New Garden Friend
Published Bi-Weekly Issue 2009-13
In This Issue
1. Caring
2. Reducing
Your Carbon Footprint
3. Monthly
Meeting for Business
4.
Religious Education
5. Upcoming
Book Study
6.
7.
Fall Flea Market
8.
Crow Reservation Update
9. Other
Considerations
10. Happy July Birthdays
11. Looking Ahead at New Garden
1. Caring
The City of Greensboro collected 5,528 pairs of
shoes on Barefoot Sunday. Thanks for your contribution.
This week we remember:
Claud
Keener, who died
Jim
Newlin, who died
Elmer
Brown, who died
William
Coble, who died
If you would like a loved one remembered in
this way, contact the Meeting office, 292-5487 or newgardoff@aol.com.
We also remember Abigail Loren Blythe, who
was born on
Our heartfelt sympathy is with Jennie Case on the
death of her husband, James Everett Case, on
Jennifer Hoppins extends her gratitude for
all the support she received from New Gardeners after the recent loss of her
father, Roger LaRock.
Oatmeal for Urban Ministry The Social Concerns Committee collects
boxes of oatmeal for Urban Ministry. Please bring your contributions of oatmeal
to the meeting house and place them in the basket under the coat rack by
Friendship Hall. This is a continuing community service project.
2. Reducing Your Carbon
Footprint
The Impact of
Our Consumption: Two Enlightening Books
Ever wonder about the hidden impacts of your purchases on the
world's people and resources? Learn more by reading Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things, by John C. Ryan and
Alan T. Durning. Stuff describes what
goes into making a series of items, including newspaper, t-shirts, shoes and
computers, and identifies the impacts of their production and transportation on
the environment and the workers who make them.
Another good read on the topic is Ecological
Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change
Everything, by Daniel Goleman. Goleman points out how little we know about
how the products we buy are produced. He sees signs that we are coming into an
age of "radical transparency" that will change how we shop. Already
consumers can access websites such as www.goodguide.com to find "safe,
healthy, and green products." Hopefully, obtaining more information on
what we buy will allow consumers to drive the market to create even safer,
healthier and greener products. Both of these books are a good start.
From
Recycle Your
Used Tennis Balls
Landfills accumulate approximately 20,000 tons of used tennis
balls each year. An alternative is to send your used balls to Rebounces (www.rebounces.com;
888-630-5696), a company that restores their bounce and sells them at a
discounted price for practice balls. You must send at least 100 balls at
a time, but Rebounces pays for the shipping. Balls beyond repair are
donated to local schools to cover the feet of chairs and desks to prevent
screeching and scratching.
From
Marine Garbage
The United Nations Environmental Program recently reported that every
square kilometer of the world’s oceans contains, on average, 46,000 pieces of
plastic garbage which, as they fragment, are being ingested by – and poisoning
– the entire marine food chain. This startling statistic makes even more
appalling the already well-known infestation of plastic garbage in our
landfills.
According to the Executive Director of the U.N.E.P., Achim Steiner,
“marine garbage is symptomatic of a much wider problem: namely, the careless
use and related poor management of natural resources. The production of much of
this garbage, consisting of fresh-food packaging and one-use plastic bags that
strangle marine life, should be prohibited or gradually eliminated. There is no
longer any justification for producing it anywhere.”
Here in
From Gerburg Mowry
(There is a local supplier in
3. Monthly Meeting for Business
Monthly Meeting for Business and the
Carry-In Meal beforehand
will take place on July 12. The Meal will be at the rise of meeting and Monthly
Meeting for Business will start at
4. Religious Education
First Day
Forum,
June 28: Open Discussion
July 5: Open Discussion
July 12: Open Discussion
Brotherhood Class, 9:45 AM, Sundays, Bible
Study in the Brotherhood Room
June 28:
Finding and Giving Protection
July 5:
Accepting Rules for Living
July 12:
Remembering and Celebrating
Teachers for this
Fall's First Day Program are
needed at the 1st-3rd grade level for fall and spring, and at the 4th
and 5th grade level for spring. Let Ellen know if you would like to take a
turn. Lessons and material will be supplied. First Day assistants are needed at
all age levels through 5th grade. Thanks!!
Summer Program is the week of
Have some extra summer time on your hands? Please
consider working with Summer Program this year! This is a wonderful way to get
to know the children in our Meeting!
Calling All
Those with Graphic Art Skills. RE needs a design for our summer program T-shirt, and we are
seeking a volunteer, or volunteers, who have the skills and interest to
help create a design and put in into a usable form for the screen printer. Ken,
at Screen Printing Unlimited, will work with you on this as well. Let Ellen
know ASAP if you can help out. We need to have all the info to Ken before
July 4. Thanks!
5. Upcoming Book Study
Taking Action
to Improve Race Relations
– Copies of Vanessa Julye’s and Donna McDaniel’s book Fit for Freedom, Not
for Friendship will be available each Sunday through the summer in the
lobby outside the meeting room. Price: $25. Three copies will also be available
on loan from the New Garden Meeting Library.
This fall, there will be a book study
discussion of the book over six weeks, beginning Thursday evening, Sept 3 at
7:30 PM and continuing each Thursday through October 8. Each session will be
led by individuals from New Garden Meeting and from the
Cathie Holcombe and Cheryl
Hopkins
6.
GIHN Housing
Supplies Needed
We at NGFM are preparing to host up to 14 homeless individuals (up
to 5 families) for one week this coming fall. Below is a list of used or
new items which we will need to have on hand. Donations may be placed in
the GIHN labeled boxes in the connector room. Any excess donations will
be given to the flea market to sell.
Phyllis
Ott
Needed Items:
14 twin bed sheet sets (we have 4)
14 pillows
14 WASHABLE blankets
14 twin mattress pads
2 pack n' plays and linens for them
14 hand-towels and washcloths
baby towels and washcloths
baby changing pads
pressed wood bedside tables (collapsible)
small table lamps
cloths to cover tables
alarm clocks
night lights
flash lights
First Aid Kit
booster chairs
high chair that folds up
iron, ironing board
1 small microwave
gently used toys, puzzles, games, books for children of all
ages
coloring books and crayons that do not leave permanent marks
children's movies (DVD's)
disposable diapers, wipes
infant soap and shampoo
bleach and cleaning supplies
facial tissues, paper towels
small plastic trash cans
7. Fall Flea Market
Planning for
the fall flea market is well underway. The sale will be held on October 10. We look forward to receiving your donations, but
please note that NO DONATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL AUGUST 15. Please do not bring anything for the flea market to
the Meetinghouse until August 15 or later. We cannot store anything in the
Fellowship Hall over the summer; this space must be clear for other
activities. We appreciate your cooperation with this request.
This year our Flea Market
will not accept donations of TV's. You can donate TV's to Goodwill if they are
not more than 10 years old. Also, please wash anything you bring; only
clean items are acceptable. In the past we have received many items that we
have had to throw away. Please bring only items that you would feel
comfortable using in your own home.
The schedule for the
fall flea market is as follows:
-8/15/2009 – first day to accept donations
-8/29/2009 – set up ‘big event’
-
open
for business
-10/5/2009 – last day to accept donations
-10/10/2009 – SALE
-10/17/2009 – ½ price sale
-10/18/2009 -$1 per bag sale and cleanup
8. Crow
Reservation Update
Update From the Crow Reservation in
CROW STUDENT TO FRIENDS SCHOOL: As
some of you already know, we have been unable to arrange for a Crow
student to enroll in
READING TREE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY: All of the carpentry work on the
library is done! I'll be going to the reservation to continue work on the
sorting and shelving of books. A donor has provided for a small tipi to be
built inside the library large enough for two or three children to sit inside
and read. At this time, we have enough books, but we welcome gifts which
will help pay for a rug, two bean bag chairs, and a small table with
chairs. Checks can be made to The Center Pole and put in my mailbox.
CURRENT NEED: I'm working with a young disabled Crow man
who graduated from the Special Education Program at Harden (MT)
High School and has taken a few courses at Little Big Horn tribal
college. He is highly motivated and needs job training which does not exist
on the reservation. If you have any information about residential job training
programs for the disabled, please e-mail me at jcochran1@triad.rr.com.
9. Other
Considerations
Copies of Ron Pudlo’s
message on
Sunday, June 14, are available in the meeting office.
Gone Missing!! There are tablecloths that need to be
returned to
North Carolina Yearly
Meeting 312th Annual Session will be held at Blue Ridge Assembly,
45th Anniversary Celebration
July 12th
Guest Speaker: Jay Marshall,
Dean
of
for the
Religious Society of Friends
Come enjoy
·
visiting with founding members of the meeting,
·
reading our time-line of our growth,
·
viewing a power point (slide show) presentation of our
presence in
We invite you to help celebrate our 45 years of ministry.
Frank Massey
Pastoral Minister
336-301-0082 (c)
www.jamestownfriends.org
10. Happy July Birthdays!!
1 Dorothy
Crutchfield
3
Jade Perry, Sally Shipley, Kenzie Welker
5
John Farmer
6 George Bruns, Sam Coble, Betsy Farlow,
Patricia Martinez
8 Sören
Potthoff
9
Tom Edgerton, Carter Lawe, Paul Zopf
10 Robin Callahan, Cason Dent, Jeff Pudlo,
Evelyn Zopf
11
Sandy LaGrega,
12
Brendan McLean
13
Leila Mae Jernigan
14
Anya Lawe
15 Ida
Glasgow
17
Mary Mig McEntire, Julian Plaut
18 Virginia Driscoll, David Raper
19 Fred Cothern
21 Alexandra Corcoran, Mike Curtis,
Nikita Rogers, Saundra Wilson
22 John Coble, Ann Marion, Peer Plaut
23 James Ellis, Teresa Henry, Margaret
Lamb
27
28
Cheney Gantz, Ruth Anne Hood, Peggy McKee, Alice Ann Miller
11. Looking
Ahead at New Garden
Choir rehearsal
Rehearsals are on Wednesdays,
The choir will resume
meeting in the fall after a summer break.
Committees
Social Concerns
Wednesday, July 8,
Library
Sunday, July 12,
Finance and Stewardship
Monday, July 13,
Groups
Silent Meeting for Worship
Sundays,
First Day Forums
Sundays,
The Brotherhood Class
Sundays,
Coffee/Fellowship Time
Sundays,
Semi-programmed Meeting for Worship
Sundays,
Youth Groups
The Middle School Young Friends (5th & 6th
grade)
Sundays,
Middle School Young Friends (7th & 8th grade)
Sundays,
Will resume meeting in the
fall.
The High School Young Friends
Sundays,
Will resume meeting in the
fall.
The High School Young Friends
Wednesdays,
dinner,
Wednesdays,
discussion,
Will resume meeting in the
fall.
Meal for Urban Ministry’s Weaver Center
First
Tuesday each month.
Prepare a meal for
Gather at New Garden,