Please join Friends from other Maryland meetings on Zoom for Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting (CQM) on 2 / 27 / 22 at 10 a.m. (To socialize informally, Friends also are invited to Zoom in as early at 9:30 a.m.) Here is a link to attend on 2/27 !

The last scheduled CQM gathering was canceled early in the pandemic. We hope, with this Zoom gathering, to hear how the Spirit has prospered among Friends in the Quarter since then and to talk about hoped-for arrangements to resume in-person (or hybrid) gatherings in the future.

Also, we plan to welcome and hear from Friends who have coordinated Quaker Voice of Maryland (QVM) in their second Maryland General Assembly Session–now in progress. Because QVM’s constituency is larger than CQM, however, we also want to invite Friends from other Maryland meetings to join us on 2/27.

A proposed agenda is below in this email. We invite Friends to Zoom in ½ hour early to socialize in small (breakout) groups, if you’re able. Please let us know by reply email if you have suggestions to improve the agenda or if you (or your Meeting) would like to make an announcement. We strongly encourage emailing a written summary of such reports / announcements at least 10 days before 2/27! We’ll then email them out to the list a week ahead so we can come prepared and help our business move smoothly.

We look forward to seeing everyone at this CQM gathering!

In the Light,
— (s)- CQM Nuts & Bolts Com.

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Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting
- draft agenda for 2/27/2022

9:30-10 - Social time / informal welcome

10 – 11– Meeting for Worship w/ CQM (Queries 10:30)
“-What is the spiritual state of our local meetings?
-How are we responding to the challenges of our time - pandemic, social & otherwise?
-How may CQM enrich our spiritual lives?”

11 - 11:05 - Welcome and Overview of Today’s Program from the Nuts and Bolts

11:05-11:45 AM Break / Breakout Discussion

11:45AM–12:15PM - Meeting for Business
• A Brief History of CQM
• Search for a Clerk of CQM: Naming of Nominating Committee (proposed names)
• Report from West River Burial Ground Trustees (Phil / written )
• Report from Central Maryland Ecumenical Council (Gary / written)
• Announcements-next meeting of CQM

12:15 - 12:30- Break /Lunch-getting

12:30 – 1:00 - Quaker Voice of Maryland
• Legislation
• Strategies
• Actions

1:00 - Closing Remarks from Nuts and Bolts

Members of Chesapeake Quarter:
Annapolis Friends Meeting
Homewood Friends Meeting
Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Stony Run
Gunpowder Friends Meeting
Little Falls Friends Meeting
Patapsco Friends Meeting
Patuxent Friends Meeting
Sandy Spring Friends Meeting