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Seeking support for my year in the West Bank!
Tuesday, July 08 @ 21:37:14 EDT by franz (15 reads) |  Kim writes "Dear Friends,
As I once mentioned in meeting, I have accepted a position as a school volunteer for the next year in the West Bank, near Bethlehem. This is certainly not an endeavor I can undertake alone, and so I am writing to seek your support as I prepare for this exciting time.
I have joined the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), a Christian organization that has a long history of providing resources and service to those in need around the world and the program I will be participating in specifically is called SALT: Serving and Learning Together (See the website http://www.mcc.org/SALT/). MCC has been in Israel/Palestine since 1947.
The Hope Flowers School (http://www.hopeflowersschool.org) where I will be living and working is a privately funded primary school with a unique emphasis on promoting peace and nonviolent conflict resolution skills. It is well known for its psychological support center for children who have suffered trauma. Next year they will be enrolling students with special needs who have had few educational prospects in the past. The distinctive curriculum also focuses on developing strong relationships between the Christian and Muslim communities in the area. My role will be flexible, ranging from in-classroom assistance to clerical help, to running community outreach projects and trainings in the town. I have started a blog to update everyone about my adventures at: http://livingstones.blog.com
This will be an amazing opportunity to share God’s love through service and to learn about the ways others face life’s challenges. The program covers my travel expenses, room and board, language training and orientation, as well as a monthly stipend, but I must raise $4300 from my support network to help cover these costs. Would you consider assisting me with a financial donation? MCC prefers to receive contributions online at http://www.mcc.org/donate/donate.html Donors should choose the designation "Other" and add the following wording:"SALT support for Kimberly MacVaugh 603867" in the relevant box. If you would like to send a check instead, just send me your address and I will get you the form.
Whether or not you can give monetarily, I would certainly appreciate your thoughts and prayers throughout this significant experience. I have a one week orientation starting August 9th and I fly out on the 16th of August, to return sometime next July. Please stay in touch—I do not want everyone to forget about me while I am away for a year! Thank you.
Peace,
Kim MacVaugh
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HMM's Cheryl Dellasega Honored as Women Who Care Awardee
Thursday, March 27 @ 02:39:31 EDT by franz (130 reads) |  The second annual Oasis Luncheon, sponsored by Open Stage of Harrisburg and hosted by Honorary Chairperson Alice Angino, will honor four area women, including Harrisburg Meeting Member Cheryl Dellasega, as 2008 Women Who Care.
We congratulate Cheryl and the other awardees for work well done and appreciated by the community!
For information about the May 8th luncheon, please contact Franz or Carter.
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Messiah Students' Bike Tour of Organic Farms, March 15-20
Thursday, March 13 @ 23:33:36 EDT by franz (191 reads) | Meeting Member Diane Staz submitted this interesting event:
We’re Going on a road trip!
When?
March 15th ~ 20th
Where?
The Gold Finch Farm: York, PA
The Everblossom Farm: East Berlin, PA
and Shared Earth Farm CSA: Mechanicsburg, PA
Why?
To live, to learn, to laugh, etc.. There are quite a few reasons.
How?
On Bikes
Our team will be riding to three different organic farms that are all within a 35 mile radius of Messiah College. The purpose of this trip is for us to get to know and understand the workings of a farming community, to learn more about living simply and working with what the land can provide, and also to create a connection between these local farms and our college community. Instead of making this a traditional road trip and driving to our destinations, we are going to bike to them. This form of transportation will give us a better opportunity to acquaint ourselves with our surrounding environment as well as get some exercise, save gas, and enjoy the simple things in life (like being saddle sore).
Follow their progress via their BLOG and visit the map of their route HERE.
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Benefit Activities for Downtown Daily Bread
Tuesday, March 11 @ 01:13:49 EDT by franz (195 reads) | There are two announcements recently received about benefit/fundraising activities for Downtown Daily Bread, a Harrisburg soup kitchen (and much, much more):
Please join us for a special 25th Anniversary Benefit concert for Downtown Daily Bread.
This special event will be held on Sunday afternoon, March 30, 2008 at 4p.m. at Pine Street Presbyterian Church, 310 N. Third St., Harrisburg. The guest artist will feature Brandon Cedel, an exciting young baritone who sang as a soloist in the Pine Street choir up until the day he left for The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. According to Thomas Clark-Jones, Pine Street Choir and Music Director, “Brandon’s glorious baritone is matched with a sense of musicality few of his age attain so soon.” Since leaving the Pine Street choir, Brandon has completed his first year at Curtis followed by singing in Italy in the summer. His other summer apprenticeships include Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY; Opera Ischia Program, Italy; Acadamie International d’Ete de Nice, France; and Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen, Michigan.
And...
Downtown Daily Bread, the soup kitchen in downtown Harrisburg proudly presents
“Little Shop of Horrors” at the Open Stage of Harrisburg on Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 8
p.m. Ticket reservations may be made by calling Downtown Daily Bread at 238-4717 after April 3. Tickets are available for a donation of $30 payable to Downtown Daily Bread. All proceeds from the performance will go directly to purchase food for the soup kitchen. A reception and raffle will be held after the performance when there will be an
opportunity to meet and speak with the actors.
Please help support Downtown Daily Bread while enjoying a delightful mix of laughs,
squirms, and screams along with wonderful music.
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Adult First Day Program
Saturday, March 08 @ 14:36:08 EST by franz (214 reads) | Adult First Day continues on Sundays.
On March 16 at 9:45 am, John Hayden will lead a discussion on Leadings: What are they and how do we know? We will draw on several sources on the subject and ask a few questions about this rather mystical aspect of Quakerism. We will explore some readings from Practicing Peace (Chapter 1: Leadings and Discernment), Faith and Practice from PYM, and other yearly meetings. We will also discuss the topic out of our experiences.
There will be no First Day on March 23, which is Easter, or on March 30, which will be Meeting for Business starting at 9:15.
April 6 at 9:45 Pat McBee and Richard Morse will speak with us about the Friends Center Greening Project. The Friends Center project is one of a few renovation projects in Pennsylvania that includes a geothermal retrofit in the middle of a downtown district. The green roof is an essential part of the building. Over a period of 20 years, the same amount of money could be spent either on energy bills, or invested in the construction of a building that eliminates the use of fossil fuels. How Friends can contribute to this project will be part of presentation. Pat can talk with us about various options for environmentally-consistent improvements to Harrisburg Meeting.
April 13 at 9:45 will be lead by Sue Regen who is presenting a workshop with us on Forgiveness as a Spiritual Practice earlier during the same weekend. She will discuss how being mindful of forgiveness and the act of forgiving can change how we feel and about others, ourselves, and on our health.
Sue Regen, a member of Rochester Friends Meeting, has been working in the area of forgiveness since 2002. It is part of her personal journey. She has led forgiveness workshops at Attica Prison, Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology, Friends General Conference Gatherings 2004 to 2007, Rochester Friends Meeting, and at retreat centers in Pennsylvania, California, and Old Chatham, New York.
April 20 at 9:45 is open for Friends to volunteer to lead an Adult First Day.
No First Day School on April 27, as we will have Meeting for Business starting at 9:15.
If you have a desire to host an Adult First Day, please consider presenting a topic of your choice.
--John Hayden, Adult First Day Coordinator; jbhayden1 -at- gmail.com
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Young HMM Friend wins Keystone Gold Key Award for Essay
Tuesday, March 04 @ 11:33:20 EST by franz (394 reads) | Harrisburg Meeting's Michelle Fonda has won a Patriot-News Scholastic Gold Key Award for her essay, Learning About Sadness.
More than 5000 writing, photgraphy, and art works were submitted this year, and winning students were honored on February 24th at the Forum in Harrisburg.
Michelle, aged 13 at the time she wrote this essay, is active in Meeting activities and can be met nearly each week with her parents Rick and Anne and her younger sister Katie.
Here is Michelle's essay:
Learning About Sadness
By: Michelle Fonda
“Mom, where’s Goldie?” I innocently mumble as I take off my backpack, wondering where that loving, wonderful, loyal, loves-you-no-matter-what dog is.
“Michelle, don’t you remember?” my mom sadly begins, and then, in less than a second, I remember all the horrible details. Every second before today, before Goldie was put to sleep, before I knew sadness, like I do now.
It all began when we noticed a small, but ever-growing lump, on Goldie’s, our golden retriever’s, lower back. As worried pet owners, we took her to a veterinarian, and got the terrible news. Our Goldie had cancer. I was shocked. Stupefied. How could our wonderful dog get cancer? Cancer was for bad people who smoked, and the occasional little kid on TV that lost her hair because of leukemia. Dogs didn’t get cancer! This couldn’t be happening.
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Register NOW for Camp Swatara, May 2nd, 3rd & 4th, 2008
Tuesday, March 04 @ 01:28:14 EST by franz (339 reads) |  From the brochure (.pdf document, 350KB):
We wish to welcome Caln Quarter Friends to our tradition of fellowship, learning, worship, and simply being in the wonderful natural setting of Camp Swatara in Bethel, PA. Caln Quarter has had residential retreats for over forty years, more than twenty at this camp (located at the foot of Blue Mountain and
bounded by the Appalachian Trail).
The gathering at Camp Swatara provides an opportunity to share in a Quaker community. For those considering coming for the first time, imagine a weekend with friendly people eager to listen, learn, and connect with Friends. Meetings for Worship are large yet personal. The weekend is a time to learn
about the wider Quaker community. There are many Quakers in Caln Quarter who share common understandings and insights into Quaker history and modern leadings. For those who have been to Camp Swatara before, welcome back. Please encourage Young Adult Friends (roughly ages 18 to 32)
to attend. Young Adult Friends who wish to share a cabin, please indicate your preference on the registration form.
We are planning programs for children, youth, and adults, including our Middle School and Young Friends programs coordinated by the Yearly Meeting staff and open to youth from all of PYM. There will be campfires, workshops, several opportunities for worship, yoga and hymn singing. Saturday morning is our Meeting for Business. Saturday night we will have an intergenerational talent show
followed by a square dance with caller Shane Knudsen and Penn’s Woods.
To reflect our theme “Let Your Life Speak”, we have organized a panel discussion for Saturday afternoon that will bring together several Friends who have listened deeply to the nudges they have felt from God. They have, in turn, changed the focus of their life’s work to reflect their leadings – some in
service to others, some in a deeper focus on the spiritual life. We hope that their stories will encourage others to listen deeply to the ways they are being led by the Spirit.
Lodging is in cabins, heated lodges, and a motel-type lodge. There are four new lodges with bathroom and shower facilities in the cabins. Meals are buffet style with a vegetarian option at each meal. The
registration deadline is April 8th. Your registrar will thank you for being timely with your
registration form!
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HMM Workshop on Forgiveness, April 11th & 12th, 2008
Friday, February 08 @ 22:10:38 EST by franz (170 reads) | Friends are urged to mark their calendars for an important Workshop on Forgiveness at the Meetinghouse, to be held under the auspices of the Worship and Spiritual Growth Committee. The workshop will be led by Sue Regan and will begin Friday evening, April 11 and continue all day Saturday, April 12.
Registration will be required.
Further details on this workshop will be forthcoming. It will be followed by worship sharing starting at 9:45 that Sunday morning. This will be open to all and will lead into the regular Meeting for Worship at 11:00.
The Worship and Spiritual Growth Committee will meet this coming Tuesday evening, February 12, at 7:15 in the Meetinghouse library. This meeting will be a particularly important one since it will focus on preparations for the April workshop.
May we be truly led by the promptings of the Spirit.
Lois Dunnavent, Clerk
Worship and Spiritual Growth Committee
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19 Degrees and Remembering Sherwood
Saturday, January 26 @ 10:10:03 EST by franz (424 reads) | Judith writes "Remembering Sherwood this January.
Sherwood enters the dark and quiet Meetinghouse while the snow crust forms a halo in deep January. He makes the long drive along the Susquehanna, crossing Stoney Creek, through the forests of Blue Mountain toward the water bounded town of Harrisburg. He gathers a bundle of kindling and good, dry wood and stands in the library placing small sticks one by one in the hearth. He strikes the first flame and waits in silence. It is fire upon fire, flames upon the sun of his gaze, a radiance that rises from the chalice of his life and "Not my will but Thine be done." He stands in the cold growing warmer by his light, the light of suffering to shift into an endlessly growing gratitude for each and everyone who now slowly, in expectation, places one foot in front of the other, who sit as one Covered Being in Silence. The fires bursts and crackles. There is a slight hint of smoke, his arms are extended. Sherwood stands before the blaze with shadows dancing across the books of George Fox, John Woolman, Margaret Fell and all those about whom he claims so little ability to speak; and yet, he stands so well beside them, speaking as only all of us would wish, with his very being, with a compassion that opens his understanding, with discord opening into listening, with doubt opening into grace. The blue light of the fire softens a bit and then cools into red, ash into sunset, a spray of wild starlight into a dash of the midnight sky, into the wide Universe of ambers.
Long-time Meeting Member Sherwood Doughman passed away suddenly in August, 2006. He has recently been memorialized with a beautiful new hand-built firewood box ("Sherwood's Forest") next to the fireplace in the Meetinghouse library, expected to be dedicated shortly with the participation of his surviving wife, Lucille.
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Announcing: Midweek Meeting for Worship, Every Wednesday
Monday, November 26 @ 02:14:23 EST by franz (235 reads) | The Worship & Spiritual Growth Committee announces that beginning on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 an old tradition will be revived with the holding of Midweek Meeting for Worship each Wednesday evening between 7:00 and 9:00 at the Meetinghouse. As time goes on, may the experience of gathered worship continue to be a vital instrument in transcending our apparent differences and move us ever closer to unity in the Spirit.
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Harrisburg Quakers
Harrisburg Friends Meeting
1100 N. Sixth Street,
Harrisburg, PA 17102
(717) 232-7282
Be still, and know that I am God.
(Psalms 46:10)
First Day School for Adults and Children
9:45 a.m.
(Mid-September through Mid-June)
Meeting for Worship
Every First Day (Sunday) at 11 a.m.
Midweek Meeting for Worship
Wednesdays 7pm - 9pm
Monthly Meeting for Worship with concern for Business
Fourth First Day at 9:15 a.m.
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