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Queries for Ninth Month: Youth Monthly Meeting for Worship with a
• Do you establish family standards including the mutual Concern for Business: Ninth Month
obligations of youth and adults? Friends approved a request from Gene Scheel to use the
• How do we get to know and care for our youth as Meeting House on October 1 for a visit from Loudoun
individuals? What have we learned from the wisdom teachers. Goose Creek Friend Lee Lawrence will speak
expressed by our youth? to them about her two local history books.
• How do we share our deepest beliefs with our youth, Friends approved use of the Meeting House on October 5,
while leaving them free to develop as the spirit of God 12-4 pm, for the First Day School’s crafts and bake sale.
may lead them? Friends approved a request from the Unity with Nature
Committee to invite Mimi Westervelt, who has recently
Monthly Meeting for Worship with a returned from another stay in Kenya, to speak with us
again about her work there.
Concern for Business: Eighth Month
The Clerk read a letter from all the workers at Abernethy
The Toward Right Relationship Project is a program that and Spencer Greenhouses thanking us for our support
has come from the Committee on Indigenous Peoples at of Victor Chavez’s family following the death of his son
Boulder Monthly Meeting. Trained teachers are willing and the injuries inflicted upon his wife.
to visit Goose Creek Meeting to offer a session. Friends
approved inviting them to visit us on November 10. This Meeting approved the annual report of the Archive
program will be for adults, but its leaders plan to return Committee, which has continued its work conserving
to teach our children. The whole community will be and framing documents and indexing Meeting papers.
welcome to attend. The new technology working group is planning for
digital storage of Meeting information. “The Short
Friends approved with pleasure a request to use the History of the Goose Creek Meeting” brochure has been
Meeting House for a “Coming of 8” gathering for Arthur updated and is available in the office. The committee is
Hertzberg on September 1 at 4pm. All Goose Creek working to provide historical information to the African
Friends are invited. American Freedom Center in Waterford.
Friends approved use of the Meeting House for the Friends approved Lincoln Elementary School’s request
Loudoun Preservation Society’s Dirt Road Tour on to use a photographic image of Oakdale School (rather
November 3, 2019, noon-5pm, and for the October than the Meeting House) on a Christmas ornament to be
12 wedding of David Michael, a member of the local sold as a school fundraiser in 2020.
community.
The Meeting Cares Committee plans a pilot program in
which a few adults would help First Day School students
eight years old and up prepare Meeting’s refreshments for
the next day. This was approved for Saturday, September
14, 2-4pm.
Friends approved Martha Mason Semmes’ becoming a
representative from Meeting to the Friends Wilderness
Center Board of Directors. She will join Caroline Pelton
as a board member.
Friends indicated their desire to hear more about Lincoln
Elementary School’s request to use a likeness of the
Meeting House on a Christmas tree ornament to be sold
as a school fundraiser. Continued on next page g
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Meeting News
Congratulations and best wishes to Molly Janney and Autumn Calendar
Simon Buckland on the birth of their son, Kai Matthew,
on August 25! Congratulations also to grandparents John September 14
Janney and Sarah Huntington and Drew Babb. Outdoor lunch at Friends
Wilderness Center, 10am-4pm
A potluck gathering for regional Friends Meetings
FunDraiser to Benefit and members of the public. Food, fellowship, and
GOOSE CREEK MEETING new connections for all who come.
OCTOBER 5, 12-4 Come and see the China Folk House!
Directions at friendswilderness.org
Call for Hand-crafted Items
First Day School has come up with a ***
plan for a fundraiser to benefit the September 15
Meeting House (general fund).
Meditation and the Bible –
We need the help of Friends to create and donate after the rise of Meeting for Worship
one-of-a-kind items to be sold at the October
5th sale. A few of the children’s ideas were ***
any sort of fiber art – including items that are
knitted, crocheted, quilted, woven, cross-stitched,
September 25
embroidered, etc – woodcraft, blacksmith Spiritual Formation
ironworks, pottery, glasswork, soaps, and baked 2pm at the Meeting House
items (including cakes, cookies, muffins). We are This group meets monthly to share our ups and
accepting hand-crafted items through First Day, downs and act as a small, supportive community
September 29; baked goods can be delivered to for one another. Each member commits to at least
the Meeting House Friday, October 4th. Please 15 minutes per day of spiritual practice, such as
label baked goods with ingredients. meditation, reading of scripture, or meditative
At the event, there will be a drawing for the walking. In addition, the group selects a book to
quilt the children helped to create that is on read and then discuss at our next session together.
display at the Meeting House. If you are interested in joining us, please contact
Caroline Pelton (peltonrc@msn.com).
If you are interested in making something for
this fundraiser, volunteering that day, or being ***
on the planning team, please contact:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5
Maria Nicklin: marianicklin@gmail.com or
Barbara Lake: barblake09@yahoo.com
First Day School’s
Fall Handmade Craft & Bake Sale
at the Meeting House 12pm-4pm
***
Saturday, October 19
Fall Retreat – Nurturing Compassion
Join us at Goose Creek for a daylong retreat
around the theme of nurturing compassion. The
retreat will be led by Leah Rampy, retreat leader,
spiritual mentor, and the former executive
director of the Shalem Institute for Spiritual
Formation. All are welcome. $10 freewill
donation, if you are able.
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Birth NEWSLETTER
The Goose Creek Friends Newsletter
Kai Matthew Buckland to Molly Janney and Simon Buckland, on August 25, 2019. is published monthly by the
Goose Creek Friends Meeting,
18204 Lincoln Road, P.O. Box 105,
Lincoln, VA 20160.
“To watch the spirit of children, to nurture them in Gospel Love, CLERK
and labour to help them against that which would mar the beauty Rich Weidner, 540.554.2747
richard_weidner@hotmail.com
of their minds, is a debt we owe them; and a faithful performance
ASSISTANT CLERK
of our duty not only tends to their lasting benefit and our own Allen Cochran, 540.338.6485
peace, but also to render their company agreeable to us.” Cochransstone@aol.com
– John Woolman, c. 1760 TREASURER
Brian Burgher
goose.creek.treasurer@gmail.com