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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

TWO New Online Program Opportunities!

WEDNESDAY MORNING WORSHIP SHARING (via Zoom)

Despite the lockdown, we are busier than ever at QC.  We’ve initiated a Wednesday Morning  Worship Sharing online which has drawn Friends from Belgium, Paris, 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 George Lakey’s 2011 William Penn Lecture: POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE (See Quotes and Queries below)

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

For password, Email BobFisher@QuakerCenter.org

RADICAL SPIRITUALITY

The re-run of the hugely popular free three week course  on the origins of the Quaker movement starts again on April 27.

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/quakers

Put together by Woodbrooke and the University of Lancaster, this course is hosted by Futurelearn. It lets you do as much or as little of each of the steps in each week as you want and join in with online discussion forums as and when you wish.  You can join at any point and work at your own pace, wherever you are in the world.

MAY 2020

The QC Program Committee has all but finalized our 2021 schedule. We plan on announcing those programs at the Pacific Yearly Meeting zoom gathering in July.

After many hours of phone calls, emails and paperwork, the QC Board and Staff have managed to secure PPP and EIDL loans for Quaker Center! This was coupled with over $16,000 in contributions during a 3 week period in March and April, from Board members and others. Thanks to all who assisted in this near Herculean feat!

The other side of the proverbial coin is that we have lost and will continue to lose significant income since the pandemic has shut down gatherings at QC. While we are financially stable at the moment, we may not be able to sustain the losses without equally significant support from Friends. 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. The state has relaxed some of its rules about cutting and thinning trees within 300 feet of existing buildings. We’ve been in touch with at least 3 foresters and one licensed timber operator (LTO).  As always: better safe than sorry.

Quaker Quotes and Queries

from POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE by George Lakey

Obsessing about Process: The influence of middle classness also helps us to understand the extreme process-orientation that is a current theme among us. Process is the ultimate management skill-set. Process can of course be useful when it takes its proper place alongside vision (assigned to the owning class) and the actual production of goods and services (assigned to the working class). But process for its own sake, without a large vision and without work/ action/ a Lamb’s War to wage, is anti-community.

Queries: Is it possible that class might ever come into play in a Quaker Meeting for Business? How, in your experience, has class come in to play in terms of process in your Meeting? Why might process need to take “its proper place alongside vision”? How might process without action be anti-community?

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