Access to Social Worker Services Extended
PYM NEWS: For the past year, individual Meetings and members of PYM have been turning to the services of a licensed Social Worker for help in solving difficult health, social, and financial problems. The Yearly Meeting program Care and Counsel for Meetings and Members offers these services thanks to funding from Bequests Granting Group that has now been extended through November 1, 2008.
Posted by: Mario Cavallini on Jan 18, 08 | 12:24 pm
Meetings Can Get 200 Free PYM Pamphlets
PYM NEWS: In January, each Monthly Meeting clerk will receive a flyer advertising an offer from PYM Publications Service Group for up to 200 free pamphlets per Meeting, thanks to special PYM publications funds.
Posted by: Mario Cavallini on Jan 18, 08 | 12:19 pm
Friends Hospice Opens in Philadelphia
PYM NEWS: Amidst great joy, Friends Hospice of Philadelphia began hospice services on October 1. While concentrating initially on north and west Philadelphia neighborhoods, the hospice will serve the whole city and its immediate surroundings.
Posted by: Mario Cavallini on Nov 10, 07 | 1:58 pm
Friends Observe Pennsylvania's 325th
PYM NEWS: Commemorative and interpretive events on the 325th anniversary of William Penn's founding of Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Mario Cavallini on Sep 15, 07 | 9:17 pm
Quaker Tapestry Exhibit Available for Outreach Events
PYM NEWS: The Quaker Tapestry Exhibit comprises full-size photographs of 12 selected panels from the 77 assembled by the Quaker Tapestry Scheme located in Kendal, Cumbria, England.
Posted by: Mario Cavallini on Sep 15, 07 | 8:55 pm
Quaker Exhibits on the Move
PYM NEWS: The Quaker Tapestry exhibit is available on loan to other locations. The next exhibit at Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia is entitled “Let us make their cause Our Own: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Friends' protest against slavery.”
Posted by: Mario Cavallini on May 26, 07 | 3:56 pm
Grants to Help Your Meeting's Light Shine
PYM NEWS: Membership Development and Support Fund grants are available to all Monthly and Quarterly Meetings in PYM to support new projects that promote membership development.
Posted by: Mario Cavallini on Mar 17, 07 | 4:36 pm
Quaker Tapestry Exhibit Aids Outreach/Inreach
PYM NEWS: Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting and the Exhibit Working Group encourage you to plan field trips to view the exhibit “Quaker Tapestries: Illustrating Friends’ Past, Present, Future” between now and March 2007 at the Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia.
Posted by: Mario Cavallini on Nov 21, 06 | 5:42 pm
Richland's 'Food For Friends' Serves Respect
PYM NEWS: Food For Friends had its start nine years ago when Mary Miller, an attender at Richland Meeting, approached Richland Friends with a leading. In previous times there had been an active monthly “soup kitchen” in Quakertown, but it had been forced to stop operating because the premises used had been sold.
Posted by: Mario Cavallini on Nov 21, 06 | 2:49 pm
Meetings Participate in Bridge of Hope
PYM NEWS: Quakers in our Yearly Meeting are involved in developing permanent solutions to the problems of the most vulnerable members of society in our own neighborhoods, homeless women with children.
Posted by: Mario Cavallini on Nov 21, 06 | 2:45 pm
