Please look over our website. We've added a login feature which will allow us to post information available only to authorized users. We invite Stony Run members and attenders to register on the site. Here's how:

1. At the top of this page, click "Register Now" and create an account for yourself by entering a username and password.
2. Within a few minutes you'll receive a confirmation email with a web link to click which will activate your account. At this point you will have a restricted account which will let you do some things but not others.
3. Within a few days the (volunteer) website administrator will grant you additional rights and notify you via email.

You'll then be able to log into the site and view, among other things, the online directory of names, addresses, and phone numbers! If you have any troubles with the registration process, please email webmaster@stonyrunfriends.org.

Food for Thought

Mother's Day Proclamation, Julia Ward Howe, 1870

"Arise, then women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of fears! Say firmly: We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We women of one country will be too tender to those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

This first Mother's Day proclamation was a passionate demand for disarmament and peace.

What's New at Stony Run

MOTHERS' DAY BREAKFAST from 9-10am today.  Beginning at 10am, Marilyn Clark and a friend will be telling stories for Friends of all ages in the dining room. All morning there will be a special book table on the sun porch with FGC Bookstore offerings; crafts and books.

THE FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS AND DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE, today from 9am - 2pm on the sun porch. Books will be for sale. Any questions should be directed to the Stony Run office 443-703-2590 sroffice@stonyrunfriends.org.

PLEASE HELP US IDENTIFY OUR JUNE GRADUATES from high school and college so that we may recognize and share their accomplishments in our June announcements and summer newsletter.  Please send your information to Sandi Morton.

FAMILY FILM NIGHT: MAY 16 AT 7:45 PM (FILM STARTS AT DUSK) Sponsored by the Young Friends, Stony Run's high school fellowship group. Whale Rider (2002) A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize. Admission is free, although donations to support the Young Friend's Quakeadelphia Trip in September will be gratefully accepted. Delectable Treats for sale! Reservations are not required, but if you plan to attend, please email feldman.jones@verizon.net, so we can get an idea of how many people to expect. Thank you!.

BROADMEAD QUAKER LUNCH will be served at noon on Thursday, May 15th.  If you would like to make a reservation to attend, please do so by Tuesday, May 13th by calling Marjorie Scott.

FIRST DAY FORUMS FOR JUNE 2008:

June 1: Quaker Quest Inreach exercises – This forum will be much like the May 4 forum.  A leader with Quaker Quest training will be present (Kevin-Douglas Olive of Homewood MM), and we will again do an exercise used in Quaker Quest to help Meetings prepare.  These exercises create fresh experiences every time, so if you came to the May 4 forum, don’t anticipate a re-run!  Quaker Quest exercises give us a valuable opportunity to get to know each other better in our searches and sojourns as F/friends.  The goal of Quaker Quest is a sustained outreach to the community at large, so the exercises are preparation for talking about Quakerism with people when they ask how Quakerism works in our lives, and how we come to know ourselves and each other in the Spirit.

June 8:  INDIAN AFFAIRS will offer an introduction and update on the progress of Longest Walk 2, a Native American grassroots effort on a national scale to bring attention to the environmental disharmony of Mother Earth, to indigenous sacred site issues and other concerns on the 30th anniversary of the first Longest Walk.  LW-2 will pass through Baltimore in early July on its way to Washington, DC, and we have invited Indian friends to meet us at Stony Run.   Current information can be found at http://www.longestwalk.org/. This forum will INFORM you and, we hope, INSPIRE you to support the walkers when they pass through. 

June 15: Father’s Day and Quarterly Meeting in Solomons. No Forum is scheduled. 

June 22: Something special this year draws out the “forum year” past the end of the school year.  If you are interested in Friends education and peace work in Ramallah, Palestine, then please join us for a conversation with Joyce Ajlouny, Director of the Friends School in Ramallah, for her talk, “Ramallah Friends School – a Personal Journey of Service.”    Joyce will talk about the Ramallah Friends school, present achievements and challenges as well as the effects of military occupation on the school, and about her personal journey – as a calling - with the school, her vision and mission for continued  Quaker witness in Ramallah.  Joyce will also touch on the Friends Peace Center in Ramallah and field our questions.

WHEN IS THE NEXT FORUM?  During the summer months, as usual, we won’t be having forums, but will pick up again on September 7, 2008.