Winter is still a time for the growth and the warmth of community at Quaker Center despite the colder temperatures.  We brought in the new year with 27 companions for the Year End Retreat and we just hosted 26 people last weekend for an enriching look at the radical Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his nonviolent approach to social transformation.  One of the leaders, Be Scofield, has an incredibly resource rich website, www.godblessthewholeworld.org with awesome video clips of King, some of which are recently released.  Please check out the website and enjoy!

We are looking forward to more nonviolence training as we host Dorothy Henderson, Head of School at the Woolman Semester, who will facilitate our learning of Nonviolent Communication and how we can answer to that of God in others during everyday interactions, and also in our meeting communities where conversations can sometimes be quite challenging.