GPQM  Clerk's Message to Monthly Meetings;
On Saturday May 16, 2009  our Spring Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting will meet at Michigan Friends Center neat Chelsea, MI

AGENDA
9:00 AM   Registration
9:30   Worship
10:00   Program with Michael Birkel

Michael Birkel will be the morning speaker at the Spring Quarterly Meeting. He is Professor of Religion at Earlham College and well known among Friends as a gifted  speaker and author.  His books and pamphlets include: Silence and Witness ( an introduction to Quaker practice and spiritual life), A Near Sympathy ( on John Woolman), Engaging Scripture (a study of early Quaker writings), The Messenger That Goes Before (Margaret Fell on personal spiritual journeys), and Mysticism and Activism (an address to Southeastern Yearly Meeting on insights from John Woolman)

"TOWARD A DEEPER DIALOGUE ACROSS RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES" will be the subject of Michael's talk at 10 AM.  He intends to explore with Michigan Friends some aspects of the inner dimension of dialogue and ten to offer some comments on the practice of dialogue across boundaries of religious difference.   The  2008-9 Lake Erie Yearly Meeting Query raised this subject for our consideration this current year.  We look forward to Michael's message to taking us to another level.

NOON    LUNCH PROVIDED

1:00  PM   thru     4:00 PM       BUSINESS

This proposed agenda I have prepared from the requests arising from our fall session:
REPORTS:
Naming Committee
Nominating Committee
Treasurer and Finance Committees
Ann Arbor AFSC Program
Michigan Friends Center/relationship with GPQM
Institute for Global Education purpose and work
Other business and announcements

4:00 PM     Closing Worship

Hopefully there will a program for children especially enjoying the Friends Lake lands.

PLEASE ENCOURAGE FRIENDS FROM YOUR MEETING TO JOIN US IN THIS TIME FOR THOUGHTFUL SHARING, FELLOWSHIP,  AND PRAYERFUL CONSIDERATION OF THE QUARTER'S BUSINESS.

BLESSINGS,
Shirley Bechill ,  GPQM Clerk