New Haven Friends Meeting
May 2023
You are Welcome Here
To join us for Sunday Service/Meeting for Worship at 10:30 am (in-person or online)*. Mask wearing is individual choice for adults and children. Questions or to request the Zoom link at nhquakers@gmail.com
To act together for an equitable, sustainable and peaceful world
Not familiar with Friends' unprogrammed meeting for worship? Click HERE.
Children's Program/First Day School available for children ages 4+, along with childcare for younger children, during Meeting for Worship. Begins at 10:30 am with gathering with teacher downstairs. Email Carl Testa of the First Day School committee (carl@carltesta.net) with any questions.
*Exception for the Third Sunday each month: Meeting for Worship 10:30 – 10:45 am; Meeting for Business beginning 10:45 am
As a faith community of the Religious Society of Friends/Quakers, we believe that every person is loved by the Divine Spirit. Our community welcomes people of any age, religious background, race, education, nationality, physical or mental ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or economic circumstance.
You are welcome to join us as you are:
- To listen to promptings of the Spirit;
- To experience a collective Presence/Wisdom;
- To grow in your faith;
- To be changed; and
- To support each other on our spiritual journeys
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What's New
The original peace ship, the Golden Rule, that set sail in 1958 to stop nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands, and which inspired the many peace makers and peace ships that followed, has been restored. She is making her first visit to the eastern US, and she will be visiting New Haven from Friday, June 2 to Monday, June 5.
The Library Committee is pleased to announce that the library has been reorganized, and the Meeting’s selection of books are available to be borrowed for one month at a time. Please stop by after Meeting and take a look! A physical copy of the catalog of books is available in the Library.
As an all volunteer congregation, New Haven Friends believe that "many hands make light work". Please join us for clean-up day after the rise of meeting for worship (11:45 am).
We have a new, updated version of the Meeting Handbook, "Wading Deeper into the Ocean of Light." Learn more about New Haven Friends Meeting with this guide, written by the Ministry and Counsel Committee and updated February 2022.
Click HERE to view a copy.
Calling all those with connections to Yale! Northampton Friends Vicki Elson and Tim Wallis have initiated a campaign for Yale to divest from companies manufacturing nuclear weapons and to become compliant with the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. To get a list of the relevant addresses and a model letter, contact info@nuclearban.us. For more infomation on the Treaty, the urgency of the issue, and the campaign for compliance, go to http://www.nuclearban.us
Although originally published several years ago, this essay may still speak to your condition in this "time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage ....
Full text posted HERE. The author, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, is an American poet, post-trauma specialist and Jungian psychoanalyst.
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