Events

Evening of July 1st at Multnomah

The ultimate weapons of war are human beings. As a peace community, how do we reach out to and support those in the military facing an ethical crisis, suffering from moral injury, struggling with the fallout of a system based on violence – including suicide, mental illness, abuse, and domestic violence?

What about military personnel poisoned by ecological disasters at home and abroad? Quaker House provides counseling and support on these issues to U.S. service members and their families anywhere in the world. https://quakerhouse.org/ The Executive Director of Peace House will be visiting Multnomah Friends Meeting July 1st and 2nd. They are looking for a few more people to help with a program the evening of July 1st. They plan to reach out to all Friends in the metro area as well as peace groups. Sponsored by Multnomah Friends Meeting Peace & Social Concerns. Contact Kepper Petzing (they), kalmkalm@msn.com, 503-284- 2068

Bridge City Friends Meeting will hold a blended Memorial Meeting for our Friend, Tommy Wittick (1951-2021) on June 17, 3:30 pm, at Multnomah Meetinghouse, Portland.

Join us in person or on Zoom to celebrate the life of our Friend Tommy. Contact us here to request Zoom access

Each year the NPYM Ministry and Counsel Committee supports Friends from our Yearly Meeting to attend the Annual Sessions of the other two Yearly Meetings in our region. If you are interested:

• Sierra Cascades Yearly Meeting is having its 2023 gathering June 23-25 at Western Oregon University in Monmouth.
• Northwest Yearly Meeting is gathering July 23-26 at George Fox University in Newberg.

NPYM will cover costs of one Friend to attend each session in exchange for a brief report of your experience. If you would like to apply, contact Helen Park, Clerk of M&C, at helenlpark@gmail.com. Thank you.

Each year the NPYM Ministry and Counsel Committee supports Friends from our Yearly Meeting to attend the Annual Sessions of the other two Yearly Meetings in our region. If you are interested:

• Sierra Cascades Yearly Meeting is having its 2023 gathering June 23-25 at Western Oregon University in Monmouth.
• Northwest Yearly Meeting is gathering July 23-26 at George Fox University in Newberg.

NPYM will cover costs of one Friend to attend each session in exchange for a brief report of your experience. If you would like to apply, contact Helen Park, Clerk of M&C, at helenlpark@gmail.com. Thank you.

The NPYM /AFSC organizing group supporting Pedro Sosa /Alonzo Oliverous for Project Voice “Know your rights” is having a fundraiser on June 14, 2023, online with special guest musicians Los Jornaleros del Norte.

This will be fun, good listening and dancing, and break up the week on a Wednesday evening, a good way for Friends to gather after supper, maybe have some dessert, learn about our AFSC program, and raise a little money to support the work.  More details to come.  Announcement from John Allcott, Eugene Friends Meeting.

Quaker author, educator, and activist Parker Palmer will offer a free lecture via Zoom from Earlham School of Religion. April 27 (Thurs), 4 pm PDT., “All Real Living Is Meeting: Close Encounters of the Quaker Kind”

Meeting ID 869 1992 1286
Passcode 609494

WHEN: Friday April 14, 2023, at 7:00 pm
WHERE: Reedwood Friends Church 29th & SE Steele

Sliding scale admission – suggested $5-$10
Ways to Support QVS and this event:

• Come to the event!
• Donate to QVS!
• Contribute baked goods!

  For more information contact Janet Jump or Jane Snyder.

The NPYM Peace and Social Concerns Committee is providing a time for meetings, worship groups, and individuals to share the ways they are implementing the NPYM Minute of Support for Indigenous People. The full minute, adopted in July 2022, is available here.

The sharing session will be Tuesday, April 25, at 6:30 Pacific/ 7:30 Mountain. 

Three Friends will begin the sharing:

• Linnea Wang, Montana Gathering of Friends
• Jill Hoyenga, Eugene Friends Meeting
• Carla Main, Port Townsend Friends Meeting

Following these three, the session will be open for sharing from others.  Register here to receive the Zoom link.

Come to the Friends General Conference Gathering, a week of Quaker worship, workshops, and community for Friends of all ages and backgrounds mostly from the liberal unprogrammed tradition. The theme this year is “Listen, so that we may live.”  We will listen together as the Gathering brings together 1000+ Friends from across the US, Canada and beyond to deepen our connections to one another, the Divine, and the wider world.

The 2023 Gathering will be held at Western Oregon University in Monmouth, not far from Salem, July 2 – July 8, 2023. See FGCgathering.org for more information.

Carol Barta, QEW Steering Committee

Why is sustainable not enough in the world of agriculture? What will it take to produce nutrient dense food on healthy soil?  Regenerative agriculture is a systems approach to restoring the health of our food system.  Over the course of the last four decades a growing number of farmers and ranchers have risked, stumbled and learned how to build healthy soil and healthy profits for their farms by going against the conventional wisdom.  Along the way they discovered that healthy soil is the basis for a healthy ecosystem and potentially a healthy planet. We’ll explore the component parts of regenerative agriculture and discuss why whole-system-thinking is the best way to feed the world.