Table of Contents - PYM News - May/Summer 2009
PYM NEWS: May/Summer 2009 (vol 47, no 3)
Governance Recommendations Approved; Some to be Considered Further
PYM NEWS: At our March Sessions, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting approved the Governance Project Group’s 2008 report to Interim Meeting. The recommendations in the “Governance Report” have been worked on over the past two years at Yearly, Interim, Monthly and Quarterly Meetings.
Meeting Prepares for Summer Sessions
 PYM NEWS: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s Sessions on March 27-29 in Philadelphia have helped lay the groundwork for some of the work we will do together at Summer Sessions, July 29 through August 2 at DeSales University in Center Valley, PA.
PYM Closes Income Gap with Spending Cuts
PYM NEWS: Although we are looking at a budget for the Fiscal Year 2010 that will be significantly lower than this year, it is a budget that our Yearly Meeting can be confident will support our continued work together.
10 Things You Need to Know About 2009 Sessions of PYM
PYM NEWS: Getting ready for March and Summer!
Peace Gathering Brings New Sights, Sounds
 PYM NEWS: Heeding God’s Call: a Gathering on Peace took place impressively January 13-17 in the Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia. It was meant to be a “transformational” experience, and so it seemed to many of its participants. It certainly transformed the Meeting House itself.
PYM Offices Get Ready for Demolition
PYM NEWS: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting staff are preparing for the first wholesale relocation of PYM offices since the Friends Center opened in 1974. “Everything must go” by early April from the first floor of the main office building at 15th and Cherry streets so the floor can be gutted and rebuilt.
Unity Within Our Membership
PYM NEWS: We come together as a Yearly Meeting to feel the power and authority of the One who leads us to be one. Unity is an important tenet of being a Quaker. When we are united in direction and purpose guided by God we have a strength that cannot be overcome. Won’t you join us for Summer Sessions and be a part of this larger unity?
YM Library returns to Cherry Street Room
 PYM NEWS: The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Library has moved from its first-floor space just inside the front door to Friends Center and now sits on the balcony that wraps around the Cherry Street Room in the 1856 meetinghouse at Friends Center.
Seminar Looks at School/Meeting Relations
PYM NEWS: Clerks of Monthly Meetings, heads of Friends Schools, School Committee members, faculty and volunteers from schools contributed their passions and talents to strengthening the bond between the Religious Society of Friends and Friends schools.
Letter to the Editor: New Granting Policy Seems Self-Serving
PYM NEWS: PYM seems to be focusing priorities on funding Friends and our own institutions to the detriment of using granting monies to support Friends testimonies that serve our neighbors and issues of justice, racial equality and poverty.
Letter to the Editor: Friends Set Priorities for National Legislation
PYM NEWS: On November 13, 2008, the Friends Committee on National Legislation began its annual meeting to set legislative priorities and check in about the successes and challenges of the previous year. As a first time attendee of the annual meeting, I was excited to see Quaker process in action amidst what often feels like the “dirty” business of lobbying.
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