Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

of the Religious Society of Friends

Christmas

Advent with Friends

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Join with other Friends to slow down the approach to the Christmas holiday, exploring the Advent themes of Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love.
We’ll use story, music, and both individual and group reflection to ground ourselves in expectant waiting as a community. Optional spiritual practices for the weeks between sessions will also be offered.
Three Sundays, 7:30-8:00pm — November 30, December 7, December 14
Come to one or all in the free, online series!

Advent with Friends

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Join with other Friends to slow down the approach to the Christmas holiday, exploring the Advent themes of Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love.
We’ll use story, music, and both individual and group reflection to ground ourselves in expectant waiting as a community. Optional spiritual practices for the weeks between sessions will also be offered.
Three Sundays, 7:30-8:00pm — November 30, December 7, December 14
Come to one or all in the free, online series!

Advent with Friends

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Join with other Friends to slow down the approach to the Christmas holiday, exploring the Advent themes of Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love.
We’ll use story, music, and both individual and group reflection to ground ourselves in expectant waiting as a community. Optional spiritual practices for the weeks between sessions will also be offered.
Three Sundays, 7:30-8:00pm — November 30, December 7, December 14
Come to one or all in the free, online series!

Annual Christmas Peace Pilgrimage

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Come Walk For Peace !
The 66th Annual Christmas Peace Pilgrimage is Saturday Dec. 13, 2025.
The witness is a ten mile (or as much as you can) walk from Nazareth to Bethlehem toshare the seasonal message of Peace.
For more information, please see the website. peacewalk.org
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.Peace Pilgrimage

Family Devotionals for the Advent Season

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Each Sunday we’ll gather together, light a candle, and walk the journey to Bethlehem sharing part of the Godly Play Nativity story (adapted for Friends), alongside reading and wondering about a picture book focused on that week’s Advent theme:

Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. 

7:00-7:30 PM EST on December 1, 8, 15, 22

Register to receive the Zoom link and join us for any — or all! — of the four programs for children and their families.

Zoom link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrc-GvqjopHtb0_K0zEgOlryAxJeNqGWir

Family Devotionals for the Advent Season

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Each Sunday we’ll gather together, light a candle, and walk the journey to Bethlehem sharing part of the Godly Play Nativity story (adapted for Friends), alongside reading and wondering about a picture book focused on that week’s Advent theme:

Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. 

7:00-7:30 PM EST on December 1, 8, 15, 22

Register to receive the Zoom link and join us for any — or all! — of the four programs for children and their families.

Zoom link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrc-GvqjopHtb0_K0zEgOlryAxJeNqGWir

Family Devotionals for the Advent Season

Written on:

Each Sunday we’ll gather together, light a candle, and walk the journey to Bethlehem sharing part of the Godly Play Nativity story (adapted for Friends), alongside reading and wondering about a picture book focused on that week’s Advent theme:

Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. 

7:00-7:30 PM EST on December 1, 8, 15, 22

Register to receive the Zoom link and join us for any — or all! — of the four programs for children and their families.

Zoom link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrc-GvqjopHtb0_K0zEgOlryAxJeNqGWir

Swarthmore Meeting Annual Carol Sing and Potluck

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Please join Swarthmore Meeting for its annual carol sing. We have words and hymnals available and it is a great way to get ready for the holiday season. The singing is at the Meetinghouse and is followed by a potluck of delicious home cooking. All are welcome!

Religious Education Resources for December 2021

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Dear Friends,

After I became a parent, I wanted to slow down the approach to Christmas for our young children. I hoped to celebrate more than one morning with presents under the tree, and wanted them to understand the story behind the familiar Nativity pageant scene of robed humans and animal acolytes. That was when I rediscovered the weeks of Advent in a new way, through the Godly Play story and its words: [Read more…] about Religious Education Resources for December 2021

The Mystery of Christmas: A Nativity Story

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Stop. Listen. Something incredible is about to happen . . .

This is the Nativity story as told by Melinda Wenner Bradley, who serves PYM as the Youth Religious Life Coordinator. She is an accredited Godly Play Trainer and storyteller and a co-author of Faith & Play: Quaker Stories for Friends Trained in the Godly Play Method.

[Read more…] about The Mystery of Christmas: A Nativity Story

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