Broadmead Monthly Meeting Fall Retreat
St. Francis Spirituality Center
200 St Francis Ave, Tiffin, Ohio
October 4th – 6th, 2024
Retreat Theme: Achieving Community and Covenant in Broadmead Meeting
Broadmead Ministry and Nurture members will present on community and covenant in our meeting.
Topics will include:
How do we prepare for Meeting?
What is our understanding of covenant community?
How do we share our spiritual gifts?
How do you know when you are called to vocal ministry?
Registration:
Registration starts at 6:30 pm Friday (supper is NOT provided). Program starts at 7:00 pm (please be prompt). We want everyone to attend the retreat regardless of ability to pay. The prices below are what the retreat center is charging the meeting. Please pay what you are able, whether that is less or more than the cost. The retreat is open to adults.
Lodging:
Weekend prices including all meals and lodging: $170.00 per individual
One day lodging: $60.00 single night, per person
Commuters: $15.00/day
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.”
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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