Please note: The PYM Calendar is for all events in the PYM region under the care of any Quaker meeting, organization, school, committee, collaborative, or another group. Events hosted by individuals are not permitted.
Sep 9 – Oct 5 all-day
12:00 am
Spiritual Deepening eRetreat connects you with other curious seekers in an online exploration of Quaker thought, a deepening of your own spiritual practices, and the sharing of stories from your life and your personal journeys. Each eRetreat is facilitated by deeply grounded Quakers. This topic explores how Quakers put faith ...
Sep 16 – Nov 9 all-day
12:00 am
Spiritual Deepening eRetreat connects you with other curious seekers in an online exploration of Quaker thought, a deepening of your own spiritual practices, and the sharing of stories from your life and your personal journeys. Each eRetreat is facilitated by deeply grounded Quakers. The Silence & Light for Young Adult ...
Underground Railroad Presentation
@ Friends Village - Bucks Quarterly Meeting
Sep 20 @ 7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Join us for an inspiring presentation about the critical roles both Quakers and Bucks County played in the operation of the Underground Railroad. Come listen to Jesse Crooks of the Doylestown Historic Society and the Rev. David Jackson of Mount Gilead Church share stories of bravery, sacrifice and the secret ...
Young Friends at Bucks Peace Fair 2018
@ Buckingham Friends School
Sep 21 @ 4:00 pm – Sep 23 @ 12:00 pm
4:00 pm
Young Friends gatherings create a fun and vibrant community of high-school-aged Quaker and Quaker-friendly folks! At the Peace Fair Gathering, Young Friends offer people-power for the set-up and basic function of Bucks Quarter’s annual Peace Fair. There’s some manual labor, lots of running kids’ games, free time in the nearby ...
Friendly Friday
@ Chester River Monthly Meeting
Sep 21 @ 5:00 pm
5:00 pm
Designed as a simple opportunity for people to come together, this is a free, “come as you are,” community event. This gathering is created by families for families who wish to join in a friendly monthly gathering. All families are welcome, no exceptions. Our goal is for local families to ...
Radnor Meeting’s 300th Birthday celebration
@ Radnor Meeting
Sep 22 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Peace Fair
@ Buckingham Friends Meetinghouse and School
Sep 22 @ 10:30 am – 4:00 pm
10:30 am
Wow, it’s that time again already!!! The Peace Fair is on September 22nd. The fair will once again be a Young Friends Gathering. For more info on the go to http://www.pym.org/event/young-friends-peace-fair-2018/ The fair is fun, interesting and uplifting (and we could always use a bit of that) for everyone of ...
Peace Pole Dedication and Celebration
@ Makefield Friends Meetinghouse
Sep 23 @ 4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Celebrate the Quaker testimony of Peace with Makefield Friends on the weekend of the “International Day of Peace.” We are dedicating our Peace Pole and Rose Garden on Sunday, September 23, at 4 pm. Please come for peace and potluck to follow. We will have a dedication ceremony, short worship, ...
Mid-Week Meeting for Worship
@ Arch Street Meetinghouse - Monthly Meeting Room
Sep 26 @ 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Pendle Hill Chorus Begins 26th Year
@ The Barn at Pendle Hill
Sep 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
7:00 pm
Join the Pendle Hill Chorus as it begins its 26th year with its first rehearsal. Jackie Corn directs this community chorus drawn widely from the Greater Philadelphia area. No auditions, just commitment to weekly rehearsals,Wednesdays from 7:30 to 9:00 pm (except this first one, which begins at 7:00). Performance Dec. ...
Lives of Service: A Working Retreat
@ Pendle Hill
Sep 28 @ 4:30 pm – Sep 30 @ 1:00 pm
4:30 pm
A low-cost weekend at Pendle Hill to help improve the campus with light to heavy supervised work, plus poetry and fellowship.
A space provided :: Oasis from every day
@ Providence Friends Meeting
Sep 29 all-day
12:00 am
Making and taking time for selves & each other, gathering in fellowship with worship, food, conversation, handwork and reflection, journal-making – all ages. Serious, light, music expected. Come and go as your schedule allows. We will also map out Quarter’s schedule for the year – 2 meetings and the annual ...
Memorial to the Lost
@ Yardley Friends Meetinghouse
Sep 29 all-day
12:00 am
Yardley Meeting will host the first Bucks County installation of The Memorial to the Lost from Sept 9th thru Oct 23rd. The T-shirt memorial for the Bucks County individuals lost to gun homicides in the past decade continues through mid October and is the backdrop for our other gun violence ...
FQA Art Show and Workshops at Tri-Quarter Gathering
@ Camp Ockanickon
Sep 29 – Sep 30 all-day
3:00 pm
All artists, young, old, amateur, professional, all types of art welcome in our FQA(Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts) Art Show and Performances at the lovely Camp Ockanickon as part of Burlington, Salem and Haddonfield’s “Tri-Quarter Gathering” in Medford, NJ. Youth Art corner, Art workshops, Live music, Refreshments, more. Email ...
Mental Health and The Criminal Justice System: Correctional and Community-Based Responses
@ Willistown Friends Meeting
Sep 29 @ 10:30 am – 1:15 pm
10:30 am
Mental Health and The Criminal Justice System: Correctional and Community-Based Responses. What can you do? Doors open at 10:30 AM – Light refreshments served. Workshop starts at 11:00 AM and ends at 1:15 PM Featured Presenters: Mike Huggins, Transformation Yoga Project Facilitator, will address issues related to the concept of ...
Quaker College Fair 2018
@ Friends Center
Sep 29 @ 11:45 am – 3:00 pm
11:45 am
Registration will Open in June. Contact us directly to let us know you are coming! All are still welcome! Colleges represented at the Quaker College Fair offer a values-based education rooted in Quaker tenets. Appropriate for all high school aged students, and particularly relevant to Juniors and their families, this Fair ...
Quaker Fundraisers Gathering
@ Friends Center
Sep 30 – Oct 2 all-day
12:00 am
The Quaker Fundraisers Gathering is a biennial educational and networking conference for fundraising professionals and volunteers working in Quaker schools, organizations, meetings and churches. Friends Fiduciary Corporation has coordinated and sponsored the event since 2003, working with a volunteer planning group each year composed of Quaker fundraisers that guide, shape ...
Berks Detention Center Presentation
@ Buckingham Friends Meetinghouse
Sep 30 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
12:00 pm
Berks Detention Center You are invited to Buckingham Friends meetinghouse on Sunday September 30th – 5684 Old York Road in Lahaska PA for a presentation on the Berks Detention Center giveb by Susan DeVito from the Immigrants Rights Action Group located in Doylestown PA. Berks is a facility that houses ...
Art as Soul’s Sanctuary: Between Trauma and Redemption
@ Tree Room Gallery, Main House at Pendle Hill
Sep 30 @ 2:00 pm
2:00 pm
Jennifer Elam opens an exhibition of her artwork, “Art as Soul’s Sanctuary: Between Trauma and Redemption,” with an artist’s talk, reception, and readings from her Pendle Hill pamphlet, “Art as Soul’s Sanctuary: Meditations on Arts and Spirituality among Quakers and Beyond.” Refreshments.
The Global Rise of Nature’s Rights: How It’s Moved from a ‘Good Idea’ to Reality
@ The Barn at Pendle Hill
Oct 1 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
7:30 pm
First Monday evening with Chad Nicholson of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund provides exciting update on the Rights of Nature Movement.
Mid-Week Meeting for Worship
@ Arch Street Meetinghouse - Monthly Meeting Room
Oct 3 @ 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
November Journey to Spiritual Ecology Center in the Mexican Cloud Forest
@ Conference call 857-216-6054 PIN: 60128 URL: www.uberconference.com/climate
Oct 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 pm
You are invited to an information session for a spiritual sojourn with two Westtown Meeting Friends to share our version of paradise and a sustainable future at a newly opened Spiritual Ecology Center in the Cloud Forest of Mexico. This call will give you information about travel, the programs, opportunities ...
Art for Liberation: Explorations in Collage and Mixed Media
@ Firbank Art Studio at Pendle Hill
Oct 6 @ 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
Resource Friends in Ministry & Care Fall Gathering
@ Reading Friends Meeting
Oct 6 @ 9:30 am – 3:00 pm
9:30 am
A gathering of Friends serving as PYM Resource Friends in Ministry & Care and those interested in serving; an exploration of Quaker discernment in vocal ministry and worship and pastoral care as defined in the newly published revised PYM Faith & Practice. Brown bag lunch; coffee and other beverages provided.
Memorial Service for the Enslaved People Buried at Middletown Meeting
@ Middletown Friends Meetinghouse
Oct 6 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Memorial to the Lost – Witness Day
@ Yarrdley Friends Meetinghouse
Oct 7 @ 11:30 am
11:30 am
MEMORIAL TO THE LOST – WITNESS DAY Sunday October 7th – 11:30am at Yardley Friends Meeting House Join Yardley Friends for a simple memorial service honoring the victims of gun homicide featured in our t-shirt memorial. Reading of the names, prayer service, table of awareness information followed by fellowship and ...
John Woolman Memorial Celebration
@ John Woolman Memorial
Oct 7 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
2:00 pm
Celebrate John Woolman Memorial’s inclusion on the NJ Registry of Historic Places on World Quarter Day! Get to know John Woolman, the 18th Quaker abolitionist, visionary, and writer. Tour the 18th century house and gardens and see Woolman’s documents and artifacts.
Poetry Coffeehouse
@ Firbank Art Studio at Pendle Hill
Oct 7 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
2:00 pm
Come to this open mic format with poetry to share, or just come to listen. This year’s theme is “Liberation.”
Mid-Week Meeting for Worship
@ Arch Street Meetinghouse - Monthly Meeting Room
Oct 10 @ 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Oct 11 @ 4:00 pm – Oct 13 @ 4:00 pm
4:00 pm
[Image: “Here to Stay” (c) by Ricardo Levins Morales] Liberation of the oppressed is a central tenet of many world religions. Leaders from many faiths who are putting liberation theology into practice in social movements today will offer plenary talks, workshops, and panels, and lead discussions.
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