Goose Creek Friends
Newsletter June 2018
Goose Creek Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Lincoln, Virginia
Queries for Sixth Month:
Diversity
Does your vision of a just society include people living
their lives without fear of discrimination based on who
they are, what they believe, and whom they love?
Are we willing to be in communion with each other,
open to our differences yet secure in the one Spirit that
calls us all to be Friends?
Do my decisions reflect the voices of people of
color, people of different sexual identities, people of
different ages and economic conditions? Do I take the
risks that right action demands?
Do I seek out and listen to perspectives that promote
equal access, inclusion, and welcome for people of all
cultures and backgrounds?
How do we work toward creating a community of
different people, rather than being a community that
just lets different people in?
Do we take the time to see what we want to become as
people and as a global community, and do we humbly
acknowledge that we have some work to do?
Moonlit in the Sun
A Corona Concert with
Carla Deniz (viola),
Frank Peracchia (violin),
& Meghan Hickman (cello)
Including the works of
Mozart and Dohnanyi
Goose Creek Meeting House
Sunday, July 15, 4:30 pm
Donations will be accepted, with funds going to the
Loudoun Abused Women’s Shelter and Mobile Hope
Monthly Meeting for Worship
with a Concern for Business:
Sixth Month
Meeting approved use of the Meeting House on
June 16 for a reception following a graveside service
for Linda Taylor Newton’s husband, Virgil, which
is being conducted under the care of the Burying
Ground Committee.
Friends approved with thanks the annual report of the
Religious Education Committee. The committee is
grateful to Meeting for supporting the hiring of nursery
attendant Erin Traub, and to Meeting committees
for providing Friendly Adult Presences for First
Day School. At least four Goose Creek Friends are
now certified as FAP’s following the hosting of FAP
training here.
Friends approved with thanks the annual report of the
Goose Creek Friends Meeting Scholarship Committee.
Coordinating the application process with the Jane
Pancoast Shepherd Scholarship Committee has
worked well. This year seventeen students were given
scholarship aid. This program provides not only support
to local students, but also outreach to the community.
Its scholarships go to a wide diversity of students.
Meeting approved holding a Meeting for Worship at the
Friends Wilderness Center on September 30. That day’s
religious education program will also be held there.
The Property Committee reported on several issues.
The first was the preparation and recordation of a plat
for Meeting property, which has raised several property
line issues with neighbors, some of them longstanding.
Friends approved making certain boundary line
adjustments. Friends also approved using funds from
our capital reserves for tree care on our property.
Goose Creek camp scholarships are down this
year,owing to the young ages of our students. Meeting
approved a recommendation from the Camping
Committee that we donate $1,500 to support a
Baltimore Yearly Meeting campership.
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Changing Lives in Kenya
Through Education:
at Centre Quaker Meeting House, 203 N.
Washington Street, Winchester, VA
Monday, June 18, 7:00pm
Goose Creek Friends are invited to attend this
presentation about the Nasaruni Academy for
Maasai Girls in Narok, Kenya: “Instead of an
education, many young Maasai girls in Kenya face
early marriage and [female genital mutilation].
The Nasaruni Academy offers an alternative.
Started 5 years ago as lessons under a tree, the
academy now provides schooling to 104 girls who
would not receive it otherwise. Come learn about
the award-winning work presented by Alice Sayo,
Director of the Academy.”
From Baltimore
Yearly Meeting:
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Annual Session 2018:
Radical Listening, Rooted in Love
Some of us come to feel at home with Friends
through worship first, some through social
activism, and some through community. As we
continue on our path with Friends, we inevitably
encounter the other two and perhaps integrate all
three into our Quaker experience. What has your
experience been? Have you discovered how all
three of these interact with each other as essential
elements of the Quaker way? Join us at Annual
Session this year to share in our exploration of
this question. This year, the theme of our Annual
Session is Radical Listening, Rooted in Love.
Through a truly exciting variety of plenaries,
workshops, interest groups, Junior Yearly Meeting,
through fellowship at meals, worship sharing,
and other times, and also through our business
sessions, we will have an opportunity to live
out all three of these core elements of our faith.
Registration is now open. Go to www.bym-rsf.org/
events/annualsession/ for all of the information
and online registration. Register by June 25 to get
the lower rates!
Spiritual Formation Fall Retreat:
September 14-16 at Shepherd’s Spring Retreat
Center (Sharpsburg, MD)
You are invited to join Friends from across
Baltimore Yearly Meeting for the Fall Spiritual
Formation Retreat at the beautiful Shepherd's
Spring Retreat Center. To find out more about the
retreat and the Spiritual Formation Program, go
to the BYM website at www.bym-rsf.org/events/
spiritform/. We look forward to contemplating
words of wisdom and faith, time for personal
reflection, sharing with spiritual friends and
growing in spiritual community with you.
Registration will open in the summer of 2018.
Scholarships will be available.
Meeting News
Congratulations and best wishes to Meredith and
John Brown on the birth of their daughter, Ada
Mae Brown, on May 17 – which is Meredith’s
birthday as well! Ada is a birthright member, as
were her great-grandfather and both great-great-
grandparents, and in this role she recently attended
her first Meeting for Worship. Congratulations also
to Ada’s grandparents Nancy and Doug Brown.
Emily Cochran – Allen and Nancy’s daughter, Bill
and Bobbie’s granddaughter – graduated recently
from Longwood University. She has accepted a
teaching position in Loudoun County at Arcola
Elementary School. Kudos and best wishes to Emily!
We are holding Nadia Mendolia in the Light after
the recent death of her mother.
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First Day School | June 2018

June 3, Empathy & Understanding. Students will
explore these valuable tools during this week's lesson.
“When there is a conflict, there are always at least two
different ways of looking at the situation that do not
agree with each other …”
June 10, Book Sunday. This week students partner
up to test ingredients for stories and demonstrate how
the different SPICES can be used to solve a challenge!
Equipped with a recipe card, their imagination ... and
a magic chef's hat ... the teams will mix up their own
skit featuring one of the SPICES. The Book Sunday
celebration fun begins at the rise of Meeting.
June 17, Noah’s Ark. We’ll be exploring the story of
Noah's Ark, and how parables are used throughout the
world to teach important lessons. Then we’ll figure
out exactly what a “cubit” is and how to measure
all kinds of things with this ancient unit of measure.
We are excited to announce that this class has been
designed by ... and will be led by ... one of our very
own First Day School students!
June 24, Stewardship. In the spirit of taking care
of what we have, we will be sorting through all of
the class supplies in the cabinets and inventory and
organize everything!

BOOK SUNDAY 2018!

Photo by Sarah Huntington
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Sundays Facing Bench

Meeting for worship at 9:45 a.m. JUNE
First Day School at 10:00 a.m. Allen Cochran
Fellowship at 10:45 a.m. JULY
Catherine Cox
Calendar
First Day
JUNE
6.24 Sunday 11 am Ministry and Oversight Committee meeting
School
06/03/18
JULY Empathy & Understanding
7.1 Sunday 11 am Meeting for Worship 06/10/18
with a Concern for Business SPICES Workshop
7.8 Sunday 8:45 am Peace & Social Concerns & Book Sunday!
Committee meeting 06/17/18
7.15 Sunday 4:30 pm Concert – “Moonlit in the Sun” Noah’s Ark
7.30 Sunday 11 am Ministry & Oversight Committee Meeting
06/24/18
BIRTH Stewardship
Ada Mae Brown, to Meredith and John Brown, May 17, 2018

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.
CLERK
Debbi Sudduth, 540.338.3363
Olivia Henry grew up among us at Goose Creek. She and her new husband, dfsud@comcast.net
Devin, recently moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles, where they have ASSISTANT CLERK
begun attending Orange Grove Meeting. And what did they find on a bench Rich Weidner, 540.554.2747
richard_weidner@hotmail.com
there? This plaque! Apparently, in the year 1909 Goose Creek donated funds TREASURER
for Orange Grove benches. Thanks to Mimi Westervelt, Olivia’s mother, for Annie Carlson
sending this to us. goose.creek.treasurer@gmail.com
NEWSLETTER EDITOR
Catherine Cox, 301-471-5330
blycox@comcast.net
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