Friends General Conference

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Please Join Us for Meeting Weekend

Please join us for the upcoming Meeting Weekend April 22 – 24, 2016!  

We hope it will be an exciting, nourishing, and challenging program for all. 

We’d like to know if you are coming so we can plan for our meals!  

Please sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/135ObhjYsDUkZtnMpVKCk2azdyy_0r1N_iThH8oE9NL0/edit?usp=sharing

Or contact Carolyn McCoy with any questions: carolyn.mccoy@outlook.com

“Unity in Diversity” – CPMM Meeting Weekend 2016 Schedule

Friday, April 22

5:30 -6: Dinner set up/prep //Singing /Set up arts display

6-7   Potluck dinner

6:45- 7:15  Dinner clean-up

7 – 9 p.m.   “Black Lives Matter” quilt-making / art display / drumming workshop

 “Scavenger Hunt” to uncover hidden aspects of our diversity

Saturday, April 23

8:30—9:00  Coffee/tea/juice/finger foods

9:15 – 12:15   George and Ingrid Lakey : “Building our conflict skills”  around the topic of tuition aid and the issues this bring up for us /youth programs for all youth

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch /coffee/tea/juice/fruit

1:30 – 3:00 Racial Healing and Wholeness workshop (intergenerational for middle school and up)  1.5 hours

3:00-3:15 break/snack

3:15-4:45  Elliott Robertson: “Radical Acceptance” workshop

 Middle-schoolers do dinner prep for taco meal

4:45-5:00 transition time

5:00-6:15  Berta Britz’s workshop/ additional dinner preparation

POOL AVAILABLE 4:30-6 (leave for pool at 4:15, all return from pool by 6:15)

6:30- 7:30 taco dinner

7:30 – 9  games and talent show

9:00 p.m. →overnight  sleepover

Sunday, April 24

7:30 – 9:30 Pancake breakfast

9:30 – 12  Youth program  

9:30 – 10:45 Doug Gwyn “Quaker Faith and Practice: Sustaining the Work for Sustainability”

11:00-12:00 Meeting for Worship/ First Day school/childcare

Friday, April 22, 2016 - 5:00pm to Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 1:30pm
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