MOUNTAIN VIEW FRIENDS MEETING
Meeting for Worship for Business - 201009
September 12, 2010
Participants: William Alsup, Lynn Andrews, Bente Birkeland de Booy, Carol Clinkenbeard, Tom Coiner, Judy Danielson, Marilyn Gilmore, Tom Gilmore, Hartley Goldstone, Elaine Granata, Mollie Graves, Robert Griswold, Scott Heath, Gail Hoffman, Sharon Jordan, Glen McGuire, Gail Mitchel, Ruth Montague, Grace Ormsby, Sam Ormsby, Jerry Peterson, Sharon Phelps, Joan Piasecki, Martha Roberts, Solomon Smilack, Eric Smith, Allen Stokes, Brenda Stokes, Judith Streit, Todd Swanson, Bruce Thron-Weber, Penny Thron-Weber, Risa Thronweber, Eldon Van Der Wege, Eric Wright, Hal Wright, Maya Wright
Ruth Montague held the meeting in the light as we worshipped with a concern for business.
1. Opening Worship
Advice: The Religious Society of Friends challenges each of us to live a life reflective of our beliefs. We take our faith into the broader community in many ways. Some are led to do acts in full view of society; others are led to work where their service is less visible but no less valuable. Each of us holds a part of the whole. None of us could consistently do what we do, no matter how little, without drawing from the well of our faith. Among us all we make a greater impact than we may realize as individuals.
Query: In what ways does your life reflect your faith? In what ways does your faith illuminate your life?
2. The minutes of August 8, 2010 were accepted.
3. Continuing Matters
A. The financial report for the month ending August 2010 was accepted.
4. New Matters
A. We accepted the Finance and Budget Committee Annual Report.
B. The Nominating Committee presented small changes to the 2010-2011 slate for CALM positions. Darcy Varney and Jim Hoffman were approved as the Nursery co-clerks. (Jim Hoffman was previously approved for the CALM At-Large role but was asked to serve as Nursery co-clerk instead.) Risa Thronweber remains as CALM At-Large member.
C. We approved the Naming Committee of Robert Griswold, Lynn Andrews, and Penny Thron-Weber to serve with outgoing Nominating committee members Jane Cahn, Elizabeth Brown, and Carol Clinkenbeard.
D. The meeting approved the names of Gail Hoffman and Jim Hoffman, Lisa Motz-Storey and Paul Motz-Storey, Danielle Short and David Baird, and Kathryn White (convenor) to serve as the committee for clearness for marriage for Risa Thronweber and William Alsup.
E. Worship and Ministry presented a Quaker Quest update. After the introductory weekend, there were still many questions about the benefits and purpose of continuing the in-reach and outreach programs of Quaker Quest. The committee asked that we provide suggestions for what we’d like to get from further programs, keeping in mind the many activities already on-going in the meeting. In considering outreach, we should answer for ourselves as a meeting the question of whether or not we want to grow this community. We might not be quite ready for the step of outreach, but there is benefit to the meeting in defining and sharing our ideas of ourselves as Quakers, discussions of our experiences in our meeting and what we get and want to get from each other. Since so often our difficulty in speaking to others about being Quaker stems from not knowing what words to use, talking among ourselves and hearing each other express those things will help us gain experience in describing what it means to us to be Quakers. Even if we do not have growing our community as a goal, these skills would help explain who we are to those who have misconceptions about or are ignorant of Friends. Talking with and teaching others about being Quaker helps and forces us to clarify it individually. One suggestion already made to Worship and Ministry is to have 3-person panels speak on some of the Quaker Quest topics on some first Sundays of the month, and have a period of sharing following the panel talk.
F. We accepted the Community and Fellowship Committee Annual Report. Despite posters and announcements, people remain unaware of the game nights. These will start again after the summer hiatus as Second Saturday Socials – an intergenerational game and food night.
G. We reviewed the report from the All Clerks meeting. There is clearly more in the list of issues to be discussed than could be handled in a year, so making a plan will be helpful. One item in the list was asking whether 5th Sunday intergenerational worship sharing should continue; CALM has laid it down already, so this is no longer an issue. We are reminded to try not to use acronyms in our reports so that newcomers to our meeting know what we are discussing.
It was noted that the existing list of issues should be examined for areas of change or improvement, rather than a specific “to-do’’ list. This suggestion arose today:
· A mid-week intergenerational meeting for worship
It was also requested to receive distributed documents in Word format instead of PDF, and to have separate attachments instead of a single combined document.
5. Announcements
A. Next Saturday, the 18th, there will be a meetingwide service project of gleaning to benefit a food bank.
6. Closing worship. The meeting closed with silent worship.
Respectfully submitted,
Marilyn Gilmore and Allen Stokes, Co-Clerks
Carol Clinkenbeard, Recording Clerk
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