Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

of the Religious Society of Friends

Religious Education

Spring Term at Pendle Hill: Q&A

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If you are interested in learning more about the Spring Term, Pendle Hill’s ten-week residential student program, join us for this informal online conversation. 

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As Pendle Hill lives into the final decade of its first century, we celebrate our rich history as an experiment in spiritual learning community. In a moment when the world feels exhausted, fractured, and depleted, Pendle Hill’s Spring Term offers a greenhouse – a protected space for Friends and other seekers to bring leadings, ideas in their infancy or ready to move to the next level, and other seeds of the “already but not yet” – to nurture these visions into being, through the daily rhythm of study, worship, and work, in community.

The Spring Term at Pendle Hill is March 1-May 10, 2023. Learn more about the Spring Term here: https://pendlehill.org/learn/resident-study-program/

 

Christian Slavery (In-Person Talk) with Christ Church

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Katharine Gerbner will examine the historical links between churches in Philadelphia and the Caribbean during the early colonial period.

While Pennsylvania was founded as a Quaker colony, slavery was foundational to its early success, and there were many links between Philadelphia and Barbados. Gerbner will look at the tensions around slavery in early America, when many Quakers and Anglicans were trying to reconcile their Christian beliefs with slavery, rather than trying to end human bondage. Gerbner will also show how the history of Christian Slavery helps us understand the emergence of race and White Supremacy. She will show why it’s essential to remember this uncomfortable history, and ask what we can learn from it today.

Program presented in partnership with Christ Church Preservation Trust.

“Haddonfield Meeting’s Graveyard: Then and Now”

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Helene and Ty Drago will walk us through the surprising history of our graveyard, including interesting anecdotes about some of Friends (and others) who are buried there. After that (weather permitting), we’ll all take a walk among the gravestones, and offer our respects to the Quakers who came before us.   This is a hybrid event.  Requests for zoom info ( if you don’t attend Haddonfield meeting) should be made to:  hmmcoordinator at gmail.com

 

Illuminate Summer Speaker Series 2022

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An online collaboration between Barclay Press and Pendle Hill
Jun 13, 27, Jul 11, 25, and Aug 8, 22, 2022
2nd and 4th Mondays, June through August, from 7:30pm – 9:00pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom.
This quarter’s Illuminate introduces us to the life, teachings, and actions of Jesus in this unique gospel, the most theological of the four gospels in the Bible. “Friendly Perspectives” accompany each week’s lesson, showing Jesus’s encounters with a variety of people, and prompting us to consider what it means to be a Friend of Jesus in this time.

For more information, to register, or to apply for financial assistance, visit:
https://pendlehill.org/events/illuminate-summer-speaker-series-2022/

Giant Children’s Meeting on 3rd Sundays

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Giant Children’s Meeting continues on 3rd Sundays in 2022!

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” and HOPE! 

  • May 15: Growing Feelings

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 on 3rd Sundays

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Giant Children’s Meeting continues on 3rd Sundays in 2022!

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” and HOPE! 

  • May 15: Growing Feelings

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 on 3rd Sundays

Written on:

Giant Children’s Meeting continues on 3rd Sundays in 2022!

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” and HOPE! 

  • May 15: Growing Feelings

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 on 3rd Sundays

Written on:

Giant Children’s Meeting continues on 3rd Sundays in 2022!

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” and HOPE! 

  • May 15: Growing Feelings

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

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

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