Fourth Month, 2001
QUERIES for the Fourth Month: UNITY WITHIN THE MEETING
- Are love and unity maintained among you?
- Do you manifest a forgiving spirit and a care for the reputation of others?
- When differences arise are endeavors made to settle them in a spirit of love? Are you patient and considerate towards those whom you find it hard to like or understand?
- Do you respect that of God in each one, though it may be expressed in unfamiliar ways or may be difficult to discern?
CALENDAR NOTES
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Chain Of Prayer: Bold in the Spirit
- 12:30 p.m. Bring finger food to share for lunch.
- 1:00 p. m. Art for Bold Souls -- led by John Graham-Pole
- 2:00 p.m. Prayer: The Changer and the Changed - led by Reuben Kepple
- 3:00 p.m. Nature Walk at Our Land - led by Phil Buskirk. We will car-pool to property.
- 4:00 p.m Return for singing, clean-up, and set-up for dinner.
- 5:00 p.m. Stone Soup
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Information and registration forms for SEYM are posted on
bulletin board in the Meetinghouse.
- Gainesville Ecosystems at Risk community-wide clean-up.
Meet at our new lot at 9:30 a.m. to help clean up the site with
some community help, perhaps. Waste Management will haul away the
trash collected.
- The Quakerism 102 topic is "Favorite
authors and their
Quaker connections." Share your favorite with us. Connie will talk
about Henry Taylor.
MEETING NEWS
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We hold Gene and Dick Beardsley in the LIGHT as they mourn the
death of Dick's father.
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Welcome to Traci Darnell, back from Chile and her labors in the
field of landscape ecology.
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Thanks to all who contributed school supplies as well as money to the
Gainesville Iraq Care Campaign. Our financial donation was the
highest received from any one religious organization. The local
events featured the string music of Rahim al-Hajj on his oud. His
music seemed to express the Iraqi soul. The speakers pleaded for our
interventions for their tortured countrymen. Many attendees pledged
an hour per month of their time to bear witness and object to the
excesses committed in our name. Our Peace and Social Concerns
committee will update the Meeting as new developments unfold.
Thanks to Kemal Feriali for his impassioned and devoted work on this
matter of conscience
Towards a New Meetinghouse
At our March Business Meeting, Judy Shea, as a member of the Building
Committee, presented two floor plans each of which incorporated
previous suggestions. The basic plan is 2,448 square feet and would
cost approximately $159,000. The expanded plan is 2,880 square
feet and would cost $187,200. The expanded plan will allow for two
First Day School rooms and a larger core space. Judy also led a
discussion on the possible siting of the Meetinghouse on our available
land, taking into account the topography, sources of noise, and
location of prized trees.
Both plans were met in a "favorable light". The following comments
and questions were offered:
- All agreed that the Meeting room should be on a corner so as to
take advantage of window space. Several asked if it could be more
interesting in shape- octagonal or round?
- Can the Meeting room be transposed with the covered porch on the basic plan?
- On the expanded plan, can the library\office be moved to the corner (to where the utility room is shown)? This would allow for more natural light for the library\office. The utility room then could be moved next to the activity room with the door opening into the foyer. Rest Rooms can be moved next to the utility room and the doors can open into the hallway that would then be between the rest rooms and the library office.
- Either plan could be built to provide, above the activity room,
an unfinished space which could be finished at a later date.
thanx to Mona Morris
Every good gift and perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights,
with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. - - James 1:17
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