2020 -11 (November) Documents for Meeting for Business
November 15, 2020, 12:15 pm via Zoom
Agenda (see document links below)
- Opening Worship and Reading Query for the Eleventh Month
- Clerk's Report
- Landscape Committee Annual Report
- Treasurer's Quarterly Report
- Worship & Ministry
- Ad hoc Committee on Grants & Covenants
- Exploring Racism Committee
- Philadelphia Quarter
- October Minutes for Approval
- Announcements
- January Annual Reports Due
- Worship & Ministry
- Library
- Treasurer Quarterly Report
- Peace & Social Concerns (held over)
- PIHN Committee Annual Report (held over)
- Release date for January 16 is tomorrow.
- Nominating Committee Report will be delivered at a called meeting in December.
- Closing Worship
Query for the 11th Month -- Stewardship of Resources
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Does our Meeting serve social and economic justice in its uses of property and money?
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How does our Meeting engage its members in the support of the Meeting’s work, its ministry, and the upkeep of its property?
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How does our Meeting engage its members in the support of the quarterly and yearly meetings and other Quaker organizations?
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To what extent does our Meeting rely on current members for financial support, and what role does endowment income serve? Does the Meeting consider carefully the appropriate role of invested funds?
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Am I clear that I am the steward, not the owner, of property in my care?
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Do I simplify my needs, making choices that balance self-sufficiency (to avoid unnecessary dependence on others) and fair sharing of resources? Do I make choices as a consumer that support the equitable distribution of income?
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Do my employment and other activities allow for use of time and energy in spiritual growth and in service to the Religious Society of Friends?
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Do I contribute generously within my means to the funding of the work of Friends in my Meeting, in the yearly meeting, and in the wider world of Friends?