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SIGN UP NOW for Vacation Bible School! This year’s VBS theme is Scuba: Diving into Friendship with God! We will kick off on Sunday, June 9th from 12 – 2pm, and will continue Monday June 10th through Thursday June 13th from 6:30 to 8:30pm. We invite all kids preschool - 5th grade to join us for the fun. If you’d like to sign your kids up, register online here or see the registration forms in the hallway at the Meetinghouse. We also need some parents to bring in snacks—please also reach out if you’d like to help out!
Oak Leaf: Meeting for Reading would love for you to join us as we discuss Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (320 pages) In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake.
As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.
We will gather in the parlor and simultaneously via Zoom starting at 7 pm EST, April 30th led by Ruth K. Anyone can come!
Mid North Food Pantry Fundraiser ~ Each year in the Spring, First Friends promotes its fundraiser to benefit the Mid North Food Pantry. First Friends has partnered with Mid North for about 15 years and the relationship seems to grow stronger each year. In addition to the many volunteers that faithfully help out at Mid North, once a year First Friends solicits donations that are vital to the work of Mid North. We realize that due to work or other commitments, many folks are unable to volunteer at the pantry. This fundraiser presents an opportunity for everyone to not only help maintain the great relationship between First Friends and Mid North, but to help the many less fortunate folks who rely each week on food from the pantry. For those who would like to know more about Mid North, just ask Bob or Beth for names of folks to talk with. While there may be various opinions on biblical messages, one that is quite clear is to love your neighbor and to help feed the hungry. Please contribute as you are led. Contributions can be put in the offering plate with a notation (on an envelope or on your check) Mid North Food Pantry. Or you can give securely online on our website at https://www.indyfriends.org/support and choose “Mid-North Food Pantry” as the fund or by texting “pantry” to 317-768-0303. Thank you for supporting this worthy cause!
Soul Sisters ~ The Soul Sisters women’s group will be meeting Sunday, May 5th after Meeting for Worship for lunch and fellowship. This is an opportunity for the women of our meeting to find connection and reflection and support we find among one another. Any and all women are invited. Lunch will be provided for everyone who attends. For planning purposes, RSVPs appreciated to the office at office@indyfriends.org. We look forward to seeing you there!
Registration for Quaker Haven Camp is open! Many of our kids and youth have attended Quaker Haven and appreciate the experience. It is a lovely setting up in northern Indiana. First Friends will pay for half the cost of camp. Or, in certain financial situations First Friends will pay for the entire cost of camp. Early bird registration ends May 15th for better pricing. The camp dates are as follows:
· Junior High Camp - 7th - 8th grade- June 9th-14th
· Beginners Camp - Kindergarten - 2nd grade - June 14th - 16th
· Senior High Camp - 9th - 2024 graduates - June 16th - 21st
· Adventure Camp - 5th - 6th grade - June 23rd - 28th
· Senior High Camp - 9th - 2024 graduates - July 7th - 12th
· Pioneer Camp - 3rd - 5th grade - July 14th - 18th
· Little Friends Camp - 2nd - 4th grade - July 21st - 24th
If you are interested in registering, please contact the office for a coupon code that will pass half the cost onto First Friends. You can learn more about the camp and register at quakerhaven.com/youth-camps. We hope you will consider attending!
REGISTER NOW: Charism Camp: Exploring Your Gifts! ~ Youth 7th grade to seniors in high school are invited to this welcoming and affirming camp. Charism Camp is a Christ-centered gathering dedicated to supporting youth in their unfolding sense of identity sponsored by New Association of Friends, Western Yearly Meeting and Wilmington Yearly Meeting. The Camp will take place at Quaker Knoll outside Wilmington, Ohio, from around noon on June 28 until after lunch on June 30. There is a suggested price of $100 for the camp but pricing is pay-as-led and there are scholarships available from the Yearly Meeting. Registration is open now at https://forms.gle/HSSGvdr1RqybCNzX8! Questions? Reach out to racheldollomahoney@gmail.com or Tom.s@westernyearlymeeting.org.