Annual Sessions of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
March Sessions:
March 26-28, 2010
Where: Arch Street Meetinghouse
320 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106
We Make The Road By Walking
How are we called to be prophetic in our witness?
Questions? Please contact Sessions Coordinator Lou Ann Merkle
at 215-241-7238 or LouAnnM@pym.org
What's Happening at March 2010 Sessions?
(Preliminary Schedule)
Friday, March 26th
March Sessions will open on Friday afternoon with anchoring worship at the Arch Street Meeting
house and guided tours of the newly greened Friends Center (1515 Cherry Street). After dinner,
we will have an evening of Worship, Music, Celebration, and Community.
1:00 PM First Guided Tour of Friends Center
3:00 PM Last Guided Tour of Friends Center
4:00 - 5:00 PM Anchoring Worship - Come hold the work of our PYM in prayer
3:00 - 7:00 PM Registration
5:00 - 6:45 PM Dinner
7:00 - 9:00 PM Evening Session: Worship, Music, Celebration and Community
Saturday, March 27th
7:30 - 8:00 AM Early Morning Worship
7:30 - 8:30 AM Breakfast
9:00 - 12:00 PM Meeting for Business:
Consideration of the frequency of our Yearly Meeting Sessions: What happens when our five-year experiment with holding both March and Summer Sessions is up?
Consideration of PYM's Ecojustice Program
12:00 - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 - 5:00 PM Meeting for Business: Consideration of Our Schools, Teachers, and Children: How do they lead us in developing our vision and taking action? (Threshing session and possible next steps)
5:00 - 6:45 PM Dinner
7:00 - 9:30 PM We will hear Vanessa Julye as she shares stories and lessons from her ministry of racial healing. With Donna McDaniels, Vanessa is co-author of "Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship" published in 2009.
• Vanessa Julye
• Musical Entertainment and Refreshments
Sunday, March 28th
7:30 - 8:30 AM Light Breakfast
9:00 -10:15 AM Meeting for Business: The next steps on the road we make together.
10:30 - 12:00 Meeting for Worship and concluding exercises
12:15 PM Refreshments
