World Quaker Day will take place on Sunday October 2, 2022 with the theme Becoming the Quakers the World Needs.

World Quaker Day is an annual event where we celebrate the diversity of Quakerism around the world and build connections to make our community stronger.

For World Quaker Day 2022 the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) is encouraging Friends around the world to visit a different Quaker Meeting or Church outside of our Yearly Meeting. You can sign up to be part of the exchange using this form.

FWCC has also produced posters in many languages promoting the event which can be downloaded from their World Quaker Day Resources Page: http://www.worldquakerday.org/resources/ One of these could look quite nice on the bulletin board at your Meeting House. Here’s a direct link to the English Language poster.

You can watch this video with Tim Gee, General Secretary of Friends World Committee for Consultation inviting Friends to take part in World Quaker Day. Note the Trees and Roots metaphor he uses, which ties in nicely with our Annual Sessions theme for 2022.

Broadmead Monthly Meeting Friends Fall Retreat
Oct. 28th – 30th 2022
Retreat Theme: The Power of Enough
Presenter: Jackie Stillwell

Friends are invited to join this in-person weekend retreat, to be held at the St. Francis Spirituality Center, 200 St Francis Ave, Tiffin, Ohio. Details and registration information are in the attached event announcement brochure.

Biography of Jackie Stillwell
Jackie Stillwell is the General Secretary of Right Sharing of World Resources. She is a member of Monadnock Meeting, New Hampshire (New England Yearly Meeting). Jackie is called to spiritual accompaniment, grounded in an awareness of the abundance of God’s Love and a strong sense of connection and kinship with all life. A graduate of Friends World College, Jackie has a B.A. in Education/Psychology, and an M.S. in Organization and Management from Antioch University New England.
Jackie has lived abroad in England, Norway and spent nearly a decade in Guatemala, 3 years of which were serving in the Peace Corps. For 22 years, Jackie served as Head of The Meeting School, an experiment in education and simple living in Quaker community. From 2011-2015, Jackie served as clerk of New England Yearly Meeting. She has traveled widely among Friends with FWCC, FGC and FUM, serving as an elder and workshop facilitator at monthly, quarterly, yearly meetings, and Friends schools.

The Quaker House Residential Community attached to the Ann Arbor Friends Meetinghouse has a vacancy. The house, near the University of Michigan’s central campus, has rooms for six residents. Shared kitchen, dining room, living room, laundry facilities, and backyard with vegetable garden. This intentional community strives to embody commitments to “multicultural/racial/ethnic/LGBTQ inclusivity; simple, economical, and environmentally friendly living; mature, stable and supportive relationships; open, forthright and honest communication; peace, social justice, and respect for all.” The house and grounds are smoke-free. Sorry, no pets. Residents share cooking and cleaning responsibilities.

Applications will be accepted immediately (contact Elliott Brannon at qhrc.contact@gmail.com), but the application process, which includes a written form and a mutual interview, takes several weeks. The Meeting website provides a description of the QHRC (https://annarborfriends.org/wp/comm-qhrc/). Photos at http://tiny.cc/QHRoom.