{"id":2961,"date":"2023-05-17T12:45:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T12:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/state-of-the-meeting\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2023-05-17T12:45:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T12:45:45","slug":"reading-meeting-2022-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/state-of-the-meeting\/reading-meeting-2022-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Meeting, 2022-2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>List of some of Janet Lamborn\u2019s (clerk of Reading Meeting) thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only 40 members, including 2 new ones, only about \u00bd are active;<\/li>\n<li>Most Sundays we are lucky to be crowded with as many as 20 attenders and members at Worship, a few times we have had 25 people, last Sundy we had 9 Quakers in person, and 8 adults &amp; 2 children on the screen with zoom;<\/li>\n<li>Committed to having hybrid worship every Sunday;<\/li>\n<li>We live in 3 states and some people are often homebound;<\/li>\n<li>After months of discussion, we decided that we will close 6th Street Meetinghouse and worship at Maidencreek Meetinghouse from Father\u2019s Day to Labor Day weekend;<\/li>\n<li>The question was: which is more important: having a presence in downtown Reading or keeping our community together in one physical location alongside the zoomers;<\/li>\n<li>If at 2 locations, we would need zoom equipment at both locations;<\/li>\n<li>We are struggling with being a small Meeting instead of a large one, such as being large enough to support 2 worships at the same at 2 different locations, as we have for decades traditionally, and still have a good sense of community;<\/li>\n<li>We are blessed with a family with 2 young children and their young cousins come that to the Meetinghouse on several Sundays, but this joy comes with the problem of having enough Sunday school teachers;<\/li>\n<li>The memorial for Nan Morrisey is on what would have been her 93rd birthday, June 3;<\/li>\n<li>The memorial for Rick Githens is June 10th;<\/li>\n<li>Keep in mind that 2 of our so called \u201cyounger\u201d members are now qualified to order from the senior menu at local restaurants;<\/li>\n<li>During the past several months, we have considered several Queries that examine what it is meant by \u201cthe sense of the Meeting\u201d and Unity vs Consensus;<\/li>\n<li>We have been in engaged in some community building activities such as \u201cFriendly knitters\u2019 and the book club and especially \u201cExploring our Beliefs;\u201d<\/li>\n<li>We have explored Arthur Larrabee\u2019s 9 core beliefs and the SPICES;<\/li>\n<li>Hopefully community building will continue with these activities and others;<\/li>\n<li>We enjoy having opening exercises at the beginning of worship, but for some Sundays, we are not able to find volunteers that found something to share;<\/li>\n<li>At Maidencreek, the future of the care taker\u2019s cottage, formerly a school house, is in jeopardy, is spending $40,000 improve and\/or repair it a good investment?;<\/li>\n<li>Our treasurer, Ann Bodnyk, has retired from this position after at least 10 years of service, we very much appreciate her hard work, innovation, and dedication;<\/li>\n<li>Traditionally, our Treasurer has taken on several odd jobs as part of Treasurer\u2019s job. We are currently dividing these jobs up among other people;<\/li>\n<li>One of the odd jobs is answering the Meeting phone, phone calls to RMM will no longer be forward to the treasurer, but to another member.<\/li>\n<li>We have outsourced\/contracted the bookkeeping portion of the job to an accountant,<\/li>\n<li>Upon approval of May\u2019s Meeting for worship with attention to business, we will establish a Contact person that will be the liaison between the bookkeeper, RMM and other organizations, this person will deposit checks, pay the bookkeeper, and a few other tasks, for this new position, the volunteer must be a RMM member, and the official title will be Treasurer. (Although this person plans to remain recording clerk for QM, he will sooner or later step down as RMM\u2019s recording clerk, [Becky Ross has volunteered,] John Hayden I believe you already have Jim\u2019s contact information.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>List of some of Janet Lamborn\u2019s (clerk of Reading Meeting) thoughts: Only 40 members, including 2 new ones, only about \u00bd are active; Most Sundays we are lucky to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":2505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"quarterly_meeting":[57],"year_of_repprt":[63],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reports","quarterly_meeting-caln-quarter","year_of_repprt-2022-2023","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/state-of-the-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/state-of-the-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/state-of-the-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/state-of-the-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/state-of-the-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/state-of-the-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/state-of-the-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/state-of-the-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/state-of-the-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/state-of-the-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"quarterly_meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/state-of-the-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/quarterly_meeting?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"year_of_repprt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/state-of-the-meeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year_of_repprt?post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}