2018-6 Mary Cadbury reported on last week’s Quarterly Meeting. 17-18 Friends attended the afternoon session of worship sharing. The report was accepted.
2018-7 The Clerk encouraged Friends to attend Meeting for Discernment to be held February 17th at 15th Street Meeting. Solange Muller will attend the morning session and serve as our representative.
2018-8 Bulls Head Meeting will host the next session of Nine Partners Quarterly Meeting, to be held May 6. Mary Cadbury, Solange Muller and Vonn New are appointed as a planning committee. Friends are encouraged to suggest program ideas to these Friends.
2018-9 Lenore Ridgeway reported for the Website Committee. They plan to take pictures of Meeting members who consent, and add them to our website and our page on NYYM.org. They also suggest that the Meeting should have a Facebook page. Friends approve asking the committee to create a Facebook page, and to make plans about how it will be administered and maintained. The report was accepted and is attached.
2018-10 Karen Snare reported for Ministry and Counsel. Word has been received of the death of long -time Bulls Head member Harry Hoffman, on December 26, 2017, aged 92. He moved to Maryland a number of years ago, but he still felt a strong connection to our meeting.
2018-11 Karen Snare presented a proposed Travel Minute for Vonn New, which has been approved by Ministry and Counsel. Friends approved the Minute with minor changes.
Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting is delighted to introduce our beloved member Vonn New. Vonn joined Bulls Head Friends 11 years ago, has served on a variety of committees and is currently clerk of the Meeting. A deeply spiritual person, Vonn’s ministry is most often expressed through music. Ze* experiences the Spirit with zir whole body. Zir gift of hearing the Spirit in unexpected places has helped us to broaden our experience of connecting with the Divine. Vonn has shown us that there are many doorways into worship, beyond the pattern of silence and sequential speaking which has been the path for most of us.
Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting has supported Vonn’s leading to travel with zir particular ministry. At the 2017 FGC Gathering, Vonn led Friends in an interactive/intergenerational plenary experience. Ze has travelled with zir workshop “Sounding the Divine” to various FGC Gatherings and to Friends Meetings around the United States. In sharing zir ministry ze has enriched traditional Quaker experience, sometimes stretching us beyond our comfort zones. Ze has helped us to worship with all our senses, shown enormous kindness, empathy and generosity, and honored whatever each person has brought to the experience.
We commend zir to your loving care,
In Peace, Karen Snare, Clerk Ministry & Counsel,
Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting
In Peace, Karen Snare, Clerk Ministry & Counsel,
Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting
*Vonn’s preferred 3rd person singular pronouns are ze & zir.
2018-12 The clerk will not be present for the Meeting for Business in March. In her absence, Karen Snare will serve as presiding Clerk, and Lee Haring as Recording Clerk.2018-13 Treasurer Lief Anderson requests proper documentation to change the signatures on the bank accounts. Friends approved.
