Minutes for Meeting for Business, Sunday, April 18, 2010
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Bennington Friends Meeting
Minutes for meeting for Worship on the Occasion of Business
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Let us wait upon each other.
Present were Timmy Bullock, co-clerk, Juliet Wright, Beth Cheadle, Arnold Ricks, John Maloney, Priscilla Tracy and Joseph Tracy.
Out of the silence the clerk read the above quotation.
2010-20 The recording clerk read the minutes for meeting for worship on the occasion of business for March 21, 2010. They were approved.
2010-21 The minutes for Ministry and Counsel for April 7, 2010 were read, approved and are appended.
2010-22 Priscilla Tracy read the reflections on the State of the Society report drafted on April 11, 2010.
2010-23 As corrected and amended meeting accepted the summary of the discussion of the State of the Society Report for 2009. We will submit this summary to New England Yearly Meeting along with our statistical report for 2009.
2010-24 Possible themes for our fall retreat were discussed. We direct Ministry and Counsel to specifically reflect on the topic of outreach for the meeting, possibly with outreach as a focus of our retreat. We ask ourselves, “what is our ministry and how do we testify to the world?”
2010-25 Bennington meeting for business endorses and forwards the summary of our discussion on Sexuality and Spiritual Ethics to New England Yearly Meeting. We are particularly grateful to Bain Davis for leading these discussions. A copy of the discussion summary is appended.
2010-26 Mayfest preparations were discussed. Mayfest is well underway.
After a period of silent worship the meeting adjourned.
Timmy Bullock, co-clerk
Juliet Wright, recording clerk
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April 7, 2010
Meeting of Ministry & Counsel
Present: Timmy Bullock, Priscilla Tracy (Co-Clerks), Bain Davis, Auberta Galusha and Beth Cheadle
No formal minutes were recorded. In addition to pastoral concerns, Ministry & Counsel sketched out the questions to be raised for our internal State of Society discussion on April 11; spoke to ongoing Mayfest preparations; and addressed the final proofing of our reflections on Spirituality and Sexual Ethics to be presented to Meeting for business in preparation for presentation to NEYM.
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Apr 25 2010