GREEN PASTURES QUARTERLY MEETING will gather this Saturday, May 17, 2025, for worship, a business meeting, and fellowship.  Everyone is welcome to attend either in person at Michigan Friends Center or online!  Bring your own sack lunch.

When:  9:30am – Noon
Where:  Michigan Friends Center – 7748 Clark Lake Rd Chelsea, MI 48118 ·

Zoom participation:  https://umich.zoom.us/my/kevinfmiller

Schedule:
9:30                  Coffee, social time
10:00                 Meeting for Worship
10:30                 Meeting for Business

Sack Lunch and Fellowship to Follow

Important Agenda Item:  Should Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting be Laid Down?

Over the past few years, it has been increasingly difficult to find Friends who are willing to take on the administrative tasks for Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting, such as serving as clerk, co-clerk, recording clerk, and on the Nominating Committee.  Although Friends continue to come together for winter gatherings online, summer worship in Quaker Park in Battle Creek, and programs such as the interesting tour of a house on the Underground Railroad near Kalamazoo last September, there is abundant evidence that interest in the “business” of GPQM is waning.

This Saturday, we will begin to discern whether it is time to lay down GPQM.  It is expected that this process of discernment will take some time, and that no decision will be made this week.  All monthly meetings and worship groups in GPQM will be made aware of this ongoing discernment, with input solicited as the process goes along.

In preparation for this ongoing discernment, Kevin Miller, acting clerk of GPQM, suggests consideration of the following queries:

1. Is there a unique role for the Quarterly Meeting to play now and in the foreseeable future?
2. If the answer to the first question is yes, is there a way to recruit Friends to participate in this work?
3. If the answer to either of the first two questions is no, how should we go about laying down the Quarterly Meeting? Are there ramifications we need to be sure to consider?

In Love and Light,

Peggy Daub, Communications Coordinator, GPQM