YOUNG FRIENDS—PreK to 12th grade—WILL meet this Sunday-5:00-6:15pm

OPEN DOOR MINISTRY will be Wednesday. Contact David Spell if you would like to help.

CHOIR will practice on Wednesday at 7:00pm.

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION COMMITTEE will meet next Sunday, April 21, after worship in the Genesis classroom.

USFW QUAKER WOMEN will meet next Monday, April 22 at 10am in the Aldridge Room.

USFW QUAKER WOMEN—SPOTLIGHT

The mission of USFW Quaker Women is to shine the light of Jesus to our church family and community. USFW began a special Outreach Project in 2021 called Congregational Care. This project focuses on sending cards, gifts, and food to those in our meeting to show that they are loved and valued. Several of the ongoing projects of USFW are serving refreshments at Memorial services, supporting COAT, FEMAP, Archdale Police Department, and supplying items for local schools. One of the fundraisers of this group is the January Soup Sale. Quaker Women meet monthly from September to May. They gather for lunch and fellowship during the summer months. All women of our Meeting are invited and encouraged to be a part of this special group of ladies.

100TH ANNIVERSARY PLANNING TEAM will meet again on Sunday, April 28 after worship in the fellowship hall.

CHILDREN’S MINISTRY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

The sign up sheet for both nursery and children’s Sunday school/children’s church is posted outside of Rodney’s office. We’re excited to have relocated the rooms to be on the main level! Please reach out to Hollis Andrews or the church office if you have any questions.

QUILTS for THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES/HOSPITALS

Archdale Friends Meeting is once again collecting quilts for 3rd world countries/hospitals. We are partnering with Samaritan’s Purse. They will pay for the cost of shipping. The date for collection is May 4th, 10AM-1PM. We collected almost 150 last time (2022). Please consider helping us in this great project. Quilts can be adult or child sized.

Please, no used quilts. Questions, call Janey Stinnett at 336-819-0297

FEMAP (Friends Emergency Material Assistance Program) needs the following items for hygiene kits: 26x16 hand towels, soap bars, toothpaste, and tooth brushes. Donations can be placed in the basket on the pew outside the church office here at AFM.

NEW PICTORIAL DIRECTORY     

As part of our upcoming 100th Anniversary Celebration we will be creating a new pictorial directory of our church members and attenders. It has been a few years since we have had this wonderful tool and keepsake of our Meeting.

Most Church Directory companies struggled during Covid and are not in existence any longer, so we are going a different route as I am sure many of you have heard about. One that will give us more flexibility and cost savings.

We are asking members and attenders to submit their own photos for the directory. This photo can be of you and your spouse, you individually, you and your family. Whatever expresses who you are.   

Wendy Lawrence is heading up this project for us and you may reach out to her with any questions. 

Photos should be submitted by May 31 to her email wenlaw425@yahoo.com.

There will be several opportunities to have your candid photo taken as well. These dates will be highlighted in the bulletin. 

100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Save the Dates: July 27 & 28, 2024

Mark your calendar now for Archdale Friends Meeting’s 100 Year Anniversary Celebration. On Saturday, July 27, there will be a Community Day and Sunday, July 28 will be our Anniversary Celebration Day!!

LOOKING FOR MEMORABILIA (Pictures/Documents)

The planning committee welcomes any pictures or documents that may be of interest for the anniversary celebration. If you have anything you would like to contribute, give them to Herb Andrews or Beth Saunders. The items that are used will be copied and the originals returned to you. Thank you!

ARCHDALE FRIENDS MEETING

100 Year Anniversary Notes

Peace and Social Concerns Through the Years

· February 1927 – Clerk directed to express to Sec. of State Kellogg, “our disapproval of intervention in the affairs of Mexico and Nicaragua.”

· June 1927 – The Meeting sent a letter to President Coolidge asking him to favor “Peace in International Affairs.”

· June 1927 – An effort is being made to stimulate the interest of younger members in the evil of tobacco.

· June 1928 – A large number of our members are always ready to denounce the liquor traffic and emphasize the enjoinment of the 18th Amendment

· October 1934 - A letter was read…in regards to the seriousness of the menace to our children and homes, offered by Moving Pictures. The Yearly Meeting made some definite suggestions for combating this evil, also in regard to the Sabbath observance, asking us to work for the prevention of commercialized amusements and the sale of food and drink on the Sabbath and that we not neglect the Meeting for worship.

· July 1944 – The name of the Temperance Committee was changed to “Prohibition and Public Morals.”

· May 1987 – Concern was expressed regarding lotteries. Local meetings are urged to contact General Assembly members to oppose paramutual (sic) betting.

· August 1988 – Bertie York passed out letters to mail to Columbia Studio protesting the showing of the “The Last Temptation of Christ”. George Kersey reported that other churches are encouraging their members to mail letters.

· March 1993 – The clerk asked the meeting if they cared to take any action as a Monthly Meeting on the lottery issue. The Meeting approved to take a stand to oppose the lottery and this will be mailed to the proper place.

Information was taken from Archdale Friends Meeting, Genealogical Extracts from the Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1924-1949, composed by Elizabeth Saunders and from AFM Monthly Meeting Minutes (1987-1997)