Eastern Hills Friends Newsletter
Worship with us at 1671 Nagel Rd.
Write us at PO Box 54565, Cincinnati, OH
45254-0565
www.easternhillsfriends.org
September 4, 2011
Calendar of Events:
Sep. 11 Second
Hour
Sep. 24 Wilmington
Yearly Meeting Workshop on Evangelism
Oct. 2 Miami
Center Quarterly Meeting, Eastern Hills Friends Meeting
Oct. 16 Miami
Quarterly Meeting, Dayton
Oct. 21-23 Salt
and Light event, Louisville, KY
Oct. 23 Monthly
Meeting for Business
Oct. 25 Salt
and Light event, Community Friends
Oct. 30 Work
Day
Additional Information:
• Salt
and Light events will be held in Louisville, KY, Oct. 21-23, and at Community
Friends in Cincinnati, Oct. 25. Sponsored by FWCC Section of the Americas, they
will be led by Valerie Joy and Abel Sibonio, both from Australia YM. More
information can be found at http://www.fwccamericas.org/events/index.shtml.
•
Ministry and Counsel welcomes suggestions for material to be posted on the web
site. Anything that you believe is appropriate should be submitted to them.
•
Please hold Ruth Palmer and her family in the light as she approaches the end
of her life here on Earth.
• Your
newsletter editor welcomes material (stories, pictures, etc.) for inclusion of
our meeting’s report to the Quaker Quill, the newsletter of Ohio Valley Yearly
Meeting. Please submit them to richardboyce@fuse.net
by Sept. 11th.
First Day School 2011-2012
Our First Day School’s
needs are two-fold:
1. We
need a few people to volunteer to be prepared to do First Day School for any
visiting children.
2. This
year we will introduce Seth (and any other teens who might join him in First
Day School) to other faith traditions. The year’s curriculum will begin (9/11)
with a brief unit on Quakerism in order to complement Seth’s current knowledge.
Following this first month,
Seth’s adult companion in First Day School will devote a month to exploring a
specific Christian sect, or some other faith tradition, according to the
following schedule:
Week
1 Introduction
Week
2 Further
exploration
Week
3 When
possible, a visit to the group’s worship service
Week
4 Follow-up
discussion.
Of course, this schedule
might require adjustment at times, but we hope the adult guiding the
exploration will follow it as faithfully as possible.
We encourage adult Friends
to step beyond their comfort zones and agree to accompany Seth on one of these
journeys. Friends need not be expert or even (initially) knowledgeable about
the traditions they chose. Ministry and Counsel will gladly help Friends find
resource materials.
Please choose one area from
among the following possibilities and sign up to work with Seth for a month:
• Protestant denominations:
Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Church of the Brethren, Mennonite, Mormonism, Pentecostal,
Seventh Day Adventist, Jehovah’s Witness, Episcopalian
• Catholicism
• Greek/Eastern Orthodoxy
• Unitarian Universalist
• Buddhism
• Islam
• Judaism
• Bahai
• Hindu
If you are able to help
with either of these needs, please contact Footie Lund.
Spiritual Practice - from Eastern
Hills Ministry and Counsel:
One of the spiritual
practices that Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat recommend at their website http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/
is “Praying the News.” Here’s what they suggest:
The
daily news summons us to prayer. The people, situations,
and
events of our times call out for our compassion and God’s
healing presence. In this blog we will pray in
a variety of forms
as
we lift up the needs of the world. We hope that by praying
the
news in this way we will also expand both our spirituality and
our
practice.
Each
day this month, choose an event, a situation, or a person featured in a news
story to pray about/for.
Editor: Rick Boyce, 231-9866, richardboyce@fuse.net, welcomes additions
or suggestions for the newsletter.
