The Second Hour will be our monthly Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business. Please join us to discuss matters of importance to our community!
Category: Past Programs
These posts contain information and resources that were presented in 2nd Hour programs or other events and blogs.
March 3, 2024
We will have our monthly potluck lunch. Bring a dish to share, if you’d like. But in any case, please join us. You might also consider bringing in a jar of peanut butter, or other food goods with a long shelf life, and leaving it in the entryway. Friends connecting virtually will have extended check-ins.
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.
January 28 2024
During the Second Hour we will be considering the third query from SAYMA, to help Beth create our annual State of the Meeting report:What holds us together and helps us avoid becoming overwhelmed by the brokenness of the world?
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.
400th Birthday of George Fox — Celebration
You are cordially invited to a celebration in honor of the 400th birthday of George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Fox The event will be held Sunday, January 7, 2024 at 10:00AM at the Columbia Friends Meeting in Columbia, SC. 120 Pisgah Church Rd. Columbia, SC 29203 After a shortened Meeting for Worship, Young Friends…