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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)

Despite the lockdown, we are busier than ever at QC.  We’ve initiated a 10 a.m. (PT) Wednesday Morning  Worship Sharing online which 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 quotes from  GRAPPLING WITH THE TRUTH: Undoing Racism as a Quaker Commitment by Lucy Duncan (See Quotes and Queries below).

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

For password, Email BobFisher@QuakerCenter.org

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

From GRAPPLING WITH THE TRUTH: Undoing racism as a Quaker commitment
by Lucy Duncan

"Understanding the deep systemic racism we carry within us is vital to change things. This is deeply Quaker in my view as is taking concrete action to move people and systems. Nothing is more Quaker.

"Silence or civility is too often what folks think is Quaker. Though I am refreshed in meeting for worship and reground spiritually (and have insights related to my social change work), my sense of Quaker faith is that we are actively upending all that stands in the way of justice, the beloved community, and transforming ourselves and the world to be much closer to our birthright: to feel and operate from our humanity and connection to others.

"There is so much in society that stands in the way of that, and we, as white people, are sometimes deluded about how deep injustice is because we are often not its targets while materially benefitting from the abuse of IBPOC (indigenous, Black and PoC). For me, working for a world that expresses our birthright is elementally Quaker. Too many of us prefer a comfortable Quakerism that soothes us and shields us from the world instead of centering us for being fighters in the Lamb’s war."

QUERIES: Is understanding the racism within us “deeply Quaker”? Is it your sense of Quaker faith that “we are actively upending all that stands in the way of justice” and the beloved community? What is your understanding of the Lamb’s war?

[archive of QC's Quaker Quotes]

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