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Memorial Meeting for Worship to Celebrate the Life of Jack Inman. On Saturday, April 10 at 3:00 p.m. You can join the Meeting using the Zoom link in the weekly email Bulletin, or send us a note via our Contact Us form.
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9:00-10:45 on Sunday Meeting for Business. Bethesda F(f)riends will consider various business items via Zoom. How the Spirit will lead us in discernment of issues both large and small is part of the mystery that is the Religious Society of Friends. We will hear the final version of our Spiritual State of the Meeting report, have a second reading of the Racial Justice Donations Committee’s recommendation, the preliminary budget, and a report from Baltimore Yearly Meeting Interim Meeting. All who come to Meeting for Worship are welcome and encouraged to participate in our worshipful sharing of Meeting for Business. For more details and the Zoom link, see the Sunday Bulletin in your email.
11:00 - 12:00 on Sunday Meeting for Worship. Bethesda Friends continue worship together each Sunday. Friends can (a) participate by videoconference using Zoom, or (b) join a physically distanced group outside under a large tent on the Sidwell Friends Lower School campus. (Advance registration is required.) Simultaneously, Friends who wish to worship in other settings or individually at home should do so knowing that others are sharing in worship.
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 30 minute chat time at the Rise of Meeting at about 12:15.
- See the most recent email Bulletin for access information and a current Zoom link.
At noon we will share joys and sorrows via Zoom and also via the BFM list-serve. If you have trouble joining the list-serve, please use our "Contact us" form. It has been a real joy to see so many people, including out-of-town Friends, joining us each week.
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 at this link.
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.
| Fierce Biblical Women Speak Power. For five Sunday afternoons, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. from April 11 to May 9, there will be workshops on Fierce Biblical Women Speak Power Today. In the Hebrew and Christian Bible, many women use their strength to challenge systems and claim justice. Whether covert and quiet or bold and public, most seem fearless! What made them fierce and how did they ground their power? Here is the link or https://pendlehill.org or John Meyer, the Communications and Outreach Director at 610-566-4507, ext 129. |
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AFSC Annual Meeting Presentations. The Bethesda Friends community is invited to join the AFSC’s annual meeting, a virtual program exploring different dimensions of “Making New Worlds: Pursuing Peace with Justice,” from Sunday, April 11 through Thursday, April 15.
Sun, April 11 at 7:00 p.m. a panel on “Quakers, AFSC, and abolition: Then and Now.”
Mon, April 12, 8:00 p.m. Free Them All: Ending Mass Incarceration
Tue, April 13, 8:00 p.m. Pursuing Freedom for Palestine: Children’s Rights.
Wed, April 14, 4:00 p.m. Global Migrant Justice: Manifesting the joint Quaker statement.
Wed, April 14, 8:00 p.m. Restorative Justice in Our Communities
Thu, April 15, 1:30 p.m. Creating a Society Based on Care and a Solidarity Economy
Thu, April 15, 7:30 p.m., Nyle Fort on Momentum and Where Do We Go From Here?
For details and to register, click here.
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Experiment with Light Session. 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. On the evening of Sunday, April 11, we will be having an Experiment with Light session. 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., you can join in a worship-share from your meditation experience via a Zoom gathering. For more information, see your email Bulletin or use our Contact Us form.
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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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Young Friends Conference. Baltimore Yearly Meeting hosts a gathering of high school folks 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 from Friday, April 16 to Sunday, April 18, probably virtual. Please register as soon as possible: https://www.bym-rsf.org/what_we_do/yutes/yfs/yfcon.html For more details: Sunshine Klein (301-774-7663, youthprograms@bym-rsf.org)
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Saturday, April 17, at 1:30 p.m. Spiritual Formation Program Gathering. The current Spiritual Formation program at Bethesda Friends will hold its seventh gathering on Saturday, April 17, at 1:30 p.m. by Zoom. The group selects a reading each month to share in preparation. (Prior readings have included Meditations of the Heart by Howard Thurman; Four Doors to Meeting for Worship, by William Taber; and Love Poems from God: Twelve sacred voices from East and West, ed. by Daniel Ladinsky.) Smaller friendship circles of program participants meet between the gatherings to share personal support on the spiritual journey. We welcome new members! The program is led by Margaret B. For details, please be in touch with Leslie S. (see Directory).
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Pendle Hill Weekend Workshop on Mutual Accompaniment. On the weekend of April 9 to 11, there will be a weekend workshop on Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons Online. If you are interested in working to uproot oppressive systems in a way that reweaves human connection and a sense of belonging to one another and to the earth, please sign up. For details, click here or https://pendlehill.org or contact John Meyer, the Communications and Outreach Director at 610-566-4507, ext. 129.
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Youth Peace Conference. The 5th Annual Youth Peace Conference will be held virtually on Saturday, April 10, from 9:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Youth from grades 8 to 12 are welcome to register at: http://www.youthpeaceconferencemd.org
The Sandy Spring Friends Meeting Peace Committee supports this student-run social justice and community building summit in honor of the legacies of Lee Stern and Bayard Rustin. A team of teens in Howard County are organizing this year’s conference. The theme is “Resistance and Radical Reform.” For details, contact Uma Ribeiro, lead organizer, (umalovestowrite@gmail.com) or Bette Hoover (bettehoover@icloud.com)
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