Seventh Month, 2005

Queries For Seventh Month: Self Discipline and Responsibility

• Do I attend meeting for worship regularly and punctually?
• Do I participate in meeting for business and help in the financial support of the Meeting?
• Am I conscientious in fulfilling all obligations of state and society that are not contrary to my religious convictions?
• Am I punctual in keeping promises, just in payment of debts, and honorable in all my dealings?
• Do I choose those recreations that will strengthen my physical, mental and spiritual life, avoiding those that may hinder myself, others, and our Earth?
• Do I act responsibly concerning substances and behaviors that can become addictive?
• Am I careful to keep my job and social activities from absorbing time and energy that should be given to spiritual growth and service to others?

CALENDAR NOTES

• Meeting for Worship will be held at the Chalmer's home on July 3 and July 10. Meeting for Worship for Business will also be held there. Then we will resume meeting at Hillel (2020 W University Ave.
• Nourish Body and Soul in a Friendly setting. Deeply satisfying way to start the weekend. This month's topic will be The Peculiar Mission of a Quaker School by D. Health. Jeannie Buskirk leading.
• Conveners Larry and Elly Clayton. Go to http://larry.1afm.com for Larry's Hypertext Bible, a monumental work of Bible Scholarship or to Http://newbible.blogspot.com/ for his Blog spot.
• Bring your questions and there will also be queries to guide the discussion. See Connie for any questions.
• CELEBRATE COMMUNITY: Beach Day at the Windfordner's beach cottage on Flagler Beach. Overnight if desired. Share food. Flyers with directions and details will be distributed with newsletters.

COME OUT READY TO PLAY, EAT AND DANCE!

Enjoy an afternoon of games with Marilyn Hall, great food, and "All American" dancing music with Don Smith.

Dinner prepared by Jeannie Buskirk and hosted by Patricia Ulrey.

Quaker Market subcommittee sponsors this event.
All Proceeds go towards the building fund.

MEETING NEWS

• Proud parents, Shanna and Glenn Johnson, announce the arrival of Nathaniel (Nate), who weighed in at 10 #, 7 oz. Baby and mother are dong fine, Grandparents Dick and Gene Beardsley are beaming, and little Ella is delighted with her new brother.
• Peace and Social Concerns Committee has War Is Not The Answer posters available for $5.00 each.
• Up to date with Patricia Ulrey: she has just purchased and moved into a new home where she is hosting our July Quaker Market dinner. (See above for details.) She has also accepted the clerkship of Peace and Social Concerns. Congratulations, Patricia!
• Our snow birds have flown, Mona and Walter Morris the last of May, and Sybil and Bud Brennan the second week of June.. We will miss you. Hope you have a wonderful summer.
• Florida's draft boards are suffering a shortage of volunteers. At present, the time commitment is primarily for the 8 hours initial training and an annual 3 hours training session. If the draft is reinstated, the workload could increase markedly. New draftees would have the right to file a claim for exemption, postponement or deferment. It is these cases that the volunteers would interview, investigate and make decisions on. What a blessing Quakers on those boards could be!
• From August 16 -24th, Devender Sellars, of Greensboro, NC, and a member of our Meeting, is going to represent SEYM at the World Gathering of Young Friends in Lancaster, England. We are pleased to be able to give him financial assistance for this worthwhile venture. Annie Mc Pherson is his mother and Ranjit Sellars, his brother.
• MEETING FOR EATING: POTLUCKS, Sybil Brennan's latest Friend's cookbook, is for sale at $10 per copy. Sheree Sims, at (352) 475-5829, is handling the sales during Sybil's absence. Proceeds go to the new meetinghouse.
• On Sunday, June 12, the members of the SEYM executive committee and the trustees committee combined their yearly executive meeting with a trip to Gainesville (they actually stayed at the Brennan's in Ocala) to see our new meetinghouse project. SEYM lent us ten thousand dollars at low interest, and we appreciate that very much because it gives us some leeway financially if we should need it. But their greater gift was the encouragement that they gave us. Many of them have been parts of construction projects through the years and know what we are going through. On Sunday, June 12, they attended our Meeting for Worship. Herb Haigh, clerk of the Board of Trustees, spoke movingly about his home Meetinghouse in Pa. that had been built at the cost of years of hard digging and lugging of massive trees and giant rocks. He spoke of the impact over the years that this meetinghouse has had in building community and witnessing to Quaker values.
• This month is a time of change at the new meetinghouse lot. The foundation blocks have gone in ...

  We continue to have good times at the Quaker Market dinners. In May we went to Sherrie Southworth's, enjoyed seeing horses frolicking in the back, including a mother and baby. The incredibly delicious, organic/locally grown food was prepared by Jen Cotter and was gobbled right down. Thanks to all who participated and shared a bit of themselves with the little-known-facts game.