Concord Quarterly Meeting at Goshen Friends Meeting

You are invited to join us at Concord Quarterly Meeting on January 29

8:15 Sign-in
8:30-9:45 Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
10:00-11:00 Program
11:00-12:00 Meeting for Worship with Goshen Meeting
12:00-1:00 Light Lunch provided by Goshen Meeting

Program: Our Similarities and Differences: Telling our Stories

National events and internal tensions within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting have focused attention on
racism and white privilege. As we at Goshen Monthly Meeting began corporately to take stock of our
experience of racism and to seek ways to address its effects, we devised a series of queries to help us
focus our experiences and questions. In the hour we have for the Quarterly Meeting’s program, we will
divide into groups to explore the queries we at Goshen have found valuable springboards to discussion
and, we hope, finally to action. We see this program as an opportunity to share the process we at
Goshen have undertaken rather than to present a final conclusion or plan of action.

Children’s Programs

For those three to ten years old, Sallie Welte will present a new Faith and Play story.
For middle schoolers we have invited Becky Birtha, a member of Central Philadelphia
Monthly Meeting and a First Day School teacher, to read from her soon-to-bepublished
book Far Apart, Close in Heart, Being a Family When A Loved One is
Incarcerated.

Childcare will be provided during Meeting for Business and Worship

Visit Concord Quarterly Meeting's website at www.concordquarter.org for more information and directions to Goshen Friends Meeting.