March 4: Illinois Yearly Meeting, Our Wider Circle of Friends
A panel including Roger and Jinny Laughlin, Meredith George, Elizabeth Mertic, Murphy Beattie, and Judy Jager will share what participation in Yearly Meeting events has meant to them and what it can mean for other Friends. Judy also will explain new improvements envisioned for the historic site of annual session in McNabb, Illinois.

March 11: Ministering to One Another at Times of Grief
Beth Burbank will lead us in a second session on pastoral care, addressing how we can help others through bereavement and how we can move through grief ourselves. Janet Means Underhill of Lake Forest Meeting, who has been widowed twice and has helped others through bereavement, will be present also.

March 18: Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
Contact Clerk Karen Carney if you have a report or concern for the agenda. Recording Clerk Naomi Bell would like to have written committee reports in advance.

March 25: Sharing the Joys and Challenges of Unprogrammed Worship
What goes on for you and those around you during the silence? How do we center ourselves and open to the Divine Presence? What helps to deepen our worship, and what do we find challenging or difficult? Worship sharing will be followed by discussion.t<