Advance Documents

Annual Sessions 2026

Business Documents

Throughout Annual Sessions

• • PYM Discernment and Expectations

Thursday Afternoon

• • Nominating Report
  • FY27 Proposed Budget
  • FY27 Proposed Budget Notes
  • Climate Witness Stewards Report

Friday Morning 

• • Land Acknowledgment
  • Love, Peace & Justice: What’s it mean to live our testimonies, not just words?
    Friends are invited to consider the state of the world in light of our faith tradition and our testimonies. Beyond writing minutes of concern, how are we called as individual Friends and as Quaker meetings to share our witness as we walk in the world?
    • Faith and Practice: Friends Witness in the World
      • Sharing minutes of concern from Quarterly Meetings
        • Western Quarterly Meeting Minutes of Concern
        • Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Minute for Peace in the Middle East
        • Chester Quarterly Meeting Minute of Concern with Attention to the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza

• • Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust Report
  • General Secretary’s Report to Annual Sessions
    • Membership Statistics Report 2025

Friday Afternoon

• • Consider endorsing membership in National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT)
  • Report on the Spiritual State of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 2026
  • Governance Advisory Committee: Recommendations Concerning the Joint Council Experiment
  • First Reading of Epistle

Sunday Morning

• • Minute of Religious Service for Steven Davison, Princeton Monthly Meeting, Burlington Quarterly Meeting
    • Burlington Quarterly Meeting minutes
  • Final Reading of Epistle

Report From Other Quaker Organizations and Collaboratives

• • Right Sharing of World Resources Report
  • Collaborative Reports
    • Addressing Racism Collaborative Report
    • Eco-Justice Collaborative Report
    • First Contact Reconciliation Collaborative Report
    • Friends Ending Gun Violence Collaborative Report
    • India Friends Collaborative Report
    • Middle East Collaborative Report
    • Spiritual Formation Collaborative Report

Spring Continuing Sessions 2026

General Documents

• • PYM Discernment and Expectations
  • Land Acknowledgment
  • Nominating Council Report
  • Joint Council Report
  • Addressing Racism Collaborative Presentation
  • General Secretary’s Report

Previous Sessions Documents Archive