October 2022 Meeting Minutes

GRASS VALLEY FRIENDS MEETING

Of the Religious Society of Friends of the Truth

College Park Quarterly Meeting, Pacific Yearly Meeting

MINUTES & RECORD

Meeting for Worship on the Occasion of Business

10/09/2022

We met in a hybrid meeting on Zoom and in person.

Present:  Dean Olson (clerk), Gordon Starr, Mary Starr, Doug Hamm, Dorothy Henderson, Judy Hamilton, Amy Cooke, fosten wilson, Dianne Marshall, Reed Hamilton

The Meeting opened with silent worship.  

Clerks’ Remarks and Query: The poem, The Fellowship, byAmanda Gorman, the current Poet Laureate, was read by the clerk.  

Query: 

Action Items and Seasoning:

• The 2022-23 Budget will season until the October Meeting for Business.

COMMITTEE REPORTS (see reports appended, committee clerk is noted in bold)

NOMINATING: (terms as noted) Dorothy Henderson (fulfilling Pat Phillips term):  2022-2023, Sharon Davisson, continuing:  2021-2023, Judy Hamilton: 2022-2024, Gordon Starr: 2022-2024

STEWARDSHIP:  Mary Starr (clerk), Pat Phillips, Reed Hamilton, Gordon Starr, Doug Hamm. Dianne Marshall (ex-officio, Newsletter editor), Fosten Wilson (ex-officio, Treasurer), Don McCormick (ex-officio, Librarian).

SPIRIT & WITNESS: Amy Cooke, Gordon Bishop, Sharon Davisson, Reed Hamilton, Dorothy Henderson, Dean and Karen Olson (ex-officio Co Clerks)

WELCOME: Kathy McCreery (clerk), Don McCormick, Pat Phillips, Karen Olson. Hailey Wilson (ex-officio, zoom coordinator), Amy Cooke (ex-officio, Website and Facebook coordinator), Judy Hamilton (ex-officio, email coordinator), 

CHILDREN’S PROGRAM:   Dorothy Henderson (clerk), Gordon Bishop, Doug Hamm, Judy Hamilton, Dean Olson, Karen Olson, Reed Hamilton, Don McCormick, Anita McCormick.

OFFICER  REPORTS

• TREASURER:

• SFC REPRESENTATIVE:  

• INTERFAITH NEVADA COUNTY:  Dianne Marshall.  

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

• If you use Facebook, follow the Grass Valley Friends Meeting page, or join the Facebook Grass Valley Friends Meeting group. If you share a post from the page, your friends will see it! It helps our visibility.  Follow this link.
• It is easy to give to Grass Valley Friends Meeting!  Go to gvfriends.org and click on the Give button.  This takes you to a secure site for donations. Please consider making your contribution monthly.  Your contribution covers our Pacific Yearly Meeting dues and ensures that our activities as a Meeting are sustained.  Thank you.  Please note: Tithely now allows the user to change the dollar of their gift without making a new donation request.  
• Sierra Friends Center has volunteer opportunities available.   See www.woolman.org. 
• On September 25 there will be a Woolman potluck, please see the newsletter for details.
• College Park Quarterly Meeting: October 14-16 at Sierra Friends Center: Experience, Envision, Evolve: Living in the Spirit through changing times. – Joe Magruder, Clerk

• Please join us either in person or online for College Park Quarterly Meeting’s Fall 2022 session as we continue to search for the Light in troubled times
• Meeting Retreat: October 21-23 at Gordon and Mary Starr’s.  Details to follow.  

ACTION ITEMS & ITEMS SEASONING

READING OF THE RECORD AND MINUTES    

The record and the minutes were read, corrected and approved.

If you are giving a report to GVFM, please send the actual report to the recording clerk at grassvalleyfriends@gmail.com THE FRIDAY BEFORE MEETING FOR BUSINESS.     

GVFM Newsletter Reminder: Please have items into Diane Marshall by Tuesday at 10 am. 

The Meeting closed with silent worship.  

Respectfully recorded by Amy Cooke, recording clerk.  

APPENDICES:

1. Spirit and Witness
2. Welcome
3. Stewardship
4. CPQM Fall 2022

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Spirit and Witness

Amy Cooke, clerk;  Reed Hamilton; Dorothy Henderson, Gordon Bishop; recording clerk, Sharon Davisson.   Ex officio:  Dean Olson, Karen Davidson; co-clerks of Grass Valley Friends Meeting

Stewardship Committee

Welcome Committee

249th Session of College Park Quarterly Meeting

October 14-16, 2022

Sierra Friends Center

or

On Zoom

Experience, Envision, Evolve: Living in the Spirit through changing times.

– Joe Magruder, Clerk

Please join us either in person or online for College Park Quarterly Meeting’s Fall 2022 session as we continue to search for the Light in troubled times

Registration is now open.

Register

·      Fees to attend either in person or by Zoom are “pay as led”; suggested fees are on the registration form.

·      Compliance with current Covid 19 safety precautions is required for in-person attendance. (See registration form.) 

·      Please Register by October 8, 2022, so that we can give the cook an accurate meal count.  Late registrants may have to provide for their own housing and meals.

Draft Schedule

This schedule for this meeting will vary depending on whether one is attending online or in-person. Parts of the meeting for online attenders will be hybrid, others on Zoom only. 

Friday evening:

         Dinner, family worship, informal gathering

Saturday morning:

         Breakfast, worship, brief plenary session, worship sharing, Lunch

Saturday afternoon:

         Worship sharing, workshops, free time

Saturday evening:

         Dinner, family night, informal gathering

Sunday morning

         Breakfast, brief plenary, worship with Grass Valley meeting, lunch

The schedule is relatively unstructured because the pandemic has deprived Friends of opportunities to simply sit in informal discussion with each other.  There will also be opportunity to experience Sierra Friends Center recovery from fire.

If there are serious glitches in the hybrid business meeting, the meeting will be rescheduled to Zoom-only format at a later date.

NOTE:  This version of the call to Quarterly Meeting is being sent to past Spring and Fall attenders in 2021 and 2022.  If you are your Meeting’s representative to CPQM or you have already registered for Fall 2022, you may receive duplicate invitations.

After you register on the CPQM website, you should receive an immediate automated reply.  A few days before the session you will receive an updated schedule, instructions for check-in on arrival, a Zoom link, and requests to help during the session.

If you would like to convene a topical lunch table or afternoon workshop (on-site and/or zoom), send a reply to this message stating your topic.

Questions?  Contact registrar Eric Sabelman <eesabelman@gmail.com>