Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

of the Religious Society of Friends

Religious Education

Open Office Hours for Religious Education Sharing & Planning

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Open Office Hours for the RE Community of Practice:

  • Thursday, July 22  from 1-2pm and 7-8pm
  • Tuesday, August 3 from 10-11am 
  • Thursday, August 26  from 1-2pm and 7-8pm

Many meetings are exploring how to resume children and youth programs in the fall, and have both questions and good ideas to share with each other about how they are approaching this. Will programs be in person? What safety practices still need to be in place? How can we connect our local meeting program with the PYM Youth Programs theme?

Open Office Hours are times when you can drop in on Zoom or by phone and check in with Melinda Wenner Bradley, Youth Religious Life Coordinator, and with other Friends who drop by to share ideas and questions.

Lots of times to choose from — drop in on Zoom when it works for you!

Join Zoom Meeting here
Meeting ID: 844 0839 0979
Or phone in: ​​​​​ (929) 436-2866

Questions? Email: mwennerbradley@pym.org

Open Office Hours for Religious Education Sharing & Planning

Written on:

Open Office Hours for the RE Community of Practice:

  • Thursday, July 22  from 1-2pm and 7-8pm
  • Tuesday, August 3 from 10-11am 
  • Thursday, August 26  from 1-2pm and 7-8pm

Many meetings are exploring how to resume children and youth programs in the fall, and have both questions and good ideas to share with each other about how they are approaching this. Will programs be in person? What safety practices still need to be in place? How can we connect our local meeting program with the PYM Youth Programs theme?

Open Office Hours are times when you can drop in on Zoom or by phone and check in with Melinda Wenner Bradley, Youth Religious Life Coordinator, and with other Friends who drop by to share ideas and questions.

Lots of times to choose from — drop in on Zoom when it works for you!

Join Zoom Meeting here
Meeting ID: 844 0839 0979
Or phone in: ​​​​​ (929) 436-2866

Questions? Email: mwennerbradley@pym.org

Open Office Hours for Religious Education Sharing & Planning

Written on:

Open Office Hours for the RE Community of Practice:

  • Thursday, July 22  from 1-2pm and 7-8pm
  • Tuesday, August 3 from 10-11am 
  • Thursday, August 26  from 1-2pm and 7-8pm

Many meetings are exploring how to resume children and youth programs in the fall, and have both questions and good ideas to share with each other about how they are approaching this. Will programs be in person? What safety practices still need to be in place? How can we connect our local meeting program with the PYM Youth Programs theme?

Open Office Hours are times when you can drop in on Zoom or by phone and check in with Melinda Wenner Bradley, Youth Religious Life Coordinator, and with other Friends who drop by to share ideas and questions.

Lots of times to choose from — drop in on Zoom when it works for you!

Join Zoom Meeting here
Meeting ID: 844 0839 0979
Or phone in: ​​​​​ (929) 436-2866

Questions? Email: mwennerbradley@pym.org

Open Office Hours for Religious Education Sharing & Planning

Written on:

Open Office Hours for the RE Community of Practice:

  • Thursday, July 22  from 1-2pm and 7-8pm
  • Tuesday, August 3 from 10-11am 
  • Thursday, August 26  from 1-2pm and 7-8pm

Many meetings are exploring how to resume children and youth programs in the fall, and have both questions and good ideas to share with each other about how they are approaching this. Will programs be in person? What safety practices still need to be in place? How can we connect our local meeting program with the PYM Youth Programs theme?

Open Office Hours are times when you can drop in on Zoom or by phone and check in with Melinda Wenner Bradley, Youth Religious Life Coordinator, and with other Friends who drop by to share ideas and questions.

Lots of times to choose from — drop in on Zoom when it works for you!

Join Zoom Meeting here
Meeting ID: 844 0839 0979
Or phone in: ​​​​​ (929) 436-2866

Questions? Email: mwennerbradley@pym.org

Open Office Hours for Religious Education Sharing & Planning

Written on:

Open Office Hours for the RE Community of Practice:

  • Thursday, July 22  from 1-2pm and 7-8pm
  • Tuesday, August 3 from 10-11am 
  • Thursday, August 26  from 1-2pm and 7-8pm

Many meetings are exploring how to resume children and youth programs in the fall, and have both questions and good ideas to share with each other about how they are approaching this. Will programs be in person? What safety practices still need to be in place? How can we connect our local meeting program with the PYM Youth Programs theme?

Open Office Hours are times when you can drop in on Zoom or by phone and check in with Melinda Wenner Bradley, Youth Religious Life Coordinator, and with other Friends who drop by to share ideas and questions.

Lots of times to choose from — drop in on Zoom when it works for you!

Join Zoom Meeting here
Meeting ID: 844 0839 0979
Or phone in: ​​​​​ (929) 436-2866

Questions? Email: mwennerbradley@pym.org

Open Office Hours for Religious Education Sharing & Planning

Written on:

Open Office Hours for the RE Community of Practice:

  • Thursday, July 22  from 1-2pm and 7-8pm
  • Tuesday, August 3 from 10-11am 
  • Thursday, August 26  from 1-2pm and 7-8pm

Many meetings are exploring how to resume children and youth programs in the fall, and have both questions and good ideas to share with each other about how they are approaching this. Will programs be in person? What safety practices still need to be in place? How can we connect our local meeting program with the PYM Youth Programs theme?

Open Office Hours are times when you can drop in on Zoom or by phone and check in with Melinda Wenner Bradley, Youth Religious Life Coordinator, and with other Friends who drop by to share ideas and questions.

Lots of times to choose from — drop in on Zoom when it works for you!

Join Zoom Meeting here
Meeting ID: 844 0839 0979
Or phone in: ​​​​​ (929) 436-2866

Questions? Email: mwennerbradley@pym.org

Pendle Hill Reading Group: Spirit-Led Eldering

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Join Pendle Hill for our monthly Reading Group July 14, 2021, hosted by Janaki Spickard Keeler, 6:30-8:00pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom. Our reading group focuses on a mix of Pendle Hill pamphlets and other Quaker materials, gathering monthly to consider queries about the reading in a spirit of worship sharing.
For this July session, we will be reflecting on Margery Larrabee’s 2007 pamphlet, Spirit-Led Eldering: Integral to Our Faith and Practice (PHP #392).

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