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

"The synthesis of a variety of elements is often obtained by a kind of cross-fertilization, and the final result is not, therefore, or at least ought not to be, a compromise.  Given time and the proper conditions, a group idea, which is not the arithmetical sum of individual contributions or their common divisor, but a new creation or mutation, finally evolves."

Howard H. Brinton Friends for Three Hundred Years

What's New at Stony Run

Please spread the word that Stony Run is looking for a new Meeting Coordinator. Pass along the job description if you know of someone who might be interested in the position.

SINC FIRST DAY FORUMS DURING JANUARY (in the Dining Room):
Coffee/tea and bagels are available at 9:00 am; forums begin at 9:15 and continue until 10:30.
March 7 – Quaker Women I – Margaret Fell and the beginnings of Quakerism.
March 14 – Quaker Women II – Elizabeth Cadbury (1858-1951).  The world changes from Victorian to the modern age.
March 21 – No forum (Committee Day).
March 28 – Quaker Women III – Contemporary female Friends.  How is Quakerism reflected in our lives and the lives of others?  We will look at a number of women living in the 20th century and later.

SOCIAL ORDER BOX RECIPIENT FOR FEBRUARY IS MEDSHARE:  MedShare is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the environment and healthcare through the efficient recovery and redistribution of surplus medical supplies and equipment to underserved healthcare facilities in developing countries.  MedShare collects surplus medical supplies and equipment from hospitals, medical distribution companies and individuals, and then redistributes them to qualified healthcare facilities in the developing world.  MedShare also outfits medical missions and safety net clinics in both the U.S. and abroad.
 
MedShare has already sent 10 shipments of approximately 10,000 boxes of requested medical supplies to organizations on the ground in Haiti.  Medical mission teams going to Haiti can collect free medical supplies from the MedTeam Store.  So far, MedShare has outfitted 22 medical teams going to Haiti with medical supplies.  John and Carey Cezar highly recommend support of this organization.

TO HELP HAITI, the Peace & Social Order committee recommends contributing to Friends of Haiti of Green Bay, MedShare, and Doctors Without Borders.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY AT AFSC:  AFSC is looking for Friends to help out at the 4806 York Road office for several hours each week.  In addition to greeting guests and answering the phone, the duties include maintaining the supplies and assisting with scheduling building use and maintenance.   For more information, please contact Nina LaBoy (Interim Regional Director) at 410-323-4200.  (nlaboy@afsc.org)

FRAUC HAS A CHALLENGE FOR YOU:  Throughout 2010, FRAUC (Funds Review And Use Committee) will match all individual gifts to Friends Helping Friends, up to a total of $20,000.  Friends Helping Friends is an endowed fund with a mission to provide tuition assistance to the children of this Meeting attending Friends School, thereby freeing up the school’s scholarship funds for other children, especially those whose enrollment would help insure a diverse student body at Friends School.