Bulls Head –Oswego Monthly Meeting
Monthly Meeting for Worship with attention to Business
July 9, 2018
Minutes
Present: Mary Anderson, Mary Cadbury, Vonn New (clerk), Solange Muller (recording clerk), Leif Anderson, Bill Leicht, Caroline Webster, Julia Giordano, David Kirkpatrick, Margaret Seely, Robert Martin, “Wolf” Joe Horan.
2018-50 Friends approve Solange Muller as Recording Clerk of the Day
2018-51 Treasurer’s Report - Leif Anderson presented the treasurer’s report for the first six months of 2018. Friends accepted the report, as attached. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2H3uspbj7kAVFZ0VTNLdHRqdFZNVDBNOG5oSW9LM2luQzBv/view?usp=sharing
2018 -52 Trustees - Leif Anderson presented the estimate for the costs of painting the inside of the MH and for refinishing the floors in the MH and the GR. Total estimate is 1920.00. Friends approved this proposal and funds will come from the maintenance fund.
2018 -53 Trustees Report - Leif Anderson presented the Trustees’ report. Friends accepted the report, as attached. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2H3uspbj7kAcDctRDFxX2hEU0tOWVpiS2hvT0hmZ1FSLXJF
2018-54 Ministry and Counsel - Solange Muller reported that M&C is not able to make a recommendation to address a childcare plan. Friends recommend that we convene a threshing and information session on August 12th to discern the way forward with welcoming the children who come to our Meeting and where that will lead us in developing a Child Care Proposal. If Friends are led to invite Friends from other Meetings who have children we ask them to do so. Vonn New will clerk find someone to clerk the threshing /information session.
2018 -55 Ministry and Counsel - Solange Muller reported on the event that M and C and Hospitality collaborated on with POK Friends Meeting - Mary Foster Cadbury a Quaker Life. An audio recording of her words will be made public soon.
2018 -56 Naming Committee - Wolf Horan provided the second reading of Sybil Perry for Nominating Committee. Friends approved. Naming Committee is in discernment with a second person.
2018 - 57 Sexual Ethics statement below. Friends approved.
“Our Meeting community is a small part of God’s family. Each of us is precious in God’s sight, and each of us in the meeting, whether gay, lesbian, straight, bisexual, married, unmarried, celibate, sexually active, or polyamorous, has gifts that can benefit the whole.
We want a meeting where each of us is encouraged and helped to be our best, a place where each person, young and old, feels welcome and accepted. Each adult needs to model a respectful caring attitude, with no inappropriate sexual innuendo or harmful behavior.
We affirm the value of covenant relationships such as marriage; however we recognize that healthy relationships can occur in other contexts. Each of us must be governed by how our sexual behavior affects family or others. We see the importance of sexuality in becoming the people we are. As humans, our experience of the Spirit is necessarily embodied. In our sexual experience some of us have felt the same Spirit that covers us in worship. Not all our sexual experiences fit this pattern, but we all aspire to live our whole lives, including our sexuality, in faithfulness to the leadings of the Spirit.
We affirm that sexual relationships should be loving and respectful, non-coercive, between fully consenting adults where one does not exercise significant power over another. “
