State of the Meeting Reports

Below are some of our Meeting’s activity regarding environmentalism and climate change: Addressing Climate Change at WFM (from discussion in group) We switched from plastic bottled water to pitcher filtered water The majority of members are vegan/vegetarian with a consciousness of the environmental cost of animal agriculture Carleton (property manager) has replaced all light bulbs

In preparation for writing the yearly state of the meeting report for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and Baltimore Yearly Meeting, our worship and ministry committee chose two sets of queries to guide us in reflecting on the past year. To elicit responses to these from as many meeting members and attenders as possible, we held two

Pennsdale Friends Meeting remained a source of peaceful inspiration for its many Friends and attenders throughout 2022. We have been continuously open for worship every First Day, and surprisingly the men attending generally outnumber the women. Weddings are always a joyous event, and we welcomed Steven Lunger and Sophie Malin from Millville Meeting for their

Our Meeting does its best to encourage a life of spiritual awareness. We recognize that this can be manifest in diverse ways. To some it is represented by living up to the ideals taught by Jesus and to others it is a less defined holistic approach to the celebration of creation. To some, this journey

In this past year, how has your meeting worked to create and strengthen the reality of a Beloved Community? How has your meeting fostered an environment in which members and attenders of all ages know they are loved, cared for, trusted, and respected? Providence Friends Meeting sought to reconnect with its members and attenders during

If you were to come to West Chester Meeting on a Sunday morning, what would you see and experience? A well-kept meetinghouse on a busy street in the Borough, flags hanging on the front porch with a peace symbol and “Black Lives Matter” on them. Individuals, couples, families with children, college students, and a nonagenarian

List of some of Janet Lamborn’s (clerk of Reading Meeting) thoughts: Only 40 members, including 2 new ones, only about ½ are active; Most Sundays we are lucky to be crowded with as many as 20 attenders and members at Worship, a few times we have had 25 people, last Sundy we had 9 Quakers

Medford Monthly Meeting’s yearly review of the spiritual life of our Meeting encompassed responses from each Meeting Committee as well as from individual s in a Called Meeting for Worship. The reports from each Meeting committee have been forwarded to the PYM General Secretary. Some reports were specific to each Query, but generally, most took