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Quaker Life Council


With divine assistance, the Quaker Life Council maintains the community and the spiritual depth within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The Council stewards yearly meeting programs and relationships with other organizations.

  • For further reading about the purpose and structure of the council and its committees, read the Quaker Life Council Corollary Handbook.
  • For a review of how our yearly meeting responds to minutes of concern and other types, read the document on Issuing Letters of Introduction and Addressing Minutes.
  • The Quaker Life Council meets on the third Saturday of every month.  Meeting minutes are available.
  • Learn about the members of the Quaker Life Council below.
  • Quaker Life Council recently approved an anti-harassment policy.

Members

  • Kate Bregman – Central Philadelphia Meeting
  • Marge Dawson – Merion Meeting
  • Sue Dietz – Medford Meeting
  • Melanie Douty-Snipes – Fallsington Meeting
  • Steve Elkinton – Chestnut Hill Meeting
  • Robert Greene – Princeton Monthly Meeting
  • Bryn Hammarstrom – Wellsboro Meeting
  • Tom Hughes – Reading Meeting
  • Guinevere Janes – Media Meeting 
  • Susan Kight – Camden Meeting
  • Anthony Stover – Germantown Meeting (Clerk)
  • Jean-Marie Prestwidge Barch – Schuylkill Meeting (Ex-Officio, Co-Presiding Clerk)
  • Frank Barch – Schuylkill Meeting (Ex-Officio, Co-Presiding Clerk)
  • Andrew Anderson – Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Ex Officio,Treasurer)
  • Christie Duncan-Tessmer – Chestnut Hill Meeting (Ex Officio, General Secretary)
  • Zachary Dutton – Central Philadelphia Meeting (Staff, Associate Secretary for Program & Religious Life)

Submit a State of the Meeting Report

As our new Faith & Practice illuminates, this tradition provides, “a deep and meaningful opportunity that draws the community together.” When we see what others are celebrating, mourning, and witnessing, we can be inspired, drawn even closer together, and moved in our spiritual development.

Submit your report using the form or email to zdutton@pym.org


Submit a Work & Witness Application

There is a place for all sorts of activity within our yearly meeting community. The Quaker Life Council will help discern the right direction for your work. Do you have a common interest or concern? Are you under the weight of an emerging leading for work or witness? Apply to become a collaborative or sprint under the care of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Make sure you read the full overview of application guidelines before submitting.

  • Apply to become a collaborative or other group
  • Supplemental application for funding, for existing groups
  • Full Overview of Application Guidelines

Committees:

  • Friends Counseling Service Advisory Panel
  • Ministry and Care Committee
  • Program Committee
  • Sessions Coordinating Committee
  • Youth Programs Advisory Committee

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Quaker Life Council

  • Quaker Life Council
  • Minutes
  • Spiritual Self-Assessment Reports
  • Apply to Become a Collaborative or Other Group
  • Full Overview of Application Guidelines
  • Supplemental Funding Application, for existing groups
  • Friends Counseling Service Advisory Panel
  • Ministry and Care Committee
  • Program Committee
  • Sessions Coordinating Committee
  • Youth Programs Advisory Committee

Contacts

Anthony Stover
Quaker Life Council Clerk
astover@verizon.net

Zachary T Dutton
Associate Secretary for Program and Religious Life
zdutton@pym.org

Governance Handbook

This document has been prepared by the Implementation Committee. It describes the details of the authority, responsibility, accountability, available resources and means of accessing the governance structures and substructures of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Download the Governance Handbook (.pdf 600KB)

How To Guides

Administrative procedures that are relevant to PYM’s Councils and substructures and to elaborate the ways in which staff can support the work of PYM members in the Councils and substructures.

How To Guides

Group of 14

  • Group of 14 Report for Fall 2019 Continuing Sessions
  • Anti-Racism Homework

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