| Wednesday Dec 1 | 7:30 pm | Meeting for Healing at the Meetinghouse |
| Friday Dec 3 | 6:00 pm | Quaker Study Group |
| Sunday Dec 5 | 12:30 pm | Forum |
| Sunday Dec 12 | 12:30 pm 5:00 - 7:00 pm |
Meeting for Worship for Business Christmas Party at Annie and David's |
| Wednesday Dec 15 | 7:30 pm | Meeting for Healing at the Meetinghouse |
| Sunday Dec 19 | 12:30 pm 1:00 pm |
Potluck at Rise of
Meeting Quaker Earthcare Witness Committee |
| Sunday Dec 26 | 12:30 pm | Bible Study |
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
This is a special celebration for our Quaker family.
We need every single one of you to help us.
Help us make the rafters ring with the joy of this holiday.
Help us enjoy a Festive Feast
Help us bring some pleasure to the folks of Gainesville Ministries
with a gift of food
We are all here to say "well done and thank you" to the Quaker Market Subcommittee -- Patricia Ulrey, Sheree Sims and Betty Odum- for loving service above and beyond the call of duty. The fund raising events were all innovative, well-planned and successful in raising community spirit, providing entertainment and earning money for the New Meetinghouse. $3,472 was presented to the treasurer.
Sybil Brennan
Copies of the article will be on the rear table in the meeting room. We will meet the third Sunday, Dec 19, 2004, after potluck. Please join us.
Arlene Epperson
On September 8, 2004, Judy Shea, age 76, died after a protracted illness. A daughter, of Houston Texas, two sons and four grandchildren, survive her.
Judy's absence is greatly felt in our Meeting and in our hearts. She began attending Quaker meeting in Buffalo, New York in 1954 and later became a convinced Quaker. She came to us in 1995,became active on several on several committees, was a fount of ideas that she shared, attended SEYM, 2002, where her voice was heard, and she was instumental in getting our new meetinghouse started. In losing Judy we have lost a caring F/friend, one who was always willing to share her time and energy, her home and her resources with her Quaker family. When she ministered in Meeting it was with thoughtfulness and fervor. She conducted a ministry of feeding folks, both in and out of meeting. We have a special memory of Judy coming up the walk to the Meetinghouse on First Days bearing yet another crock-pot of delicious soup.
Judy's generosity of spirit extended, too, into the larger world. She was passionate about Peace, the environment and Indian affairs. She greatly admired the North American Indian spiritual values in caring for the earth and she helped to present this at a workshop at the 2003 Chain of Prayer observance. She was an activist for alleviating some of the injustice done to the North American Indians. In 2002, Judy represented our meeting at FCUN's annual meeting in Burlington. In a letter at that time, she, with typical insouciance, reports, "Will put my canoe on top of my car so I can canoe on a Vermont river."
Above all was Judy's commitment to Peace. Her favorite saying was "war is not an option." She became the "Mother of the GI hot line" and, as such, was active in setting up the I Hotline training for our Peace and Social Concerns Committee. She fed the trainees, too! When she knew that her illness was progressing she make the decision to use her remaining time to work for peace.
She met her death with courage. In spite of a grim illness, she continued, right up to the end, to give in as many ways as she could. She was an inspiration to all of us.
Joan Andrews, editor jandrews1@cox.net