The P&SC Committee continues public information discussions with leaders of community organizations serving the Greater Cincinnati area.  Please save the date to hear about social justice and human service issues facing our region.

Guest Speaker - T. Duane Gordon, Executive Director of Community Shares of Greater Cincinnati

Date:  Sunday, April  28

Time: 12:30 pm

For 28 years the Community Shares of Greater Cincinnati is the Tri-state’s only umbrella funding organization for social/economic justice organizations, environmental causes, and animal welfare agencies. Over that period, it has distributed more than $4 million to local charities by raising funds through coordinated workplace campaigns. In addition it advocates locally and statewide for public policies important to member organizations and donors, training in nonprofit excellence, networking and administers fiscal agency oversight of emerging social justice groups, incubating and mentoring new equity efforts in the community. In addition, Community Shares has initiated the Margaret Fuller Lecture Series, a quarterly discussion around social and economic justice, environmental justice, and animal welfare with the launch of the Margaret Fuller Lecture Series.

T. Duane Gordon, since 2019, is the CEO of Community Shares of Greater Cincinnati. His background of more than two decades in non-profit leadership includes CEO of Middletown Community Foundation and n at the Community Foundation for Mississippi. He currently represents the Ohio River Valley District of the United Methodist Church on the Metropolitan Area Religious Council of Cincinnati (MARCC).

Monthly Meeting settled on the HIggenbottom chair from Wayfair as the most all-around suitable for our needs and purposes, and six of them were ordered.  We assembled two of and put them out for general trial use.  Try them out and pass on your thoughts to the office.

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.”

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.

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

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