When Friends come together, great things happen.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is launching a new program called the Friends Experiment. During virtual gatherings spread across June, Friends will come together to discuss topics important to their meetings and share their challenges and successes, with the goal of learning from each other and collectively building a thriving yearly meeting.
After completing each “experiment,” we hope to learn and share the best ways Friends are addressing these topics with the wider body and potentially organize more gatherings like these in the future!
These gatherings are free and open to all PYM Friends, so please consider registering for any or all of the dates and topics below.
- Children’s Religious Education – June 14, 2026 @ 7 pm
- Finance & Property – June 15, 2026 @ 5:30 pm
- Pastoral Care – June 17, 2026 @ 1:00 pm
- Spiritual Action – June 22, 2026 @ 5:30 pm
- Adult Religious Education – June 18, 2026 @ 5:30 pm
Join Friends from across the yearly meeting and PYM’s Sessions and Events Coordinator, Tara Rubinstein, for a conversation on Quaker religious education for adults! All Friends are welcome! Whether you are interested in deepening your own Quaker practice as an individual, you are a member of a worship and care committee, or you are a clerk of a meeting, there is something in this conversation for you.
- Event Planning and Event Promotion – June 25, 2026 @ 5:30 pm
There are so many roles we can play as members one of another, so we hope that you will learn and grow alongside PYM Friends into a role that empowers you to lift up and support your faith community.
Please contact PYM at communications@pym.org with any questions.
