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Name or address correction? Call 215-241-7213. E-mail hiltrd@pym.org
PYM News, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia PA 19102-1479
FRONT PAGE COMMENTARY PROGRAMS YEARLY MEETING STEWARDSHIP NOTICES
FRONT PAGE
- Yearly Meeting clerk invites all to attend March 23-26
- Membership Development conference offered
- Minute on drug concern coming to PYM
- Young Friends try fresh approach to smoking policy
- Treasurers gathering shows money can be fun
- Volunteers needed for Yearly Meeting
COMMENTARY
- GENERAL REFLECTIONS:
'The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom'
Thomas H. Jeavons- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
- Send letters to PYM News
PROGRAMS
- PYM asks Congress for Peace Tax Fund
- Right Sharing group continues education role
- Public school teachers can get project grants
- New grants directory available
- PYM offers members college financial aid
- Exciting work with middle schoolers
- Demolition of Burlington wall halted
- Handbook provides updates on PYM
- PYM Library news
- 50 Friends organizations join insurance program
- Summer workcamp includes internationals
- Quaker public educators (not in print edition)
- 2000: The International Year for the Culture of Peace (not in print edition)
YEARLY MEETING
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
March 23-26, 2000
Fourth and Arch Street Meeting House, PhiladelphiaAgenda items include:
- Our Calling as a Yearly Meeting
- Living Peacefully in a Violent World
- Celebrating our Monthly and Quarterly Meetings
- Covenant on Education
Agenda booklet was mailed in February.
For additional copies, contact Allen Reeder at 215-241-7215 allenr@pym.org
- Speaker at opening worship? Whomever God chooses
- Balanced budget ready for approval
- Legislation would raise PA income tax to fund public education based on need
- Survey planned on Friends children in Friends Schools
- Small groups on March 23 targeted to needs of Meeting
- Fill out talents and interests survey at YM
- Friends host evening coffeehouse for our enjoyment
- Meeting secretaries set time for discussion
- Quaker bookstore set up at Yearly Meeting
- Meeting bus rental can be reimbursed
STEWARDSHIP
- Generous Friends encourage increase in giving to PYM
- Annual Fund's phonothon in May
- Craft items sought for sale to benefit PYM
- Some thoughts from John Winthrop and John Woolman about superfluities and necessities (not in print edition)
- As of February 1, Friends have raised $206,159.99 for PYM's Annual Fund. That's 47% of our goal of $425,000 for fiscal year 1999-2000. Thanks to all of the Friends who have made a contribution to the Annual Fund since July 1, 1999, when our new fiscal year began, and thanks to all those who will do so before June 30, 2000, when the fiscal year ends.
NOTICES
- Friends Employment Opportunities
- Just Among Friends
- Looking Ahead
- High profile forum March 30 on nuclear disarmament issue
- Women's sharing stories at April gathering
- Burial ground cleanup April 8 at Fair Hill
- April 29 seminar looks at Church community
- Concord Quarter date changed to April 30
- Talk looks at changes in Quaker architecture
- Gathering for Friends of African descent
PYM News (USPS 430-160) is published five times yearly in January, March, May, September and November by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1479, and is distributed free to members. Periodicals postage paid at Philadelphia, PA. Send address changes to Hiltrud Dodge at address at left or e-mail hiltrd@pym.org.
ISSN 1055-839Xa publication of
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
of the Religious Society of Friends1515 Cherry Street
Philadelphia PA 19102-1479215-241-7000
fax: 215-567-2096www.pym.org
- clerk
- Arlene Kelly
215-849-0598
general secretary- Thomas H. Jeavons
215-241-7210
editor, PYM News- Allen R. Reeder
215-241-7215
e-mail: allenr@pym.org
Last modified: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 08:18 AM
