Volunteering at Gwynedd

Attending worship and volunteering are the best ways to get acquainted with the Gwynedd community. There are many opportunities for volunteering without the long term commitment of membership on a committee.

Communications Committee: Contact Carol Ritting

Religious Education Committee: Contact JB Baker-McAllister at gwyneddyfds@gmail.com
Volunteers are needed to teach Youth Quaker Education classes on Sundays.

Family Promise of Montco PA (formerly Inter-faith Housing Alliance): Contact Marcia Wise at wise.marcia@gmail.com Gwynedd works with FPM-PA to support local families and children who are experiencing food insecurity and/or homelessness to access the resources they need. Food is collected and transported to their food bank and housing is supplied for about a month during the year in conjunction with other local faith groups.

American Friends Service Committee Sale (AFSC): Contact co-clerk Chris Mrozinski
AFSC is a flea market of donated, quality goods that raise money to support the (AFSC) projects here and abroad. Much help is needed to sort, display, sell and take down the sale.

Peace and Justice Vigil: Contact Judy Inskeep at inskeeps4peace@verizon.net
Volunteers are needed to stand vigil by holding signs on Rt 202 in front of the Meetinghouse on Saturdays from 2 to 3 PM, weather permitting (not during rain, ice or snow). Bring your own sign message or borrow one of ours.

Gwynedd Property Committee: Contact Doug Fry defry15@verizon.net or Michael Buckley at muniman50@yahoo.com for Maintenance and Paige Menton for landscaping at paigementon@gmail.com
The Property Committee takes care of our grounds, historic meetinghouse, cemetery and school building, adjacent Hilltop-Avalon group housing property as well as the newer Gwynedd Friends School and the caretakers’ cottage. Help in maintenance or landscaping is always needed.

Learn to run Zoom at Meeting: Contact Ranvir Bakshi at rkbakshi@comcast.net
Learn to follow the written procedures to run the hybrid Zoom program in the Meetinghouse during worship and other activities. Participants always work with an experienced partner.

The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL):
Contact Deb Hejl (deb.hejl@gmail.com) for information about how to be informed about national legislation that reflects Quaker values. Sign up here to receive regular action alerts by email: https://fcnl.quorum.us/sign_in/

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New to Meeting for Worship?

If you've never attended a Meeting for Worship, we hope you will come worship with us -- give it a try.

Most Quaker meetings, at least in this part of the country, are so-called "unprogrammed" meetings. This means that our meetings for worship are not led by a minister, but are largely conducted in silence. Typically, a Clerk or other Member of the Meeting will close worship with a simple "Good morning friends" but otherwise the meeting may be completely silent.

ripples

Members and attenders are always invited to speak out of the silence with a message about their spiritual journey, although messages are not responded to directly .

A message has been described as a pebble tossed into a pond. The resulting ripples are received by others in the meeting and may contribute to their own spiritual journeys.

Continuing Revelation

In the Religious Society of Friends, continuing revelation comes from the Inner light or the light within. This light has traditionally been identified as the spirit of Christ or Christ within, although not all Friends associate the inner light with Christ. It is understood as the presence of God which provides illumination and guidance to the individual and through individuals to the group.

Because Friends believe that revelation is ongoing, we have no set creed or dogmas and we believe that new truth is revealed to us as we continue our spiritual journeys individually and with one another.

As early Friends listened to the inner light and endeavored to live accordingly, a common set of beliefs gradually emerged, which became known as Quaker testimonies. Although rooted in the immediate experience of the community of Friends, these testimonies are based on what Friends believe are verified in the Bible, especially the Gospels regarding the life and teachings of Jesus, and in our ongoing discernment of God’s desire for us to fulfill loving relationships with each other and the world.

PYM (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting) Quakers consider the inner light to be above and beyond the Bible and other formalistic, written dogmas. We trust that the continuing revelation of the inner light speaks to us in our everyday lives.

Hubb Manager, 10/15/2019