The Second Hour will be our monthly Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business. There will be First Day School available for Young Friends. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2934909472 Please join us for consideration of issues with great importance to our community.
Category: Events
Advocacy Opportunities with the FCNL
Vlad Salas Moreno, the Program Assistant for Nuclear Disarmament and Pentagon Spending FCNL, brings together Quakers and friends from around the country to lobby Congress on legislative priorities set by our Quaker network. We believe that change in Congress is possible through relationship building and recognizing the inherent dignity of every human being, and we’re…
Potluck Sunday
During the Second Hour, we will have our monthly potluck lunch. Please bring a dish to share if you like, but in any case, please do join us.
Simple Gifts: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
A Night of Great Reluctance -w- Poet, Curtis Derrick & Songsmith, Candace Chellew Public welcome A Night of Great Reluctance Curtis Derrick is a retired educator and reluctant poet – he is better than he thinks he is, but not as great as he aspires to be. Candace Chellew is a writer, editor, ordained minister,…
Simple Gifts: October 4 and Every first Tuesday
TUESDAY, October 6, 2022 AT 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT Original Poetry and Song Event Hosted by poet Al Black Location: 120 Pisgah Church Road Columbia, SC 29203 Passionate poets and songwriters will present their original poems and songs followed by Open Mic. All ages are welcome. This event is sponsored by Columbia Friends Meeting.
Green Growth and Degrowth
There will be First Day School available for Young Friends.During the Second Hour, Anne Burke will present ideas and suggestions on possible Personal Responses to Degrowth. 1. Review of definitions of Green Growth and Degrowth as presented in the debate 2. Review of Nate Hagens’s commentary 3. Personal steps to Degrowth 4. Community steps to Degrowth 5. …
Benevolent giving and nurturing
On September 18, we will have Meeting for Worship at 10:00, at the Meetinghouse and virtually. The zoom link is:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2934909472 The Second Hour will be a very important session on how we as a Meeting do benevolent giving and nurturing. Several of our regular and long-term recipients of benevolent giving, including both Members/Attenders of the Meeting…
Martha Schofield, Program
Friend Harold Finnegan of Darby Meeting in Pennsylvania has prepared a program about Martha Schofield, an ardent abolitionist and suffragist from PA who moved to Aiken and founded Schofield School during Reconstruction to educate freed slaves. Today its descendant operates as Schofield Middle School where many children have continued to further their education. Harold will cover the…
The Great Simplification
SIMPLIFICATION-the work of Nate Hagens presented to ColumbiaFriends Meeting, on August 21, 2022 by Alice M. Wald Nate Hagens does. He is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future. He holds a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Natural Resources from the…
Become a Citizen Scientist
HIGHLIGHTING THREE MIDLANDS CITIZEN SCIENTISTS PROJECTS: NOAA’s Recent Urban Heatmapping Project DHEC’s Water Watch program Thriving Earth Exchange Water Monitoring at Congaree National Park YOU’LL ALSO LEARN: What citizen scientists do More about local projects that use citizen scientists Qualifications to serve How to volunteer And more! FREE, no pre-registration. Log-on to YouTube on Thursday,…