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Phone: (831) 336-8333

E-mail us at: mail (at) quakercenter.org (substitute an @ sign instead of (at))

Postal address for all mailings and shipments:

250 Main St. #686
Ben Lomond, CA 95005

Get Directions to Quaker Center Our center is located at 1000 Hubbard Gulch Road, Ben Lomond, CA  95005.

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News from Quaker Center

WEDNESDAY MORNING WORSHIP SHARING (via Zoom)

Our 10 a.m. (PT) Wednesday Morning  Worship Sharing online has drawn Friends from Belgium, Paris, England, Vermont, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Maui! It was begun as a 6-week experiment utilizing short readings and queries on Solitude. The experiment seems to have worked and participants have enthusiastically supported continuation.

Quaker Center will provide queries.
This weeks queries are in response to the Beatitudes, from The Book of Matthew:  (See Quotes and Queries below).

 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/91561996986?pwd=dCttNEdKYzFlUm1LRGFNS2h2WWFVUT09

For password, Email BobFisher@QuakerCenter.org

BETWEEN CREATOR AND CREATION:

A Vision from the Center                                                                              Edited by Bob Fisher*

The walls are thin between.

The seen and the unseen.

Finding new ways to ease

The pain of the least of these.

I see a woman with flowers headed to the Center. Children running. White hand/ black hand

Paradise Found, Lion and Lamb.

Wishing for diversity among the stark reality of life. Quakers are my home.

But there are dangers in silence and stillness. Getting pulled away by business,

You have to let go. Jonah represents hesitation.

This is the place where I’ve learned to create. Opening windows.

Hummingbirds and harmony with the natural world. Every spot holds meaning for me.

We need to be outside, It’s a race for survival. People are at risk.

We’re standing on a proud tradition. Let your yea be yea.

Waging peace, the child within me, looking out unstained windows, living, playing,

Provoking the world to love the beauty of the natural.

Enthusiasm and breathing from the center.

We’ve made a mess of it but this . . .

This is a place where we’ve done it right.

This is the moment. A place for healing.

Water rising. A stream of consciousness,

Surfers are what we need to be, adventurous and disciplined.

The fox is taking it all in.

Creator and Creation.

*These lines are culled from a visioning exercise done by the board of the Ben Lomond Quaker Center in  October, 2019.

JULY 2020

The QC Program Committee has finalized our 2021 schedule. We have shared this schedule at Inter-Mountain Yearly Meeting (IMYM) gathering  and will share with Pacific Yearly Meeting (PYM) and North-Pacific Yearly Meeting (NPYM) later this month.

We are now open for individual and domestic household retreats. However, we are still actively fundraising to fill the tremendous gap created by lost revenue due to the pandemic.

Please consider what you and your Monthly Meeting can do to help. http://www.quakercenter.org/gifts-and-donations/

We are seizing the moment of relative “calm” to lay groundwork for some fire prevention measures at QC as well as other deferred maintenance projects, thorough cleaning and trail maintenance.

Quaker Quotes and Queries

August 4, 2020
From The Book of Matthew:

And seeing the multitudes, (Jesus) went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him. And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying:

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

QUERIES: Which of these Beatitudes/ Blessings speak to your condition? Why? What did Jesus mean by “salt of the earth,” “poor in spirit,” and “meek”?

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Upcoming Programs

2020 Program Calendar

Living Into the Promise: Online Program
Sept. 4th – Sept. 6th 2020
with Marge Abbott & Julie Peyton

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