Chairs for the New Conversation Table
Now that the chairs for the conversation circle have been finally approved and assembled, Trustees invite you to consider donating one of them in memory of a loved one, a friend, or someone in the Meeting. Chairs, including a 1" x 3" engraved brass plate, cost $125 each. Please contact the office or any trustee if you are interested.
Hospitality News
Hospitality is reducing potlucks to once a month on the first Sunday of each month. Coffee will be offered after every Sunday service in the Fireside room to give folks a chance to mingle.
Sharing our prayer practices: Beulah Baptist & Cincinnati Friends, May 25
Please plan to attend our Saturday, May 25 prayer gathering with our friends from Beulah Baptist Missionary Church from 1-3 pm as we share our faith practices as a large group and, more intimately, our personal experiences in smaller groups. We will host this event at the Cincinnati Friends Meetinghouse.
Bring a snack to share for food and fellowship afterward. Sign up on the sheet outside the meetingroom or contact Cathy Barney, nurturer for spiritual growth & outreach, at cathybarney@cincinnatifriends.org. Let her know if you’d be willing to co-facilitate a small group.
Help build beds for children in need
Here’s how you can help:
To make a monetary donation for needed supplies, please send a check to the Wilmington Yearly Meeting, 1870 Quaker Way, Box 1194, Wilmington, OH 45177. Be sure to write “bed building” in the memo line of the check so that funds can be properly allocated. You can also donate on their website and there is also a place to add a note. https://
If you wish to volunteer to build beds or provide other needed services on Saturday, May 18, please contact Cathy Hadley at hsyhtac@frontier.com or call her at (937) 725-1117
Thank you to Duane Gordon and Stephanie Cornet
Duane Gordon, Executive Director and Stephanie Cornet, Development Officer of the organization Community Shares of Greater Cincinnati provided an informative presentation to attendees from Cincinnati Friends on April 28. P&SC Committee wishes to express gratitude to all who attended and for Duane and Stephanie’s time and participation. On the table outside the library, please help yourself to the “goodies” (masks, jar openers, and cell phone screen cleaners) and pamphlets which describe in detail the mission and goals of the Community Shares organization for anyone who wishes to know more about them and/or contribute to their organization. https://cintishares.org/
A Call to the Community—First Day School
Are you willing to teach First Day School for one Sunday? There is a curriculum all set to use so no pre planning required!
We need volunteers to help with First day School for the 3rd grade and older class. You can select any Sunday starting in September.
Would you consider taking on a Sunday? A signup sheet with the dates and topics of each class is on a clipboard located on the hall table. If there are no children that day, join us in worship.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Linda Daigle (ldaigle3@yahoo.com) or Nan Hatch (nan.hatch@gmail.com).
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EDUCATORS past and present, interested learners… We need you!
What? Help the Meeting assess the need for and assemble a proposal of responsibilities for an Education and Spiritual Nurture Committee.
How? Share your knowledge, your experience, your ideas with others who value and want to support education and spiritual nurture for all ages.
When? Group would meet as individual schedules allow. This can be a short-term commitment.
Contact? Linda Daigle ldaigle3@yahoo.com if you are interested.
Nursery Support Needed
Given that the children here at CFM are seven years and older and now attend First Day School, we currently have no need for a Nursery School teacher. Every now and then, though, visitors with younger children come to worship with us on Sunday mornings. If you’d be willing to look after these young’uns on such a morning, very spur of the moment—you’d get a tap of the shoulder soon after the family arrives—please add your name to the sign-up sheet outside the Meeting Room. Such a valuable service to visitors! Thank you.
Questions? Talk with Linda Daigle or email office@cincinnatifriends.org
Food Bank Sunday
Food Pantry Sundays
Cincinnati Friends Meeting supports local food pantries by collecting non-perishable food and personal care items at our meetinghouse. (Plastic tubs for contributions are located in the entryway.) Although we collect these donations throughout the year, we put special emphasis on doing so on the second and fourth Sundays of each month. On these day, we give particular thought to the hungry in our community.
The Peace & Social Concerns Committee is contributing CFM’s donations to the Loveland Life Pantry. Currently, Freestore Foodbank does not accept individual donations.
Current greatest need at Loveland Life Pantry:
SENIORS: Ensure/Boost
FOOD: Canned Chicken, Canned Fruit, Mixed Vegetables, Canned Carrots, Cereal, Coffee, Flour, Manwich/Sloppy Joe, Ramen, Spaghetti
HOUSEHOLD & PAPER GOODS: Dish Soap, Laundry Detergent, Paper Towels
Sunday Hospitality Information
On the first and third Sundays of each month we welcome all to join together in the Fireside Room for fellowship and a potluck lunch after meeting for worship. Feel free to bring any type of "potluck" food to share (prepared dishes you can readily set out). Please join us!
~ The Hospitality Committee
Kroger Community Rewards Program
Kroger pays up to $1,250,000 on a quarterly basis to participating organizations based on their percentage of spending as it relates to the total spending of all participating Kroger Community Rewards Organizations.
To support Cincinnati Friends Meeting through your Kroger purchases, go to www.krogercommunityrewards.com and choose Cinti Monthly Meeting/Religious Society of Friends, code: pi373.
Once a household member enrolls their card, all linked Kroger Plus Cards within that household begin earning rewards. The Peace and Social Concerns Committee disperses these funds to local organizations supported by the Meeting. Feel free to share our Kroger number with friends and family. Every time a member, attender, family, family friend, or neighbor of our Meeting shops at Kroger and uses their Kroger Plus Card, we earn rewards!