Announcements

Concert with the Miami University Steel Band—Save the date!

Sunday, May 5 at 3:00 pm at Cincinnati Friends

Open to the public.

Students from the Miami University are making the trip down at our invitation and are excited to perform for us! The concert will be an smaller ensemble of students from the steel band. We'll have light refreshments afterward.  There will be a free-will offering to support their program. This one-hour concert is open to the public. Please share with family and friends.

“The Miami University Steel Band was founded in 1994. Under the leadership of founder and director Chris Tanner, the program has grown to encompass two separate ensembles with a combined enrollment of over sixty members, and twenty-five university-owned instruments. The ensemble is very active, performing in a number of settings including on-campus concerts, summer park venues and in-school outreach programs.”

Hospitality Canceled this Sunday

Sunday, May 5, the Hospitality Committee decided to cancel our regularly scheduled pot-luck lunch in deference to the Miami Steel Band concert at 3:00PM.  They encourage Friends to head home or out to lunch and return for the concert at 3:00PM.

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/

Help build beds for children in need

The Wilmington Yearly Meeting Friends will be participating in the "Sleep in Heavenly Peace"-Clinton County bed building on Saturday, May 18 from 9 AM to noon in the Presbyterian Church parking lot (next to Holmes School).  They plan to build 20 beds that morning that will be provided for children up to 17 years of age. Afterwards, lunch will be provided.  They will be working with the Presbyterian, Methodists and Lutheran friends.

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://wilmingtonyearlymeeting.org/  The donate button is at the bottom of the home page.  

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

The location is 34 miles north and 36 minutes from the intersection of 71 and 275.

Chairs for the New Conversation Table

 

Monthly Meeting settled on the HIggenbottom chair from Wayfair as the most all-around suitable for our needs and purposes, and six of them. Two more are on order in addition to some cushions.

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).

Thank you for considering. It’s a rewarding opportunity!

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!