Goose Creek Friends

Newsletter June 2022

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

Queries for Sixth Month –

PLEASE JOIN US FOR
Meeting Membership:
• How can I actively support the
meeting community?
• How can I support the Clerk of Meeting
and clerks of committees?
• How am I maturing into the fullness of
membership in this spiritual community?
• How does the meeting community nurture
my spiritual growth and transformation?
• In what ways does the Meeting make
its needs clear to each of us?

Sixth Month Monthly Meeting

for Worship with a Concern
for Business
The Clerk read letters that had come to
Meeting. These included a letter from Maria
Mudd-Ruth in Washington State, who was JUNE 12 AT 11:00 AM
happy to see our news regarding the new This will be our first in-person
Mud Club, and a letter of thanks from Kent Book Sunday since 2019!
Allen Brewer, thanking us for our gift SCHEDULE
enabling him to buy his first suit after forty Introduction
years of incarceration.
Presentation by Tim Brown
Friends approved this year’s report from Recognition of First Day School
the Jane Pancoast Shepherd Scholarship Teachers and Friendly Adult Presences
Committee. This year they awarded a total of Presentation of Books to the Students
$49,500 to twenty-six scholars. Poetry Reading, Remembering Ed Leggett
The Anti-Racism Committee will show a short Group Photo on the Meeting House Porch
film, “Segregation by Design,” followed by Ice Cream Social on the Lawn
discussion and a potluck lunch, on July 10.
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From the Anti-Racism
Committee:
Please join the Anti-Racism Committee on
July 10th for a short film and discussion of
the forgotten history of how our government
segregated cities through law and policy. And
stay afterward for a pot luck meal!
Grace (Church) Heritage Site Clean-
up, Thursday, June 9, 11:00-1:00 and
Wednesday, June 15, 9:00-11:00
There have been many improvements over
the last few months at the Grace Heritage
Site on Brooks Lane in Lincoln. This is the
site of the Methodist Episcopal Church built
in 1885. In our partnership with the Friends
of Grace, we offered to help out with some
things that need to be done. In order to
protect the furniture in the building, we will
be washing the pews before covering them
with plastic sheeting. Other furniture will
need attention and we’ll need to vacuum the
floor. It is a pretty dusty, so please bring
work gloves and masks and wear work
clothes. We will bring the buckets, brooms,
cloths, and other equipment.
Let me know if you can join us.
Thanks,
Carolyn Unger, cbwunger@gmail.com
To find out more about Saving Grace, go to
www.savinggraceproject.org
From Baltimore Yearly Meeting:
Registration is now open for BYM’s All
Camp Gathering, to be held this August
26-27-28 at Catoctin Quaker Camp.
Register online at https://bymcamps.
campbrainregistration.com/
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the
BYM Camping Program, and we hope you'll
join us to celebrate, reconnect and share
stories from Shiloh, Opequon, Catoctin, and
Teen Adventure.
You can register for the entire weekend or
sign up to come just for the day on Saturday.
Help us make this an amazing and wonderful
event by sharing this info with old camp
friends who may be out of touch – track
down your old counselors and campers and
help us spread the word!
If you would like to help us plan and lead
activities over the weekend, we would love to
hear from you. We envision a hike to Coffee
Hollow, frazzlerham, Sing ’em Up, fire circle,
and more. There will also be an opportunity
to share your vision of the next 100 years of
BYM camping. Where do we go from here?
Photo courtesy of Baltimore Yearly Meeting
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June and July events at the Friends

Wilderness Center:
Upcoming 2nd Hour
• 6/11, Midsummer’s Night Firefly Hike
(6-9pm)
Events at Goose Creek
• 7/9, Shenandoah Birding Excursion (Hike JUNE 12
10:00-2:00) Book Sunday and ice cream social
• 7/29, Meteors on the Meadow: Delta JULY 10
Aquariids (Open invitation for viewing)
“Segregation by Design,” followed by
For more information and to make reserva- discussion and a potluck lunch
tions for these events, visit http://www.friend-
swilderness.org/2022_programs.aspx.

Goose Creek News:

Sara Brown writes, “In joyous news,
Hannah will be attending the Governor’s
School for Agriculture as well as the MATA
program in culinary arts.” Congratulations,
Hannah Maison!
Jeanne Smith writes to say that Ron Howard
has made a film about José Andrés’ World
Central Kitchen, to which Goose Creek
donated funds to help Ukrainian refugees.
The documentary is called “We Feed People”
and can be seen on the Disney channel.
Adam and Amy Robinson and their sons, A Book Pick from the
Clayton and Reed, are in Poland this month Anti-Racism Committee
working to help Ukrainian refugees there. FARMING WHILE BLACK
Gratitude to Sheila Kryston and Chuck and Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to
Betty Hedges, who handed out free trigger Liberation on the Land
locks at the June 4 gathering held by Moms
by Leah Penniman
Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
at Ida Lee Park. They report that they had Whether a long-time or new farmer you’ll gain
a great deal of inspiration and understanding
lively and substantive conversations with
in the book’s 16 chapters including: Planning
other attenders. Your Farm Business, Honoring the Spirits of
the Land, Feeding the Soil, Seed Keeping,
Cooking & Preserving (there are recipes!), and
White People Uprooting Racism. If you’d like
to borrow our copy, contact Maria Nicklin at
marianicklin@gmail.com.
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Sundays Facing Bench

Zoom Meeting for Worship at 9:45 a.m. In-person JUNE
Meeting for Worship at 9:45 a.m. For the weekly Zoom link, Allen Cochran
contact Chuck at: chuck.hough@gmail.com
JULY
First Day School starts at 10:00 a.m.
Patricia Barber
Wednesdays zoom
Discussion Group at 7:00 (Zoom). For more information, Chuck Hough
contact Chuck Hough: chuck.hough@gmail.com

Calendar First Day School &

Family Programs
JUNE We still offer two monthly
06.12 Sunday 11:00 am Book Sunday with ice cream social to follow groups online:
06.13 Monday 6:30 pm Community Book Read, Opening Doors PARENTING GROUP
to Quaker Religious Education (Zoom) 06/25/22, 7:30 PM
06.19 Sunday 9:00 am Unity with Nature Committee meeting
TEEN GROUP
06.26 Sunday 11:00 am Ministry & Worship Committee meeting 06/26/22, 7:30 PM
JULY MUD CLUB! EVERY
07.03 Sunday 11:00 am Meeting for Worship with a Concern FRIDAY, 1:00 PM
at the Meeting House
for Business
07.10 Sunday 11:00 am Anti-racism film & discussion with potluck For the meeting links and more
lunch to follow info contact Cameron at:
cameron247@hotmail.com

NEWSLETTER
“Membership in a Quaker meeting is a spirit-led journey The Goose Creek Friends Newsletter
of coming to know ourselves as individual-in-community, is published monthly by the
Goose Creek Friends Meeting,
a journey on which we experience meeting as a place of 18204 Lincoln Road, P.O. Box 105,
acceptance, a place of shared values, a place of transformation, Lincoln, VA 20160.
and a place of obedience.” – Thomas Gates, 2004 CLERK
Allen Cochran, 540.338.6485
Cochransstone@aol.com
TREASURER
Brian Burgher
goose.creek.treasurer@gmail.com
Quaker Jargon of the Month NEWSLETTER EDITOR

Facing Bench
Catherine Cox, 301-471-5330
blycox@comcast.net
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