Events

03Feb 2012 by Pastor

QHD 2012 approacheth!

Quaker Heritage Day
Quaker Heritage Day 2012 is just about a month away! Please join us on Saturday, 3/10/2012 for A Modest Proposal: Participating in God’s Future for Friends, a day of spiritual reflection facilitated by J. Brent Bill. Brent writes: Join us for a day of spiritual reflection and exploring God’s future for Friends. It will be a day focused on positive language, idea generation, learning, sharing, videos, and more, using interactive techniques and tools. You’ll come away from this day with a fresh sense of God’s working with and among us. Most of the information you need can be found in the following places: The flier with full information about Brent, schedule for the day, etc. Our brand-spanking new online registration form! Use it today to let us know you're coming!…
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11Feb 2011 by Pastor

Materials for QHD 2011

Quaker Heritage Day
Here are two things that we'll be handing out at the sessions tomorrow--a handout with quotes & queries to get the discussion started: QHD2011SessionHandouts And a reading list of books Wess recommends: QHD2011FullBibliography Hope to see many of you tomorrow!
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28Jan 2011 by Pastor

QHD 2011 is just two weeks away!

Quaker Heritage Day
Earlier this week Wess Daniels posted some preparatory materials for QHD on his blog. We're putting this material in our bulletin this Sunday so folks can start thinking about it. I'd welcome feedback, so please take a look and post your comments here, or on Wess's blog, or somewhere else and let us know. One question that a number of us here at BFC have discussed as we've been  getting ready for this event is what Wess means by "the new creation." Are we talking about new creation in Christ, ala II Corinthians 5:17? Or the new heavens and earth of Revelation 21-22? Or something else? A couple of weeks ago, Wess posted a message on heralds of peace, where he said a little bit about the new creation, including…
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14Dec 2010 by Pastor

Announcing QHD 2011!

Quaker Heritage Day
Our speaker has already posted about this on his blog, but we've finally got the flyer ready, so here's our announcement of Quaker Heritage Day 2011! The date: Saturday, 2/12/2011 The speaker: Wess Daniels, released minister at Camas Friends Church, Camas, WA Topic: Heralding The New Creation: Mission as Participation in the Quaker Tradition The registration form is here (sorry, it's still snail mail or phone--someday we'll have web registration). Wess has an outline of the sessions and his Sunday message here.
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