Paul Burkander, who grew up attending Yardley Friends Meeting, and Kri Burkander, who grew up attending Doylestown Friends Meeting, are helping organize a reunion for former Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Young Friends at Camp Onas Friday, October 9 – Monday, October 12. Today, they attend Mountain View Friends Meeting in Denver, Colorado.
[Read more…] about Preparing for the 1990s Young Friends Reunion Weekend
On Saturday, May 9, the three councils that support Philadelphia Yearly Meeting—Quaker Life Council, Administrative Council, and Nominating Council—held their meeting in the joint format. In this structure, all three councils meet together as one Joint Council to worship, discern, and conduct business collaboratively. Their practice is to share the minutes in a news story with the PYM community in the weeks following the meeting.
Each month, the council selects one item from its agenda or conversation to lift up. This the highlight was provided by Chris Mohr, General Secretary of PYM on how Joint Council affirms relationship of monthly and quarterly meetings with yearly meeting
On Saturday, April 11, the three councils that support Philadelphia Yearly Meeting—Quaker Life Council, Administrative Council, and Nominating Council—held their meeting in the joint format. In this structure, all three councils meet together as one Joint Council to worship, discern, and conduct business collaboratively. Their practice is to share the minutes in a news story with the PYM community in the weeks following the meeting.
Each month, the council selects one item from its agenda or conversation to lift up. This month, the council is lifting up the new yearly meeting collaborative, the Quakers Ending Mass Incarceration Collaborative.
The following is attributed to Thee Quaker Podcast.
In a podcasting landscape saturated with superficial chatting, a local Philadelphia Quaker podcast just released an episode that aims to do the opposite: an hour of Quaker silence, broken only by two moments of spontaneous preaching. [Read more…] about An Hour of Silent Quaker Worship
On Saturday, February 14, the three councils that support Philadelphia Yearly Meeting—Quaker Life Council, Administrative Council, and Nominating Council—held their meeting in the joint format. In this structure, all three councils meet together as one Joint Council to worship, discern, and conduct business collaboratively. Their practice is to share the minutes in a news story with the PYM community in the weeks following the meeting.
Each month, the council selects one item from its agenda or conversation to lift up. This month, the council is lifting up the continued discernment of how the these monthly joint meetings are going.
Eva Paxton is a member of Wicomico River Friends Meeting in Salisbury, Maryland, and is helping host the Learning for Life – A Religious Education Thread Gathering this Saturday on January 24 at her meetinghouse. She began attending Friends meeting about three years ago, and she has been building a First-day school program at Wicomico River Meeting. [Read more…] about A Friend from Wicomico River Friends Meeting Shares on First Day School and Religious Education
On Saturday, January 10, the three councils that support Philadelphia Yearly Meeting—Quaker Life Council, Administrative Council, and Nominating Council—held their meeting in the joint format. In this structure, all three councils meet together as one Joint Council to worship, discern, and conduct business collaboratively. Their practice is to share the minutes in a news story with the PYM community in the weeks following the meeting.
The Pan African Sisterhood Health Initiative (P.A.S.H.I.) makes reusable menstrual pads and carry pouches, which are donated to those in need locally, nationally and internationally. We are particularly interested in supporting school aged students who are missing school and other activities because they cannot afford menstrual hygiene products. Education around menstrual hygiene management, reproductive health, and life skills (such as how to make your own reusable menstrual hygiene product) goes hand in hand when we deliver pads and pouches.
[Read more…] about Pan African Sisterhood Health Initiative at Moorestown
On Saturday, December 13, the three councils that support Philadelphia Yearly Meeting—Quaker Life Council, Administrative Council, and Nominating Council—held their meeting in the joint format. In this structure, all three councils meet together as one Joint Council to worship, discern, and conduct business collaboratively. Their practice is to share the minutes in a news story with the PYM community in the weeks following the meeting.
Erin Lehman serves on the planning committee for the Learning for Life – A Religious Education Thread Gathering. She is a member of Haverford Friends Meeting and is involved in religious education there, including Faith & Play.
“I want people to know the Thread Gathering is not just for families with kids,” Erin said. “It’s about all of us learning more about Quakerism.”
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