Goose Creek Friends
Newsletter February 2018
Goose Creek Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Lincoln, Virginia
Queries for First Month: Youth
• Do you establish family standards including the
mutual obligations of youth and adults?
• How do we get to know and care for our youth as
individuals?
• What have we learned from the wisdom expressed
by our youth?
• How do we share our deepest beliefs with our
youth, while leaving them free to develop as the
spirit of God may lead them?
Monthly Meeting for Worship
with a Concern for Business:
Second Month
This year’s Easter breakfast will take place on
April 1 at 8 am. April’s Meeting for Worship with
a Concern for Business will move to April 8. Book
Sunday will be held on June 10.
John Unger presented the annual Trustees’ report,
which looks at the liquid assets held by Goose Creek
Monthly Meeting and also at the assets held by the
Goose Creek Burying Grounds Fund. The Trustees
also handle liability issues, easements, property
boundary adjustments, and similar matters. The
report was approved with thanks.
Jed Shilling presented a proposed Meeting budget
for 2018, as well as a completed expenditures report
for 2016 and a nearly completed expenditures
report for 2017. In 2017, contributions were lower
than expected; other receipts were reasonably close
to what had been budgeted. Normal expenditures
were somewhat higher than had been budgeted.
For 2018, receipts and regular operating expenses
are expected to be about the same. Donations to
other organizations as requested by committees will
increase somewhat. Several previously proposed
capital projects will be undertaken this year. With
some suggested amendments, the 2018 budget was
approved, with much gratitude to Jed and to the entire
Finance Committee.
Sheila Kryston reported that Loudoun Interfaith
Bridges is working to respond to KKK activity. A
concert has tentatively been scheduled for February
10. Sheila will keep Friends apprised of developments
through the Meeting listserve and email list.
Quakerism Sessions
The February 11 session will be based on Chapters
5 and 6 of Douglas Gwyn’s book A Sustainable
Life – “Ministers, Elders, Clerks and Group
Discernment: The Peaceable Kingdom,” and “Unity
and Differentiation: Tragedy and Renewal in Quaker
History.” Chapter 5 helpfully discusses committees
and committee operations, including the difference
between consensus and sense of the Meeting.
These Quakerism sessions take place after the rise
of Meeting on second First Days of the month, and
include opportunities for discussion and personal
responses. Reading Gwyn’s book is not required.
Come when you can – you don’t have to commit to
being there every month.
Committee clerks and co-clerks
will gather after the rise of Meeting
on February 18
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From Baltimore Yearly Meeting
February 16-18 – Young Friends Conference
Sandy Spring Friends Meeting Grants will be awarded on the basis of financial need
(Sandy Spring, MD)
Information at www.bym-rsf.org/what_we_do/yfs/
yfcon.html
March 17 – Third Month Interim Meeting
Charlottesville Friends Meeting
(Charlottesville, VA)
Get to know Yearly Meeting Committees and Friends
from other Meetings! Be a part of important decision
making. Join Friends for morning committee
meetings and the afternoon’s Interim Business
Meeting. Charlottesville Friends Meeting will host
the Third Month Interim Meeting. Friends will begin
gathering at 10:00am. Committee meetings will
begin at 10:30. Check the Yearly Meeting website for
more information.
March 24 – BYM Peace and Social Concerns
Committee Networking Day
Friends Meeting School (Ijamsville, MD)
Networking Day will offer an opportunity for folks
from various BYM Meetings to meet and exchange
ideas and resources about each others’ successful
Peace & Social Concerns programs. We also will
offer four, practical 90-minute workshops at 11 a.m.
& 1:30 p.m. For details and to register: http://www.
bym-rsf.org/events/localcommittee.html/
Our final date for responses will be Mon., 3/19/18.
March 24-25 – Junior Young Friends Conference
Frederick Friends Meeting (Frederick, MD)
Information at http://bym-rsf.org/what_we_do/jyfs/
jyfcon.html
Educational Grants Committee Accepting
Applications
The Educational Grants Committee of Baltimore
Yearly Meeting will be awarding a limited number
of grants for the school year 2018-2019. Grants will
be made to enable members and regular attenders of
Meetings associated with Baltimore Yearly Meeting
(or their children) to pursue their educational goals.
Grants may be applied to expenses associated
with undergraduate attendance at accredited
post-secondary educational institutions such as
universities, colleges, professional and vocational
schools. Attendance may be either full- or part-time.
and the Committee’s assessment of an applicant’s
statement of purpose, including consistency with
Friends’ testimonies. Grants will not exceed $2,000
per grantee per year. More information at http://
www.bym-rsf.org/events/othernews.html
From the Friends
Wilderness Center
Saturday, February 17 – Night Sky Program with
astronomer Kevin Bowles
Weather permitting (i.e. no rain, snow, thick clouds
or dangerously high winds), join us for an evening
of Sky Watching with Kevin Bowles of the Morgan
County (WV) Observatory and his telescope. Kevin
is a font of wonderful information about the night
sky and Cosmos, ranging from ancient mythology
and star stories to intergalactic collisions and black
holes, and he loves to share this information on these
occasions.
A home-cooked dinner is available at 6:00 if you
make a reservation with Sheila ($10 for ages 7+; $5
for children under 6). The program will begin at 6:45
for which we are suggesting a $10 tax deductible
donation per person (or $25 per family).
Please RSVP to Sheila Bach if you plan to attend the
program, and when doing so indicate whether you
would like dinner reservations (snbach@earthlink.
net or 304-728-4820).
Saturday, March 10 – Poems in the Cabin
FWC Board Member Hayden Mathews will lead
this program that will explore the power of poems
to enrich our lives with their power to enlighten,
challenge, and expand us.  Absolutely NO prior
experience in reading or writing poetry is necessary
- only a desire to explore our inner reaches using the
magic carpet of poetry.  A $10 donation is requested
to participate but any amount (less or more) will be
appreciated.  Please RSVP to Sheila Bach and when
doing so indicate whether you would like to have a
home-cooked lunch for an additional $10 (snbach@
earthlink.net or 304-728-4820).
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Goose Creek News UPCOMING IN FIRST DAY SCHOOL

We have been missing the presence in Meeting
of Chuck Hedges, who has had surgery on the
tendons in his ankle. Recovery from this kind of
reconstructive surgery is a long, slow process, but
Chuck reports progress.
Don’t forget to save the date: On March 25 at 3
pm Paraguayan harpist Nicolas Carter will be in
concert at the Meeting House. Tell your neighbors,
bring your friends! Donations that afternoon will
benefit the Harping for Harmony Foundation and
its Baqueanos project. The mission of Harping for
Harmony is “Harmony and Community, Locally and
Globally, through Harp Music.” Baqueanos presents
Latin American harp music to new audiences.
FEBRUARY 4
Power of Goodness Friend Sheila Kryston will lead
discussions and activities around the amazing book
The Power of Goodness.
FEBRUARY 11
Stewardship and Community The children will
have an opportunity to participate in discussions and
related activities about two important values.
FEBRUARY 18
Power of Goodness The second of three classes on
the book The Power of Goodness.
FEBRUARY 25
Bullying Discussions and activities around one of
our society's unfortunate problems.
Teen Discussion Group
If three or more teens (ages 13-17) are present, they
are welcome to head over to Allen's shop next door
for a youth-led discussion group.

Article of the Week: If you have an article that you

think the teens would like to read as a discussion
starter, please send to cameron247@hotmail.com

Harping for Harmony Foundation and

Goose Creek Friends Meeting present

PARAGUAYAN HARPIST
NICOLAS CARTER
Sunday, March 25, 2018
3:00 PM
Goose Creek Friends Meeting House
18204 Lincoln Road, Purcellville, VA
Admission by free-will donation benefits
Harping for Harmony Foundation and
the Baqueanos Program presenting
Latin American Harp Traditions
to New Audiences
NICOLAS CARTER

Harping for Harmony Foundation is a 501(c)(3) exempt charity in the State of West Virginia, established in 1994.
Donations are tax-deductable. FEIN 55-0746741. Address: 345 Virginia Avenue, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA.
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Sundays Facing Bench

Meeting for worship at 9:45 a.m. FEBRUARY
First Day School at 10:00 a.m. Martha Mason Semmes
Fellowship at 10:45 a.m. MARCH
Debbi Sudduth
Calendar
First Day
FEBRUARY
2.11 Sunday 11 am Quakerism discussion
School
2.18 Sunday 11 am Meeting for committee clerks and co-clerks 02/04/18
2.25 Sunday 11 am Ministry and Oversight Committee meeting Power of Goodness

MARCH 02/11/18
Community & Stewardship
3.4 Sunday 11 am Meeting for Worship with
a Concern for Business 02/18/18
3.11 Sunday 11 am Quakerism discussion Power of Goodness
3.25 Sunday 9 am Archive Committee meeting 02/25/18
11 am Ministry and Oversight Committee meeting Bullying
3 pm Nicolas Carter harp concert
APRIL
4.1 Sunday 8 am Easter breakfast
4.8 Sunday 11 am Meeting for Worship with
a Concern for Business

“To watch the spirit of children, to nurture them in Gospel

Love, and labour to help them against that which would mar NEWSLETTER
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to us.” – John Woolman, c. 1760
CLERK
Debbi Sudduth, 540.338.3363
dfsud@comcast.net
ASSISTANT CLERK
Rich Weidner, 540.554.2747
richard_weidner@hotmail.com
TREASURER
Annie Carlson
goose.creek.treasurer@gmail.com
NEWSLETTER EDITOR
Catherine Cox, 301-471-5330
blycox@comcast.net
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DONATIONS
Please direct donations for
Goose Creek Friends Meeting to
Annie Carlson, P.O. Box 105
Lincoln, Virginia 20160
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