November/December 2000 (Vol. XXXVIII, No. 5)
a publication of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

Name or address correction? Call 215-241-7213. E-mail hiltrd@pym.org
PYM News, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia PA 19102-1479

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FRONT PAGE   COMMENTARY   OUR MEETINGS   EDUCATION   PROGRAMS   STEWARDSHIP   SERVICE   EVENTS

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Yearly Meeting Sessions in 2001
Saturday, March 24 Arch Street Meeting House July 17-22 residential Allentown College

FRONT PAGE

• Meetings give direction for PYM budget
• Project launched to deepen and strengthen our Meetings as faith communities
• Outreach grants benefit Meetings
• Education survey summary provided
• Meetings take the initiative on concerns
• Next issue: January/February

COMMENTARY

• GENERAL REFLECTIONS:
  Reconnecting the mystical and the practical
  Thomas H. Jeavons
• Minute condemns sanctions against Iraq
• LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
  • A Lenten fast from violence
  • Send letters to PYM News

OUR MEETINGS

• Woodbury Meeting is focus of international visit
• Quaker young women win national pageant, Olympic medal
• Miss Teen USA 2000 has Quaker simplicity on the inside
• Abington Meeting holds special meetings for worship for documentary film (extended article, beyond print edition)

EDUCATION

• PYM grants support Friends' work in public education
• Friends Schools Working Group reviews a successful year
• Trenton charter school has Quaker roots

PROGRAMS

• Here's what your Meeting can do about global warming
• Coalition organizing against the death penalty in Pennsylvania
• International workcampers experience life in the city
• Friends eager to talk about FWCC Triennial session
• Library volunteer brings bookmobile to Quarters

STEWARDSHIP

• Seminars aid Friends in estate planning
• Quaker businesspeople and lawyers discuss work in light of their faith
• Pemberton Fund offers travel reimbursement
• PYM wish list

SERVICE

• Personnel changes in education programs
• Accounting clerk hired
• Interim assistant librarian
• Interim development secretary
• Friends Employment Opportunity
• Just Among Friends

EVENTS

• Exhibit shows Quaker relief work in war-torn Germany
• Looking Ahead
  • Quaker artists sought for exhibit
  • Meeting clerks gathering December 2
  • Religious Education conference January 13
  • Interested in relating to Friends in Africa?
  • Concert benefits Doylestown Meeting
  • Theology workshop offered for Quakers
  • Middle School Friends
  • Young Friends
  • Adult Religious Education

		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 1055-839X
a publication of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1515 Cherry Street Philadelphia PA 19102-1479 215-241-7000 fax: 215-567-2096 www.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

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