On the afternoon of April 22nd, several friends gathered to participate in Cooking in Community, an event organized by Nurturer for Spiritual Growth and Outreach Cathy Barney for the purposes of gauging interest in a possible nurture group around aging and to introduce friends to the new We Care initiative.
Recent Events
Quaker Leadership Conference Addresses North American Decline
Cathy Barney is Cincinnati Friends Meeting’s Nurturer for Spiritual Growth and Outreach. More than 60 Quakers from all branches gathered April 27-29 at the Earlham School of Religion (ESR) for the first Quaker Leadership Conference to discern the decline of our faith in North America. The conference was organized by
Recorded Minister? Tell Me More
Jim Newby is a recorded minister. So is Ray Geers. And we anticipate that member Cathy Barney will be recorded as a minister upon completing the Wilmington Yearly Meeting (WYM) two-year training process. So what exactly is a recorded minister? Historically, a recorded minister was a Quaker woman or man
December Retreat Explored How We Belong Together
Members Kathy Stewart, Carole Barnhart and Cathy Barney led a December 2022 retreat on the “Joy of Being Together” that drew 26 participants to the meetinghouse. Based on the Pendle Hill Pamphlet “Spiritual Gifts, the Beloved Community, and Covenant” by Emily Provance, facilitators focused on exploring “what is alive” in
Breaking Bread with New Friends
Cincinnati Friends Meeting (CFM) Public Friend Jim Newby and Beulah Missionary Baptist Pastor John Ivey met as members of EquaSion, a greater Cincinnati non-partisan, interfaith dialogue to foster understanding. They shared a vision to gather their congregations. Pastor Ivey reached out to Jim just as Cathy Barney, our new nurturer