Meeting Schedule

Meetings for Worship:
Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. (September through June); 8:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. (July and August).

Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business: September through June - First Sunday of the month at 1 p.m.  The July/August meeting for 2013 will be held on July 21st.

See bottom of page for address and directions.

MAY 26 at Stony Run:

8:45 am    Baltimore Quaker Peace & Justice Committee, in the Double Classroom
9:15 am    Child care until 12:15, in the Roberts Room
9:30 am    Meeting for Worship, in the Meeting Room
10:30 am  Juice and time to visit, in the Library
10:35 am  Hymn singing, in the Meeting Room
11:00 am  Meeting for Worship, in the Meeting Room
11:20 am  First Day School Assembly, in the Double Classroom
12:00 pm  Simple Lunch, in the Dining Room

Using Our Website

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. Fill out and submit the username / password request form.
  2. Within a few days the (volunteer) website administrator will create an account for you. You will receive an email with your username and password.

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.

The library committee has given us a catalog of all their books so we can search for things! Take a look at the library page for more details. This was updated Sept. 2012.

Proposal from BYM Fundraising Working Group of Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends, Stony Run February 11, 2013:

Creation of a “BYM fundraising Working Group” (FWG) was approved at the September 9, 2012 Monthly Meeting “to examine the issue of cost of BYM’s fundraising as compared to the contributions income and to bring a report with recommended Stony Run Meeting’s response to this issue.” The FWG reviewed published material from Baltimore Year Meeting and drew from personal knowledge of BYM of FWG members. Click here to review the FWG's conclusions, completed in February 2013, accompanied by a proposed letter to be sent to BYM (you need to log in to the site for the link to work). An independent report of BYM's fundraising, called "The Colson Report", is also provided. Friends are invited to review these documents, which will be considered at Meeting for Worship With A Concern for Business on Sunday, March 3 at 1pm.

Stony Run Friends Meeting is again sponsoring Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities (HROC). This year we are very, very fortunate to have Florence Ntakarutimana from Burundi joining us to lead the training. She is a dynamic and inspirational person and trainer.  The attached flyers provide information and I encourage you to check out the website. 

We are hoping that a diverse group of participants will join the training. Although HROC has been used primarily in Africa, we hope that we will be able to use it to work with refugees, survivors of trauma and those who endure conflict daily in their own neighborhoods. 

HROC grew out of the Alternatives to Violence program used for many years in prisons and communities. It was discovered that when working with communities that are divided by violence a more trauma-informed approach was required and the HROC model was developed. It is focused on rebuilding trust while also healing the grief, fear and pain that result from loss of one's sense of self, family and community through violence.

ELIAS HICKS - PHEBE WILLIS 1818 LETTER: For all Friends who attended the SINC First Day Forum on Jan. 26 about the life, times, letters & journals of Elias Hicks (or who are interested in Hicks, and/or who plan to attend Part 2 on Sunday, Feb. 3 and/or Part 3 on Sunday, Feb. 10. (All three forums are presented by Don Gann.)

Here is the letter Elias Hicks wrote in 1818 to his friend (& Friend) Phebe Willis, in which he described his views, and which she subsequently shared and was widely circulated. A fragment of another letter related to the 1818 letter is also included here. The 1818 letter is important in Quaker history because it set the stage for the split a couple of decades later between the "Hicksites" and Orthodox Quakers.  Paper copies of the 1818 letter and the letter fragment will also be available at the First Day forums.

 

                        Food for Thought

 "Love was the first motion and then a concern arose to spend some time with the Indians, that I might feel and understand their life and the spirit they live in, if haply I might receive some instruction from them, or they might in any degree be helped forward by my following the leadings of truth among them."

John Woolman’s Journal

Although Quaker homes of two or three hundred years ago had no paintings on the walls and although tunes were rarely sung and there was no dancing, life was not dull…When people seek simplicity for its own sake, it becomes severity and leads to dull, ugly lives.  But simplicity, beauty, and happiness go together if they are a by-product of a concern for something more important than ourselves.
Elise Boulding, in My Part in the Quaker Adventure

What's New at Stony Run

UPCOMING EVENTS

Sunday, June 2, 1 pm:  Monthly Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business is held on the first First Day of each month, September through June (the summer MMWCB will be on July 21).  All members and attenders are welcome.  Attenders who are considering membership are especially encouraged to come and learn more about Friends’ decision-making process.

Saturday, June 8, noon:  Memorial Meeting for Worship for Howard Fullerton at Sandy Spring Friends Meeting, with a reception to follow at Friends House.  Howard was a past Presiding Clerk of Baltimore Yearly Meeting; at the time of his death on May 19, he was the clerk of BYM’s Manual of Procedure Committee.

Saturday & Sunday, June 8 & 9:  Celebration of the 275th Anniversary of Little Falls Meeting.  See the flyer (pink paper) on the hall table for details.

Sunday, June 9, 9:15 am:  First Day Forum.  Elizabeth DuVerlie, of Stony Run’s Working Group on Racism, will present a follow-up session on the subject of Privilege.

Sunday, June 9, noon:  Invitation to a Picnic.  Please join with the Religious Education Committee for the First Day School’s end-of-year picnic.  This year the committee is planning a ‘pot luck’ picnic, so please come and bring a dish to share – entrée, side dish or dessert. We have wonderful cooks in the Meeting, and many hands make for light work.

Sunday, June 9:  Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting, hosted by Gunpowder Friends, will feature an intergenerational program entitled “Treading Lightly on the Earth: One Meeting’s Discernment.”  See the flyer (yellow paper) on the hall table for details.
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS

During the summer, when children are not being fed in school, the CARES food pantry needs even more support.  Especially helpful are peanut butter & jelly, canned tuna, cold cereals, and powdered milk (though all food donations are helpful).  Please bring items to the meetinghouse, and volunteers will deliver them to CARES.

May and June donations to the Social Order box go to the National Alliance on Mental Illness – Baltimore.  NAMI Metropolitan Baltimore provides resources and community educational tools to families and consumers living with the debilitating effects of mental illness.  NAMI’s educational programs, support services, and outreach programs serve more than 10,000 people each year.  The Social Order box stands in the hallway, to the left of the Library entrance.  Make checks payable to Stony Run Friends Meeting, with ‘S.O. Box’ on the memo line.  Please consider making a monthly contribution to the S.O. box.

Peace and Environmental Action, for all ages:  Current offerings on the downstairs book sales table are designed to help adults and younger Friends talk together about our work for peace and for our world’s environment.  Many are colorful, fairly inexpensive books aimed at youth of various ages but full of appeal for parents and grandparents as well.  Other more adult books will be full of things to discuss with younger Friends.  These book offerings will disappear at the end of June, so don’t wait to browse.

A request of parents:  Older children in First Day School often make it a point to get to the dining room before the grown-ups, but younger children wait for their parents to collect them after class or from the nursery.  Please bear in mind that our First Day School teachers and our child care staff often have commitments after Meeting for Worship, and they would be appreciative if parents would come promptly for their children.

Peace Vigil relocation:  Homewood Meeting’s Friday evening weekly peace vigil has been temporarily moved to the northeast corner of the intersection of Charles Street and University Parkway, by the Episcopal cathedral.  The vigil will be held there until construction on Charles Street is complete.