Gainesville Monthly Meeting

Tenth Month, 2002

QUERIES for the Tenth Month: THE HOME

CALENDAR NOTES

Dialogues on Peace In A Time of War

will be held on the four Sundays in October from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Hospice House Community Room at 4200 NW 90th Blvd. (Healthpark off NW 39th Ave, first building on the left). The format will be a combination of open discussion and panel presentations and the topics of the four sessions will be:

For Disappointments, that come not by our own Folly, they are the Tryals or Corrections of Heaven: And it is our own Fault, if they prove not our advantage. To repine of them does not mend the Matter: It is only to grumble at our Creator: But to see the Hand of God in them, with an humble Submission to his Will is the Way to turn our Water into Wine, and engage the greatest Love and Mercy on our side.

William Penn

FCNL Annual Meeting

Join the Action - Come to FCNL's Annual Meeting: November 7-10, 2002 in Washington DC. The grave developments of the past year challenge all of us. Around the country, people feel called to engage the powers and principalities but are unsure how best to act. We encourage you to join other Friends in our FCNL witness for peace and justice. We welcome F(f)riends everywhere to join us in Washington for FCNL's Annual Meeting. Annual Meeting will be an opportunity to become more informed about the critical issues facing the nation and the world and to enhance your ability to effect change. Join with others who seek alternatives to deadly conflict; take home new skills and energy to move your local community to action.

See the Bulletin board in the kitchen for more information.

MEETING NEWS

Letters

Friend/Editor;
It is a pleasure to have the GMM Newsletter for Sept sent to me here. It is, as usual, an enlightening issue. I rejoice particularly in the items about the deplorable USA PATRIOT Act. It is deserving of closer scrutiny by Constitutional American patriots. The authorities changed my new mailing address, even while I was moving here. It is now: 1950 Sterling Place, #402, Hood River OR 97031. I went to the announced meeting place of the Q's worship group in The Dalles, yesterday, but they must have been operating under alternative holiday weekend plans. Thank you. May love, joy and peace be in and through you abundantly!

John Lepke

Dear Gene:
... Thanks also for the notice on FCUN's Annual Meeting in Burlington.... I will definitely block our October 11th to 14th on my calendar. The foliage will be gone here but Burlington should still be ablaze. Will put my canoe on top of my car so I can "canoe on a Vermont river". Let me know if the Meeting would like me to represent it. I dare not hope that anyone from Gainesville will be attending. I will take notes and send a report but would welcome any guidance vis a vis topics of particular interest to the meeting.... My current plan is to stay here and spend the holidays with the kids. I plan to set forth for Cedar Key, Jan.15th and stay till April 15th. All plans are, of course, dependent on the sale of the condo....Please share any of this with the Meeting.

Judy Shea

Editor's note: Judy, please consider sending something for the newsletter for our FCUN page. Thanks, Joan.

WEB SIGHTINGS

Dick and Gene recently put in my hands several pieces of material from the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Since I had heard good things about FOR before, their doing so made me determine finally to learn more about this organization.

I went to its website www.forusa.org where I found FOR announcing itself in a banner headline as "the Largest, Oldest Interfaith Peace Organization in the United States." The home page is divided into three columns. The central column is the one of most immediate interest because it is dominated by items having to do with the Bush Administration's initiative against Iraq. Near the bottom of the column is a chance to preview the contents of the current issue of Fellowship Magazine.

At the bottom is a Mission Statement: "The Fellowship of Reconciliation seeks to replace violence, war, racism, and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace, and justice. We are an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change. We educate, train, build coalitions, and engage in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally, and globally."

The column on the left includes the headings Articles and Resources, Programs (including nonviolence training, which the Peace &h; Social Concerns Committee will be looking into), Interfaith Peace Builders, Words of Peace, and finally The Online Store, which is currently having a book sale! The column on the right gives you a chance to learn "who we are," become a member, make a donation, and even apply for a job. I hope you'll spend some time this month getting acquainted with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, too.

Don Smith

P.S. For those of you who received the SEYM Newsletter, did you look at "Websites worth reviewing" on the back page?

MORE WEB SIGHTINGS

Tim Fogarty sends web sites of organizations that have a ministry of presence in various trouble areas in the world. Both organizations are active in Mexico, Columbia &h; Guatemala. PBI is also in Indonesia and WFP is in Cuba and Nicaragua.
www.peacebrigades.org and www.witnessforpeace.org

Apparently Christian Peace Teams, which is affiliated with the Friends General Meeting and the Mennonites, is the only organization doing presence in Palestine right now: www.prairienet.org/cpt/index.html
Peace, Tim Fogarty

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