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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.

If you or a group 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 the Deep River Quarterly Meeting will be next Sunday, Jan. 22nd at 4 p.m.  It will be held at Springfield Friends Meeting.

The next Couple’s Tune-Up will be Thursday, Jan. 19th. It will be the first one in 2017 and the new year. All couples of the meeting are invited and welcome to attend. We’ll meet in the Fellowship Hall beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Our “Digging Deeper” book study will resume on Jan. 15 beginning at 5 p.m. The book we are reading and discussing is “The Very Good Gospel” by Lisa Sharon Harper. This book can be purchased through Amazon or other retail outlets.