Gainesville Monthly Meeting
Religious Society of Friends
Eighth Month, 2000

QUERIES for Eighth Month: civic responsibilities

• What are you doing as individuals or as a meeting to carry your share of responsibility in the government of your community, state and nation?
• Are you conscientious in fulfilling all obligations of state and society which are not contrary to the leading of God?
• Do you do all in your power to assure freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and equal educational opportunities for all?
• Are you free from the use of judicial oaths, thus emphasizing by simple affirmation that your statement is only a part of your usual integrity of speech?
• What are you doing as individuals or as a meeting to understand and remove the causes of war, and develop the conditions and institutions of peace?

Calendar Notes:

August 5: Beach day flyers available at the meetinghouse. Contact Laura (372-3972).

August 27, 12:30: The Bible Seminar of the Gainesville Quakers will convene on August 27, (4th Sunday) at 12:30 p.m. Discussion will continue on the gospel According to Matthew.

August 25, 6:00 pm at the Buskirks: Quakerism 102 continues to study the Quaker Process with the topic postponed from July: Listening for the Sense of the Meeting. The reading includes pages from a Pendle Hill pamphlet Beyond Consensus: Salvaging the Sense of the Meeting, by Barry Morley, and extracts from writings by William Taber (who visited our meeting) and Patricia Loring (a Michner lecturer) available at the meeting house, along with the reflection questions.

Toward a new meetinghouse:

On November 4 there will be a picnic on the land at 704 NW 38th Street, followed, the next day by a Forum on envisioning a new meetinghouse. Phil Buskirk and Paul Davis cleared a parking area that some of us used recently when we pulled weeds and started clearing a promising picnic site. Perry Keidel and Bill Mitchell put up the gate donated by Reuben Keppel, an attractive entry. Jeannie Buskirk, Connie Ray and Hap Taylor have been after those weeds. Thank you! See details (by Bill) at http://www.afn.org/~quakers/Lot/index.html

The sketch below is a possible floor plans for a meetinghouse. This one was contributed by Jean Chalmers. Send word to the Building Committee about the features you like: