September 2025 Newsletter

Kennett Friends Meeting – Monthly Newsletter

125 W Sickle St, Kennett Square, PA 19348

KennettFriends.org  ✦ 610-444-1012  ✦ coordinator@kennettfriends.org

✦ Through September, Tony Brooks will be on the facing bench

✦ Our September greeter is Eliot Dalton

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Ninth Query

Grounding for Transformed Lives: 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?

• 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”?
• 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?

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New donation platform

Our new donation platform, Zeffy, is up and running! You can visit the new ‘Donate’ tab on our website or use the QR codes that we have posted around the Meetinghouse. Please forward any feedback to me (Selina) or Samantha Park, head of the Communications Committee.

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Mushroom Festival parking fundraiser

We only have a few shifts left to fill for our Mushroom Festival parking fundraiser! Please view the unfilled shifts and sign up using the spreadsheet here or emailing/texting/calling me (Selina) with your availability. Thank you to all those who have signed up so far!

View the parking plan and general layout here. Our flyer is below!

SAVE THE DATE for our 2026 Retreat at Pendle Hill

Pendle Hill, located at 338 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA., 19086-6023, will be hosting KFM for a retreat from February 27-March 1, 2026.  We’ll be at Brinton House on the Pendle Hill campus with facilitator Valerie Brown, JD, MA, PCC, an author, Buddhist-Quaker Dharma teacher, facilitator, and executive coach specializing in leadership development and mindfulness practices with a focus on diversity, social equity, and inclusion. If you know you will be attending, please RSVP to Coordinator Selina Toedter.

Spirituality Book Discussion from Barbara Clarke 

Spirituality Group has started a new book! We’ll be reading The Science of Revenge Understanding the World’s Deadliest Addiction–and How to Overcome It by our own James Kimmel, Jr., JD. We will meet to discuss chapters 3 & 4 on Wednesday September 17th at 7:00 PM. 

Additionally, the group continues to ponder the sayings in the Gospel of Thomas. All are welcome to attend!

We will gather around the big screen to include Zoom participants: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86739314909?pwd=QnJmUWxWQ2ZPVzRkQ3M2YklDRWp2QT09      

Meeting ID: 867 3931 4909 – Passcode: 391875

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Love Thy Neighbor, Ama a tu projimo signs still available

Lawn signs are still available to grab from the Meetinghouse office any time! Use the QR code below or this link to make your donation (suggested $10.50 per sign to cover costs).

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Flyers and further info

Thank you for reading the newsletter! If you have anything you would like included in future newsletters, please call, text, email, or grab coffee with Selina Toedter at 484-631-5028 and coordinator@kennettfriends.org 

In all this work we have kept entirely free of party lines or party spirit. We have not used any propaganda, or aimed to make converts to our own views. We have simply, quietly, and in a friendly spirit endeavored to make life possible for those who were suffering. We do not ask who is to blame for the trouble which may exist or what has produced the bad situation. Our task is to support and save life and to suffer with those who are suffering.” – Rufus Jones speaking to Nazi leaders in Germany in 1938 as he secured permission to evacuate ~10,000 children.