Ministry

Updated March 14, 2021.

CURRENT ENGAGEMENTS

Open Heart Worship Group
Weekly worship prompted at the pandemic’s beginning, this gathering has grown into an online community. We span geographies and Quaker communities. Learn more here.

FWCC Section of the Americas Meeting, March 12 to 21.
Held every two years, this section meeting exceptionally is being hosted virtually. It’s a joy to contribute as a part of the Traveling Ministry Corps. My main service is weekday devotionals, March 15 to 19, 11am to 11:30am (Eastern Time). I’ll share blogs posts throughout the week.

World Water Day, March 22.
Beacon Hill Friends House (Boston) is the virtual host for a free interactive program, “What does water mean to us? Quakers engaging World Water Day.” Join us from 7pm to 8:30pm (Eastern Time). Register here.

2020

February/ March. Traveling Ministry among New England Yearly Meeting. This blog post gives fuller details.

Feb. 16, Fresh Pond MM (MA)
Feb. 19, Friends Meeting at Cambridge (MA)
Feb. 20, Beacon Hills Friends House (MA)
Feb. 23, Hanover MM (NH)
Feb. 25 & 26, West Falmouth Preparative Meeting (MA)
Mar. 1, Durham MM (ME)
Mar. 2, Friends School of Portland & Portland MM (ME)

Feb. 1. Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting; with small-group discussion “Faith in Action: Quakers on Earthcare.” Red Cedar MM, Lansing, Michigan.

2019

Fall. Read the blog post “Fall 2019 Stirrings” for full details. Traveling ministry within Lake Erie Yearly Meeting:

  • Nov. 9 – 10. Oberlin MM (Ohio).
  • Dec. 1. Ann Arbor MM (Michigan).

August 14 – September 15. Visitation with Britain Yearly Meeting. Displaying In Relation as a demo-sized version of mobile-arts installation where possible.

August 3 – 8. New England Yearly Meeting annual sessions. Castleton, VT.

July 25 – 28. Lake Erie Yearly Meeting annual sessions. Bluffton, Ohio.

June 30 – July 6. Friends General Conference Gathering. Grinnell, Iowa.

  • In Relation. Full-sized mobile-art installation.
  • July 1. “Transformative Earth Care: 18th-Century Benjamin Lay for Today.” Quaker Earthcare Witness Center.

May 9 -11. In Relation, mobile-arts installation. Kalamazoo Friends Meeting. 508 Denner Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 10. Reception, 5:30pm to 7pm. Public discussion at 7pm, “A Quaker View on Connecting Concerns: Right Relationship, Justice, & the Environment.”

March 21 – 24. Mobile-arts demo during the Friends World Committee for Consultation Section of the Americas Meeting. Excelsior Springs, Missouri.

2018

Late August to late October . Visitations among Yearly Meetings of Britain, Ireland, France, and Belgium and Luxembourg. Presentations with local Friends of Bolton, Swarthmoor Hall, Lancaster (UK), and Cork (IR).

Oct 19 – 21. Invited artist for Britain YM’s Sustainability Gathering. Swanwick, Derby, UK.

Sept 1, 2018. Speaker at Britain YM’s Quaker Arts Network Annual General Meeting. Friends House, London, UK.

June 2 – 16. La Puenta exhibition “By the Hands of Women”. REACH Studio Art Center, Lansing, Michigan. Supported by a grant from the Puffin Foundation Ltd.

2017

Sept to Oct. Visitations and presentations with Friends Meetings in Paris and Dublin at Eustace Street. Supported by grants from FWCC Section of the Americas and Kalamazoo Friends Monthly Meeting.

Aug. La Puenta exhibition “By the Hands of Women”. Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo, EPIC Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Jan to Mar. Project La Puenta in Peru. Exhibition “By the Hands of Women” in Puno (Feb) and Cusco (Mar). Visitations with Friends of the Yearly Meeting of INELA Peru. Supported by grants from FWCC Section of the Americas, Kalamazoo Friends Monthly Meeting, and the Lyman Fund.

For earlier references, please visit Mey’s archived web site, Dey of the Phoenix.

Posts and photo albums also are available via Facebook on her artist page and page La Puenta.