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Cynthia Gilliam

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Meeting for Worship for Business

Sunday, March 15, 12:15pm, blended

Business Meeting is held monthly on third Sundays. Allvare welcome to attend in person or on Zoom.If you need childcare in order to attend, please contactNursery Supervisor Kaeli Frank.You may also request reimbursement for in-home childcare.

Zoom link: mfmeet.ing/mfbMeeting ID: 705 774 465, Passcode: 923550Dial: +1 669 900 6833 

A Visit with John Woolman

Presented by Rex Nyquist
Sunday, March 29, Noon – 2:00pm, Meeting Room, Blended
All are welcome. Learn more about this upcoming presentation in the MMM Feb 2026 Newsletter. This presentation is a reenactment of John Woolman (1720-1772) and his Quaker contributions to the world. It is a 45 minute presentation with some discussion afterwards. Sponsored by the Adult Religious Education Committee.

What to do if ICE Shows up at the Meetinghouse

Sunday, March 15, 6:00-7:00pm
You’ll learn important information about what can be done before, during, and after ICE actions to help protect the safety and defend the rights of vulnerable people. We’ll practice using key phrases, assigning roles, and build skills together. This is a practical training which will include information specific to the Lunch Program at MFM, but 95% of the information is the same wherever ICE shows up. Everyone at MFM is invited. Presented by lawyer MariRuth Petzing. Zoom only: https://tinyurl.com/4kyb4b2d Meeting ID: 868 0629 2787; Passcode: 709305. 

Worship Sharing with Movement

Saturday, April 4, 10:00-11:30am, Meeting Room
Every first Saturday, from 10 to 11:30 at the Meetinghouse, we invite you to explore using movement as part of your spiritual practice. In Worship Sharing with Movement, we will share the experience of pausing, grounding and listening, with curiosity and care, moving as we are led. We will move in solitude, in dyads, and in community. We will open and close with movement to a song. Please feel free to join us even if this is a very new direction for you. If you have questions, you’re welcome to talk with one of us. Betsey Kenworthy, Lynn Kitajima, Ann Marie Marriott, Kepper Petzing, and Art Okada.
 

MMM Friendship Group

Date: March 6, 2026 10:30 am 10:32 am
Thursday, March 19, 11-1pm,  Room 12
Topic: “This, I believe.” Presenter: Isabella Fischer; Facilitator: Annette Carter; light refreshments available. Gather and center around friendship and answering life’s questions together. We meet on the third Thursday of each month. Sponsored by the Adult Religious Education Committee.

Spring Parents’ Night Out

Friday, March 13, 5:30-8:30pm, Social Hall
Children’s Program Committee is planning our quarterly “Parents’ Night Out” (PNO) event for Friday, March 13th, from 5:30-8:30 pm in the Meetinghouse Social Hall.  PNO offers an evening “off” for parents or caregivers, while providing children (ages pre-K through 5th grade) a light dinner, fun activities, games, and a kid-friendly movie.  Please RSVP to Lyn Gordon by email at  by Wednesday evening, 3/11, so we know how much food to prepare and which age-appropriate activities to plan.

Friendly Readers Book Group

Tuesday, March 10, 7-8:30pm, Zoom only 

Tuesday, March 17, noon-2:00pm, Room 12
Friendly Readers is an open, drop-in book group, discussing books from a Quaker perspective and getting to know each other more deeply. Everyone is invited. You do not have to commit to regular attendance, or to have read the book. Our discussions are about the topics raised. We discuss one book each month over two meetings, which focus on different issues, so come to either or both. Zoom link: Zoom Meeting:  mfmeet.ing/3pgl Meeting ID: 299 858 805  Passcode: 333838.    
For March we are discussing the highly acclaimed book, “James”, by Perceval Everett. There is a book review in the March MFM monthly newsletter on page 13 along with our calendar of upcoming books on page 14. March issue
For more information about Friendly Readers, contact Kepper at f

Child and Youth Safety Training

March 8, noon-1:30pm
Children’s Program Committee members will present a training on the Meeting’s Child and Youth Safety Policy on Sunday, March 8th from 12:00-1:30 pm in Room 23.  This will be an in-person, hands-on training.  All current screened volunteers working with the Meeting’s children and youth who have not completed the online “refresher” version of the training are encouraged to attend, as are all prospective volunteers, whether you’ve begun the screening process or not.  For questions, if you need childcare, and/or to RSVP (by March 7th), please contact Lyn Gordon at .

Peaceful Interfaith Protest at ICE Facility

Saturday, March 28, 4:00pm
Meet at Elizabeth Caruthers Park
A group of Quakers, Buddhists, Jews, and other people of faith are again planning a peaceful interfaith protest at the ICE facility on Macadam Avenue on Saturday, March 28. We will gather at Elizabeth Caruthers Park at 4:00pm and walk silently to the facility. We will walk by the facility three times, in silence, dropping flowers as we go to remember the taken and protest injustice. Then we will return to the park for some worship. The estimated end time is 6:00pm. Please bring at least three flowers, if you wish to drop flowers. This is a completely peaceful protest and no items that could be considered weapons should be brought. Contact  for further information.

Welcome Our New Hearthkeeper

date: February 13, 2026 2:49 pm
Our wonderful Hearthkeeper, Holly Jarvis, the organizational angel of the Meeting for several years, has decided to retire. We are so grateful to Holly for her insight and practical skills that has kept all aspects of the community purring along. We are delighted to welcome Meeting member Sabrina Freewynn as the incoming Hearthkeeper. Sabrina starts in the Hearthkeeper position on February 16.


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