IMPORTANT NOTE: The kitchen is undergoing repairs, so our monthly potluck lunch will be entirely outdoors picnic-style. Please bring a dish to share, if you’d like, as well as utensils and dishes (recyclable or take-home-and-washable – our trash disposal capacity is limited) – but in any case please join us! It’s also Peanut Butter Sunday:…
Category: Second Hour Programs
March 31, 2024
After Meeting for Worship, we will have an intergenerational reverse Easter egg hunt, if children are present. This means the kids will hide the eggs. If time permits, we’ll then have adults hide them for the kids to discover.
March 24, 2024
Priscilla Preston and her colleagues will introduce the Inflation Reduction Act, and ways we might benefit from it.
March 17, 2024
Brian Blackmore, Director of Quaker Engagement at the American Friends Service Committee, will be with us during the Second Hour. We’ll be taking him to lunch afterwards, if anyone would like to join in.
February 25, 2024
Jacob Flowers, regional director of the American Friends Service Committee, will talk about the situation in Palestine. He will also be here on the 24th to speak at the Peace Day at the Statehouse state-wide rally from 2:00 to 4:00 and then come to Columbia Friends Meeting for the Bystander Intervention Training from 5:00 to 7:00…
February 18, 2024
Members of the Building and Grounds Committee will present the results of their research on the range of options open to us for a new roof, including on materials and pricing, and lead a discussion on the question.
February 11, 2004
We will have our monthly Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business. Please join us.
February 4, 2024
We will have our monthly pot luck lunch. Bring a dish to share if you’d like, but in any case please plan on joining is. Virtual participants will have extended check-ins.
Second Hour for January 21
We will consider the following queries, sent to us by SAYMA to use as the basis for the creation of our annual State of the Meeting report:
1. What has our monthly meeting been holding/carrying this past year?
2. How has our meeting embraced the Light, and in so doing, how have we been changed?
3. What holds us together and helps us avoid becoming overwhelmed by the brokenness of the world?
Second Hour for January 14, 2024
We will have our monthly Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business, where we discuss and decide matters of importance to our community.