Get to Know Thee, Friend: A 12 part series for our 90th anniversary

Apr 152021

Get To Know Thee, Friend

Quakers holding hands with the text "Get to Know Thee, Friend: A twelve part series in honour of CFSC's 90th anniversary."

Brew some tea and join Canadian Friends Service Committee on the last Thursday of every month this year for an online evening of discussion, sharing, and Friendship. Our series Get to Know Thee, Friend is a chance to meet Friends from across Canada and learn about their experience with Friends and with service work.

Register below to receive updates and information about this series of events via email:

Part one with Carol Dixon

Part two with Vince Zelazny

Part three with Rachel Singleton-Polster and Christina Tellez

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Get to Know Thee Friend Poster: Jane Orion Smith

Join us for part 4 of our Get to Know Thee, Friend series: a conversation with Jane Orion Smith, Member of Winnipeg Monthly Meeting and former General Secretary of Canadian Friends Service Committee.

Thursday, April 29th at 8:00 – 9:30pm Atlantic / 7:00 – 8:30pm Eastern / 6:00 – 7:30 Central / 5:00 – 6:30 Mountain / 4:00 – 5:30 Pacific

Join via Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87495392451

Part Five: Thursday May 27^th

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Part Six: Thursday, June 24^th

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Part Seven: Thursday, July 29^th

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Part Eight: Thursday, August 26^th

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Part Nine: Thursday, September 30^th

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Part Ten: Thursday, October 28^th

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Part Eleven: Thursday, November 25^th

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Part Twelve: TBD

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Have you missed one of our Get to Know Thee, Friend events?

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Join us this Thursday for part 3 of our monthly Ge

Join us this Thursday for part 3 of our monthly Get to Know Thee, Friend series. You'll hear from two young Friends active in Quaker service work: Rachel Singleton-Polster and Christina Tellez.

Rachel was raised in Vancouver Island MM and presently lives on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh territories where she is studying for her Masters in human geography. She has been involved with CFSC for the past decade, first as a program assistant and currently as the Clerk of the Quaker Indigenous Rights Committee.

Christina grew up in Halifax Monthly Meeting and lives in La Paz, Bolivia, where she works with a Canadian NGO and supports rural and urban women’s groups in organizational strengthening strategies. Christina served on CYM’s Education and Outreach Committee as well as in the role of Co-clerk of Canadian Young Friends Yearly Meeting. She was one of the Canadian representatives to the FWCC World Plenary Meeting held in Peru in 2016.

More info and link to join at
https://quakerservice.ca/GetToKnowThee

This is what we fought for: An open letter in supp

This is what we fought for: An open letter in support of implementing the UN Declaration on theRights of Indigenous Peoples

Read the full letter here: https://bit.ly/376aFmh

A Friendly reminder to join us on Thursday, Februa

A Friendly reminder to join us on Thursday, February 25th for part two of our Get to Know Thee, Friend series.

This month’s speaker will be Vince Zelazny, member of New Brunswick Monthly Meeting and Associate Clerk of CFSC. Vince will be speaking about the role of Friends in addressing climate change, his experience with Friends, and more.

If you registered for the last Get to Know Thee, Friend event, no need to register again, we will be sending you all of the information later this week.

If you haven’t yet registered, you can do so here: https://quakerservice.ca/news/get-to-know-thee-friend-a-12-part-series-for-our-90th-anniversary/

(Pictured: Martha McClure, Meredith Egan, Florence Ntkarutimana (African Great Lakes Initiative) and Vince Zelazny, in Fredericton in 2009)

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