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Dear Friends throughout PYM:
What is our response, as Friends, to the tragic events of the past few weeks; and our response to the possibly still more tragic actions that may be instigated in our names as Americans in the coming weeks? This is a question in the hearts and on the tongues of many Friends in all parts of our Yearly Meeting. Many ideas and leadings are unfolding in response to the question, but it is clear that if we are to discern how the Spirit is truly calling us, we must have opportunities to come together and share our thoughts.
In an effort to create those opportunities for corporate discernment it has seemed rightly ordered to organize regional YM threshing sessions, so that our entire community may begin to find how the Holy Spirit would have us respond, as a community and as individuals.
On Sunday, September 30th, from 2 to 5 PM, the following meetinghouses will be sites for these called sessions for worship and threshing:
- Germantown
- Gwynedd
- Harrisburg
- London Grove
- Middletown (Concord)
- Moorestown
- Old Haverford
- Pennsdale
- Wilmington Friends School
- Woodstown
The purposes of these called meetings are quite simple:
- First:
To gather worshipfully in this time of heightened emotions, in the regions of our YM family;
- Second:
To identify and thresh the leadings emerging in individuals and Monthly Meetings in the hope that, as patterns of response become clearer, we will be led to right action;
- Third:
To discern common threads among each of the sessions and to communicate this information back to members of the Yearly Meeting, in preparation for the next step, which will be a decision making session.
Because of the urgency of this matter, we have only the coming first day (9.23.01) to announce to Friends the called regional worship and threshing sessions for the following first day (9.30.01). Kindly do whatever is possible in your own Monthly Meeting, to spread word of this spiritual opportunity among Friends and attenders.
In Peace,
Arlene Kelly, Clerk
Last modified: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 08:18 AM