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Orlando Quakers will have a potluck luncheon, in lieu of Conversation to Explore, on every month that has a fifth Sunday.  Our next installment is coming up this weekend on April 29th.  There is no planned schedule other than enjoying each other's company in extended fellowship.  Please plan to bring a dish to share with others.  Homemade items, vegetarian/vegan dishes, healthy options, and food special to your culture is welcomed and encouraged.  No need to RSVP.  We trust that a delicious menu will come together on its own.

Meeting for Worship Tuesday, June 14, 2016, 7:00 p.m. Marks Street Meeting House

Orlando Quakers give thanks for the many messages of love and concern received from Friends and neighbors in response to the suffering and loss of life at Pulse nightclub in the early hours of June 12, 2016. We warmly invite all who are led to join us for a Meeting for Silent Worship at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 either in person at our Marks Street Meeting House or in spirit at your own Meeting House or place of worship.

If you are led to contribute to efforts to bring help and healing, the following

Quaker Process in Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business

In the consideration of business, Friends seek the sense of the meeting, a spiritual process of corporate discernment in the Light. Pursuit of the sense of the meeting as we try to reach a decision requires us to exercise openness, sensitivity, and tenderness to one another.  Quaker process fosters wisdom and a spirit of forbearance and love.

Friends are called upon to:

• Begin with centering worship.
• Listen to all messages with openness, receive them in worship, and allow for silence between them.
• Respond to the heart of the

Worship and Ministry Committee is sponsoring a Spiritual Formation program.

Sunday October 4th the Quakers of Orlando are celebrating World Quaker Day by having a potluck dinner followed by a film. The potluck dinner will begin after rise of meeting around 11:30 am. Following the potluck interested Friends will travel to the Winter Park Library to watch the film Inside Peace / Just Breathe at 1:30 pm. Friends attending the film are encoraged to buy their tickets in advance through the Peace Film Festival web site, http://peacefilmfest.org/2015-festival.html. Tickets are $8 and the film is expected to sell out.