Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

of the Religious Society of Friends

Families

GIANT Children’s Meeting on 3rd Sundays

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Giant Children’s Meeting has moved to 3rd Sundays at 9:00 am for this Fall. 

Join Friends and Families from across the Yearly Meeting for a monthly religious education program. It’s “giant” because everyone is invited! It’s “children’s meeting” because we’re making a space to nurture the spiritual lives and Quaker identity of young people.

We hope this online community will support families and the Friends offering children’s programs in their meeting; the 9:00 start is intended to allow folks to attend worship in their own meeting later that morning.

Each 30-45 minute program is for preschool and elementary-age children and their families. Each time will feature a theme and seasoned facilitators leading us through grounding, exploring, wondering, and creating. Our program will connect with the Youth Programs theme for this year,  “Building the Quaker Community We Want to Be” 

  • September 19: Welcoming All! 
  • October 17: Creating Peace & Change Together
  • November 21: Extending the Table
  • December 19: Celebrating in the Light

Register below to receive the Zoom link to join! A welcome email with Zoom link will be sent on the Thursday before each Sunday program.

*If a meeting would like to share the Zoom information directly to families in your meeting, please contact the Youth Religious Life Coordinator, Melinda, directly: mwennerbradley@pym.org

Giant Children’s Meeting Registration

Giant Children's Meeting Registration

Note: If you are a meeting religious education contact or committee member and you will share the program and Zoom information with families in your meeting, please answer the questions for yourself (not for children). Thank you! We will not record this Zoom event or take screen shots of participants during the program. We will ask that participants not take “screen shots” on their own devices. We are not asking for photo permission for these reasons, for this event. More information about PYM Child Safety in Online Spaces can be found here: https://www.pym.org/religious-education/guidance-and-practices-for-online-youth-gatherings/
  • Please list all children who will participate and their current grade in school (name, grade):

GIANT Children’s Meeting on 3rd Sundays

Written on:

Giant Children’s Meeting has moved to 3rd Sundays at 9:00 am for this Fall. 

Join Friends and Families from across the Yearly Meeting for a monthly religious education program. It’s “giant” because everyone is invited! It’s “children’s meeting” because we’re making a space to nurture the spiritual lives and Quaker identity of young people.

We hope this online community will support families and the Friends offering children’s programs in their meeting; the 9:00 start is intended to allow folks to attend worship in their own meeting later that morning.

Each 30-45 minute program is for preschool and elementary-age children and their families. Each time will feature a theme and seasoned facilitators leading us through grounding, exploring, wondering, and creating. Our program will connect with the Youth Programs theme for this year,  “Building the Quaker Community We Want to Be” 

  • September 19: Welcoming All! 
  • October 17: Creating Peace & Change Together
  • November 21: Extending the Table
  • December 19: Celebrating in the Light

Register below to receive the Zoom link to join! A welcome email with Zoom link will be sent on the Thursday before each Sunday program.

*If a meeting would like to share the Zoom information directly to families in your meeting, please contact the Youth Religious Life Coordinator, Melinda, directly: mwennerbradley@pym.org

Giant Children’s Meeting Registration

Giant Children's Meeting Registration

Note: If you are a meeting religious education contact or committee member and you will share the program and Zoom information with families in your meeting, please answer the questions for yourself (not for children). Thank you! We will not record this Zoom event or take screen shots of participants during the program. We will ask that participants not take “screen shots” on their own devices. We are not asking for photo permission for these reasons, for this event. More information about PYM Child Safety in Online Spaces can be found here: https://www.pym.org/religious-education/guidance-and-practices-for-online-youth-gatherings/
  • Please list all children who will participate and their current grade in school (name, grade):

GIANT Children’s Meeting on 3rd Sundays

Written on:

Giant Children’s Meeting has moved to 3rd Sundays at 9:00 am for this Fall. 

Join Friends and Families from across the Yearly Meeting for a monthly religious education program. It’s “giant” because everyone is invited! It’s “children’s meeting” because we’re making a space to nurture the spiritual lives and Quaker identity of young people.

We hope this online community will support families and the Friends offering children’s programs in their meeting; the 9:00 start is intended to allow folks to attend worship in their own meeting later that morning.

Each 30-45 minute program is for preschool and elementary-age children and their families. Each time will feature a theme and seasoned facilitators leading us through grounding, exploring, wondering, and creating. Our program will connect with the Youth Programs theme for this year,  “Building the Quaker Community We Want to Be” 

  • September 19: Welcoming All! 
  • October 17: Creating Peace & Change Together
  • November 21: Extending the Table
  • December 19: Celebrating in the Light

Register below to receive the Zoom link to join! A welcome email with Zoom link will be sent on the Thursday before each Sunday program.

*If a meeting would like to share the Zoom information directly to families in your meeting, please contact the Youth Religious Life Coordinator, Melinda, directly: mwennerbradley@pym.org

Giant Children’s Meeting Registration

Giant Children's Meeting Registration

Note: If you are a meeting religious education contact or committee member and you will share the program and Zoom information with families in your meeting, please answer the questions for yourself (not for children). Thank you! We will not record this Zoom event or take screen shots of participants during the program. We will ask that participants not take “screen shots” on their own devices. We are not asking for photo permission for these reasons, for this event. More information about PYM Child Safety in Online Spaces can be found here: https://www.pym.org/religious-education/guidance-and-practices-for-online-youth-gatherings/
  • Please list all children who will participate and their current grade in school (name, grade):

Little Shop of Horrors at Arch Street Meeting House

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Arch Street Meeting House will be hosting a private screening of Little Shop of Horrors outdoors on our historic grounds on Friday, October 15th, from 7:00pm – 9:00pm!

Bring a picnic blanket and the whole family for a fun movie night in Old City!

 

Little Shop of Horrors: Seymour, an orphan and a nerd who works in a run-down flower shop on Skid Row, spends his time doing menial tasks and dreaming of his co-worker, Audrey. Then, one day, just after an eclipse of the sun, Seymour discovers a strange plant. The exotic plant draws customers, saves the flower shop from bankruptcy and makes Seymour a hero in Audrey’s eyes. But the plant has a rather unique appetite…and it’s getting interested in Audrey too.”

All attendees are required to practice social distancing, and wear a mask when in close proximity to others or entering the building at Arch Street Meeting House.

Let’s Talk About Ellen Foster

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Book club! Gather with us for a discussion of Kaye Gibbons’s award-winning short novel Ellen Foster. This story of a strong, smart girl and her challenging childhood is widely available in libraries and from booksellers. Click here or phone 646-558-8656 and use meeting ID 815 8781 6369 to join the conversation.

Cancelled: Children & Families Community Playdate

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Sorry, Friends — due to low registration, this event has been cancelled. We hope the next event will be the Winter Family Overnight at Camp Onas. Save the dates January 15-16, 2022 and watch the Children & Families Events page for more information.

*** If you did not register here with PYM, but purchased apple picking tickets from the Orchard and have a concern about reimbursement, please be in touch directly with Melinda at mwennerbradley@pym.org

Children & Families staff Mars Hohenstein and Crystal Hershey will be there to guide the group through an afternoon of fellowship, play, and apple picking! This is an adult/child event for children in 5th grade and younger — Families with children younger than Kindergarten are invited to the Community Playdates, and friends are always welcome!

  • Let us know you’re coming! See registration below. A welcome email will be sent the week before the event with any additional details for participants.
  • Families should arrive by 1:30 to gather our group and share introductions and games.
  • Please go to the Linvilla website and purchase timed picking tickets for 2:00 PM
    We will travel to the field for picking as a group.
  • The cost for the event is your family’s admission for Pick Your Own apple picking, which is $7/person over age one. Read more about how this works here.
    *We do not want this cost to keep anyone from attending; if you would like to request support, please reach out to Melinda, the Youth Religious Life Coordinator.

Read more about Linvilla Orchards, a Quaker-owned business in this PYM news story: Quaker Farms Series – The Linvill Family Farm Story

There is no rain date for this event. The next Children & Families event will be the Winter Family Overnight at Camp Onas. Save the dates! January 15-16, 2022!

GIANT Children’s Meeting on 3rd Sundays

Written on:

Giant Children’s Meeting has moved to 3rd Sundays at 9:00 am for this Fall. 

Join Friends and Families from across the Yearly Meeting for a monthly religious education program. It’s “giant” because everyone is invited! It’s “children’s meeting” because we’re making a space to nurture the spiritual lives and Quaker identity of young people.

We hope this online community will support families and the Friends offering children’s programs in their meeting; the 9:00 start is intended to allow folks to attend worship in their own meeting later that morning.

Each 30-45 minute program is for preschool and elementary-age children and their families. Each time will feature a theme and seasoned facilitators leading us through grounding, exploring, wondering, and creating. Our program will connect with the Youth Programs theme for this year,  “Building the Quaker Community We Want to Be” 

  • September 19: Welcoming All! 
  • October 17: Creating Peace & Change Together
  • November 21: Extending the Table
  • December 19: Celebrating in the Light

Register below to receive the Zoom link to join! A welcome email with Zoom link will be sent on the Thursday before each Sunday program.

*If a meeting would like to share the Zoom information directly to families in your meeting, please contact the Youth Religious Life Coordinator, Melinda, directly: mwennerbradley@pym.org

Giant Children’s Meeting Registration

Giant Children's Meeting Registration

Note: If you are a meeting religious education contact or committee member and you will share the program and Zoom information with families in your meeting, please answer the questions for yourself (not for children). Thank you! We will not record this Zoom event or take screen shots of participants during the program. We will ask that participants not take “screen shots” on their own devices. We are not asking for photo permission for these reasons, for this event. More information about PYM Child Safety in Online Spaces can be found here: https://www.pym.org/religious-education/guidance-and-practices-for-online-youth-gatherings/
  • Please list all children who will participate and their current grade in school (name, grade):

Cropwell Open House

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cropwellquakermeeting We’re so excited to announce our Open House on September 18th, from 10am-2pm! We will be hosting the event outside with plenty of activities involving spirituality, family, and history. Visitors will also be welcome to visit in the worship space in the Meetinghouse (with windows and doors open, and other COVID safety measures).  Can’t wait to see you then!

Part 2: Where are we going? Supporting Families and Religious Education

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Queries from PYM Faith and Practice are read at the beginning of worship each month at my meeting; one of the youth in our Young People’s Group is the reader.  In May, they were the ones about religious education: Nurturing Our Community: Religious Education in the Home and Meeting. As we think about returning to weekly programs for our children and youth, what guidance do these queries offer? This summer is a moment to pause and consider the experiences and lessons of these past months and how they might shape our programs and support for young Friends and families in our meetings. The PYM queries ask us is place in the center of our religious education programs preparation, formation, and belonging.
 [Read more…] about Part 2: Where are we going? Supporting Families and Religious Education

Part I: Where have we been? Where are we going? Supporting Families and Religious Education

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This is the first of a two-part story focused on local meetings and their experiences with programs and support for children and youth, and their families, in the last fourteen months of “pandemic times.” Families in our local meetings come in all different varieties; these stories are focused on families with children and the people parenting them (who also come to that relationship in a variety of ways, including foster parents and grandparents).

The people who support children and youth programs in meetings, in their Quarter, and the Yearly Meeting have expressed many feelings in this time — sadness at separation, joy in creativity, mourning for connections lost, delight in new ideas, frustration with lack of support, fear that families will not “return” when others resume community in person. I’ve written about the liminal time we’re in, and the opportunities this disruption/interruption provides to think in new ways. I’m also holding a keen awareness of the exhaustion and longing to return to “normalcy” that Friends may be feeling; it feels important to balance encouragement about new possibilities and succor for what feels lost or overwhelming. [Read more…] about Part I: Where have we been? Where are we going? Supporting Families and Religious Education