03/23/2014 at Noon: Talk on the Rape Survivors Support project in Burundi

Rosalie Dance will talk about the Friends Women’s Association and their Rape Survivors Support project. The Friends Women’s Association operates a medical facility in Burundi. The clinic provides care to HIV+ women and delivers basic medical treatment to the general population.

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The Friends Women’s Association is part of the African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI.) AGLI strengthens, supports, and promotes peace activities at the grassroots level in the Great Lakes region of Africa (Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda).

Check out our new brochure!

PFM_Linda_Brochure_OutsidePatapsco’s Advancement and Outreach Committee has completed the design of a new brochure and had them printed.  Copies are available at the Meeting; click here for an electronic version.

The brochure is designed primarily as an invitation to worship with us.  Friends are encouraged to take copies wherever they go and share them with prospective visitors.  We will also have them available at any public events we sponsor.

In addition, the brochure will be shared with newcomers as they arrive at Meeting.  We will also continue to have the newcomer packet available, though the committee will be considering revisions to it.  We encourage your input on what newcomers find helpful.

The brochure features photographs taken by Nony Dutton, which capture the warmth and welcome of our community and highlight our lovely worship space at Hebron House.  Meagan Healy did the graphic design.

Other Meetings are welcome to borrow from our text, just as our text borrows from others, such as the newcomer cards developed by Friends General Conference.

02/23/2014 at Noon: Recent Travels to Central America

Better Hoover presents again! Bette Rainbow Hoover has been working for peace with justice in Central America since she founded CASA de Maryland www.casademaryland.org in 1985.

Recently she traveled to Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras. On a delegation of health workers to Guatemala, she met with Mayan midwives who have formed women’s circles in 26 remote villages. Continue reading 02/23/2014 at Noon: Recent Travels to Central America