Goose Creek Friends

Newsletter May 2018

Goose Creek Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Lincoln, Virginia

Queries for Fifth Month:

Community
• Are love and unity maintained among you?
• What helps our Meeting build trust in one
another?
• How do we get to know one another in our
spiritual community and in other religious
communities?
• How do we make time in our lives for our
Meeting?
• How do our conflicts have the potential to enrich
the life of our community?

Monthly Meeting for Worship

with a Concern for Business:
Fifth Month
Meeting approved with thanks the annual report
of the Jane Pancoast Shepherd Scholarship
Committee. Twenty-five applicants have been
awarded scholarships this year. Friends described the
wonderful character of the scholarship essay-writing
gathering in March of each year, with Loudoun
County students from a wide range of ethnic and
socio-economic backgrounds coming to our Meeting
House for the first time to discuss the essay topic.
Baltimore Yearly Meeting is attempting to raise
fifty BYM camp scholarships in fifty days. The cost
of one campership is $1,500. Friends discussed
funding one scholarship. This proposal was referred
to Camping Committee members, who will be asked
to return to next month’s business meeting with their
recommendation.
Carla and Alban Deniz have offered to give a concert,
with the proceeds to go to a worthy cause. Sheila
Kryston has talked with St. Andrew Presbyterian
Church in Purcellville about making this part of their
concert series, which supports charitable non-profits.
Carla and Alban have agreed. The planning is in
early phases, but Goose Creek Friends will be told
how they can help. The Peace and Social Concerns
Committee will head up this effort.
The Unity with Nature Committee reported that it
has made a donation to Interfaith Power and Light.
Additionally, Friends approved a donation for repairs
urgently needed to the roof of the Tree House at
Friends Wilderness Center.
Meeting approved a donation to John Lozier’s
organization, Harping for Harmony. This non-profit
organization provides music lesson scholarships and
John’s own home-crafted harps to young musicians.
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SOME ALTERNATIVES TO PLASTICS!
From Unity with Nature:
Plastic is a growing environmental disaster.  Most
plastics are made from petroleum or natural gas,
both non-renewable resources that contribute to
our ever-increasing carbon footprint.  In addition,
the manufacture of plastic and its destruction
through incineration pollute our air, land and water.  gathering at 10:00am. Committee meetings will
Plastic packaging – especially the plastic bag – is a
significant source of landfill waste and is routinely
mistaken for food by numerous land and marine
animals.  And plastic does not biodegrade – it will
be with us forever!  On Earth Day last month, Unity
with Nature showed the movie Addicted to Plastic.  with Astronomer Kevin Bowles
Friends were moved to examine their own use of
plastics. Good discussion continues!
From Baltimore Yearly Meeting:
Family Camp Weekends
Catoctin Quaker Camp (Thurmont, MD): May 18-20
Opequon Quaker Camp (Brucetown, VA): June 1-3
Individuals and families are invited to come to camp
for a day or for the weekend. A program coordinator
will plan camp-familiar activities for Saturday and
Sunday mornings, as well as Saturday afternoon and
evening. Perhaps you will explore a creek, create a
crafts project, play a favorite camp game or take a
hike in our precious woods. There will also be plenty
of work projects to do! Work projects offer people
with all kinds of skills the opportunity to enjoy some
meaningful and satisfying service. We will savor
meals together, have time to explore and even spend
time around a camp fire in the evening. We invite
you to join us for a BYM Quaker Camp experience,
give the gift of your time, participate with children in
activities and find yourself rejuvenated. Participants
are asked to contribute according to their ability –
$25-50 per person. For additional information or to
register please contact David Hunter, Camp Property
Manager. (301-774-7663 or davidhunter@bym-rsf.
org) For more information, see the BYM Camps
web-site at http://bymcamps.org/programs/family-
camp-weekends.
Sixth Month Interim Meeting: June 9,
Frederick Friends Meeting (Frederick, MD)
Get to know Yearly Meeting Committees and Friends
from other Meetings! Be a part of important decision
making. Join Friends for morning committee
meetings and the afternoon’s Interim Business
Meeting. Frederick Friends Meeting will host the
Sixth Month Interim Meeting. Friends will begin
begin at 10:30. Check the Yearly Meeting website for
more information. (http://www.bym-rsf.org/events/
interim/sixth18.html)
At the Friends Wilderness Center:
Saturday, May 19 – Night Sky Program
Weather permitting (no rain, thick clouds, or
dangerously high winds), come join us for an
evening of sky watching with Kevin Bowles of
the Morgan County (WV) Observatory and his
telescope. Kevin is a font of information about
the night sky and cosmos, ranging from ancient
mythology and star stories to intergalactic collisions
and black holes. He loves to share this infomration.
The skies this night will bring into view the
crescent moon, Venus and Jupiter (with its moons),
double star Castor and M35 open cluster in Gemini,
the Hercules globular cluster, the Beehive Cluster in
Cancer, and much more!
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Meet at Niles Cabin. A home-cooked dinner is

available at 6:00 if you make a reservation with First Day School | May 2018
Sheila ($10 for ages 7+, $5 for children under 6). This month we will focus on the testimony
The program, for which we suggest a $10 tax- of integrity and its many important meanings,
deductible donation per person, or $25 per family, including living in accordance with our deepest
will begin at 6:45. beliefs, following leadings, discovering and
Please RSVP to Sheila Bach if you plan to attend using our gifts, honesty, truth-telling/keeping
the program, and indicate whether you would like promises, steadfastness, being able to admit
dinner reservations. (snbach@earthlink.net or when we are wrong, and being able to grow
304-728-4820) and change.

May 6
SAVE THE DATE! Friendship. This First Day the students will
JUNE 10, 2018 have a chance to discuss what makes a good
friendship and how integrity might be expressed
in a friendship, and participate in related
activities and crafts.

May 13
Celebrating Motherhood. The students will
have a chance to discuss the ways that they love
and appreciate their moms, ways that they can
honor them each day, and how integrity plays a
role in how they honor her. There will be a fun
Mother’s Day craft too!

May 20
Speaking Truth at All Times. The students will
have an opportunity to discuss  what truth means
to them, how to discern what is true, when it
might be hard to speak the truth, and how to find
courage to say what is true. There will be related
Book Sunday and Ice Cream Social activities and crafts too!
at the rise of Meeting
May 27
then ... Agree-Disagree: This fun and kinesthetic
activity is designed to allow students to
communicate and express their opinions on
various topics in a respectful and non-threatening
way and to respectfully listen to and connect
with other students in a socially productive way!

Teen Discussion Group

If three or more teens (ages 13-17) are present,
they are welcome to head over to Allen's shop
At 3:00, a presentation by next door for a youth-led discussion group. We
Eliza Greenman on the ancient and hope to start up the Tween-Teen group again
sustainable art of tree pollarding soon. Stay tuned!
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Sundays Facing Bench

Meeting for worship at 9:45 a.m. MAY
First Day School at 10:00 a.m. Rich Weidner
Fellowship at 10:45 a.m. JUNE
Allen Cochran
Calendar
First Day
MAY
5.13 Sunday 8:45 am Peace & Social Concerns meeting
School
11:30 am Midwives for Haiti presentation 05/06/18
5.16 Wednesday 6:30 pm Religious Education Committee meeting Friendship
5.27 Sunday 11:00 am Ministry and Oversight Committee meeting 05/13/18
Celebrating Moms
JUNE
6.3 Sunday 11:00 am Meeting for Worship with 05/20/18
Speaking Truth
a Concern for Business
6. 10 Sunday 8:45 am Peace & Social Concerns meeting 05/27/18
11:00 am Book Sunday, followed by an Agree-Disagree
ice cream social
3:00 pm Pollarding presentation by Eliza Greenman
6.24 Sunday 11:00 am Ministry and Oversight Committee meeting

NEWSLETTER
The Goose Creek Friends Newsletter
is published monthly by the
Goose Creek Friends Meeting,
18204 Lincoln Road, P.O. Box 105,
Lincoln, VA 20160.
CLERK
Debbi Sudduth, 540.338.3363
dfsud@comcast.net
ASSISTANT CLERK
Rich Weidner, 540.554.2747
richard_weidner@hotmail.com
TREASURER
Easter Sunday 2018 Annie Carlson
goose.creek.treasurer@gmail.com
NEWSLETTER EDITOR
O brother man! Catherine Cox, 301-471-5330
blycox@comcast.net
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