The 2025 Quaker Calm Tea is ready for brewing! (As always, we sampled and it is delicious)

Every year a selection of the seasons’ most delicious herbs, all locally grown and dried, are blended for this mellow and flavourful tea.

Bags of loose tea are $10 each (we have a few larger bags for $20) and 100% of the proceeds from this tea will support community service programs including projects for at-risk youth and other initiatives.

New for 2025 is a limited supply of tea packaged in vintage Mason jars for an additional $2 (perfect for gift-giving). 

The tea will be available for purchase at Bonjourandyum, Horton Farmers Market (thanks Serge!). You can also email Martha at kmlaing@orchardhillfarm.ca or Neil at neilhubert137@gmail.com

The tea will also be sale at the Quaker Holiday Urn making event on November 22 (more info to follow)

2025 ingredients include: Apple and Mojito Mint, Spearmint, Lemon Balm, Peppermint, Calendula and Cornflower Blossoms, Chamomile Blossoms, Raspberry Leaves, Blackberry Leaves, Rose Petals, Sweet Cicely, Mullein, and Clover Blossoms.

This Saturday, September 20 from noon to 2 pm at Victoria Park in London, Ontario you can join a World wide global movement of people showing up for climate, for migrants’ rights, indigenous sovereignty, the economy and an end to war. Across Canada and all across the world people are standing up for justice and peace. For more information text or call 226-973-6622 Please click on the link to see the poster. DTL-London-ON-Poster-.pdf https://share.google/BCVFa8O7Vg22Ca4EN

An informative night about hiking the ancient trail in Spain. 

Saturday November 30^th. 7:00 to 9:00pm

The Sparta Quaker meeting house.​6387 Quaker Rd. , St Thomas Ontario

1- Introduction: (15 minutes)

a. What is the Camino?

b. Where do I start?

c. What do I need?

d. How long does it take?

e. Where do I sleep?

2- A Camino Film (1 ½ hrs)

3- Mingle and Chat with pilgrims who have walked the camino. Any questions, ask away!

Cost: By Donation. Thank you!

For more information, Contact: Terry Vinet

terrykvinet@gmail.com or 226-448-6799

For more Camino related information: www.caminodesantiago.me

Join us for a prayer vigil for peace and for remembering the victims of war.

On Tuesday August 6 from 8pm-9pm the Quaker Meetinghouse will be open.

We welcome all who wish to join us in a silent vigil. No signs, no slogans, nothing but prayerful silence, light and love.

This live music event, featuring Jennifer Castle, is a fundraiser for the historic Quaker Meeting House in Sparta, Ontario.

Tickets are $25 each with children under 12 welcomed to join free of charge.

Home-made refreshments will be available for a donation.

Doors will open at 6pm with the music scheduled to begin at 7pm.

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Let’s Go To Sparta with Jennifer Castle

June Jamboree fundraiser for the historic Quaker Meeting House with special musical guest Jennifer Castle

For details see “Upcoming Events” page.

LEARN. DISCERN. ACT. HOPE. REPEAT.

Last year we called our film/discussion evenings LEARN ACT HOPE REPEAT. This year we added the word DISCERN. To learn is one thing, and to take what we have learned and DISCERN what actions we will take to best support our Quaker testimonies is another. Where do we go to learn? Who do we believe? 

This is a common question and concern for all who seek to make this world a better place. The Religious Society of Friends is different from other denominations; we do not follow a set creed. This puts just about everything up for discussion which was most certainly true for the film/discussion committee as we met numerous times attempting to choose the films for 2024. It’s a work in progress. One thing we quickly agreed on: freshly popped popcorn and other healthy snacks for all. Admission is by donation. 

MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH AND INDIGENOUS LENS

Saturday, March 16, 6:30-9:00 pm

The Quaker Meetinghouse, 6387 Quaker Road, Sparta

Presentation by:

Tracey Whiteye, RSW, MSW

Moravian of the Thames, Delaware Nation

To learn is one thing, and to take what we have learned and DISCERN what actions we will take to best support our Quaker testimonies is another. Where do we go to learn? Who do we believe? 

This is a common question and concern for all who seek to make this world a better place. The Religious Society of Friends is different from other denominations; we do not follow a set creed. This puts just about everything up for discussion which was most certainly true for the film/discussion committee as we met numerous times attempting to choose the films for 2024. One thing we quickly agreed on: freshly popped popcorn and other healthy snacks for all. Admission is by donation. 

Join us January 20: for “Voices Across the Divide” film with a follow-up discussion by Matthew Legge, the Communication Coordinator for the Canadian Friends Service Committee, and author of Are We Done Fighting? From 6:30pm – 9:00pm This, like many of our film and discussion series, is a difficult topic and we hope you come with your minds open and your hearts prepared.

Film Summary: Voices Across the Divide explores the Israeli/Palestinian conflict through rarely heard personal stories. Narrated by Alice Rothchild, an American Jew raised on the tragedies of the Holocaust and the dream of a Jewish homeland in Israel, the film follows her personal journey as she begins to
understand the Palestinian narrative, while exploring the Palestinian experience of loss, occupation, statelessness, and immigration to the US. The documentary is both a personal journey to understand the Palestinian narrative as well as the implications and contradictions of deeply held cultural beliefs in the Jewish community.

SAVE THE DATES for upcoming film / speaker series Learn. Discern. Act. Hope. Repeat.

February 17: 6:30pm – 9:00pm and also March 16, 2024: 6:30pm – 9pm 

Note: these films and topics are aimed at adults. See you at the Meetinghouse.