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11:00 - 12:00 on Sunday Meeting for Worship. Bethesda Friends continue worship together each Sunday. Friends can participate by videoconference using Zoom, or we will have a small group who have registered to meet outside under a tent on the Lower School campus. Simultaneously, Friends who wish to worship in other settings or individually at home should do so knowing that others are sharing in worship.
At noon, all are welcome to open the BFM list serve and share their messages, joys and sorrows, and announcements. It has been a real joy to see so many people, including out-of-town Friends, and some families with kids, joining us each week.
Friends joining via Zoom are invited to log in at 10:45 to chat before settling into silence around 10:55 a.m. There is also an informal chat time at the Rise of Meeting at about 12:15.
See the most recent email Bulletin for access information and a current link to the Zoom Meeting for Worship. We will share joys and sorrows via Zoom and also via the BFM list-serve after Worship. If you have trouble joining the list-serve, please use our "Contact us" form.
Visitors: If you'd like to worship with our community, please use our "Contact us" form and tell us about your interest in Bethesda Friends. We welcome your joining us.
Joys and Sorrows: For those Bethesda Friends worshiping by Zoom, there will be an opportunity to share joys and sorrows with one another at about 12:00 noon in the Zoom meeting. For Bethesda Friends worshiping at home on their own, without connecting to Zoom, there will be sharing of joys and sorrows on the list-serve. You may want to check the list-serve after the Zoom meeting is over and see what other Friends have said. You might want to add your own joys and sorrows to the list-serve as well. (The list-serve is for BFM members and attenders. For more information, please use our Contact Us form).
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Experiment With Light. 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 center-ing 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. All are welcome to attend. First-time participants find the process quite easy to follow and, often, richly rewarding. On Sunday, January 24th 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 link in the weekly bulletin or Contact Us. We anticipate that part of the gathering could go until 9:15 p.m.
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Anti-racism, Social Justice, and Good Food. Please join this Zoom event at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 24. Naijha Wright-Brown and Crystal Forman from the Black Vegetarian Society of Maryland will give a presentation followed by discussion on the interconnectedness between social justice movements, including resisting food colonialism; the vegan movement in African-American culture; and adopting a plant-based diet. Register here for the Zoom link. https://tinyurl.com/y2mt4z76 The event is sponsored by two Baltimore Yearly Meeting committees: the Working Group on Right Relationship with Animals and the Working Group on Racism.
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6:00-7:00 p.m. on Tuesdays Friends Meeting of Washington Mid-Week Meeting for Worship. To join via Zoom, please email "admin [AT] QuakersDC.org" or see information at http://quakersdc.org/
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8:00-8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays BFM Mid-Week Meeting for Worship. Held virtually (with email) each week. While some of our regulars prefer to simply join in Spirit at the appointed time, others are enjoying the brief connection provided by an email at start and end of worship. At rise of meeting, those on that session's email list who are moved to do so may share experiences by using reply-all. Contact Dot L. (see Directory) for more information.
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Thursdays, January at 7:00 p.m. Bible Study. A Bible Study will meet on Thursdays in January at 7:00 p.m. on Zoom with the Great Courses series, Understanding the Old Testament. The lectures cover Samuel, Kings, Ruth, Esther, and Amos. Newcomers are welcome. Please contact Alex B. for information and the Zoom link.
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| Coordinating Gathering. Representatives of most BFM committees meet
during the week before Meeting for Business to discuss the upcoming agenda (via
Zoom). These meetings are open to all who wish to attend. There will be one on Sunday,
January 31, at 1:00 p.m., via Zoom, in preparation for the Meeting for Business
on February 7. For more details & the Zoom link, contact Lee I. or Jabez M. (see Directory). |
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