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Does your spirit need refreshment? Do you need help with a new responsibility in your Meeting? Do you wonder how PYM works? Does the Peace Testimony speak to you and your children? Are you concerned about changes in PYM programs? Do you long for inner peace? On Thursday, March 27, the Yearly Meeting will have workshops to address these and other concerns raised by members and Meetings. Workshops will take place in various rooms at Arch Street Meeting House, Old First Reformed Church, and the Holiday Inn. Pick up a schedule with locations when you register Thursday morning at the Fourth and Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia.
- 10:00–11:45 a.m.
The Spiritual Life & Ministry of Our Monthly Meetings. Peace can begin in our Monthly Meetings with their support for our individual and corporate witness in the world. Please join the PYM Meeting on Worship and Ministry to share and learn, including prayerful discussion of queries, and focused worship. Facilitator: Dana Kester-McCabe.
Meeting for Learning: An Open Discussion about Helping Adults on their Spiritual Path, sponsored by the Adult Religious Education Concerns Group.
Listening Session: Residential Sessions of Yearly Meeting. Are We Missing Something? Discerning what is rightly ordered for Residential Yearly Meeting. How can we best conduct our business, serve our families, and build community in Yearly Meeting? Members of the Annual Sessions Planning Group
What is the Structure Evaluation Project Group? Why is it needed and how is it carrying out its charge? Join us for a conversation on our work in progress, including questions and answers about our methodology and schedule. Members of the Structure Evaluation Project Group.
Avoiding Financial Disaster: Planning for Meetinghouse Maintenance. Roundtable discussion with members of the Meeting House Trust Funds Granting Group, its experienced staff person Helen File, and members of the General Services Standing Committee. Facilitator: Anne Moore.
Steps Toward Hope in Criminal Justice: Arthur Clark, Germantown Meeting, on Hope for "Lifers;" Tommy Trantino and Haddonfield Quarter Friends on Hope for Surviving Freedom; Charles Melchior, Atlantic City Area Meeting, on Hope for Ending the Death Penalty, with the Peace and Concerns Standing Committee.
Incorporation for Monthly Meetings: Looking at the pros and cons of incorporation; learning what is involved in becoming incorporated, and an opportunity to have questions answered. Sam Swansen, Yearly Meeting Counsel.
- Noon:
Secretaries of Monthly Meetings are invited to bring their lunches and discuss topics of mutual interest.
- 1:00–2:45 p.m.
Fostering Spiritual Vitality in Your Meeting: New Initiatives for Personal and Corporate Growth. A brief overview of recent activity in our Meetings, with presentations by the Spiritual Formation Program, Deepening and Strengthening Our Meetings as Faith Communities Working Group, and Worship and Care Standing Committee.
Legislated Patriotism: Issues of Conscience for Friends and Friends Schools. What do the new laws require? What can Friends do about them? How do they affect our draft-age young people? Education Standing Committee and the Conscience, Militarism, and War Tax Concerns Working Group.
The Quaker Parenting Project, sponsored by Care and Counsel for Meetings and Members and Friends Institute, is seeking how to help parents better integrate their Quaker faith into their family life. Come join the discussion with facilitator Harriet Heath.
Reclaiming Peacemaking as a Spiritual Ministration: A worshipful exploration of the spiritual challenges peacemakers face if we are to live and act in God's peace, the peace that can truly transform us and the world. Using our own experiences to gain insights about peace. Jorge Arauz
Treasurers Round Table: An Open Forum for Meeting Treasurers and Finance Committee Members. Draft copies of the new Treasurer's Handbook will be available. Treasurers Planning Group.
Two Views of Addiction: 1:00 p.m. Substance Abuse, First steps to recognizing and addressing it within our Meeting community, by members of the Friends Counseling Service. 1:50 p.m. The War on Drugs goes on, while drugs continue to create enormous harm. A new movement, called "harm reduction," is being tried in several cities. Learn more about it from the Drug Concerns Working Group.
Exploring Library Services: The Library Services Group will present a short introduction to the PYM Library web page, and the catalog on the Internet. A Meeting librarian will share how she uses PYM resources for Lehigh Valley Friends Meeting. There will be time reserved to hear people's interests, concerns, and priorities for the future. Christy Roysdon and the Library Services Group.
Successfully Including Teens in Our Spiritual Community: Lisa Wildman of Doylestown Meeting, George Price and John DiMino from Falls Meeting, and Judy Van Hoy of the Friends Workcamp Program will tell how they have created opportunities for teens at First-day School, at evening events at a meetinghouse or while exploring the wider world together. There will be ample time for questions, answers and sharing.
- 3:15–5:00 p.m.
Clerking with Joy: The invitation to serve a Meeting through clerking is a special gift and an opportunity. How do we open ourselves to the joy of this experience, both by building the skills needed and grounding ourselves spiritually? Arthur M. Larrabee, former clerk of PYM
Agreeing to Disagree: Learning to Address Divisive Issues Peacefully (particularly the issue of how we relate to the Peace Testimony itself). Friends believe that God's leading emerges from the different offerings of those present, yet we are sometimes reluctant to risk open disagreement. How can we learn to respond to the Inner Light when it isn’t reflected the same by all of us? Facilitated by Gene Hillman and Caroline Packard
Keeping In and Taking Out: The Challenge of Rightly Ordering the PYM Budget. You have heard that residential yearly meeting was canceled. You have heard about proposed staff layoffs. You have heard about changes proposed for the library. And you may have comments and questions about this year or ideas about how to do it better next time. You are invited to share your thoughts with members of the Financial Stewardship Committee, the folks responsible for rightly ordering the PYM budget.
Using Our History for Inreach and Outreach: An exploration of how we can use artifacts, archives, and historical sources to deepen our understanding of Quakerism and make it more visible in the world. Deborah Haines and the Records Services Group.
PYM Outreach: The Web & Beyond. Join us for an informal gathering hosted by the working groups under the care of Support and Outreach Standing Committee who will share what they do and what they can offer Monthly Meetings. Includes demonstration of the PYM website.
Last modified: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 08:19 AM