Friends Experiment: Children’s Religious Education

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is launching a new program called the Friends Experiment. During virtual gatherings spread across June, Friends will come together to discuss topics important to their meetings and share their challenges and successes, with the goal of learning from each other and collectively building a thriving yearly meeting.

After completing each “experiment,” we hope to learn and share the best ways Friends are addressing these topics with the wider body and potentially organize more gatherings like these in the future!

These gatherings are free and open to all PYM Friends, so please consider registering for any or all of the dates and topics below.

• Children’s Religious Education – June 14, 2026 @ 7 pm

Join Friends from across the yearly meeting and PYM’s Youth Engagement Coordinator, Kristin Simmons, for a conversation about children’s religious education and ways to create intergenerational and family-friendly meetings. We will share suggestions for curricula and programming, and brainstorm ways to engage youth and families in new ways. In addition, we will consider ways to collaborate at the quarter and yearly meeting levels.  

All are welcome – parents, First Day School teachers, and anyone who is interested in sharing ideas about children’s religious education!

• Finance & Property – June 15, 2026 @ 5:30 pm
• Pastoral Care – June 17, 2026 @ 1:00 pm
• Spiritual Action – June 22, 2026 @ 5:30 pm
• Adult Religious Education – June 18, 2026 @ 5:30 pm
• Event Planning and Event Promotion – June 25, 2026 @ 5:30 pm

There are so many roles we can play as members one of another, so we hope that you will learn and grow alongside PYM Friends into a role that empowers you to lift up and support your faith community.

Please contact PYM at communications@pym.org with any questions.