Weekly Announcements

Coming UP:

The list of events below can also be viewed on the AFM website’s homepage or on the AFM Calendar, 

Note: Titles link to the AFM Calendar for greater detail and the word Zoom links to the online meeting. 

• October 11th (Monday) Indigenous Peoples Day
• October 13th (Wednesday) 7:00 pm, Wednesday Meditation on Zoom
• October 14th (Thursday)
  • 1:00 pm, AFM’s day to help sell pumpkins at The Pumpkin Patch (see below for more details)
  • 4:00 pm, Spiritual Friends Group on Zoom
• October  17th (Sunday)
  • Last day for dropping off 13-bean soup fixings 
  • 9:00 am, Committee Meetings – most will be on Zoom
  • 11:00 am, Meeting for Worship on Zoom and in-person (i.e., Blended – see info below)
  • 12:30 pm, CREC will meet on Zoom
• October 18th (Mon) 7:00 pm, Communications Committee meeting on Zoom

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The Pumpkin Patch 

The Lighthouse Shelter in Annapolis will be selling thousands of pumpkins to support their mission to rebuild lives with compassion by providing shelter and services to prevent homelessness and empower people as they transition toward employment, housing and self-sufficiency. 

The fundraiser started on October 2nd and will continue through October 31st. The pumpkins will be displayed on the lawn in front of St. Martin’s Lutheran Church at 1120 Spa Rd, Annapolis, MD 21403. On Saturday & Sunday, the Pumpkin Patch is open for business from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm and from  1:00 pm to 6:30 during the week.

AFM members & attenders will be helping to sell the pumpkins and volunteers are needed to sign up. The day that AFM will be working at the Pumpkin Patch is October 14th. Please sign up for a two-hour shift by contacting Marcia O. Check the Directory for her contact information or send an email addressed to her using info@annapolisfriends.org.

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13-Bean Soup Mix 

Young Friends during First Day School will be preparing the beans for the Quaker Market 13-Bean Soup jars and Young Friends will need dried beans donated. Please drop off dried beans at the front patio of the meetinghouse. The last day to drop off dried beans is October 17th. 

For more information, contact Cairn K. at market@annapolisfriends.org 

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Information Needed

If you or your committee has an event coming up, please send the information to communications@annapolisfriends.org. Specific wording for the description, who to contact for more information, the official AFM email address for the contact person, as well as the date, start time and location (or Zoom) will be needed. Getting information out to the community is an important service and your help with making that information as useful, specific and interesting is much appreciated. Please note that if information is not received close after the close of the Meeting for Worship each Sunday, it may not be added to the Weekly Announcements.

For more information, contact Ellen M. at  communications@annapolisfriends.org 

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5th Night Light – Every Thursday evening

From 7:00 pm until 8:00 pm on every Thursday, the AFM community engages in a spiritual practice that acknowledges the Light of God within each person and that to be in community is to actively care for one another. During that time, Friends hold people and situations who need additional spiritual support in the Light. Friends will pause wherever they may be, read the list of names, and hold each person or situation in our hearts and in the Light. On Wednesday, the list of names or situations are sent out to the AFM-Announce list.

For more information, contact Pastoral Care pastoral-care@annapolisfriends.org 

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Meetings for Worship

There are three (3) kinds of  worship at Annapolis Friends Meeting (AFM):

1. Spiritually connected, physically apart and without technology at 8:00 am on the 2nd, 4th and 5th Sundays
2. In-Person at the meetinghouse. Attendees will practice physical-distancing and stay home if ill. Masks are optional outdoors. Masks are to be worn when inside the meetinghouse if there is more than one person, unless those present agree to not wear masks. F/friends are encouraged to be respectful of each person’s comfort level. 
   • 8:00 am on the 2nd, 4th and 5th Sundays
   • 11:00 am on the 1st & 3rd Sundays
   • 7:00 pm one time per month, the 1st Tuesday – See North County Meeting on calendar
3. Online video conferencing at 11:00 am using Zoom each Sunday: ZOOM LINK; Phone: 301-715-8592, Meeting ID: 650 269 455, Passcode: 241727

For more information, send an email to info@annapolisfriends.org.

Annapolis Friends Meeting