Meeting on Worship & Ministry
Announcements & Reports
2007 Worship & Ministry Clerks Gathering Reports
Forty-three Friends gathered on December 8, 2007 at Plymouth Meeting in Abington Quarter to lift up the Yearly Meeting's spiritual life, worship, and ministry, and to help the PYM Meeting on Worship & Ministry discern whether their work had ended and if they should be laid down.
For many this gathering was a transformative experience. The day was organized into two sessions. Responses to sets of queries were given first in worship sharing fashion and then through open discussion. There were many overlapping sentiments and experiences relating to these needs and concerns. There were also contradictory concerns expressed - depending on the experiences and resources of those Meetings represented. Please download the following reports for more details.
Summary Report (2 pages in PDF)
Extended Report (5 pages tracscribed from large pad paper in PDF)
Posted by: Dana Kester-McCabe on Mar 07, 08 | 3:07 pm
Worship & Ministry Clerks Gathering
December 8, 2007 - 10:00am-3:30pm at Plymouth Monthly Meeting
Posted by: Dana Kester-McCabe on Oct 15, 07 | 1:17 pm
Worship: Always Coming Home -- A Call to Friends with a Concern for Worship and Ministry
The planners have planned. Now, it is time for the rest of us to prepare for Annual Sessions.
Posted by: Mario Cavallini on May 26, 06 | 10:13 pm
Essay On Expressions Of Emotion During Vocal Ministry
The following essay was shared with the Meeting on Worship & Ministry by Mario Cavallini and is presented here for the purpose of sparking discussion.
Posted by: Dana Kester-McCabe on Jan 21, 06 | 6:48 am
Our Sabbatical Year
This is to inform Friends that the Meeting on Worship and Ministry has decided to take a sabbatical from its usual practice of visiting monthly meetings around Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to hear how the Spirit is moving among us. During the coming year, we will not be soliciting invitations to make monthly visits. However, we will gladly schedule a session with a Monthly Meeting at your request. In place of our customary schedule, this year we will meet quarterly and take time to seek God’s direction about what is the most effective way we might fulfill our mission. We plan to embark on a series of devotional activities centered around our experience of worship and ministry. We will share these through our web page, so the rest of the Yearly Meeting might likewise have the opportunity to take them up and benefit from them.
Posted by: Dana Kester-McCabe on Aug 29, 05 | 9:26 am
Reconciling Our Differences, Discovering Our Joy
During the first morning of the 2005 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Annual Sessions an appreciative inquiry was conducted in reflection of where we have come in our efforts to address differences and conflict in our Meetings, since the 1955 reunification of the Orthodox-Hicksite split.
Posted by: Dana Kester-McCabe on May 20, 05 | 3:05 pm
Queries on Perspective
We developed these queries for a workshop at the 2005 PYM Annual Sessions “Reconciling Our Differences, Discovering Our Joy."
Posted by: Dana Kester-McCabe on May 20, 05 | 2:50 pm
Report on FGC Traveling Ministries Program - 2004 Consultation Of Affiliated Yearly Meetings
Representing Philadelphia Yearly Meeting were Tom Gates of Lancaster Monthly Meeting (from the Deepening and Strengthening Working Group) and Paul Kester (from PYM Meeting for Worship and Ministry) of Newtown Monthly Meeting.
Posted by: Dana Kester-McCabe on May 18, 05 | 4:23 pm
Worship and Ministry Queries
The queries that follow are one way that the Meeting on Worship and Ministry seeks knowledge of the spiritual health of our Religious Society. Every two years, Worship and Ministry sends queries to each monthly meeting.
Posted by: Dana Kester-McCabe on May 18, 05 | 3:45 pm
Welcoming Transformation
For our workshop during the 2004 Annual Sessions of Yearly Meeting, participants considered how they have made themselves open to the Spirit in the past andhow they could do so during Annual Sessions.
Posted by: Dana Kester-McCabe on May 18, 04 | 3:06 pm
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