Meetinghouse The Building and Grounds Committee is charged with stewardship of our building and grounds all for events to be held outside, people can find a worshipful or meditative outside environment, and the activities, gardening, and other creative uses nurtures the Columbia Friends community. The work of the committee includes the following; Developing policies and…
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Renovating the Meetinghouse
The work seemed daunting at first, but with Rick Schoolmeester’s skills and confidence we jumped and renovated the building with very little help from outside contractors.
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Green Burial
Columbia Society of FriendsGreen Burial at Cemetery at 120 Pisgah Church Road To make arrangements for a Green Burial: Call the clerk of Columbia Friends (listed on web page) to see if they will allow the family to bury the person. Decide on the location for burial. Death at home, no hospice: call 911. An…
Meetinghouse Before Renovations
Columbia Friends Gathering received the property from the United Methodists in 2010 and began renovating the building in 2011 under the guidance of Rick Schoolmeester. The Midlands Center had been using the building on occasion for funerals of some patients and to store a few things, but it gradually began to give into decay over…
#StillHere LIVE Streamed Event
We are excited to be participating in two national, virtual #StillHere events on Thursday, August 6th and Sunday, August 9th. South Carolina’s nuclear issues will be highlighted on August 9th when our locally-produced documentary film short asks viewers to hold onto visions of peace and stand against nuclear proliferation. The link below is our #stillhere…
SC Advocacy Team Workshop
FCNL South Carolina Advocacy Team LaunchDate: August 25, 2020 Time: 6:00-8:00 PM ET Location: Zoom Virtual Event People across the country are asking the same question: “What can I do to change what’s happening in the world?”Our 75 years on Capitol Hill have shown that your voice can make an important impact on federal policy. In-person meetings with your…
Speed Limit
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“Hiroshima Remembrance” Events
Seventy-five years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, survivors are #StillHere speaking truth to power. Unfortunately, nuclear weapons are also #StillHere. That’s why Columbia’s Hiroshima Remembrance Committee and a national coalition of over 100 organizations are marking the 75th anniversary with calls to leaders to ensure that these weapons are never used again. Because of COVID-19,…
Accepting Wallace’s Challenge
{jcomments lock} Note: Friend Jerry Rudolph and I have exchanged a series of comments appended to his January 2nd post, “Response to Wallace Article in Friends Journal” (see comments 3 and 4). What follows is a slightly edited version of my comment number 6, which I wanted to share more widely. –Mike Shell