Eastern Hills Friends Newsletter
Worship with us at 1671 Nagel Rd.
Write us at PO Box 54565, Cincinnati, OH
45254-0565
www.easternhillsfriends.org
January 29, 2012
Calendar of Events:
Feb. 12 Second
Hour discussion: Postponed
Feb. 15 Jimmy
Heath House: Providing lunch, set-up at 11:30, serve at noon
Feb. 19 Miami
Quarter Meeting for Business, Lexington Friends, Lexington, KY
Feb. 24-25 Wilmington
Yearly Meeting Mini-Yearly Meeting
Feb. 26 Meeting
for Business
Mar. 4 Miami
Center Quarter Meeting for Business
Apr. 8 Second
Hour discussion: FCNL priorities for 2013-2014 Congress
Additional Information:
•
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.
• We
are accepting contributions of coffee again—caffeinated only, unflavored
preferred.
• Friends
need to sign up for cleaning the meetinghouse.
• To
express appreciation to Doug and Kim Stears for providing our meeting lawncare,
please recommend their lawncare service to anyone seeking such work.
• FUM’s
2012 Chain of Prayer begins Jan. 1 and continues through Pentecost Sunday, May
27, 2012. More information & a registration form can be found at http://www.fum.org/naministries/ChainofPrayer_index.htm
• Information on the 2012
FGC Gathering is available at http://www.fgcquaker.org/gathering.
• 1) Please collect the
following for the Quaker Missions Project: foreign
envelopes; old domestic envelopes in original condition with stamp attached;
new or used domestic or foreign post cards; first day covers; first day issues;
old stamp collections; most anything postal (it all has value). The
proceeds from the sale of these items support Quaker organizations. 2) To
support a new student, Whittier Friends School has a goal of 10,000 “Box Tops
for Education” that are found on General Mills products, Progresso Soup,
Kleenex and Campbell-Swanson Soup labels. Please place all of the above items
in the box on the table in the gathering room, or give them to Henrietta
Ballinger.
• Dick Day, a founding
member of EHFM, passed away on January 12th. A memorial service will
be held at the Blacksburg Meetinghouse on Saturday, February 11, 2 pm, at 404
Mt. Tabor Road, Blacksburg. The family suggests that memorials be made to the
Blacksburg Friends Meeting or Good Samaritan Hospice, 1160 Moose Drive, NW, Christiansburg,
VA.
Spiritual Practice - from Eastern
Hills Ministry and Counsel:
STOP
I
sometimes hear Quakers or attenders say that Meeting for Worship on First Day
is a welcome respite from the week’s demands and urgencies. They relish being
able to sit quietly during that time.
If this is
you, and First Day is the only day that you allow yourself to sit quietly and
open to the silence, you are cheating yourself.
At least
once every day this month, stop. Sit. Quietly. Do nothing except to open yourself
to God’s presence. For at least five minutes.
Quiet
body.
Quiet
mind.
Quiet
heart.
Don’t say
that you don’t have time. You have all the time there is.
Editor: Rick Boyce, 231-9866, richardboyce@fuse.net, welcomes additions
or suggestions for the newsletter.
