State College

Friends Meeting Weekly Bulletin

May the richness of our diversity strengthen our community and our love
First Day (Sunday), 5/9/2010
9:45 am Friendly Forum: Gospel Order (see below)
10:00 am Meeting for Worship in Foxdale's Meeting Room
10:45 am First Day School
10:45 am Gather and settle for Worship
11:00 am Meeting for Worship
12:20 pm Social time
Fourth Day (Wednesday), 5/12/2010
12:00 pm Campus Meeting for Worship, Pasquerilla Center, Rm 118
4:30 pm Midweek Meeting for Worship, Foxdale, E-75
Sixth Day (Friday), 5/14/2010
8:45 am Friends School Meeting for Worship
Seventh Day (Saturday), 5/15/2010
1:30 pm Peace vigil Saturday, corner of College and Allen St.
First Day (Sunday), 5/16/2010
9:45 am Friendly Forum: Alternatives to Violence Program
10:00 am Meeting for Worship in Foxdale's Meeting Room
10:45 am First Day School.
10:45 am Gather and settle for Worship
11:00 am Meeting for Worship
12:20 pm Special lunch (see below)
QUAKER QUEST IS INREACH AND OUTREACH FOR OUR MEETING!

►Upcoming Friendly Forums, 9:45 AM, Meeting Room, All Welcome

May 9: Martin Melville will lead a seminar on Quaker Gospel Order. This
discussion should be more interesting than it may seem at first glance.
May 16: Alternatives to Violence Program -- Jessica Arends and Dorothy
Habecker (and possibly Campbell Plowden) will tell us about the exciting work
that has occurred in the Bradford Prison, where recently over one hundred
prisoners signed up for the AVP workshop! Come and hear about the program
and the prisoners it has touched.
May 23: Not finalized. See bulletin next week for more information.
►Please support the weekly peace vigil, every Saturday, 1:30-2:30 pm at the
gates at the corner of Allen St. and College Ave.
State College Friends Meeting
611 East Prospect Ave., State College, PA 16801
814-237-7051 • www.statecollegefriends.org
Gather and settle. The time from 10:45 to 11:00 am on Sunday is a time for
Friends to gather in the meeting room to prepare and settle for worship. Enter
whenever you are ready. While we expect silence in the meeting room during
that time, we cannot expect silence outside of the meeting room until 11:00.
Meeting for worship. State College Friends Meeting welcomes you to our
silent, “unprogrammed” worship, ideally led by God’s Spirit. We have no
designated ministers. A period of about twenty minutes is needed to center
down into inward stillness. Spoken messages come from the spiritual depth of
our lives and from the leadings of the Spirit. It is wise to ask oneself these
questions before rising to speak: is my message from the Spirit, or from some
other place? Is the message for me or for the whole group? Is the time to
give it now or at some other time? It is best to follow each message with a
period of silence in order to absorb what it has to tell us. When a message
speaks to the condition of those present, out of the deepest parts of ourselves,
and is harmoniously developed and deepened—and not too long—a profound
sense of spiritual community may occur among us that freshens and delights.
We call this a “gathered” meeting.
Closing meeting for worship. Our time of worship does not necessarily end
at noon—it ends when the appointed person, attuned to the spiritual sense of
the meeting, recognizes the appropriate moment.
Contacting Care and Concern. We hope that Friends will contact members
of the Care and Concern Committee to request prayer or to be held in the
Light, to request assistance, or to make the committee aware of changes in
your lives or of others that you believe should come to the Committee’s
attention. Contact Lynne Grutzeck, 237-1862.

Contributions to the Meeting are always welcome and needed. Checks may
be placed in the donation box in the entry hall or mailed to: State College
Friends Meeting, 611 E. Prospect Avenue, State College, PA 16801

The Meeting office. Betsy Gamble, the Meeting secretary, is in the office
Mon. through Fri., from 5:30 -6:30 pm. She may be reached by e-mail,
[email protected], or by phone, 237-7051. Please let her know
of any scheduled meetings or events in the buildings so scheduling conflicts
can be avoided. Scheduling of non-standard tasks should be done through
Louise Sandmeyer.

Bulletin and Newsletter. Bulletins and newsletters are available on the

Web. Go to http://www.statecollegefriends.org and chose Bulletin or
Newsletter. The Newsletter can be received by mail or email. To be added
to the mailing list, send your name, address and zip code to the meeting
office. To receive other announcements, notification and bulletins by
email, send a message to [email protected].
 Quaker Arts in the Afternoon
Sunday, May 16th 1-3:30 pm
Friends Meeting House

Come share in an informal

collaboration of the creative spirit
within the meeting.
Members are invited to bring and display or perform any expressive art form or
craft in the Meeting room, Social room, or outdoor patio. Participants are
asked to independently and collaboratively locate display space or tables, and
set up work between the noon rise of worship and 1pm. Volunteers and
donations of nutritious snacks are welcome! Questions? Contact Rebecca at
[email protected].
►Celebrate With Us! FCNL Successes for 2010. Behind the headlines and
polls about dysfunction in Washington is the story of real progress that is being
made in changing federal policy. Here is a list of some of the positive
successes we can count, so far, in 2010:
• Improving Native American Health Care
• Advancing a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
• FCNL Environmental Legislation Is Baseline for Congressional Action
• President Includes Complex Crises Fund in Budget Request
• War Is Not the Answer in Afghanistan
• Health Insurance Reform
• Local Elected Officials, Community Groups Call for Cuts in Pentagon
Funding
• Helping Rebuild Democracy
For details, visit: http://action.fcnl.org/r/132461/74290/0.
Your lobbying, financial support, and faithful witness continues to help FCNL
make this work possible. Congratulations
*One Small Step for Peaceful Prevention, One Giant Leap for Congress
Last week, the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 2010 and 2011 (S.
2971) passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by a voice vote. Find
out more about how this legislation could make significant improvements to
U.S. diplomacy, development, and international cooperation:
http://action.fcnl.org/r/132463/74290/0 or visit the Friends Committee on
National Legislation website: www.fcnl.org
►Caps for Chemo: The Diane Mathews Memorial Project. In honor of the
memory of my friend Diane Mathews, I am organizing the collection of caps
for chemotherapy patients. Patterns for knit, crochet and fleece chemo caps are
available in the Social Room. The finished items will be collected during April
and May and the caps will be donated in her name on the anniversary of her
birthday May 25, 2010. Thank you for helping me honor the memory of my
friend. Cy de Vries
Calendar and Upcoming Events
May 16 SCFM Afternoon with the Arts, Rebecca Plummer Rohloff
May 17 Peace and Social Action Committee, 7:30 pm Foxdale E-75
May 30 SCFM Family Meeting, No First Day School
June 6 BYM Centre Quarterly Meeting, at Dunnings Creek Meeting
June 11-13 BYM Conference for Parents of Teens at Catoction
June 13 First Day School closing celebration at rise of Meeting

See the websites of BYM (www.bym-rsf.org), PYM (www.pym.org), USQM

(usqm.org), SCFM (statecollegefriends.org), State College Friends School , FGC
(fgcquaker.org) (www.statecollegefriendsschool.org), Pendle Hill
(www.pendlehill.org) for further info.
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►On May 20 at 6:30pm, there will be a Town Hall Meeting/Public Issues
Forum on Alcohol: Controlling the Toxic Spill, held at the American
Philatelic Society, Bellefonte. The purpose of this event is to come together as
a community, to identify issues around alcohol use and to discuss various
approaches in addressing this issue – an issue that has become far too common
in our communities. Our work will be that of engaged citizens seeking
common ground for action.
We will begin and end in the large group room. We will be breaking into small
groups to discuss each of the approaches. Each small group will then report
back to the whole group at the end of the evening. These group reports will
then be reported back to community leaders, policy makers, and community
coalitions for follow-up action.
Can you help? The most important help you can provide is to attend on May
20th and offer your insight on this issue. Encourage people to pre-register at
[email protected] or with Ali Turley at 814-880-5069. Please be
sure to reach out to youth and parents.
►May 14-16 – BYM Friends Service Weekend at Opequon Quaker Camp
Work projects offer people with all kinds of skills an opportunity to enjoy
meaningful and satisfying work. For information, check the BYM Camp
website, or contact David Hunter (301-774-7663 or [email protected])
►May 14-16 – BYM Junior Young Friends at Shiloh Quaker Camp
Julian Brelsford will speak about his experience in Haiti during the January
earthquake. More information: http://bym-rsf.org/yf/calendar/calendar.htm web
pages or contact Alison Duncan, [email protected] .
►BYM Young Friends (High Schoolers) "Graduation" Conference May
28-30 at Sandy Spring Meeting, 17715 Meeting House Rd., Sandy Spring, MD
20860. Contact: Alison Duncan, at [email protected] or http://www.bym-
rsf.org/yf.
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Notices for the weekly Bulletin should be sent by Thurs., 6:00 pm to
[email protected], 404-2831. Notices for the monthly Newsletter should be sent
to Cynthia Bartok by the third Sat. of the month. ([email protected], 100
Sandy Ridge Rd., State College, 16803).