September 2024 Meeting for Business Documents

September 15, 2024

Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting

Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business

1. Opening Worship
2. Land Acknowledgement
3. Reading of the Query for the Ninth Month
4. Clerk’s Report
5. Care and Counsel: Nominees for Nominating
6. Centennial Committee Update
7. Worship and Ministry: Ad Hoc Committee on Auditory Accessibility
8. FPP Committee: Annual Report
9. Outreach Committee: Annual Report
10. Minutes for Approval: June                     
11. Announcements
    1. Due in October
       1. Addressing Racism Annual Report
       1. Nominating – New slate of officers
       1. Property and House Annual Report
       1. Quarterly Meeting Representatives Annual Report
       1. Treasurer’s Annual Report
    1. Release date for Oct 19 (3^rd Sat) is tomorrow
12. Closing Worship

Query for the Ninth Month – Equality and Justice

• How does our meeting benefit from established patterns of prejudice, exploitation, and economic convenience? What are we doing to change this?
• How and how often does our meeting engage in a self-examination of its attitudes and actions regarding race, ability, gender, sexual orientation, or class?
• What steps are we taking as a meeting to inform ourselves about social injustice and ecological violence embedded in our political and economic systems?
• What steps are we taking as a meeting to assure that our meeting and the committees and institutions under our care are respectful of the earth and its people?
• Do I regularly examine myself for attitudes and behavior that indicate any hidden prejudice regarding race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or class?
• How do my lifestyle choices affect—positively or negatively—the causes of justice and peace in our nation, the community of nations, and the whole of creation?
• How do I demonstrate in my way of living, and in what I teach my children, that love of God entails acknowledging “that of God in every person”?