Sessions Advance Docs Compendium
Advance docs comprise information relevant to sessions gatherings that are published in advance for use during those gatherings. At the top of this page are the advance documents for the most recent or upcoming annual or continuing sessions gathering. We ask that you please review them prior to attending. Advance documents for previous gatherings are located further down this page.
Please email Cecilia at CFilauro@pym.org with any questions.
Fall Continuing Sessions 2026
Minutes of Appreciation
Minute on Concerns Rising in PYM
Transcribed Text of 1776 Minute
Recommendations Concerning the Joint Council Experiment
Annual Sessions 2026
Throughout Annual Sessions
Report From Other Quaker Organizations
Report From Collaboratives
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
- 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
Spring Continuing Sessions 2026
Annual Sessions 2025
General Documents
- Annual Sessions 2025 Field Guide
- PYM Strategic Directions and Destinations – One Page
- PYM Strategic Directions and Destinations – Full Packet
- Lectio Divina Bible Study: Members One of Another
- An Incomplete Collection of Some Anti-Racism Work and Possibilities in PYM
- Questions from the Body During Session Regarding the Work of Council as Received by the Tri-Clerks
- Nominating Council Report to Annual Sessions 2025
- Guidance on Advocacy and Lobbying
- Renewed Minute of Religious Service for Eileen Flanagan
- FY26 Proposed Budget
- FY26 Proposed Budget Notes by Line Item
- Minute of Support for the LGBTQIA+ Community
- Benchmarks for PYM’s Climate Witness
- Climate Witness Stewards Report 2025
- Climate Witness Benchmark Report
- Climate Witness Benchmark – Review of Phase I Report
- Spiritual State of the Meeting Report 2025
- Quaker Lawsuit against Department of Homeland Security
- Minutes of Support for DHS Lawsuit
- General Secretary Search Committee Charge
- Four Approaches to Creating Safe Space
- Arch Street Meeting House Report
- Sessions Survey Final Report
- Addressing Racism Collaborative
- Eco-Justice Collaborative
- First Contact Reconciliation Collaborative
- Friends Ending Gun Violence Collaborative
- India Friends Collaborative
- Middle East Collaborative
- Spiritual Formation Collaborative
Spring Continuing Sessions 2025
General Documents
- Nominating Council Report to Spring Continuing Sessions 2025
- LGBTQIA+ Minute from Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting
- Affirmation of Church World Service Membership
- Sessions Update – Spring 2025
- Joint Council Report to Spring Continuing Sessions 2025
- Climate Benchmark Progress Report
- General Secretary Report Video
