San Mateo Quaker Worship Group

01/09/2023

Sun, Jan 8 at 5:06 PM

We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them.

NATALIE GOLDBERG

Friends, I've been thinking about this for some time: that every breath is a blessing, and yet we treat the air with so little care and respect. As a society, we dump all kinds of waste into the air without a second thought. We treat it as a limitless resource. Yet, any photograph from space shows us how limited it is. We can live without food for quite a few days. We can live without water for a few hours. We can live without sleep for not much more than a day. But we cannot live without clean air for only a few minutes or seconds. Every breath is a live-giving blessing.

12/30/2022

Beginning 2 January 2023, the San Mateo Quaker Worship Group will be meeting every Sunday at 10 am in person and online. Please see this page or the website, https://sanmateoquakers.org/, for more information. Hope to see at Meeting.

San Mateo, California

03/01/2020

Pacific Yearly Meeting Youth Programs is organizing another Spring Youth Service-Learning Camp with Quaker Oaks Farm and the Wukchumni Tribe from April 6-10. Youth in 6th-12th grades are encouraged to sign up for camp ASAP (deadline March 9), and PYM is asking for donations to support the Camp to welcome all campers regardless of their ability to pay.

* Registration Open * Donations Requested *

02/28/2020

The next spring gathering of Friends Meeting of Palo Alto and Santa Cruz Friends Meeting will be held from March 20-22 at Ben Lomond Quaker Center. Registration options include overnight lodging and meals, day use only, or Saturday-only options, and more. Friends are encouraged to think about coming for the whole weekend and spending both nights, even if they don’t live very far away. Everyone, but especially young people, are welcome and encouraged to invite a friend.

To register, complete the form linked below; if you have questions or suggestions, please contact Alan Edgar (Santa Cruz) 831-588-7311 ([email protected]) or Diane Duerr-Levine (Palo Alto) 650-9669-4444 ([email protected]).

Palo Alto Friends Meeting's annual Spring Gathering will be at Ben Lomond Quaker Center, 1000 Hubbard Gulch Rd, Ben Lomond, CA, Friday, 3/20, 4:30 PM to Sunday 3/22, 12:00 noon. Last year, 48 Friends from Palo Alto and Santa Cruz Meetings communed, relaxed, and got to know each better during our fir...

02/06/2020

A special multi-faith climate event will be held at the Congregational Church of San Mateo United Church of Christ on Saturday, February 8 from 10 AM - 2 PM. The event includes Rev. Jim Antal, Special Advisor on Climate Justice to the President of the United Church of Christ, and author of the book Climate Church, Climate World. Registration is $15, and includes lunch and beverages. If you would like to attend but cannot afford the registration fee, please call Gary White at 650-346-1519.

Sponsors of the event include Congregational Church of San Mateo, First Congregational Church Palo Alto, 350 Silicon Valley Direct Action, Extinction Rebellion San Mateo & attendees.

Come to a special multi-faith climate event that will be held at the Congregational Church of San Mateo at 225 Tilton Ave on Saturday February 8 from 10 AM - 2 PM featuring the Rev. Jim Antal, Special Advisor on Climate Justice to the President of the United Church of Christ. Jim is the author of Cl...

01/04/2020

Peace Action of San Mateo County is holding a peace vigil on Saturday, January 4 from 3-4 PM at the corner of 3rd Avenue and El Camino Real in San Mateo. This is the same day as the National Day of Action endorsed by the Answer Coalition, CODEPINK: Women For Peace, and many other organizations.

On Saturday, January 4 Popular Resistance along with the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK, United AntiWar Coalition (UNAC), World Beyond War, Voices for Creative Nonviolence and others are calling on people from around the United States to organize local demonstrations to demand: NO MORE U.S. TROOPS TO IR...

01/03/2020

San Mateo City Council will be considering an ordinance for the Safe Storage of Fi****ms in The City of San Mateo at their meeting on Monday, January 6 at 7 pm in San Mateo City Hall (330 W 20th Ave). San Mateo County and several other cities neighboring San Mateo have passed similar laws (Redwood City, Burlingame, and San Carlos) or are also considering them (Belmont).