 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2003 (XXXXI 4) |
New things are happening in Southern Quarter! Dana Kester-McCabe was hired in May to serve in the half-time position of Regional Coordinator. Southern Quarterly Meeting and its Planning & Coordinating Committee worked for over three years to discern the needs of the Friends community on the Delmarva Peninsula and how a paid staff person might serve them.
The coordinator’s work includes community building through the planning of regional gatherings, publishing a newsletter and maintaining a website representing the Meetings of the Quarter (www.delmarvaquakers.org). The coordinator will also help individual Meetings with outreach efforts, and create a network of Friends with similar concerns, leadings, and interests. Southern Quarter has four Meetings, as far as two hours apart in driving time, with approximately 460 members and attenders living in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
Dana Kester-McCabe is a member of Wicomico River Meeting in Salisbury, Maryland, where she is on the Ministry & Nurture, and Religious Education committees. She is a member of the PYM Meeting on Worship & Ministry and the Web Working Group. Dana is also the publisher and founder of Faithful Witness, the online journal of the Friends Media Project, which is dedicated to supporting Quakers working or interested in mass media creative arts (www.friendsmedia.org).
Dana can be reached at 410-352-5827 or quaker@moonshell.net.
This staff position is paid for by PYM, thanks to Monthly meeting Convenants and your gifts to the Annual Appeal.
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