Dear Friends,
Greetings and best wishes for winter! I hope you, your family, your friends, and your Friends are all doing well; even in the face of some challenging times.
I began service as General Secretary on November 8, at Fall Continuing Sessions. It was a day of discernment, fellowship, and sinking down together in small groups in the afternoon workshop. It was a rewarding way to start!
Since then, I have been drinking at the firehose of information to ingest, technology to learn, and, most important, relationships to grow. In my first month, I have met with each staff member, the Presiding Clerk and clerks of our Councils, two sprints, the personnel and finance committees, and more.
To continue my learning journey, I will be visiting many monthly and quarterly meetings in the coming months. I am collaborating with staff to develop an outline for a listening session to help me learn how Spirit is moving in our Friends meetings and communities.
I’m excited that my first official visit will be with the Young Adult Friends at their mid-January retreat. And I will get to address Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting in late January, at my home meeting, Green Street.
If you’d like to invite me to your meeting, whether for a listening session or just to have worship and fellowship together, please contact our executive administrator, Cecilia Filauro, at cfilauro@pym.org.
In peace and friendship,
Chris Mohr
Photo of Martha Bryans, Carleton Crispin, and Chris Mohr at Fall Continuing Sessions.
