Community
Multnomah Friends is a very active Meeting, with events throughout the week and many ways to get involved. Below are some current events and news about the life of the Meeting. We also publish a weekly bulletin highlighting upcoming programs and announcements, and a monthly newsletter with articles of interest to our community. Sign up with your email address below.
Within our community, we are guided by our testimonies, especially Simplicity, Integrity, and Equality with the goal of being a welcoming space for everyone seeking a spiritual home with us.
Events
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 childrensprogram.clerk@multnomahfriends.org.
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 peace-justice.clerk@multnomahfriends.org for further information.
Sunday, February, noon, Meeting Room, Blended
Join the Peace & Justice Committee Sunday, February 22, for our monthly noon meeting in the Worship room. Please email any agenda requests to peace-justice.clerk@multnomahfriends.org. If you need childcare to attend, you will be reimbursed for the expense.
Zoom: bit.ly/3fTiOBY
Meeting ID: 878 6800 7345
Join the Peace & Justice Committee Sunday, February 22, for our monthly noon meeting in the Worship room. Please email any agenda requests to peace-justice.clerk@multnomahfriends.org. If you need childcare to attend, you will be reimbursed for the expense.
Zoom: bit.ly/3fTiOBY
Meeting ID: 878 6800 7345
Sunday, Feb. 15 and 22, March 1
Social Hour
Joining a committee is a great way to become part of the life of Multnomah Meeting. You get to know other people and become informed about a particular aspect of what makes us who we are. Nominating committee is looking for interested people. On Sundays Feb. 15 and 22, and March 1, there will be representatives from various MMM committees in room 12 during the social hour following 10 o’clock worship. Please stop by to get information on committees you might be interested in. Contact the Nominating Committee: nominating@multnomahfriends.org.
Joining a committee is a great way to become part of the life of Multnomah Meeting. You get to know other people and become informed about a particular aspect of what makes us who we are. Nominating committee is looking for interested people. On Sundays Feb. 15 and 22, and March 1, there will be representatives from various MMM committees in room 12 during the social hour following 10 o’clock worship. Please stop by to get information on committees you might be interested in. Contact the Nominating Committee: nominating@multnomahfriends.org.
Sunday, February 8, 4:30pm, Social Hall
We host Death Cafes the second Sunday of each month to offer people in the Portland area space for an open, nonjudgmental discussion of our personal experiences with illness, death, grief and loss. The objective is to increase awareness of death with a view to help us make the most of our (finite) lives. For more information contact Ellen Simmons.
We host Death Cafes the second Sunday of each month to offer people in the Portland area space for an open, nonjudgmental discussion of our personal experiences with illness, death, grief and loss. The objective is to increase awareness of death with a view to help us make the most of our (finite) lives. For more information contact Ellen Simmons.
Tuesday, February 10th, 7 – 8:30 pm on Zoom only: Zoom link
Tuesday, February 17th, Noon – 2pm in-person only at Meetinghouse, 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. For February we are discussing the Multnomah County Everybody Reads book, Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson. For more information about Friendly Readers, contact Kepper at friendlyreaders@multnomahfriends.org
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