COVID-19: Resources for Friends and Meetings

Worship - Ideas and Strategies for Remote Worship

Hybrid In-Person/Remote Worship

• Thoughts on blending physical and online worship from Britain Yearly Meeting
• Hybrid Meeting Resources on Facebook

General 

• Thoughts on blending physical and online worship from Britain Yearly Meeting
• Gathering In Worship When We Can't Physically Gather - From Ministry Coordinating Committee (MCC)
• Thoughts on Online Worship from Britain Yearly Meeting
• Video instructions for using Zoom to access online unprogrammed worship from Woodbrooke Quaker Conference Center
• Daily Online Worship with Pendle Hill 8:30-9:10AM EST
• Testimonials from NYYM Meetings for Worship March 22
• Worship at your Computer? An article by Sue Tannehill of Buffalo Monthly Meeting first published in Spark in 2018
• Worship Opportunities - A compiled list of local Meetings who are hosting digital worship

 

Children & Families

• Planning Religious Education Programming for Children During COVID-19 from FGC
• Fall Religious Education Planning: Connection and New Directions from PhYM
• Family Devotionals Daily with Emily Provance
• Valiant Together: Sharing Quaker Religious Education Support and Resources During COVID-19
  • online resources for children and families
  • support for religious education practitioners
  • religious education lesson ideas and materials shared (for home and online)
  • weekly 10:00am Children’s Meeting (religious ed program) to join
• What About the Kids? - Notes from the Local Meetings Respond Series
• Gathering Together: Support for Families and First Day Programs from Melinda Wenner Bradley
• Engaging With Children, Youth, and Families During Social Distancing from Melinda Wenner Bradley

 

Additional Opportunities 

• Workshops and Retreats for Groups Facilitated Virtually by Emily Provance
• Support Powell House by attending an offering from the pay-as-led Virtual Workshop Series

Leadership - Suggestions for Navigating Clerking Remotely

• Local Meetings Respond to COVID-19 Weekly Call
• Resources for Clerking via Zoom and Conference Call from Emily Provance
• Clerking on Zoom - Notes from the Local Meetings Respond Series
• Represent Together: A Messaging Guide for Wellness and Safety
• Holding Quaker business meetings by teleconference from Britain Yearly Meeting
• Historic joint statement of unity from world churches: stay home, help each other and the world
• Financial Counceling with Everence

Digital Communications - Resources, Ideas, and Strategies for Connecting Digitally

• Quaker Communications Facebook Group
• Zoom Meeting Basics - A Guide by Craig Freshley of Good Group Decisions 
• Zoom Help Center’s Getting Started on Windows and Mac 
• Zoom Security Strategies - Zoombombing Prevention and Management
• Connection to the internet for low-income families at home
• Video instructions for using Zoom to access online unprogrammed worship from Woodbrooke Quaker Conference Center
• Welcoming Seekers to Your Online Meeting - Notes from the Local Meetings Respond Series
• Spiritual Facilitation Online a guide by Christine Betz Hall

Pastoral Care - Caring for Each Other and Ourselves

 

Care For Individuals

• Spiritual Practices for The Pandemic from Friends Journal and Rochester’s Mathilda Navias
• 3/15/2020 Letter to ARCH Visitors
• Spiritual Practices for the Coronavirus Pandemic from SpiritualityandPractice.com
• 10 guidelines for pastoral care during the coronavirus outbreak from The Christian Century
• A Conversation on Grief, Death, and Dying: A Resource for Friends during COVID-19 from FGC
• Support on food and eating issues for people with acute but not critical COVID-19 from Nutritionists for Covid Care
• Pastoral Care at a Distance - Notes from the Local Meetings Respond Series
• Advance Directives - Quaker Values and End of Life Decision Making (Crash Course)
  • Handout
  • Video Recording of Session 1 (presentation begins at 10 minutes in)
  • Notes from Session 1
  • Video Recording of Session 2
  • Notes from Session 2

Care For Communities

• Call List - Contacting Older Friends an idea from Brooklyn Meeting
• 5 Tips for Online Pastoral Care from Ashley M. Wilcox
• Video about pastoral care and Covid-19 with NEYM’s John Calvi, Macci Schmidt, and Nia Thomas
• 3/30/2020 Letter to ARCH (Aging Resources Consultation and Help) Visitors

 

 

Equity and Justice Concerns - Advocating For and Supporting Vulnerable People in Our Communities

 

Advocate

• COVID-19 - Advocating for Incarcerated People
• Educational Equity and Coronavirus
• Letter Requesting Immigrants Not Be Excluded from Federal Stimulus for Covid-19

Support

• The Coronavirus (COVID-19): What Trans People Need to Know
• Connection to the internet for low-income families at home
• Give to or request funds from the NYC COVID-19 Impact and Response Fund for NYC based nonprofits that are trying to meet the new and urgent needs that are hitting the city
• Free financial counseling for members and attenders of NYYM’s meetings from Everence
• Grants are available to support Quaker meetings in financial distress from Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS), Everence, and Mennonite Central Committee U.S. (MCC U.S.).

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