Saturday, December 23, 2023 from 1:00-3:00 pm
Social Hall, Multnomah Friends Meeting
All are invited to join our lunch guests for a festive holiday meal on Saturday, December 23rd.
If you would like to help, please see the spreadsheet, to sign up for food donations and/or a volunteer time slot.
Please contact Kepper Petzing (they) or Ann Dudley for more information.
Sunday, September 24 12:00 – 1:30pm In-person only, Meeting Room
Friend Anna Fritz is a cellist and folksinger with a music ministry under the care of Multnomah Friends Meeting. She has spent part of the summer traveling in the ministry in the Northeast, including giving a plenary at New England Yearly Meeting and concerts at six monthly meetings. Friend Julie Peyton (West Hills Friends Church) accompanied her as an elder for part of her travels. Anna and Julie will share about the work of ministering and eldering as well as how this music ministry seems to be moving in the world. (Note: Make-your-own-sandwich fixings will be provided during Social Hour after 10:00am Meeting for Worship for those staying for this program.) Sponsored by the Adult Religious Education Committee. For more information contact adultreligioused.clerk@multnomahfriends.org
Children are welcome to attend worship with their parents from 10am-10:15am, when formal class activities will start, continuing to 11:15am. The curriculum will focus on Friends’ testimonies, beginning with “Community. “We have teachers (at least two per Sunday) lined up for the next several weeks, but need and welcome more volunteers. If you have questions or would like to volunteer to work with the Meeting’s pre-K and school-aged children, please contact the Children’s Program Committee Clerk at childrensprogram.clerk@multnomahfriends.org.
Early Worship:
Sundays 8:15-9:30
Zoom
Regular Meeting:
Sundays 10:00 – 11:15 am
Zoom
First Day (Sunday) School & Day Care:
Sundays 10:15 – 11:15 am
Social Hour:
Sundays 11:15 – 12 pm
Business Meeting:
3rd Sundays, 12:15 pm
Zoom
Mountain View WG:
1st & 3rds Sunday 10 am, 12:15 pm
Zoom
Bible Study:
Monday 7 – 8 am
Zoom
Midweek Worship:
Wednesdays, 12 – 12:30 pm
Zoom
Saturday, September 9, 10-11:30am Meeting Room
There will be a threshing session moderated by Carl Abbott at the Meetinghouse. Friends are urged to come and share their thoughts on the topic: “Do we want to make any changes to our current practice of having two meetings for worship on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m., one blended, the other plain?” The session will be blended (Zoom bit.ly/3K7bxut, Meeting ID: 889 2970 0043, Passcode: 960226).
If you cannot attend the session, but would like to share your thoughts, please send them in an email to Carl (personal address in directory). Remarks, including the reading of written remarks, will be kept to three minutes per person so all will have a chance to share. If you have questions, please contact the clerking circle at clerk@multnomahfriends.org.
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 6:30 PM – 8:30 pm
Optional taco dinner provided 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Multnomah Friends Meeting: Social Hall – in-person only
Facilitator: Susan Marie
Have you encountered someone in distress or crisis and not known what to do? Susan Marie, a member of Multnomah Friends, is a retired psychiatric nurse practitioner with over 30 years’ experience working with adults experiencing mental illness, trauma, and substance use, including at Old Town Clinic and Central City Concern. In this experiential and practical workshop, Susan will help us learn to evaluate situations and share tools for responding to threats and distress. For more information contact Kepper Petzing (address in directory).
Multnomah Friends Meeting Library is once again lending books and some pamphlets, using COVID-safe procedures. Read more
Dear Friends:
Multnomah Monthly Meeting reminds Friends of our Minute on Racial Justice. In this time of universal mourning for the lives of black citizens who have been killed by and in the criminal “justice” system, we ask that friends take action to live our Minute. In addition to any specific action you are taking in response to the latest police killings of unarmed Black people, we especially encourage our white friends to please review this excellent article entitled “75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice.” The Meeting’s Friends for Racial Justice Planning Committee asks each of us to commit to doing one or two things from the list by a certain date.
Please share the things you commit to doing (and updates on your progress) either on the Meeting’s Racial Justice Facebook page or by emailing the information to Lori Patterson (mamaknitty@gmail.com), who will post it on the Facebook page. These are concrete things we can do to work against racism in our own community and beyond. You can access the page by joining Facebook and searching for Multnomah Quaker Meeting Racial Justice Study and Action Group. You will see a link that says “Join Group.”
Here are additional resources that you can access to find ways to support people of color and anti-racist work: Friends Committee on National Legislation; Black Lives Matter; Don’t Shoot Portland; Campaign Zero; and My Brother’s Keeper.
Justice & Peace,
Friends for Racial Justice of Multnomah Monthly Meeting
Thank you, Multnomah Friends, for your support of Young Adult Friend and Advocacy Corps member Sitara Nath during Friends Committee on National Legislation’s 2017 Spring Lobby Weekend. We are grateful for your support of this incredible annual FCNL event which gathers young adults from across the country to Washington D.C. to experience advocacy firsthand. Friends were incredible in this support and faithful work!