Three Friends, Peggy Brick, Ruth Peterson and George Schaefer talk about Quakers and the experience of aging. Peggy Brick, a long-time Friend from New York Yearly Meeting residing at Kendal Crosslands, a Quaker Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) in Pennsylvania talks about her experience living at Crosslands and her work as a sex educator for persons over 50; Ruth Peterson who along with her husband Charley, lives at Pennswood Village, a Quaker CCRC, talks about her experience of being an E/elder among Friends and her advice from Elizabeth Watson to embrace her “Inner Crone” through celebration and ritual; and, George Schaefer the Philadephia Yearly Meeting Care & Aging Coordinator talks about his work and issues of aging among PYM Friends both young and old.
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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