Minutes for Meeting for Business January 17, 2016
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Bennington Friends Meeting
Meeting for Worship on the Occasion of Business
Held at the Senior Citizens Service Center,
Bennington, Vermont
January 17, 2016
Present were Timmy Bullock, Priscilla Tracy, Auberta Galusha, Eliza Navias-Bell, Dorothea Izzo, Gina Izzo, Arnold Ricks, Bain Davis, Marge Davis, Marianne Dekoven, Lucie McKee, and Juliet Wright
If you don’t listen, as Miss Daisy struggles to, you miss the nuances of what others are saying…I’ve certainly taken it as something I’ve worked on myself – listen, listen, listen, really listen. You think you’re listening, but you really have to work at it.
Vanessa Redgrave, commenting on her Broadway role in Driving Miss Daisy NY Times, February 16, 2011.
Out of the silence, the clerk read the above quotation from Vanessa Redgrave.
The recording clerk read the minutes for meeting for business, November 15, 2015. They were approved.
2016-1 Priscilla Tracy reported on behalf of Ministry and Counsel. The minutes are appended.
2016-2 Meeting for business approves the transfer of the membership of Sadelle Wiltshire to Putney Friends Meeting. The clerk will write a letter of transfer.
2016-3 Meeting for business recommends that we have our discussion on FCNL priorities after the March potluck.
2016-4 Meeting for business approves sending the permaculture letter to the Northwest Quarterly and also to the religious column of the Bennington Banner, with the letter to be amended with some concrete goals that we hope to enact.
2016-5 Meeting for business recommends that we communicate with the Interfaith Council to work together, put in place and enact some of the goals in the letter on permaculture.
2016-6 Dorothea Izzo reported on behalf of Interfaith Council.
2016-7 Eliza Navias-Bell is paying back the money the meeting loaned her. She expressed heartfelt gratitude for the spiritual, emotional and financial support the meeting has given her during this time. The meeting expressed the joy we experience in having her as a part of our meeting.
Minutes for Ministry and Counsel
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Present were Timmy Bullock, clerk ex-officio, Priscilla Tracy, Auberta Galusha, and Juliet Wright
Pastoral concerns discussed
15-26 Ministry and Counsel recommends approving Sadelle Wiltshire’s request for a transfer of her membership to Putney Friends Meeting.
Minutes for Ministry and Counsel
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Present were Timmy Bullock, clerk ex-officio, Priscilla Tracy, Auberta Galusha, Juliet Wright and Lucie McKee
Pastoral concerns discussed
16-1Ministry and Counsel recommends that we discuss our priorities for FCNL in the coming year.
16-2 Ministry and Counsel reviewed a very preliminary first draft of a minute on our reflections on advices and queries. This draft minute will be sent to the people that expressed interest in working on the draft minute.
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