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Meeting Tasks for this Sunday:
Care of Meeting: Dorrie J.
Key - Lorina H.
Setup help - vacant
Greeter - Kristen M.
Snack - Sharon T. + Potluck!
Kitchen - Mark H.
Kitchen help - Judy H.
Children's Teacher - Susan R.
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Friendly Notes
Holding in the Light
- Carole T. - as she recovers from knee surgery
- All Bellingham Quakers - as we undertake a 120 day period of discernment to determine whether or not purchasing the building under consideration is a Spirit-led choice our Meeting.
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Calendar for Bellingham Friends
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Thursday, July 30
SEC Film night
"The Harvest"
7 pm - light refreshments
At the Hopkinson's
This is the 2nd in a series of films on Farmworkers. Stimulating and meaningful discussion followed last month's film, and this one promises to be equally informative!
Please RSVP by clicking here
> 400,000 children work in American fields to harvest the food we eat.
Children working in agriculture endure lives of extreme poverty
To read more about the film and the issue, click here
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Sun Aug 2
Annual Picnic
see information above right.
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Wed., Aug 5,
7-9:00 PM
Midweek Worship
Mary Ann Percy's home
(1 hr worship + worship sharing and/or check-ins).
Friends gather for midweek worship on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays each month.
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Tues, Aug 11
BOOK GROUP
Aug 11
at Joanne C.'s home
The upcoming book is the Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, which is a fictionalized account of the story of Sarah Grimke and a slave she was given as a child , her becoming Quaker and her role in abolition. It's a Library kit and a wonderful read, and the book that inspired Joan to present The Grimke sisters as a QEI biography. To get a copy, contact Susan R.
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Sat., Sept. 12th 2 pm - Sun, Sept. 13th 2pm
Annual Retreat
Camp Lutherwood
(see more information below)
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From Ministry and Counsel:
Honor Our Shared Silence
To honor and nurture our precious silent worship together, please plan to arrive before 10 a.m. on Sunday mornings. Please enter the hallway outside the worship room quietly, as voices carry. Please silence cellphones and arrange belongings before entering, and keep comings and goings during worship to a minimum.
Thank you.
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Opportunities for Friendly Activists
From your Social and Environmental Concerns Committee
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SUPPORT THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL
A huge vote on war and peace is right around the corner.
Take action when it
Matters Most
click here
and follow the instructions (very easy) so that Friends Committee for National Legislation (FCNL) can help you send a message to your legislators.
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Support Low Income Housing Residents
Residents of Washington Square Housing are mounting a campaign to ask our Senators to use their influence to pass HR 233: Tenant Income Verification Relief Act of 2015
H.R.233 reduces the burden on persons living in low-income housing, on public housing authorities, and on the United States government by requiring that tenant recertification (Income Verification) need only be completed once every three years instead of once every year. The cost savings to the public housing authorities in both materials and necessary labor to process the verification is substantial. Additionally, the reduction of stress on low-income residents is very significant. (Currently, residents must file a 27 page application every year in order not to loose their homes.) The cost savings to the government, while perhaps inconsequential when compared to the national debt, would be significant to agencies such as Housing and Urban Development.
A Petition will be available for your signature at Meeting for Worship for the next several weeks. .
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Friday Peace Vigil
When
Every Fri, 3:45pm – 4:45pm
Where
104 W Magnolia St, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA ()
Description
The Nation's oldest weekly Peace Vigil. Paricipants gather weekly at 4:00 pm with signs in front of the Federal Building on the Corner of Magnolia and Cornwall Streets.
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Annual Bellingham Friends' Outdoor
Meeting for Worship
and Picnic
This Sunday,
Aug 2 10 am - 2 pm
- Where? Fairhaven Park in large shelter on right (when entering from Chuckanut Drive); across from tennis courts which are on left
- What to bring? Potluck dish to share (food or beverage) with serving utensils, Chairs if you prefer that to the picnic tables/benches, your own utensils, plate, cup, napkin,
- Extra Utensils to share and extra tablecloths, napkins, plates
- Games frisbees, other outdoor games you enjoy
- Offer to help? We will need more than 1 person for childcare; please sign up! (at meeting)
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Upcoming Second Hours:
Aug. 9 - MfWfB
Aug. 16 - Proposal for BFM Decision-making Process/F&P Draft Chapter on Discernment
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Experience FGC - the Gathering from the comfort of your own home!
You can view all the 2015 FGC Plenary sessions including
Parker Palmer
(this one will be available a little longer)
Click here
for access to all 2015 FGC gathering Plenary sessions
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Looking ahead to wider Quaker gatherings:
Quaker Earthcare Witness
(QEW) Fall Steering Committee Meeting:October 22 - 25 at Ben Lomond Quaker Center near Santa Cruz, CA
if you are thinking about attending these or other Quaker meetings and are deterred by the expense, don't forget many Quaker gatherings offer financial aid and the Meeting has our own scholarship fund as well. Contact clerk of Ministry and Counsel, Virginia Herrick, for more information.
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Announcements from the Wider Community
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Tonight!
Transportation Equity Discussion
at WPJ
When
Wed, July 29, 7pm – 10pm
Where
The Whatcom Peace and Justice Center ()
Description
This discussion is not organized by WTA. We are inviting you to participate in a small starter conversation about Transportation Equity and WTA service in our community. The goal is to pull together the voices of both existing bus riders, as well as those that could use WTA’s buses if they were more equitably allocated. Information and data will be shared to assist the community’s participation in WTA’s upcoming strategic planning. We want WTA to hear from a variety of voices on this topic before their public input process is closed. We will decide at this meeting if people would like to form a more formal advocacy group for bus riders. Please feel free to extend this invitation to other bus riders! Seniors, teens, veterans, county residents, riders with access needs. Thank you!
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Just a few days left to fund the Totem Pole Journey! 
Help meet a $10,000 fund drive for the 2015 Totem Pole Journey. Please consider making a donation at whatever rate is comfortable for you. Just go to www.Faithify.org .
It is an all or nothing campaign.
If the goal is not reached in 9 days your card will not be charged. Logistical help for this journey is being supported by volunteers from ReSources, Whatcom County and State Sierra Club, Columbia River Keepers, Earth Ministry, and the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, under the leadership of Lummi Sovereignty and Treaty Protection Office.
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Concert in Elizabeth Park
Thursday, 6 pm
SUMMER PARK CONCERT SERIES:
Bellingham's Columbia neighborhood at Elizabeth Park.
Every Thursday through Aug. 27.
http://www.cob.org
6:00 pm - 8 pm
Free concerts sponsored by The Eldridge Society, in partnership with Bellingham Parks and Recreation. Hot dogs will be available for purchase, and picnickers are encouraged to recycle and compost. Donations to enable The Eldridge Society to continue to pay the performers will be gratefully accepted at the concerts.
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The July Metamorphosis is out!
Click here
To read it now.
You should have received an email copy. If you did not, email the editor and ask to have your name added to the list!
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