Seventh Month, 2001

QUERIES for the Seventh Month: SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS

• Are you working towards the removal of social injustices? Have you attempted to examine objectively their causes, and are you ready to abandon old prejudices and think anew?
• What are you doing as individuals or as a meeting to insure equal opportunities in social and economic life and in education for those who suffer discrimination because of gender, race, creed or social class?
• Do you take a living interest in the social conditions of the community in which you live?
• Do you seek to promote the welfare of those in any kind of need and to secure a just distribution of the resources of the world?
• Do you regard your possessions as given to you in trust and do you part with them freely for the needs of others?
• Do you recognize that we are a part of the natural world and are you responsible heirs of its resources?
• Are you concerned that our increasing power over nature should be used responsibly with reverence for life and with a sense of the continuing creation of God in which we are called to participate?

CALENDAR NOTES

• A DAY FOR FUN AND FELLOWSHIP: At 1512 South Central Avenue, Flagler Beach. A flyer with exact directions on the table at the back of the Meeting room. Call Laura at 372-3972 for more information. We will share food and drinks. Ice chests and ice will be welcomed.
• A synopsis of the BBC tapes is in the newsletter. In order for the Beach goers to view the first one of the series, Jesus, the Jew, it will be shown at the beach house Saturday afternoon as well as Sunday, July 1 after Meeting.
• Morrie Trimmer will talk about Quaker involvement in 20th Century Social Movements in the July 27 meeting of the Quaker Study Program.

MEETING NEWS

• Welcome to Adrian and Hillary Timmers and their daughter, Quinn.
• Thanks to Reuben Keppel for ordering 10 copies of Earth Light for our library.
• Thanks to Gene and Dick for carting away all of our trash. This unpopular task is saving the Meeting the exorbitant fees levied on us as a non-residential customer.
• Gainesville Friends Meeting sent Sarasota Friends Meeting $100 as a token of our support for their new Meetinghouse. Individual donations would be welcome.
• Thanks to Gene, Joan, Connie, Dick and Laura for help with First Day School.
• Thanks to Bill Mitchell, our air-potato dispatcher, extraordinaire. The air-potatoes may have finally met their match!
  [Note - - Jean larson should also get credit - - In any case there's a long way to go before the air potatos are seriously inconvenienced. - - w.j.m.]
• Karen Tyson is facing some health challenges. We ask all to hold her in the LIGHT.
• Hilary Pharies is mentoring a young, pregnant woman at the Loften Center and is announcing a baby shower for sometime in August. Jeannie Buskirk will deliver any gifts you may wish to give.

  Recent Aquisitions to the Meeting library

  Teaching the Queries to Quaker Children Philadelphia Yearly Meeting	SEYM lectures
  Home to Harmony Philip Gully	The Ripening of Quaker Worship David Bills, 1997
  God Is Like ... Three Parables for Children Julie Waters	Equality Deborah Saunders, 1999
  Abiyoyo Pete Seeger's Story Song	Experiencing the Gift of New Life Joe Volk (pamphlet and tape), 2000
  Companions Along the Way Spiritual formation	Finding Our Sacred Ground Dan Seeger (pamphlet and tapes), 2001
  Within the Quaker Tradition A resource for adult ed. Philadelphia YM	Michener Tape Clara and Edwardo Diaz, 2000

  
  
  In a response to Connie Ray, Rep. Karen Thurman advises us that she is co-sponsoring H.R. 912:
  The bill would reduce the likelihood that innocent persons would be put to death for crimes they did not commit. Among other provisions, the bill ensures that inmates have access to DNA testing to establish innocence, improve legal representation for inmates on death row, limit federal authority to seek the death penalty in states that do not authorize capital punishment, and increase damages for unjust imprisonment in capital cases.
  Glory Be!

  Greg Ray writes: . . . I leave Guilford with a much stronger connection to the spirit and my fellow Quakers. This has been exactly what I needed to refocus and center my life in ways that leave me open to leadings and more conscious of my own moral compass. Again, thank you very much for contributing to and sharing this journey with me. . . .

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