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What Do We Talk About, When We Talk About God? – Personal Reflection on a Workshop
on July 9, 2020
As part of our Runway to Annual Sessions we’ve been featuring more than two dozen workshops, plenary, or wellness events. Shelly Xia is a young professional who works with PYM on organizing membership information in our new database. In addition to being knowledgeable about data and excel sheets, she is passionate about bridging people from
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Interview with Janaki Spickard Keeler, FCS Coordinator
on June 24, 2020
PYM’s Friends Counseling Service (FCS) brings forward a spiritually sensitive, clinical expertise to care for the mental health and wellness of individuals in the wider Quaker community. Janaki Spickard Keeler was recently appointed as the FCS Coordinator. As part of her daily job, she interacts with local Quaker communities, supports present counselors, recruits new counselors,
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PYM’s Friends Counseling Service Coordinator: Janaki Spickard Keeler
on May 7, 2020
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is excited to announce the new Friends Counseling Service (FCS) Coordinator, Janaki Spickard Keeler. FCS brings forward a spiritually sensitive, clinical expertise to care for the mental health and wellness of individuals in the wider Quaker community. The FCS Coordinator interacts with local Quaker communities, supports present counselors, recruits new counselors, helps
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Ministry & Care Letter to Our Meetings
on April 6, 2020
Dear Friends, This is a check-in to see how you and your meeting are doing in these unique times. The physical distancing required by the Covid-19 pandemic has created unexpected opportunities for discerning how to feel connected when physical contact is not possible. Some meetings are also struggling with how to complete their Spiritual State of
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News from Third Haven Friends
on April 2, 2020
Third Haven Meeting is moving rapidly (for Quakers) to adjust to our new reality. We held our first Zoom Meeting for Worship this past Sunday. We divided up our directory alphabetically into 6 groups as this is the number of clerks we knew had experience with and access to Zoom accounts. We all felt that
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Sustaining Community in Challenging Times – Report from Lehigh Valley
on March 23, 2020
The following report comes from Lehigh Valley Friends Meeting’s recent experience with virtual Meeting for Worship. With thanks to Friend John Marquette, who interviewed Lehigh Valley Worship & Ministry clerk, Mary Lou Hatcher On March 22, six Friends from Lehigh Valley gathered at their Bethlehem meetinghouse to experience and share worship online. Many meetings have
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Gathering Together: Support for Families & First Day Programs
on March 18, 2020
Last Sunday, a handful of families in my meeting decided to try online Children’s Meeting (our First Day program for children) and worship together online. It was a last-minute decision to fire up my Zoom account and see how it worked. We posted the information on Facebook and sent out a quick email on the
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Threshing Session on Membership Minutes of Appreciation
on March 1, 2020
The Quaker Life Council approved the following minutes of appreciation as a sincere expression of gratitude to the Friends who facilitated the recent January 26 Threshing Session on Membership and to the monthly meeting that hosted. In addition to continuing a process of discernment about membership that has had many years of seasoning in our