Please look over our website. We've added a login feature which will allow us to post information available only to authorized users. We invite Stony Run members and attenders to register on the site. Here's how:

1. At the top of this page, click "Register Now" and create an account for yourself by entering a username and password.
2. Within a few minutes you'll receive a confirmation email with a web link to click which will activate your account. At this point you will have a restricted account which will let you do some things but not others.
3. Within a few days the (volunteer) website administrator will grant you additional rights and notify you via email.

You'll then be able to log into the site and view, among other things, the online directory of names, addresses, and phone numbers! If you have any troubles with the registration process, please email webmaster@stonyrunfriends.org.

Food for Thought

"In the past Friends sometimes leaned over backward in efforts to attain complete honesty and sincerity in speech. Many humorous anecdotes are based on the peculiarity. Such titles as Mr. and Mrs. (meaning master and mistress), your honor, your majesty and reverend were avoided not only as being untrue, but as flattering the individual and ignoring the equality of everyone before God."

Friends & the Spiritual Message

What's New at Stony Run

SOCIAL ORDER BOX contributions for the month of June will go to the VETERANS FOR PEACE
A non-profit organization that works to increase awareness of the costs of war, advocates abolishing war as national policy and seeks justice for veterans and victims of war.

WHEN IS THE NEXT FORUM?  During the summer months, as usual, we won’t be having forums, but will pick up again on September 7, 2008.

PHOTO DISPLAY OF MEMBERS AND ATTENDERS: Summer and Fall of 2008, Community, Care and Clearness Committee will be revising the display of photos of members and attenders in the hallway. It will be improved, updated, and alphabetical. We need your help. If you cannot be at Meeting when Michael Boardman is graciously taking pictures, we would like for you to bring or send a recent photo (a close up if you have it) in to Meeting (c/o CCC). The photo display, like wearing nametags, helps us all to get to know each other, to put names and faces together.  This time around we are trying something a little different: we are hoping to display our out-of-town members in addition to the in-town members and attenders. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if all 450 members and attenders had a photo on the wall!  Success depends on you. Please help us.

JUNE 28-JULY 5 - Friends General Conference  Gathering "COURAGEOUSLY FAITHFUL" at Johnstown, PA. Registration is currently open for the 2008 Gathering of Friends. FGC nurtures Quakerism by nurturing individuals, meetings, and the Religious Society of Friends as a whole. We serve Friends year-round with a wide range of programs and services. For more information go to www.fgcquaker.org/gathering.

CALLING ALL CONSTITUENTS OF CONGRESSMAN RUPPERSBERGER! JOIN MEETING ON JULY 1 TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO! The Amnesty International Legislative Coordinator for Maryland — Suzanne O'Hatnick — has a meeting scheduled with key legislative staff for Congressman Ruppersberger (2nd Congressional District) for 2 pm on Tuesday, July 1, at the Timonium District Office. We will be discussing closing Guantanamo and other secret prisons. Congressman Ruppersberger serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, a key committee concerned with the treatment of detainees.

JULY 10-13 - THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, AFSC MIDDLE ATLANTIC REGION PRESENTS: 2008 YOUTH EMPOWERMENT GATHERING Join us for four days of fun and learning! Connect with peers from around the world and learn about what's working in their community. Early Registration: $50 (before June 10) After June 10: $60. Find more information and registration form at: http://www.afsc.org/hipp/upcoming.htm Contact: Bonney Mattingly, Youth Empowerment Through Conflict Resolution Project Director American Friends Service Committee Middle Atlantic Region - (410) 323-7348 - bmattingly@afsc.org

BYM ANNUAL SESSION AT FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY. August 4-10 - Monday through Sunday BYM annual session at Frostburg State University. You are invited! The theme this is "Let us then try what love will do." It's a week of speakers, family activities, business workshops, music and fun. Our second year at Frostburg State will bring many improvements! Your Monthly Meeting has some free first-time attender certificates. Aslo please consider attending the refreshing opening retreat on Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning, sponsored by Ministry and Pastoral Care. For more information see your print copy of the BYM Interchange newsletter or go to www.bym-rsf.org