CHRISTIAN EDUCATION COMMITTEE will meet this Sunday after worship in the Genesis classroom.

YOUNG FRIENDS—PreK to 12th grade—WILL meet this Sunday-5:00-6:15pm

USFW QUAKER WOMEN will meet on Monday at 10am in the Aldridge Room.  All women of the Meeting are welcome!

CHOIR will practice on Wednesday at 7:00pm.

100TH ANNIVERSARY PLANNING TEAM will meet next Sunday, April 28 after worship in the fellowship hall.

UPPER ROOM devotional books are available for May/June.  Feel free to pick one up as you leave worship on Sunday. They are in the foyer and on the information table by the office.

QUILTS for THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES/HOSPITALS

Archdale Friends Meeting is once again collecting quilts for 3rd world countries/hospitals. We are partnering with Samaritan’s Purse. They will pay for the cost of shipping.  The date for collection is May 4th, 10AM-1PM. We collected almost 150 last time (2022). Please consider helping us in this great project.  Quilts can be adult or child sized.

Please, no used quilts.  Questions, call Janey Stinnett at 336-819-0297

CHILDREN’S MINISTRY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

The sign up sheet for both nursery and children’s Sunday school/children’s church is posted outside of Rodney’s office.  We’re excited to have relocated the rooms to be on the main level! Please reach out to Hollis Andrews or the church office if you have any questions.

THANK YOU from Boy Scouts

Archdale Friends,  Thank you for your support with our Spaghetti Fundraiser for Caleb Dulin.  Because of your support and donations, we exceeded our goal!

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FEMAP (Friends Emergency Material Assistance Program) needs the following items for hygiene kits: 26x16 hand towels, soap bars, toothpaste, and tooth brushes. Donations can be placed in the basket on the pew outside the church office here at AFM.

NEW PICTORIAL DIRECTORY     

As part of our upcoming 100^th Anniversary Celebration we will be creating a new pictorial directory of our church members and attenders.  It has been a few years since we have had this wonderful tool and keepsake of our Meeting.

Most Church Directory companies struggled during Covid and are not in existence any longer, so we are going a different route as I am sure many of you have heard about. One that will give us more flexibility and cost savings.

We are asking members and attenders to submit their own photos for the directory.  This photo can be of you and your spouse, you individually, you and your family.  Whatever expresses who you are.   

Wendy Lawrence is heading up this project for us and you may reach out to her with any questions. 

Photos should be submitted by May 31 to her email wenlaw425@yahoo.com.

There will be several opportunities to have your candid photo taken as well. These dates will be highlighted in the bulletin. 

100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Save the Dates:  July 27 & 28, 2024

Mark your calendar now for Archdale Friends Meeting’s 100 Year Anniversary Celebration.  On Saturday, July 27, there will be a Community Day and Sunday, July 28 will be our Anniversary Celebration Day!!

 LOOKING FOR MEMORABILIA (Pictures/Documents)

The planning committee welcomes any pictures or documents that may be of interest for the anniversary celebration.  If you have anything you would like to contribute, give them to Herb Andrews or Beth Saunders.  The items that are used will be copied and the originals returned to you.  Thank you!

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100 Year Anniversary Notes

AFM notes from the 1940s

November 1940 – A letter relative to the conscriptions of conscientious objectors was read.

The United States began drafting men for military service (also called conscription) in 1940.

July 1941 – Eight quilts were made, six were sent to A.F.S.C. (American Friends Service Committee) and two sent to Jamaica.

August 1942 – Due to gas rationing and shortage of tires there was some questioning regards to attendance to quarterly meeting, but      attendance was larger than expected

September 1944 – The Infantile Paralysis (polio) quarantine was to be lifted and children could return to school.

April 1946 – Several of our boys are back from the Armed Forces and taking their place in the Mtg.

August 1948 – Clifton Pearson thanked the Sunday School teachers for sending literature to children kept from Bible School because of the polio epidemic.

August 1948 – Our Clerk presented a Hammond Electric Organ to the meeting.  Polio epidemic almost over.

November 1948 – Petition sponsored by the Allied Church League of Randolph County for an election to eradicate both wine and beer.

August 1949–(From Yearly Meeting) Quaker Lake has been purchased.

November 1949 – Mention made of “the kitchen” how proud we all were of the new sink, cabinets and electric stove.

~Information was taken from Archdale Friends Meeting, Genealogical  Extracts from the Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1924-1949, composed by Elizabeth Saunders and from AFM Monthly Meeting Minutes (1987-1997)