October 2025 – Meeting for Worship on the Occasion for Business
GRASS VALLEY FRIENDS MEETING
Of the Religious Society of Friends of the Truth
College Park Quarterly Meeting, Pacific Yearly Meeting
MINUTES & RECORD
Meeting for Worship on the Occasion of Business
October 11, 2025
We met in a called Meeting for Worship for Business on Zoom.
Present: Dorothy Henderson, clerk; Jennifer Smith, recording clerk; Gordon Starr, elder to the clerk; Mary Starr, Reed Hamilton, fosten wilson, Kathy McCreery, Doug Hamm,
The Meeting opened with silent worship.
Clerks’ Remarks and Query
- We are here to approve the budget for the year, and will hold all other business until next month.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
(see reports appended, committee clerk is noted in bold)
Spirit and Witness: Amy Cooke, 2024-2027,Stuart Smith, 2025-2026, Reed Hamilton, 2025-2028, Dean Olson, 2024-2027, Doug Hamm, 2025-2026, Dorothy Henderson, 2026 (ex-officio, GVFM Clerk), Gordon Starr (ex-officio, elder to the clerk).
No report was given.
Stewardship: Mary Starr (Clerk and), Gordon Starr, Pat Phillips, Reed Hamilton, David Bowman. Dianne Marshall (ex-officio, Newsletter editor), Don McCormick (ex-officio, Librarian), Hailey Wilson (ex-officio Tech Support).
No report was given.
MINUTE 2025.10.01: Grass Valley Friends Meeting approves the budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
- There was a trial set up of the Zoom equipment at the Peace Lutheran Church. There were some technical difficulties, but it looks like it is working again. Mary and Gordon will go again to make sure it ready.
Welcome: Peter O’Rourke (ex-officio, Website and Facebook coordinator), Kathy McCreery, Don McCormick, Pat Phillips, Cindy Bliss, Lo Hamm, Judy Hamilton (ex-officio email coordinator), Nancy Anderson (ex-officio directory clerk).
No report was given.
Nominating Committee: (terms as noted), Chamba Cooke: 2025-2026, Dean Olson 2025-2027, Mary Starr 2025-2027, fosten wilson 2024-2026,
No report was given.
Religious Education: Judy Hamilton, Doug Hamm, Dean Olson, Reed Hamilton, Don McCormick,Keely McDonald, Lo Hamm. Substitutes: Gordon Bishop, Gordon Starr, Alan Stahler. Fifth Sunday reader: Anita McCormick
No report was given.
OFFICER REPORTS and REPRESENTATIVE REPORTS
Treasurer: No report given.
Co-Archivists/Recorders: No report given.
Pacific Yearly Meeting: No report given.
College Park Quarterly Meeting: No report given.
Interfaith Nevada County: No report given.
Sharings from the wider Quaker world:
CLERK’S REMARKS:
- The new exhibit is open at the ‘Ube Seo Nisenan Arts and Culture gallery. We moved our meeting for worship for business so meeting members can go support our friends.
- The new exhibit is called Pamblo – Remembering a Forgotten Leader: A Changed Land, A Changing Culture. The exhibition honors a little-known Nisenan leader and his descendants, while tracing the enduring impacts of the gold rush on Nisenan people and their Ancestral Homelands.
ITEMS SEASONING or CARRIED OVER
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- College Park Quarterly Meeting: Fall Meeting is scheduled for the weekend of October 17-19, 2025, at Ben Lomond Quaker Center.
- Facebook: please follow the Grass Valley Friends Meeting page, or join the Facebook Grass Valley Friends Meeting group. If you share a post from the page, your friends will see it, and it helps our visibility. Follow this link.
- The 2023-2024 PacYM General Directory. The directory is now available. The Directory is for use by members and attenders of monthly meetings and worship groups within Pacific Yearly Meeting and by Friends serving on Pacific Yearly Meeting committees. It is not to be shared beyond this community. Dorothy and Don have the new password for the PacYM Directory.
- Carl Magruder: You can follow Carl’s healing journey on the CaringBridge.org website HERE. Friends have also set up a daily Meeting for Healing from 7:30 to 8 am (Pacific) on Zoom here or contact Amy Cooke at amylisette@gmail.com for the link.
- Contributions to Grass Valley Friends Meeting are gratefully accepted. You can give by mailing a check to Mary Starr or through Tithely on the website or our newsletter.
READING OF THE RECORD AND MINUTES
The record and the minutes were read, corrected, and approved.
If you are giving a report to GVFM, please send the actual report to the recording clerk at jenniferjksmith@gmail.com THE WEDNESDAY BEFORE MEETING FOR BUSINESS and share with both Dorothy and Jennifer.
GVFM Newsletter Reminder: Please have items into Dianne Marshall by Tuesday at 10 am.
The Meeting closed with silent worship.
Respectfully recorded by Jennifer Smith, recording clerk.
APPENDICES:
- Spirit and Witness Committee report
- Stewardship Committee report
- Proposed Budget for 2025 – 2026 fiscal year.
- Welcome Committee report
- Nominating Committee report
- Children’s Committee report
- Treasurer’s Report
- Pacific Yearly Meeting report
- Interfaith Nevada County report
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Spirit & Witness Report
No report was given.
Stewardship Committee Report
Proposed Budget for 2025-2026 fiscal year:
Welcome Committee Report
No report was given.
Nominating Committee Report
No report was given.
Religious Education Committee Report
No report was given.
College Park Quarterly Meeting report
No report was given.
Treasurer’s Report
No report was given.
Pacific Yearly Meeting Report
No report was given.
InterFaith Nevada County Report
No report was given.