Annapolis Friends Meeting

Center has made a commitment to work in a local low-income community. We are still investigating ways we might do that. One possibility is a listening project. In addition, two members of the Meeting are supporting inmate leaders of Alternatives to Violence workshops at the Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup.

We are preparing to offer the Quaker Quest outreach program with three sessions in March, to be repeated in April, on the topics God/the Divine, Simplicity, and Peace.

A small group of Friends is meeting regularly to respond to the current draft of the new Faith and Practice.

Our First Day School curriculum for the year is focusing on Old Testament covenants and journeys, complemented by a recent intergenerational event where some of our Young Adult Friends shared their spiritual journeys, and we discussed possible journeys with respect to the military and conscientious objection. Young Friends enjoyed our Meeting’s fall camping trip to Catoctin and two events they organized: a Halloween party/sleepover and their Christmas play, A Modern Christmas Carol (beautifully adapted by two of our Young Friends and skillfully performed by all of our children).

The First Day School has supported a variety of intergenerational community service activities. At the local level, we provided families and seniors with holiday meals and presents, and caroled at a rehabilitation center. At the regional level, we have an ongoing partnership with an inner-city public school in Philadelphia, for which we have collected school supplies, outerwear, and educational enhancement materials for the classroom, and have established a pen pal program. AFM is also supporting a small homeschooling program this year.