Please note that this coming Sunday, August 3- we will not be holding our meeting at 145 Maryland. You are invited to join us at Canadian Yearly Meeting for 10am worship at Canadian Mennonite University. https://quaker.ca/  

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  Penal Abolition: A Search for Justice A Free Workshop with Quakers Fostering Justice Why is our criminal justice system based on punishment? Why do we harm people when we could be healing them? “Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.” – Cornel West Penal abolition seeks a shift from punishment to justice that is restorative, transformative and healing—for victims, perpetrators, and society. Join us on Saturday March 9 from Noon to 3pm at Micah House, 1039 Main Street for a free workshop. We will: · Use videos, discussions, small-group exercises to learn about Quakers Fostering Justice’s work on penal abolition · Explore alternatives to punishment · Learn about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action for justice work · Connect local people and organizations concerned about the need for change. · Map our path to doing justice to ourselves, to faith based and broader communities, and to our world. · All who want to build a more socially just world are welcome – Quaker experience not required

Winnipeg Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2018 Condensed Year in Minutes from our Meetings for Business with Clerk’s Readings Prepared by John Samson Fellows, Recording Clerk December 31, 2018 A culture of isolated individualism produces mass conformity because people who think they must bear life all alone are too fearful to take the risks of self-hood. But people who know that they are embedded in an eternal community are both freed and empowered to become who they were born to be.—Parker Palmer, 1990 In January, we began the practice of putting out the small chair in the circle each week for our young friends, and affirmed “children make a joyful noise. We welcome children as valued and full members of our worship meeting.” As a concrete step towards carbon reduction, Winnipeg Monthly Meeting decided to make an annual donation to Tree Canada. It is good to be reminded that even trying to discern works for us as it brings our spirit closer to God. I don’t think of God as something with personal attributes so I don’t feel forgiven by God when I make mistakes, but I can feel the Spirit of God working in others when they […]

NOTE THAT FOR THE WEEKS OF JAN 27 AND FEB 3, 10 AND 17 WE WILL MEET AT 10:30 AT 200 ARLINGTON STREET  

In our worship yesterday we considered Advice and Query #29. [Each week we put one of the Q&As in a frame for optional consideration] Approach old age with courage and hope. As far as possible, make arrangements for your care in good time, so that an undue burden does not fall on others. Although old age may bring increasing disability and loneliness, it can also bring serenity, detachment and wisdom. Pray that in your final years you may be enabled to find new ways of receiving and reflecting God’s love. It occurred to me that in our group of 26 we had a delightful age range present and the words would read quite differently to each.  I asked in the announcements and indeed we had someone born the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s in attendance.  We identified John, with the beard as the “middle man” from the 70s who held us together. Just another reason why I look forward to worship each week. Glenn Morison (Winnipeg Monthly Meeting)  

Music for the Spirit A Gift for a Lifetime   Winnipeg Quaker Meeting and Epiphany Indigenous Anglican Church in Winnipeg have launched an initiative to support music-based youth suicide prevention programs in Indigenous communities in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and northwest Ontario.  We are grateful for the encouragement of the Indigenous Anglican Church of Canada and the support of the Anglican Parish of Six Nations in southern Ontario that runs a community-based project of the same name for the purpose of “creating friendships, joy and laughter” (www.musicforthespirit.ca). Currently we are working with musicians, teachers and suicide prevention workers in Cross Lake (northern Manitoba) and Montreal Lake (northern Saskatchewan) to develop music programs to keep their children and youth safe. We are seeking donations of musical instruments (guitars, fiddles, ukuleles, keyboards, drum sets) – or money to buy them. We also welcome other partners to develop and fundraise for this project and to build relationships with Indigenous communities in the spirit of Reconciliation and responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action. Your financial donation of $50 puts a ukulele in a child’s hands, $120 a guitar, $220 a violin. And the honoraria paid to local music teachers provides at least […]

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