Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

of the Religious Society of Friends

Haddonfield Quarter

Fireside Chat: Simple Holidays

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Join Cropwell Meeting for worship (10 AM), followed by a fireside chat focusing on Simple Holidays.  Participants will discover new – or recreate their own – family traditions focusing on others including exploring different kinds of creative activities.   A community potluck will start around Noon; all are invited!

Saving our Stories – Training in Oral History

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This online training will focus on the basics of doing oral history interviews including planning, releases, concerns, Zoom and other audio-visual tips, and publication/posting.  This program is offered free, as a service from SouthJerseyQuakers.  We welcome multiple participants from Friends’ meetings and other groups.

We encourage Friends to focus on how a Meeting or individual Friends made South Jersey (and other communities) a better place to live.  Additional topics, such as how our faith and practices have guided – and enhanced – Friends’ lives are important to record as well.

Our resource person for this training is Melissa Ziobro, Specialist Professor of Public History, Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University, and President of Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region, will lead this training.  She is also the editor for New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, a joint venture of the NJ Historical Commission, Rutgers University Libraries, and Monmouth University.

Please pre-register.  Zoom details will be emailed on the day prior to the program.

 

Fireside Chat and Community Potluck

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Join Cropwell Meeting for silent worship (10 AM), followed by a fireside chat (11 AM) focusing on “Healing Silence” – how a regular practice of silence heals the mind, body and heart.  Hear about recent studies documenting the health benefits linked to a silent practice.   The community potluck will begin about Noon.

“The Underground Railroad in South Jersey And Its Importance Today”

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Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting will feature a presentation by Linda Shockley, President of the Lawnside Historical Society.  Friends are encouraged to pre-register for this hybrid event, to be held in person at Medford Meeting and via zoom.

Oral history identifies Peter Mott as an agent and conductor for the Underground Railroad, working from his home and Mt. Pisgah A.M.E. Church in present day Lawnside.  Freedom seekers would continue their journey north via Evesham, Haddonfield, and Pennsauken.  The Lawnside Historical Society has restored Mott’s home for use as a museum of the Underground Railroad and the Lawnside community, the only historically African-American incorporated municipality in the northern USA.  (www.petermotthouse.org)

Children’s activities will be provided during worship (10 AM).  The program will begin about 11 AM.  Beverages and lite snacks will be provided at the conclusion of the program outside.  Guests are welcome to bring a lunch, as well.

Cropwell Open House

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cropwellquakermeeting We’re so excited to announce our Open House on September 18th, from 10am-2pm! We will be hosting the event outside with plenty of activities involving spirituality, family, and history. Visitors will also be welcome to visit in the worship space in the Meetinghouse (with windows and doors open, and other COVID safety measures).  Can’t wait to see you then!

Lightning Kids

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Let’s brighten up the new year with some new ways of playing! We’ll do some thinking outside our zoom-boxes to create new space. Go on adventures into that space as our super-selves! Mix things up to make them brand new. Simple life-hacks for even the youngest Friends. See how silliness goes a long way to warm the heart!

Lightning Kids

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Let’s brighten up the new year with some new ways of playing! We’ll do some thinking outside our zoom-boxes to create new space. Go on adventures into that space as our super-selves! Mix things up to make them brand new. Simple life-hacks for even the youngest Friends. See how silliness goes a long way to warm the heart!

Lightning Kids

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Let’s brighten up the new year with some new ways of playing! We’ll do some thinking outside our zoom-boxes to create new space. Go on adventures into that space as our super-selves! Mix things up to make them brand new. Simple life-hacks for even the youngest Friends. See how silliness goes a long way to warm the heart!

2020 Poor People’s Campaign: A 52 Year History Renewed

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In 1968, the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) was first named as a key concern of Friends in America. American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) Associate Executive Secretary, Stephen Cary,  remarked that the PPC “…has made poverty in America visible, and never again will it be possible to pretend that it is not real.”

52 years later, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM) recognizes that we need to work together as a community to continue to make poverty and all the injustices that contribute to it more visible.  As part of that process, PYM’s Quaker Life Council recently minuted an endorsement of the PPC, as has PYM’s Young Adult Friends community, Trenton Meeting of Friends and Haddonfield Quarter. PYM has also offered youth programming (described later in this story) around this initiative and will continue to support the community’s energy on addressing the causes and consequences of poverty in America today.

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