 March/April 2001 (XXXIX 2) |
8:45 a.m. Registration – Coffee and Donuts 9:30 a.m. Action on Yearly Meeting Budget for FY 01/02, Receipt of Treasurer’s Report and Report of Friends Fiduciary Corporation. Action on the Report of Nominating Committee
10:30 a.m. Break 10:45 a.m. Reflection and Discussion on Our Material Resources as Expressions of Our Faith
We will focus our discussion on questions such as: Do we share a sense that our giving and our spending, as a monthly meeting, as a Yearly Meeting, as individuals, should be a reflection of our faith, or do we not? How are our material assets part of our spiritual witness? What are the factors which we should try to hold actively in front of our selves, as Friends, in the discernment of right use of our resources? ….and other questions as the Spirit continues to work in our planning of this session.
12 Noon Simple Lunch provided by Friends on behalf of Right Sharing of World Resources 1:45 p.m. First Presentation Regarding Incorporation of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
A decision regarding the recommendation of Interim Meeting that the Yearly Meeting incorporate will be made at our Sessions in July. This first presentation is to provide background and to give opportunity for questions or concerns to be raised.
2:30 p.m. Break 2:45 p.m. Coming Together As a Community of Faith
Many monthly meetings have responded to the invitation to reflect, as meetings, on the Queries which so enlivened the Friday evening Session of March 2000 Yearly Meeting. That Session focused on: What Is It To Which We are Called As a Yearly Meeting? These responses, which speak among other things to a confidence about the vitality of the Divine at work in our lives and a spiritual hunger we long to fill, will be summarized and then the large part of this Session will be devoted to taking our learnings, and our understandings to a still deeper level. Depending on how the Spirit moves among us, actions and further steps may be decided upon.
5 p.m. Adjournment 5:30 p.m. Dinner (Pre-Registration Required) 7 p.m. John Punshon, an experienced teacher, engaging speaker, published writer and Friend, will speak on "Organizations and Organisms — How Friends Equip the Saints for What They Have to Do." Over the course of their history, Friends have pursued a variety of objectives, both internal and external, from Anti-Slavery and Temperance to publishing books and adult religious education. The time may be right for us to look at what we have done in the past to see whether we can learn any lessons for today. Winston Churchill once said, "We shape our institutions, and afterwards they shape us." We will try to see what light this maxim may throw on the continuing life of Friends. The Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia is co-sponsoring this evening event with the Yearly Meeting as well as hosting a dinner preceding John's talk.
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