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- The Victory Center – a special place where Broadmead Friends meetIn her message below, Friend Linda Szilagye talks about the cancer-care work of the Victory Center where Broadmead Friends meet. Check out the photo of Linda rappelling down a 16-story building to support the Victory Center!
For over ten years, Broadmead Quakers have been meeting at The Victory Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing non-medical services to cancer patients, cancer survivors, and their caregivers. The Victory Center is completely privately funded. All programs and services are available free of charge to men, women, and children in Northwest Ohio, and Southeast Michigan, who have been diagnosed with cancer. Therapies and services include massage therapy, facials, short-term counseling, cancer support groups, caregiver meetings, a wig bank, gentle exercise classes, a nutrition class, and creative arts.
My name is Linda Szilagye. I’m both a Quaker who attends Quaker meeting at The Victory Center, and a massage therapist who works part time at the center. I’ve seen how the participants of The Victory Center benefit from the services provided. They are appreciative of the services, the classes, the wig bank, and most of all, connecting with others who have, or have had, cancer.
One of The Victory Center’s fundraisers is “Over the Edge for Victory” where people rappel down a 16-story building to raise money for the center. In 2024, I was one of those rappelers. If it wasn’t for a good cause, I would not have done it! It was terrifying! I’m thankful for how The Victory Center assists their participants and am thankful that we Quakers are allowed to use their building for our meetings.
We are grateful for this warm, welcoming space to gather on Sundays.
You can learn more about The Victory Center at thevictorycenter.org. - Celebrate 50 Years with Broadmead Friends!
In 1974, Broadmead Monthly Meeting was welcomed as part of Lake Erie Yearly Meeting.
Join us 10-11:00 am in Meeting for Worship followed by noon potluck, photo displays, videos, memorabilia, and sharing of stories.
Sunday, November 17, 2024
The Victory Center
3166 Republic Blvd. N
Toledo, OH 43615.
- Broadmead Friends featured in Blade article
The Christmas Eve edition of the Toledo Blade includes an article about Broadmead Friends.
“For Quakers, Christmas is, in a way, just another day of the year. In the same way non-religious people observe secular traditions — putting up a tree, hosting family dinners, and exchanging gifts — the group, which has Christian roots, doesn’t tie religious traditions to the holiday. “Historically, Quakers wouldn’t celebrate holidays much because they believe every day is sacred,” said Sally Weaver Sommer, who serves as clerk, or administrator, of Broadmead Friends, a group of Quakers that meets in Toledo and Bluffton.”
Read the complete article at toledoblade.com/news/religion/2023/12/24/quakers-faith-peacex/stories/20231224001.
- Broadmead Minute on Israel/Palestine
This Minute on the Israel/Palestine situation was approved at a called Meeting for Business on Nov. 19, 2023:
Broadmead Friends (Quakers) call for an end to the ongoing violence and conflict in Israel-Palestine, highlighted by the current situation in Gaza. We demand an immediate ceasefire. We demand world leaders to immediately begin work on a solution that frees the Palestinian people from the military occupation and harassment that inevitably produces violent conflict.
We do not support the U.S. government’s ongoing financial support for weapons of war and military actions of the Israeli defense forces. We call on the U.S. government to immediately use its financial support for humanitarian efforts needed and to bring world leaders together to find a just solution to a problem created in 1948 that has proven unresolvable by military operations. As Quakers we mourn the violence and losses of both communities and support all efforts to bring Israelis and Palestinians together in peace.
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