Bennington Friends Meeting

Bennington Friends Meeting

Minutes for Meeting for Worship on the Occasion of Business

February 15, 2009

Michael Sheean says Quakers build everything on the gathered meeting. In the spiritual exercise of the meeting for business, that often means invitation to re-enter the gathered experience, through re-centering in silence.  In the silence we recollect or re-enter the experience of union:  the Spiritual Reality that has brought and held us together pervades and encompasses the questions before the meeting, discernment and decision-making, and their outcome.

                                                Patricia Loring, Listening Spirituality, Volume II

Present were Timmy Bullock, Juliet Wright, Fanny Culleton, Peggy Kahn, Maurice Kahn, Ruth Hawes, Bain Davis, Auberta Galusha, Arnold Ricks and Jane Raddochia.

Out of the silence the clerk read the above passage from Listening Spirituality, Volume II, by Patricia Loring.

2009-10 The minutes from meeting for worship on the occasion of business from January 25, 2009 were read.

2009-11 Timmy Bullock as co-clerk of ministry and counsel presented the minutes of its meeting of February 8, 2009, which are appended.

2009-12 Business meeting approves using the March 2 potluck to work in small groups to produce a written draft of the State of the Society Report.

2009-13 Business meeting approves $280.00 from Friendly grants to support Joseph and Priscilla Tracy’s participation at the Woolman Hill Music Workshop.

2009-14 Following the recommendation of their clearness committees, the meeting approves the request for marriage by Ann Coakley and Sadelle Wiltshire.  The marriage will take place on May 16, 2009, under the care of the meeting.

2009-15 Auberta Galusha reported for the Nominating Committee. The minutes are appended.  Nominating committee will continue to have conversations with members and attenders of the meeting on the life of the meeting.

2009-16 Finance committee report – Jane Radocchia, treasurer, reported the corrected figures for 2008. The report is appended.

2009-17 The clerk read the letter from Debbie Humphries as well as the traveling minute from the clerk of Hartford Monthly Meeting.  We will write Debbie Humphries about the shape of a visit on April 4-5 weekend.

2009-18 The presentation of the revised end-of-life document has been postponed.

Timmy Bullock, clerk

Juliet Wright, recording clerk