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to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
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New Jersey, all of Delaware and Eastern Maryland. We would like to invite you to come worship with us. All are welcome! Please visit these links
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Report on Summer Sessions, 2008
Prepared by Sessions Coordinator, Michael Gagné, on behalf of the PYM Sessions Planning Group
Photos from Sessions 2008
Check out the Summer Sessions 2008 Photos!
Sessions Find Unity in Community: Epistle from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
 PYM NEWS: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting met for the summer portion of our 328th annual sessions held July 30th through August 3rd, 2008, at DeSales University, Center Valley, Pennsylvania. The theme of our gathering was “Sharing Our Journeys – In Light, Love, and Peace.”
Yearly Meeting Mural
 PYM NEWS: Friends creating the Yearly Meeting Mural at Summer Sessions at DeSales University.
Friends Plan Two Delegations to India
PYM NEWS: Friends in India said, “We want to learn more about Quakerism.” Several PYM Friends are answering this call. In November 2008 under the sponsorship of IFWG, members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting will travel to India to share their ministries which include Friends board development, education, clerking, spiritual formation, entrepreneurship in India, acting, cross-religious exchange, and social justice advocacy.
Yearly Meeting Staff Reorganization Taking Shape
PYM NEWS: A major change is the reduction in the number of departments. Although at PYM we don’t often use the term “department,” it probably best describes the ways in which our different staff functions are organized. Pre-Plan, there were five departments. The Plan calls for reducing that number to three: Advancement and Communications, Business and Finance, Program and Religious Life.
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Raising Up Sabbath-Jubilee in PYM
PYM NEWS: Letter to the Editor: Sabbath-jubilee blends Spirit's love of and provision for all creation with practices which liberate us and others from oppression.
Letter to the Editor: Visit to West Bank Challenges Peacemakers
PYM NEWS: Returning to work at PYM following three weeks in Israel and Palestine with Christian Peacemaker Teams, I am grateful to find so much emphasis on engaging our Peace Testimony.
Letter to the Editor: Giving to Larger Body Needs to Increase
PYM NEWS: I was dismayed to find out that Quakers fall in the bottom 1% when it comes to giving to the larger body of our religious organization.
Interim Meeting Minutes, September 25, 2008 - Pending Approval
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Interim Meeting Minutes, June 26, 2008
Interim
Meeting Minutes, June 26, 2008
Interim Meeting Agenda
Interim Meeting Agenda for 6/26/2008 - For PDF version click here
Cheltenham Meeting Carefully Laid Down
PYM NEWS: Cheltenham Monthly Meeting (PA) has been laid down, effective as of May 1, 2008. This was approved by Abington Quarterly Meeting in February 2007.
Earthcare Notes: What Some Meetings Are Doing
PYM NEWS: This month we highlight State College Meeting (PA), which sponsored an Earth Care Camp for a week at the Meetinghouse.
World Affairs Films at Buckingham Meeting
PYM NEWS: Buckingham Friends Meeting presents a free film series on topics of peace and social concern. The films begin at 7:30 p.m. on selected Wednesday evenings at the meetinghouse.
Notes of Gratitude for Friends Education Fund
PYM NEWS: Recently parents of Friends school students receiving PYM tuition assistance were asked about its value. The result was a landslide of heartfelt gratitude.
Service-Learning Project
 PYM NEWS: Middle school students from Gwynedd Meeting (PA) and their adult chaperones pulled 12 bags of trash from the Delaware River during a canoe trip last September.
Bible Association Annual Lecture
PYM NEWS: Tom Etherington of Mullica Hill Meeting (NJ) will speak on “The History of the English Bible” at 7 p.m. Saturday, November 15, at the Magill Library of Haverford College. The lecture is sponsored by the Bible Association of Friends in America, in collaboration with the Adult Religious Education Working Group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Peace & Concerns HOPE Bulletin: Archived copies linked here also.
Here is the latest: HopeBulletin-September2008.pdf
Books Bring Knowledge and Vision to Quaker Concerns
PYM NEWS: Issues of justice, peace and earthcare challenge us all to speak with care and knowledge. Friends want to respond to concerns with heart and wisdom, not with emotional reactivity. Consider learning something beyond the soundbites of the day.
Book Reading Set at Friendship House / Casa Amistad
PYM NEWS: The Fairhill Friends Ministry of PYM invites you to a reading of the book “Walk With Us: Triplet Boys, Their Teen Parents & Two White Women Who Tagged Along” by Elizabeth K. Gordon.
“Monthly Meetings Raising Money” … a workshop and resource for Meetings
PYM NEWS: PYM’s Development Office has “built” a workshop for presentation to Monthly Meetings based on a recently updated version of its popular brochure, “Monthly Meetings Raising Money.” A new set of presentation materials has been developed to complement the brochure.
Friends Foundation for the Aging Formed
PYM NEWS: The new Foundation will support programs that advance Quaker values in senior care, that provide new or expanded options to support seniors in their own homes, and that promote career development in the field of long term care.
Annual Fund Goal Surpassed
PYM NEWS: Members calling members did the trick.
Worship and Ministry Meets November 15
PYM NEWS: On November 15, the PYM Meeting on Worship and Ministry will meet from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse, located at 100 E. Mermaid Lane in Philadelphia. This meeting is one of two semi-annual meetings for worship, business and fellowship.
Epistle from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends
PYM NEWS: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting gathered July 30 to August 3, 2008 at DeSales University in Pennsylvania. Young Adult Friends participated in activities throughout the yearly meeting this week.
Minutes of the General Service Standing Committee
Minutes of the General Service Standing Committee from the May 7, 2008 meeting
Click here for PDF version
3 Associate Secretaries Take on New Roles
 PYM NEWS: As part of this year’s staff reorganization, PYM now has three associate secretaries, or department heads, who report to the General Secretary.
LibraryThing is Growing Among Meetings
PYM NEWS: Lancaster Meeting (PA) hosted a PYM workshop for Meeting librarians in Caln Quarter to learn more about a website called LibraryThing.
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