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<html> <head> <title>Gettysburg Monthly Meeting - Religious Society of Friends - Quakers</title> <style type="text/css"> BODY { MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 35px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } A:link {FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #00006a; TEXT-DECORATION: none} A:visited {FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #00106a; TEXT-DECORATION: none} A:active {FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #00006a; TEXT-DECORATION: none} A:hover {FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #8000af; TEXT-DECORATION: none} dt {FONT-WEIGHT: bold;} </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#CECEFF" text="#000000"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" height="964"> <tr> <td width="20%" height="228" bgcolor="#AEAEFF"></td> <td width="80%" height="228"><img src="gettysburg.gif"></img></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#EEEEFF" height="20"> <center> <hr width="95%" color="#A0A0FF" shade="noshade" size="1"></hr> <a href="speak.html">Let Your Lives Speak</a> <hr width="95%" color="#A0A0FF" shade="noshade" size="1"></hr> </center> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="20%" bgcolor="#AEAEFF"> About Us <a href="index.html">Home</a> <a href="index.html#history">History</a> <a href="maps.html">Maps</a> <a href="index.html#contacts" title="How to contact us">Contacts</a> <a href="index.html#where">Where</a> <a href="index.html#approach">Convictions</a> <a href="index.html#programs">Programs</a> <a href="index.html#committees">Committees</a> About Quakers <a href="http://www.bym-rsf.org/" title="Baltimore Yearly Meeting">Yearly Meeting</a> <a href="http://www.quaker.org/" title="Quakers on the Web">Quaker Links</a> <a href="http://www.fgcquakers.org/" title="Friends General Conference">FGC</a></td> <td valign="top" width="80%"> <img src="Gladfelter1.jpg"></img> <hr align="center" width="95%" color="#A0A0FF" shade="noshade" size="1"></hr> <table> <tr> <td>Mailing address:</td> <td>P.O. Box 4151, Gettysburg, PA 17325 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Meeting place address:</td> <td>Glatfelter Lodge, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA [Wheelchair accessible] [No hearing assistance system]<a href="maps.html">[maps]</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Telephone:</td> <td>(717) 642-6939 </td> </tr> <tr> <td>First Day schedule:</td> <td>Worship, 10:30 a.m.; First Day School, 10:30 a.m. </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Business Meeting schedule:</td> <td>Second First Day of the month, after rise of Meeting. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">Travel directions:</td> <td>From the square in Gettysburg (intersection of US 30 and US [Business] 15) go north one block on Carlisle St. to Water St. Left on Water, go one block and through College Gate to parking lot. Walk north about 75 yards until you see the Memorial Wall. Glatfelter Lodge (Faculty Lounge) is the old stone building with stained glassed windows nearest the wall. </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Co-Clerks:</td> <td>Frank Bailey and Margaret Stambaugh;</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Treasurer:</td> <td>Steve White;</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Ministry & Counsel:</td> <td>Margaret Stambaugh;</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Religious Education:</td> <td> </td> </tr>  </table>   <a name="approach"></a> <hr align="center" width="95%" color="#A0A0FF" shade="noshade" size="1"></hr>  <dl> <dt>Guiding Principles, Convictions, Beliefs</dt> <dd>Everyone is a child of God; that God is actively working in the world; a strong emphasis on friendliness and community; living a balanced lifestyle, equality; integrity; simplicity; personal experience; tolerance; spiritual curiosity and encouragement of others' growth; caring; individual responsibility and right sharing.</dd> <dd> <a name="children"></a> <hr align="center" width="95%" color="#A0A0FF" shade="noshade" size="1"></hr> </dd> <dt>Educational Program</dt> <dd>Currently, there is no children's First Day School, but baby sitting will be arranged for infant children when advanced notice is given of the need.</dd> <dd> <a name="programs"></a> <hr align="center" width="95%" color="#A0A0FF" shade="noshade" size="1"></hr> </dd> <dt>Adult Education</dt> <dd>There is not a regular adult class on First Days (Sundays), but get-togethers with a potluck meal, called "Saturday Nite Gatherings" are randomly held in each others' homes to discuss topics of common interest, spiritually centered books, develop "minutes" stating the Meeting's position on special concerns, developing the annual report on the life of Gettysburg friends during the previous year, or just having discussion with each other.</dd> <dd> <hr align="center" width="95%" color="#A0A0FF" shade="noshade" size="1"></hr> </dd> <dt>What We Are Best Known For (at least among ourselves)</dt> <dd>good food, friendliness.  <img align="right" src="SarahWhite.jpg"></img> </dd> <dd> <hr align="center" width="95%" color="#A0A0FF" shade="noshade" size="1"></hr> </dd> <dt>After Meeting Sharing</dt> <dd>It is a usual practice for everyone to stand, gather in a circle for a brief time, quietly holding hands after Meeting for Worship. Following this, family news is shared, possibly updating everyone on a trip, "joys and sorrows", and any announcements.</dd> <dd> <a name="committees"></a> <hr align="center" width="95%" color="#A0A0FF" shade="noshade" size="1"></hr> </dd> <dt>Committees and Decision Making</dt> <dd>Almost all Friends Meetings have a variety of committees to take up the business of the Meeting. This has not been the practice at Gettysburg Friends Meeting. All matters coming before the Meeting are handled as a "committee of the whole" as we are a small Meeting. In 2005 a committee was named to consider the future of the Meeting. It is called the Visibility Committee, otherwise decisions are made either after a regular Meeting for Worship, if needed, or at the Monthly Meeting held on the second Sunday of the month.</dd> <dd> <a name="where"></a> <hr align="center" width="95%" color="#A0A0FF" shade="noshade" size="1"></hr> </dd> <dt>Where We Meet</dt> <dd>Gladfelder Lodge is owned and maintained by Gettysburg College. The College schedules all activities that take place there. Since 1970 (?) we have been permitted to use the Lodge, as well as other college space, rent free. While this is greatly appreciated, it is hoped that one day we will have a location that gives us more visibility off-campus. The present arrangement is that we are allowed to use the Lodge through the over-sight of the Office of the Chaplain and the College's Chapel programs.</dd> <dd> <hr align="center" width="95%" color="#A0A0FF" shade="noshade" size="1"></hr> </dd> <dt>Our Wider Associations</dt> <dd>Gettysburg Friends Meeting belongs to Warrington Quarterly Meeting. There are seven Meetings in an approximate 30 mile radius of Gettysburg. They include: Carlisle (PA), Frederick (MD), Gettysburg (PA), Menallen (PA), Pipe Creek (MD), Warrington (PA) and York (PA). The Quarterly Meeting is under the care of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, whose offices are located in Sandy Spring, MD.</dd> <dd> <hr align="center" width="95%" color="#A0A0FF" shade="noshade" size="1"></hr> </dd> <a name="history"></a> <dt>A Brief History</dt> <dd>In 1970 Ron Smith, a junior at Gettysburg College, began an effort to start a Friends Meeting group. He had just spent the summer with a Quaker family in the Leigh Valley area of Pennsylvania and had attended Meeting for Worship there. He wanted to continue this positive and meaningful experience even if he had to re-create it in a new location, with new people and nowhere to meet. Determined, he was able to locate two of the college's faculty who were members of the Religious Society of Friends and others in the local area who were interested. Gettysburg College, which is Lutheran, found the college's chaplain and the president to be very supportive and permitted the group to use the Planetarium as their place for worship. Along with family members, it was not unusual for twenty, and up to forty people, along with their family members, to attend worship during the first two years. It is the practice among Friends that a new worship group become a "preparative meeting" under the care of an established Meeting. Gettysburg requested, however, to become a Monthly Meeting directly under the care of Baltimore Yearly Meeting in 1973. Some nineteen years after becoming a Monthly Meeting, Gettysburg, in 1992, became a member of Warrington Quarter. The official welcoming celebration was held at York Meeting, at a regular Quarterly Meeting, with a large, homemade "pan" birthday cake and many Friends in attendance. </dd> <dd> <hr align="center" width="95%" color="#A0A0FF" shade="noshade" size="1"></hr> </dd> <dt>Would You Like to Know More About the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)?</dt> <dd>A comprehensive listing of many of the Meetings can be found, with directions, at  <a href= "www.Quakerfinder.Org">www.Quakerfinder.Org</a>. Also visit <a href= "http://www.quaker.org">www.quaker.org</a> This site includes a wide range of reading materials and how to contact Friends schools, colleges, conference centers, the American Friends Service Committee <a href= "http://www.afsc.org/">(AFSC)</a> and others.</dd> <dd> <hr align="center" width="95%" color="#A0A0FF" shade="noshade" size="1"></hr> </dd> <dt>If You Can, Please Come Visit Us at Gettysburg!</dt> </dl> </td>  </tr>  </table>  </body>  </html>