We believe there is that of God in everyone,
and that Truth is continually revealed to each of us
from the Spirit within.
Worship: Sundays 10:30 am
You are welcome here
WHAT WE CAN DO
Here is a “Can Do List” that Ministry Committee put together for us to use.
1 Put the Congressional Hotline into our phones: 202-224-3121. Call, ask for Senator or Representative, state your view.
2 Connect with Friends Committee for National Legislation. Get their emails, respond to requests, send letters on site. Organize Meeting letter writing or give FCNL announcements once a week.
3 Attend local government or environmental meetings.
4 Connect with the Sierra Club, Audubon Club, and other Florida groups working to save our environment.
5 Be willing to engage in difficult conversations. listen more.
6 Join protest groups for women's or immigration rights.
7 Connect with other Quaker organization such as American Friends Service Committee. Supporting and being informed gives hope.
8 Support financially. Set up monthly donations through bank account or credit card.
9 Live consciously. Recycle. Compost. Use resources wisely.
10 Spend time holding concerns, planet, country in the Light. Pray for peace. Connect with others groups such as 2 Minutes for Peace.
11 You may have your own suggestions to add – please let us know.
This letter was approved at the called Meeting for Business
on July 28, 2019.
You are encouraged to use it as a template for your own letter to send out to whatever group, individual or media outlet that you like. We will be sending it out as widely as we can.
Dear . . . ,
We are writing to express our deep concern for the treatment of the immigrants and asylum seekers being held in detention centers at our southern border and in other locations including our own area. The conditions these children and adults are being held in are deplorable. We are especially concerned for the children and babies who have been taken from their parents and other family members. The reports from Congressional representatives, lawyers, pediatricians, and from Border Control agents themselves paint a grim picture of their conditions. Our faith asks us to treat others with kindness, compassion, and dignity. We are called upon to love the stranger. We insist that you, as our representative, live up to the values that so many of us hold as our moral obligations by properly funding and humanely treating the people under our care.