- Are official membership records maintained? Is a member of the meeting assigned this responsibility? Are the membership statistics presented to the monthly and yearly meetings annually?
- Are informal records of members and attenders maintained in order to communicate with and build the meeting community?
- Does the meeting (and any institutions under its care) keep clear and accurate financial records? Are these and other meeting records (deed, corporate by-laws, operating records, etc.) kept in a secure location?
- If the meeting is incorporated, are its records maintained and its corporate procedures conducted in accordance with good practice and legal requirements?
- Are minutes of the business of the monthly meeting and of significant meeting committees accurately and neatly kept on acid-free paper and taken in a timely manner to the Friends Historical Library at Haverford or Swarthmore College?
- Has the meeting established document retention guidelines to reduce the storage of unnecessary routine items such as vendor invoices?
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- Introducing PYM Quakers
Introducing PYM Quakers
PYM Quakers seek to experience God within ourselves and in our relationships with others.
We believe that the Divine spirit continues to reveal new truths to us.
We are a community of meetings, members and seekers who support each other in faith, practice and witness.
- What We Do
Active Work in PYM
PYM Quakers are committed to living lives that outwardly attest to our inward spiritual experience.
We express our faith in action and work for a better world through pioneering, inspiring programs and services.
Everything we do is founded in our testimonies of peace, integrity, equality, simplicity and community.
Work and Witness Directory
A comprehensive listing of all the collaboratives and sprints who are doing the work of our yearly meeting community.
- Resources
PYM Resources
PYM Quakers seek to create and steward resources to help individuals, communities and the world.
We provide spiritual and tangible assistance to those in need.
All our resources stem from our desire to bring light to the world and implement our testimony to the power of the Divine spirit.
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PYM is undergoing a structural change.
Read about how this affects the PYM website. - Community
What is PYM?
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is both a Faith Community and an Organization.
PYM is one of the oldest yearly meetings of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States.
Meetings, members, seekers and staff work together to nurture Quaker faith and practice in today’s world.
Governance
Yearly Meeting in Session
- Connect
Keeping Up-to-Date
PYM Quakers share experience, leadings and witness with one another and the world.
We have a long tradition of expressing our shared divinity by working to be in community with one another.
We invite you to bookmark this page and come back often to stay up to date with conversations and activities in our faith community.
- Supporting PYM
The Ministry of Giving
"We contribute to the Annual Fund because we value the way PYM connects us to a wider Quaker fellowship and supports our beliefs and actions."
Cathy Gumlock, Lehigh Valley Meeting - Contacts