Newsletter

The newsletter of the Ft. Myers Month Meeting informs us on news of the meeting, as well as providing spiritual nourishment. Friends are invited to send material to the newsletter editor for consideration regarding publication.

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To view a newsletter, click on the links below. Not all links are active: those with underlines are available. The months are named in the traditional Quaker style: the early Quakers had a problem with the months being named after Roman gods. We continue to use this naming convention, within Quaker circles, as a way of reminding us of our roots: whether this is a particularly Quaker practice is a matter of enjoyable discernment within our meeting. Note that the newsletter is released about two weeks before the month for which it is labelled: it contains the minutes from the previous month's Meeting for Worship With a Concern for Business ("Business Meeting"), and the Queries for the month for which it is labelled.

	First	Second	Third	Fourth
2001	Fifth	Sixth	Seventh	Eighth
	Ninth	Tenth	Eleventh	Twelfth

 

	First	Second	Third	Fourth
2002	Fifth	Sixth	Seventh	Eighth
	Ninth	Tenth	Eleventh	Twelfth

 

	First	Second	Third	Fourth
2003	Fifth	Sixth	Seventh	Eighth
	Ninth	Tenth	Eleventh	Twelfth

 

	First	Second	Third	Fourth
2004	Fifth	Sixth	Seventh (combined with 8th)	Eighth
	Ninth (combined with 10th)	Tenth	Eleventh	Twelfth

Kyle Goff Memorial

 

	First	Second	Third	Fourth
2005	Fifth	Sixth	Seventh	Eighth
	Ninth	Tenth	Eleventh	Twelfth

 

	First	Second	Third	Fourth Fourth-2
2006	Fifth	Sixth	Seventh	Eighth
	Ninth	Tenth	Eleventh	Twelfth

(Note: until 4th Month 2006, the newsletter for a particular month carried the record of the Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business of the preceding month. While this had the salutory effect of ensuring that a newsletter for a particular month arrived before that month, in the manner of magazines, it also had the unfortunate effective of terminally confusing those looking for the Business Meeting minutes for a particular month. Hence the change.)