate that part of the gathering could go until 9:15 p.m.

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• Mid-week Worship

  • When
    April 28, 2021
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    8:00 PM - 8:30 PM (EDT)

  Over-Zoomed? Join BFM Friends’ “low tech” email mid-week worship on Wednesdays from 8:00 to 8:30 p.m. Each of us worships in our homes without video or audio. While some simply join in spirit, those wishing to touch base with the others receive emails at the start and end of worship. At rise of meeting, email participants are invited to worship-share via reply-all with the evening's email group.

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• Discuss online course: The Early History of the Quakers

  • When
    April 29, 2021
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    7:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Via Zoom

   Do you want to join a BFM group to talk about what we've learned during the online course listed below? Meet via Zoom on Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. on April 29, May 6, May 13.  Please contact Alex B. or use our Contact Us form. 

  Free ONLINE COURSE: Lancaster University and the Woodbrooke Quaker Center in England are offering an online course on early Quakers, starting Sunday April 25 and lasting three weeks (access for five weeks). You do each week's work on your own at your own pace. To register for the course, go to: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/quakers.  Scroll down to see course summary and comments from former students. 

  
  

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• Junior Young Friends Conference

  • When
    April 30, 2021
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    7:00 PM (EDT)

  Baltimore Yearly Meeting hosts a gathering of 6th to 8th graders from Friends Meetings in this area three or four times per year. This is a fun way to see friends from other Meetings or camp, make new friends, and retreat from the pressures of teenage life, while still developing skills around living in community and having a lot of fun. There will be a conference at or near Camp Catoctin on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, April 30 to May 2. Please register as soon as possible:

  https://www.bym-rsf.org/what_we_do/yutes/jyfs/jyfregister.html For more details: Sunshine Klein (youthprograms@bym-rsf.org, 301-774- 7663).

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• Mtg for Business

  • When
    May 02, 2021
  •  
    9:00 AM - 10:45 AM (EDT)
  • Location
    via Zoom

  Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business will usually be held on first Sunday of the month at 9:00 a.m. (via Zoom until the Meeting House re-opens).  Committee Reports and other matters are discussed. All BFM Friends are welcome. Please use our Contact Us Form if you need Zoom access information. 

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• Discuss online course: The Early History of the Quakers

  • When
    May 06, 2021
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    7:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Via Zoom

   Do you want to join a BFM group to talk about what we've learned during the online course listed below? Meet via Zoom on Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. on April 29, May 6, May 13.  Please contact Alex B. or use our Contact Us form. 

  Free ONLINE COURSE: Lancaster University and the Woodbrooke Quaker Center in England are offering an online course on early Quakers, starting Sunday April 25 and lasting three weeks (access for five weeks). You do each week's work on your own at your own pace. To register for the course, go to: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/quakers.  Scroll down to see course summary and comments from former students. 

  
  

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• Book Group

  • When
    May 08, 2021
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    1:30 PM - 3:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Via Zoom

  The Quaker Book Group meets monthly, usually on the second Saturday, at 1:30 p.m. via Zoom while the Meetinghouse is closed.  Newcomers are always welcome (even if you have not read the book). Since the time and date can change, please confirm with Leslie S. before coming or join the BFM-Book-Group List Serve. By joining the list serve, you can participate in the online discussions, read the post-meeting summary, and help choose the next book.  To sign up, go to this Google Group and send a request to join the group.  We read a mix of books by Quakers, books about Quakerism, and books that speak to Quaker values and concerns. Copies of the books and a printout of the discussion are available in the BFM Library. For more information, use our Contact Us form. 

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• Discuss online course: The Early History of the Quakers

  • When
    May 13, 2021
  •  
    7:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Via Zoom

   Do you want to join a BFM group to talk about what we've learned during the online course listed below? Meet via Zoom on Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. on April 29, May 6, May 13.  Please contact Alex B. or use our Contact Us form. 

  Free ONLINE COURSE: Lancaster University and the Woodbrooke Quaker Center in England are offering an online course on early Quakers, starting Sunday April 25 and lasting three weeks (access for five weeks). You do each week's work on your own at your own pace. To register for the course, go to: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/quakers.  Scroll down to see course summary and comments from former students. 

  
  

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