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2016 Giving Statements have been mailed out. If you are expecting one but did not receive one, please contact the meeting office at 336-454-1928 or at deepriverfriendsmeeting@gmail.com.

Deep River Quaker Men will be meeting next Sunday morning at 7:30 a.m. All men of the meeting are invited and welcome to attend.

This past Thursday in our regular Monthly Meeting for Business, the meeting approved hiring Brittany Varner as our new part-time Director of Student Ministries. Brittany will begin effective March 1. She will work closely with our Christian Education Committee and our student ministries (children through youth). She is a graduate of Guilford College and Wake Forest Divinity School and also works as a Chaplain at Wesley Long Hospital. We are excited to have Brittany on staff and look forward to…

The Finance Committee is asking that all Committee Clerks have their budget requests to the Finance Committee by April 1st. These can be given to either Quinn Jordan or Toni Gray. The Finance Committee will need these to begin preparing the 2017-2018 budget.

Don’t forget, if you are signed up to provide flowers for Sunday morning, you can also provide a basket of food in lieu of flowers. On Monday, we’ll take the basket of food and donate it to “Hand to Hand Pantry”. Bonita Schaal is also coordinating an opportunity for friends to give their loose change (and dollars) throughout the month and she will use that to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables for “Hand to Hand” Pantry.

If you or a group of you are able to prepare and deliver food to Leslie’s House for their evening meal (second Tuesday evening of each month), the sign up sheet is on the bulletin board just outside the Fellowship Hall. Volunteers are needed for the next few months.

The next gathering of our “Pilgrims of the Heart” spiritual exploration group will be Monday, January 30 at 7:00 p.m. If you didn’t make our first gathering this past week, that’s no problem…you can still join us! We meet downstairs in the Lisa Moran Memorial Youth Room.

North Carolina Peace Resource Center is a grassroots effort by local Friends to promote peace. They meet monthly and the meetings are open to anyone interested in participating. Their next meeting is this Thursday, January 26, at Jamestown Friends. It begins with a potluck meal at 6:00 p.m. with a meeting for business at 7:00 p.m. See Lisa Allen for more information.

Mark your calendars for March 11 because that’s the date for our Spring BBQ. Tickets are now available for purchase or sale. If you are willing and able to sell tickets, please see Keith Dillon.

This coming Saturday, Jan. 21, Josh Brown (pastoral minister at Springfield Friends)  will be speaking on “Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad” from 3-4 p.m. in the first floor meeting room at the High Point Public Library. Josh is the editor of the Autobiography of Allen Jay.  There is no charge for this event.