Come gather as we have our Summer Meeting at the Old Caln Meeting House.

All are welcome.

Below is a tentitive agenda for the day.

The program in the afternoon will be provided by Schullkill Meeting, "The Way Forward" as it is titled is an approach to bridge and explore these troubled times many feel we are in. See the discrioption below.

9 AM, Care Committee Meeting

10 AM Gathering

 10:30 AM Meeting for Worship

 11:45 AM Meeting for Worship with the attention to Business

9 AM, Care Committee Meeting

10 AM Gathering

 10:30 AM Meeting for Worship

 11:45 AM Meeting for Worship with the attention to Business

            Possible Agenda Items?

Care Committee Survey

Detention Center Update

Swatara Update

Treasures’ Report

New & Old Business….

12:45 PM Lunch (BAG LUNCH)

1:15 PM Program

“The Way Forward” Is Focus of Caln Quarter’s 1:15 PM Program at Old Caln Meeting House August 20

Voices from the Phoenixville area:  Representatives active on The Way Forward’s Health Care, Environment, Social Justice and Political Action committees will speak about their experiences and ideas  right after lunch on August 20 at Caln Quarter’s summer meeting. 

In the wake of the 2016 Presidential election, Friends at Schuylkill Meeting became aware that many of us along with friends and neighbors were stricken with fears and doubts about the future.  In a changed political climate, what would be done about jammed prisons, racial injustice, fearful immigrants,  school inequality and many other harsh problems?  The Meeting decided to sponsor a kind of threshing session for all concerned to share their feelings and thoughts.  Large numbers of Friends and non-Quakers attended this and follow-up meetings---outgrowing the Meeting House.  With newfound energy and commitment, we were led to form a new organization that would sustain our renewed civic efforts.  As Quakers and allies, we wanted to better understand key public policy issues and to facilitate a  higher level of engagement with our fellow citizens and with political leaders.  We also sought fresh ways of being effective on behalf of causes of deep interest to all of us.

 We called the new organization The Way Forward.   Its mission, all agreed, would be to

• Defend the vulnerable
• Practice courageous dialog
• Resist injustice and fear

The Way Forward community meets twice a month to hear activists, researchers and candidates and to work in committees, currently  Environment,  Community,  Healthcare, Social Justice and Political Action.  We encourage each other to reach out to Senators Casey and Toomey and other elected officials on key issues and to form alliances with other organizations.

All Friends are invited to attend this program at the August 20 Quarterly Meeting.  If your Meeting  supports or is involved in similar grass roots organizing, please come on August 20 to listen, share and compare.

For more information Google WayForwardPA.org or contact larrymackenzie29@comcast.net.  Or visit the website by clicking on https://sites.google.com/view/wayforwardphx/home