What’s Happening

WEDNESDAY JUNE 24  

 

SATURDAY JUNE 27       

 

SUNDAY JUNE 28 

 

   –Meeting for Worship-Sharing, 10:00 AM, both in person @ meetinghouse and online via Zoom
                           –Trustees meeting, 3:30 PM by Zoom or at parsonage
                           –Missions & Social Concerns Comm, 4:30 PM by Zoom

 

MONDAY JUNE 29     

 

 Ministry & Oversight,  7:00 PM by Zoom or at parsonage

 

 

 

 

THE TRUSTEES’ and MISSIONS & SOCIAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE’S June meetings have been postponed in order not to interfere with Friends’ Father’s Day activities.   Those meetings will be held next Sunday afternoon June 28 at 3:30 PM and 4:30 PM respectively, by Zoom or at the parsonage.

 

AN OFFERING PLATE to receive contributions for Winchester Friends’ ministries is located on the table at the sanctuary parlor entrance.  Thank you for your faithful support and participation in the Meeting’s work.

 

TODAY IS FOOD PANTRY SUNDAY when Friends are encouraged to donate a staple food item (or a dollar or two in the Quaker Oats tin on the southwest parlor table) to help area residents needing food assistance.

 

THE WELCOME CLASS BIBLE STUDY will meet this Wednesday June 24 at 7:00 PM by Zoom to study Lesson 6, “Worthy'” in the Illuminate quarterly (Christ in the Stranger and the Outcast), drawn from I Kings 17 and Luke 4.  Quarterlies are on the southwest parlor table — speak with Pam Ferguson for the Zoom link.

 

READ THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR:  This week’s chapters are II Kings 1-14, Joel 1-3, Jonah 1-4, and Amos 1-3.  The daily reading schedule is on the southwest parlor table.

 

THE FICTION BOOK GROUP is now reading the novel Theo of Golden by Allen Levi for discussion on July 20.  Two copies available for borrowing are on the southwest parlor table. 

 

DID YOU KNOW that Ethiopia was the birthplace of coffee? The coffee plant is indigenous to Ethiopia. Legend states a 9th-century goat herder named Kaldi first discovered the energizing effects of coffee after noticing his goats acting excitedly upon eating the berries from a local bush. Find out more about Ethiopia on Sunday July 26 after a potluck (lasagna will be provided) when Jay and Judi Marshall will share about their recent trip to Ethiopia. Save the Date!