Friends Meeting: State College

State College
Friends Meeting Weekly Bulletin

May the richness of our diversity strengthen our community and our love
First Day (Sunday), 4/25/2010
9:45 am Friendly Forum: Friends and Giving (see below)
10:00 am Meeting for Worship in Foxdale's Meeting Room
10:45 am First Day School
10:45 am Gather and settle for Worship
11:00 am Meeting for Worship
12:20 pm Social time
5:30 pm Potluck and Program with Ann Ward (see below)
Fourth Day (Wednesday), 4/28/2010
12:00 pm Campus Meeting for Worship, Pasquerilla Center, Rm 118
4:30 pm Midweek Meeting for Worship, Foxdale, E-75
Sixth Day (Friday), 4/30/2010
8:45 am Friends School Meeting for Worship
Seventh Day (Saturday), 5/1/2010
1:30 pm Peace vigil Saturday, corner of College and Allen St.
First Day (Sunday), 5/2/2010
9:00 am Meeting for Worship for Business
10:00 am Meeting for Worship in Foxdale's Meeting Room
10:45 am First Day School.
10:45 am Gather and settle for Worship
11:00 am Meeting for Worship
12:20 pm Pot luck
►April Friendly Forums, 9:45 am, Meeting Room, All Welcome
April 25: Robinne Gray of BYM will discuss the topic of Friends and
Giving. This will include a dialogue about Quakers, money, and the ways
in which traditional fundraising practices do and do not apply to Friends.
►Special Program with Ann Ward, TONIGHT, 5:30 pm Potluck with
program at 7:00. Ann Ward, a member of our meeting who has traveled and
worked for peace for the past five years, will be in here from April 23-28.
She will join us for potluck, then talk with us about her experiences. She has
traveled in Europe and the Middle East studying and working with others in
the peace/conflict resolution and health care fields. She has much to share
and plans to focus mostly on the work with families, interfaith issues and
refugee problems. Join us! Those who know her will love being reunited and
those who don't will enjoy a wonderful new opportunity
State College Friends Meeting
611 East Prospect Ave., State College, PA 16801
814-237-7051 • www.statecollegefriends.org
Gather and settle. The time from 10:45 to 11:00 am on Sunday is a time for
Friends to gather in the meeting room to prepare and settle for worship. Enter
whenever you are ready. While we expect silence in the meeting room during
that time, we cannot expect silence outside of the meeting room until 11:00.
Meeting for worship. State College Friends Meeting welcomes you to our
silent, “unprogrammed” worship, ideally led by God’s Spirit. We have no
designated ministers. A period of about twenty minutes is needed to center
down into inward stillness. Spoken messages come from the spiritual depth of
our lives and from the leadings of the Spirit. It is wise to ask oneself these
questions before rising to speak: is my message from the Spirit, or from some
other place? Is the message for me or for the whole group? Is the time to
give it now or at some other time? It is best to follow each message with a
period of silence in order to absorb what it has to tell us. When a message
speaks to the condition of those present, out of the deepest parts of ourselves,
and is harmoniously developed and deepened—and not too long—a profound
sense of spiritual community may occur among us that freshens and delights.
We call this a “gathered” meeting.
Closing meeting for worship. Our time of worship does not necessarily end
at noon—it ends when the appointed person, attuned to the spiritual sense of
the meeting, recognizes the appropriate moment.
Contacting Care and Concern. We hope that Friends will contact members
of the Care and Concern Committee to request prayer or to be held in the
Light, to request assistance, or to make the committee aware of changes in
your lives or of others that you believe should come to the Committee’s
attention. Contact Lynne Grutzeck, 237-1862.
Contributions to the Meeting are always welcome and needed. Checks may
be placed in the donation box in the entry hall or mailed to: State College
Friends Meeting, 611 E. Prospect Avenue, State College, PA 16801
The Meeting office. Betsy Gamble, the Meeting secretary, is in the office
Mon. through Fri., from 5:30 -6:30 pm. She may be reached by e-mail,
office@statecollegefriends.org, or by phone, 237-7051. Please let her know
of any scheduled meetings or events in the buildings so scheduling conflicts
can be avoided. Scheduling of non-standard tasks should be done through
Louise Sandmeyer.
Bulletin and Newsletter. Bulletins and newsletters are available on the

Web. Go to http://www.statecollegefriends.org and chose Bulletin or
Newsletter. The Newsletter can be received by mail or email. To be added
to the mailing list, send your name, address and zip code to the meeting
office. To receive other announcements, notification and bulletins by
email, send a message to office@statecollegefriends.org.
►The Secretary will not be in the office Wed.-Thurs. evening, Apr.28-29.
Emails and messages will be responded to Fri. after the return of the Friends
School 5/6 grade field trip to Ithaca, NY.
►Please support the weekly peace vigil, every Saturday, 1:30-2:30 pm at the
gates at the corner of Allen St. and College Ave.
►All Committee Clerks please submit budget requests to the Finance
Committee as soon as possible. Messages may be placed in the Finance
Committee mailbox or sent to Claudia Wilson at cwilson@chilitech.com.
►Considering the Meetinghouse. Calling one, calling all who have a vision
for sprucing up the meeting house and want to deepen Friendships within the
meeting! We’re putting out a call for anyone interested to join a Meeting
House Design team. For now, we’re seeking folks to help us create a vision
and a master plan, then gather able bodies to work on specific projects.
Interested folks, please contact Dana Mitra dana@psu.edu; 234-8966.
►Friends Committee on National Legislation: Take Action:
**Afghanistan: A Chance to Stop the Killing** The House plans to approve
$33 billion more for the war in Afghanistan. Yet, on Capitol Hill, FCNL's
lobbyists are finding support for proposals to end that U.S. war responsibly.
Changing the war mentality of Congress will not be easy. It is possible,
though. Representatives McGovern (D-WA) and Walter Jones (R-NC), have
introduced a bill to require the administration to create an exit strategy from
Afghanistan and set a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces.
If we can persuade at least 100 representatives to cosponsor the McGovern-
Jones Exit Strategy bill, they may be able to attach that war-ending provision to
the supplemental war funding bill, which Congress will vote on in the next
several months: http://action.fcnl.org/r/131124/74290/0.
We oppose the war spending supplemental. We urge representatives to vote
against the $33 billion for war. Whether a representative is able to do that or
not, he/she should be able to cosponsor and vote for the bipartisan McGovern-
Jones Exit Strategy bill. Please ask your representative to do that now.
*Take Action*: Ask your representative to cosponsor the McGovern-
Jones Afghanistan Exit bill (H.R.5015):
http://action.fcnl.org/r/131125/74290/0. Also, multiply your effort: ask five
friends to write to their representatives, too:
http://action.fcnl.org/r/131126/74290/0.
*An exit strategy is the next step and should:
*Begin a withdrawal of U.S. troops
*Halt offensive operations against the Taliban and focus on political
reconciliation among all Afghan groups
*Engage Afghanistan's neighbors, including Iran and Pakistan, to promote
reconciliation and security
*Channel development aid through Afghan and multilateral organizations.
►Caps for Chemo: The Diane Mathews Memorial Project. On March
18th, 2010, my friend Diane Mathews lost her battle with cancer. Diane was an
avid knitter who used her extraordinary color and texture sense to create
beautiful wearable objects of art. Long before her diagnosis, one of Diane’s
projects was knitting caps for chemotherapy patients. In honor of her memory
I am organizing the collection of caps for chemotherapy patients. Patterns for
knit, crochet and fleece chemo caps are available in the Social Room. The
finished items will be collected during April and May and the caps will be
donated in her name on the anniversary of her birthday May 25, 2010. Thank
you for helping me honor the memory of my friend. Cy de Vries
►Weis Gift Cards program needs a volunteer. The meeting is in need of a
replacement to manage sales of Weis and Giant Gift cards for the Friends
Meeting. Contact Dean Tuttle, 234 3361, or deshltu@juno.com
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Calendar and Upcoming Events
May 2 SCFM Meeting for Worship for Business, 9:00 am
May 16 SCFM Afternoon with the Arts, Rebecca Plummer Rohloff
May 17 Peace and Social Action Committee, 7:30 pm Foxdale E-75
See the websites of BYM (www.bym-rsf.org), PYM (www.pym.org), USQM

(usqm.org), SCFM (statecollegefriends.org), State College Friends School , FGC
(fgcquaker.org) (www.statecollegefriendsschool.org), Pendle Hill
(www.pendlehill.org) for further info.
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►BYM Junior Young Friends Conference (6-8th grades), May 14-16 at
Shiloh (Va.) Quaker Camp, The theme is World Integrity. Julian Brelsford
will share his work in Haiti. Contact Alison Duncan, youthsec@bym-rsf.org
or http://www.bym-rsf.org/quakers/youth/jyf/index.shtml.
►State College Friends School Hosts 30th Annual Community Fun Fair
The State College Friends School's 30th Annual FUN FAIR will be held Sat.,
May 1 (rain date May 8th), from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Friends School, 1900
University Drive. This annual tradition features games, prizes, pony rides,
petting zoo, live music, arts & crafts, home-cooked food (dine-in or take-out),
bake sale, silent auction, and more! Everyone is welcome! Fun for the whole
family! Free entertainment; tickets for rides, games, activities and food at the
door. Proceeds benefit the Annual Fund. Contact: 237-8386.
►Friends School Teaching Opportunity: 4th Grade Teacher. The State
College Friends School is seeking an individual with lead teaching experience
at the elementary level. Send or e-mail a cover letter, resume, 3 references, and
educational philosophy statement to Dan Hendey, Head of School,
dhendey@scfriends.org
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Notices for the weekly Bulletin should be sent by Thurs., 6:00 pm to
efgamble@yahoo.com, 404-2831. Notices for the monthly Newsletter should be sent
to Cynthia Bartok by the third Sat. of the month. (SCFMnewsletter@gmail.com, 100
Sandy Ridge Rd., State College, 16803).

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