Adult and Children's Activities
2025 Schedule of Special Events
May 18, 2025, 9:45am to 10:45am
Finding Clarity Part 1 - How Quakers find Clearness (2 sessions)
Many of us face a dilemma when trying to deal with a personal problem, question, or decision. For people who have experienced this dilemma, Quakers have developed a method called a 'Clearness Committee' that draws on both inner AND communal resources to deal with personal problems. The Clearness Committee is testimony to the fact that there are no external authorities on life's deepest issues, not clergy or therapists or scholars; there is only the authority that lies within each of us waiting to be heard. In the first session, we will learn about the process of a Clearness Committee, and in the second session we will put this method into practice.
May 25, 2025, 9:45am to 10:45am
QuakerSpeak video #459 “The Work of Quaker Earthcare Witness” followed by discussion led by the Worship and Spiritual Growth Committee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GBZUEeX1M0
Queries: In what ways are political realities tempting us to look away from the needs of the Earth and its residents? What does climate justice mean for me as a person of faith in central Pennsylvania? What does climate justice mean for our Quaker meeting? How are we staying grounded in our faith and our commitment to climate justice? How shall we move forward?
June 1, 2025, 9:45am to 10:45am
Finding Clarity Part 2 - How Quakers find Clearness
Many of us face a dilemma when trying to deal with a personal problem, question, or decision. For people who have experienced this dilemma, Quakers have developed a method called a 'Clearness Committee' that draws on both inner AND communal resources to deal with personal problems. The Clearness Committee is testimony to the fact that there are no external authorities on life's deepest issues, not clergy or therapists or scholars; there is only the authority that lies within each of us waiting to be heard. In the first session, we will learn about the process of a Clearness Committee, and in the second session we will put this method into practice.
June 15, 2025, 9:45am to 10:45am
Things I Learned from My Father/Father Figure!
Sharing on this topic. Reflect and note any experience or quality in your own father’s life that made an impact on yours. Maybe it was a fatherly weakness that instructed you. Work it out to a 1- 2 minute story and share it on this Father’s Day.
We will first hear from 3 Meeting members/attenders: 1) Jennifer Stone, the only daughter of the late Oliver Stone, who demonstrated to her and within his Washington DC meeting “the epitome of commitment to Quaker values of pacifism and spirituality rather than conformity to societal pressures.” 2) Yuri Plowden will introduce her father, Tamami (Tom) Kusuda, an engineer for the US National Bureau of Standards and an immigrant from Okayama, Japan; and, 3) Claranne LaCour will tell what her 94-year-old father’s death showed her about his values and lifestyle.
Come prepared to share your own story.
June 22, 2025, 9:30am to 10:45am
Pancake breakfast followed by singing
Join us for a pancake breakfast and then singing! If you have a waffle iron, bring that too.
Gluten – free options will be available. Contact John Hayden if you would like to help prepare food. Jbhayden1@gmail.com
June 29, 2025, 9:45 am to 10:45am
Extended Meeting for Worship
Extended meeting for worship 9:45am to 10:45am. Meeting house and Zoom link will be open but there will not be any formal program prior to 11am.
June 29, 2025, 12:30am to 3pm
Picnic/Potluck
Join us after Meeting for worship for an afternoon picnic/potluck at the Walsh Farm in Mechanicsburg
Picnic Information and location:
12:30pm:
A Meeting picnic hosted by the Wider World Committee will be held at a "farm" along the Yellow Breeches Creek near Mechanicsburg
Location: 443 McCormick Road, Mechanicsburg, PA
Bring a dish to share. Drinks, plates, utensils provided. We will have three long tables but bring a lawn chair if you have one (we also have a a dozen or so folding chairs too)
Feel free to bring a kayak, inner tube, or canoe (a canoe trip from nearby Simpson Park to our driveway takes approximately 15-20 minutes).
If it is raining, potluck will be at the Meetinghouse.
July 6, 13, 20, 27 and August 17, 24, 31 and September 7, 2025
Summer Bible Study - Quaker Style
Kick off meeting will be July 6th where we will decide as a group which book we will study this summer, and we will review the basic structure. We will use the Friendly Bible Study Method by Joanne and Larry Spears.
