Goose Creek Friends

Newsletter October 2016

Goose Creek Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Lincoln, Virginia

Queries for Tenth Month:

Fostering Community

Are love and harmony within the Meeting

community fostered by a spirit of open sharing?
What helps our Meeting build trust in one another?
How do we get to know one another in our
spiritual community?
How do we make time in our lives for our Meeting?
How do our conflicts have the potential to enrich
the life of our community?

Monthly Meeting for Worship

with a Concern for Business,
Tenth Month:

John Allen Brown and Meredith Catherine Kope were

married under the care of the Meeting on September
17, 2016.
A memorial meeting for worship for Rodney Arthur
Pelton was held on September 24, 2016.

The Unity with Nature and Religious Education

Committees will schedule and plan a spring meeting
for worship at Friends Wilderness Center.

The Unity with Nature Committee is working to

establish a Green Team, using the ideas that Phil
Favero presented to Meeting last month. They plan
to have a representative from each of the other
committees on the team. It will concentrate on
making us more aware of creating a more sustainable
environment around Meeting, as well as to help
Friends with their individual energy use. Meeting
agreed to move forward with this.

Plans are under way for a bicentennial celebration

celebrating the 200th anniversary of the building
of our present Meeting House. Some Friends have
already volunteered to serve on a planning committee;
anyone else who is interested should contact Carolyn
Unger. Possible dates for this event are September 30,
October 21, or November 4, 2017.
Mobile Hope will be moving to a new location in
Leesburg in October and will need help with the
move. Peggy King will let Friends know when the
date for the move is determined.

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Just Released! Our new history brochure!

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Voices of Faith

From Loudoun Interfaith Bridges, which presents

Voices of Faith on Thursday evenings (7:00) at
Cascades Library:

This series, which continues through December

15, builds bridges of understanding and respect
between diverse religions and ethnicities. Explore
the common ground of these faiths to foster better
understanding and relationships, without intent to
convert or condemn.

Sheila Kryston and Chuck Hedges will speak about

Quakerism on October 13.

Lincoln Historic Homes Tour:

Sunday, November 6, 2016

This tour, sponsored by the Loudoun Preservation

Society, will last from 1:00 until 5:00 p.m. Goose
Creek Meeting will be the starting point and a
location for ticket sales, a display of art work, and
the distribution of information about the Loudoun
Preservation Society and historic buildings in the area.
We need Friends willing to stand at the doors of
the Meeting House during the event to offer a brief
history of the building and of Oakdale School.
We would also like to have someone in the small
gathering room with our pictures who could talk
about Samuel M. Janney. Because we are attempting
to reduce our carbon footprint, we will be using our
plates and cups for refreshments, so we will need two
people in the kitchen to run the dishwasher. Finally,
Maria Nicklin can use help with the bake sale and
the kids who will be selling their baked goods. There
is a sign-up sheet in the meeting gathering room for
volunteers. Thank you!

A Friends Threshing Session

What are our leadings with respect to

Goose Creek Meetings invested funds?
Led by Ed Devinney

Please come, ponder, and share

what rises within you in response
to this question.
Rise of Meeting, October 16

Susan Webb Hammond

Susan Webb Hammond, a long-time member of

Goose Creek Meeting, passed away on August
13, 2016. She and her husband, Bob, lived in
Washington, DC, but owned an historic farm at
Silcott Springs near Lincoln from 1973 until 1998.
They brought their children out to the farm on
weekends and in the summer, and became members
of Meeting. Her son, David, has written to us that
they found meeting for worship special The ticktocking clock, its atmosphere of spiritual inquiry, and
vigor among very well-settled ways, and the familiar
pleasures of hearing Malcolm Hoag reciting Abu Ben
Adhem and First Corinthians 13.
David sent us this obituary: Susan taught political
science at American University for 44 years,
publishing extensively on congressional staffs and
caucuses, and is remembered as an encouraging
mentor to younger scholars, especially to women
entering the field. She was head of the Bryn Mawr
College Alumnae Association, and was a trustee of
Farm and Wilderness Summer Camps in Vermont,
which had been established by her parents. She is
survived by her children, Susan Waite Hammond of
Bethesda and David Hammond of Washington, D.C.,
and by two grandsons.
We are pleased to hear that Goose Creek was a
spiritual home for the Hammond family. We hold
them in the light and hope they will visit us.

Carolyn Unger

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Tenth Month Interim Meeting

of Baltimore Yearly Meeting:
October 15
Sandy Spring Friends Meeting

Get to know Yearly Meeting Committees and Friends

from other Meetings! Be a part of important decision
making. Join Friends for morning committee meetings
and the afternoons Interim Business Meeting. Sandy
Spring Friends Meeting, Friends House Retirement
Community, and Sandy Spring Friends School are
teaming to host the Tenth Month Interim Meeting.
Friends will begin gathering at 10:00 am. Lunch will be
provided, and the afternoon Business Meeting will be
held with dinner following the rise of Meeting. Check
the Yearly Meeting website for more information.

Goose Creek News

Congratulations on your recent marriage, John Brown

and Meredith Kope!
Several families in our Meeting community will
have their historic homes open on the tour mentioned
above. Bobbie and Bill Cochran, Nancy GriffithCochran and Allen Cochran, and Gail and Perry Epes
are welcoming visitors into their homes.

Whats Happening in
First Day School?
OCTOBER 2

Quaker Super Heroes: This week the

students will learn about Rufus Jones
(1863 1948), a little bit about Rosh
Hashana, and then start creating their
own personal Quaker Super Heroes.
OCTOBER 9

Every Problem Has A Solution

Knitting Circle: Our knitting circle
program resumes for the fall. We would
like to have our quilt finished by winter.
If you are interested in learning how to
knit we are very happy to teach you.
It is great fun for all ages.
OCTOBER 16

Friends Interview Project

OCTOBER 23

Trees, Leaves & Peace

OCTOBER 30

Quaker Super Heroes: Students

can work on their characters, read
through scripts, develop tips
to remember S.P.I.C.E.S. and
decorate some spice jars.

Teen Discussion Group

Join Us!

The S.P.I.C.E.S. Traveling Peace Troupe

working group meets every Monday at
6:00 pm at the Meeting House. Right
now we are developing scripts.
All are welcome.

If three or more teens (ages 13-17)

are present, they are welcome to head
over to Allen's shop next door for a
youth-led discussion group. NOTE: no
matter what the topic, the students and
FAPs are encouraged to make sure the
conversation stays related to Quakerism.

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Sundays

Meeting for worship at 9:45 a.m.

First Day School at 10:00 a.m.
Fellowship at 10:45 a.m.

Calendar
OCTOBER
10.2

10.10
10.12
10.16
10.30

Sunday
11 am


Monday 6:00 pm
Wednesday 6:30 pm
Sunday
11 am
Sunday
11 am

Meeting for Worship with a Concern

for Business
S.P.I.C.E.S. Working Group Meeting
Religious Education Committee Meeting
Threshing session re: Meetings financial goals
Ministry and Oversight Committee meeting

11.6



11.27

Sunday



Sunday

Meeting for Worship with a Concern

for Business
First Day Schools Bake Sale during the
Lincoln Historic Homes Tour
Ministry and Oversight Committee meeting

NOVEMBER

11 am

1-5 pm

11 am

Change of Address

Facing Bench
OCTOBER
Carolyn Unger
november
Rich Weidner

First Day
School

10/2
Quaker Super Heroes
10/9
Knitting Circle

10/16
Friends Interview Project
10/23
Trees, Leave & Peace
10/30
Quaker Super Heroes

Mary Graham, Johnny Trama and Jude, 8 Kimball Road,

Watertown, MA 02472

Death

Susan Webb Hammond on August 13, 2016

Our Religious Education Committee Needs You!

We have a really great, but tiny, committee. We meet the second Wednesday
of each month for a delicious potluck meal and lots of work, 6:30 to 8:00
p.m. If you are curious, please contact marianicklin@gmail.com. Consider if
you might like to: teach, develop lesson plans, maintain the First Day School
scrap book, help with Book Sunday and the ice cream social, organize a
student trip, help with bake sales, get involved with the students Quaker
Super Hero puppetry project, manage the budget, be a FAP, take minutes or
enrich our meetings by being there. Please join us! We need you.
The life of a religious society consists in something
more than the body of principles it professes and the outer
garments of organization which it wears The springs of
life lie deeper, and often escape recognition. They are to be
found in the vital union of the members of the society with
God and with one another, a union which allows the free
flowing through the society of a spiritual life which is its
strength. William Charles Braithwaite, 1905

NEWSLETTER
The Goose Creek Friends Newsletter
is published monthly by the
Goose Creek Friends Meeting,
18204 Lincoln Road, P.O. Box 105,
Lincoln, VA 20160.
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Debbi Sudduth, 540.338.3363
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goose.creek.treasurer@gmail.com
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