 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2003 (XXXXI 4) |
The Peace and Concerns Standing Committee has engaged several simultaneous, though independent, Quaker processes directed to the goal of advising the Standing Committee on longer-term justice and peace work in our Yearly Meeting community.
It created a short-term taskforce with a broad, long-term goal: to lay before the September meeting of the Standing Committee various options for doing the good work of Friends in the world, and to suggest priorities for that work for the next five years. That group, which has taken the unusual step of meeting weekly, is clerked by Andrew Anderson of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Arch Street).
The Standing Committee has also encouraged our Workcamps Working Group to develop a fresh vision for the future of workcamps, responding in part to the resignation of Coordinator Judy Van Hoy effective September 2. For the rest of this calendar year, the Standing Committee is assigning a three-fifths time staffperson to scaled-down, maintenance responsibilities. It has asked the Working Group to invite Friends to a self-assessment and brainstorming event in early November.
The Standing Committee also wishes Friends to know that those who feel a calling to serve Friends by working on the Standing Committee should make themselves known to the PYM Nominating Committee.
Patricia Finley
Old Haverford Meeting (PA)
Peace and Concerns Standing Committee
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