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to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
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of our faith community, which includes Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern
New Jersey, all of Delaware and Eastern Maryland. We would like to invite you to come worship with us. All are welcome! Please visit these links
to find out more about our faith, witness and fellowship:
The 328th Sessions of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Summer Sessions
From, July 30th through August 3rd, we will come together as a Yearly Meeting to live our questions with faith and courage and to conduct business in the manner of Friends.
Children’s Sessions: Finding God’s Big Idea in Committee!
PYM NEWS: At Yearly Meeting Sessions March 28-29 in Philadelphia, the children of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting are invited to gather with the full community of Friends for worship, business and fun as well as meet together with their peers for their own worship, business and fun!
Sessions to Explore Peace Witness
 PYM NEWS: The March Sessions of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting -- on the theme: “How Are We Doing On Peace?: Revitalizing Our Testimony, Sharing Our Stories” -- will be March 28-30, 2008, at the Fourth and Arch Street Meeting House.
Listening Sessions on Future of Meetinghouse
PYM NEWS: The Arch Street Project Group is gathering input from across the Yearly Meeting on the vision for the future of our ministry at Arch Street Meeting House.
Haverford Meeting Starts Quaker Quest
PYM NEWS: Haverford Meeting (PA) is presenting Quaker Quest, a bold new program for Quaker outreach. These are a series of stand-alone information and discussion meetings on specific Quaker topics.
Reflections from the General Secretary: We Are Vital and Growing
by Arthur Larrabee, PYM General Secretary
PYM NEWS: This is not the message we often hear, but it is true. I believe that now is the time to change the words we use to describe ourselves.
Letter to the Editor: Visit to West Bank Challenges Peacemakers
PYM NEWS: Returning to work at PYM following three weeks in Israel and Palestine with Christian Peacemaker Teams, I am grateful to find so much emphasis on engaging our Peace Testimony.
Letter to the Editor: Giving to Larger Body Needs to Increase
PYM NEWS: I was dismayed to find out that Quakers fall in the bottom 1% when it comes to giving to the larger body of our religious organization.
Coming to terms with my ministry, and a call to the ministry of others
PYM NEWS: It’s hard to be Quakers because our spirituality requires all of us to take on the role of ministers and also the role of lay people. We have to equally receive healing and spiritual nurture and give healing and spiritual nurture, though not always simultaneously.
Interim Meeting Agenda
Interim Meeting Agenda for 4/24/2008 - For PDF version click here
Interim Meeting Minutes of February 28, 2008
Interim Meeting Minutes of February 28, 2008 - For PDF version click here
IM Governance Project Group Report & Communication
The Interim Meeting Governance Project Group Report & Communication is ready. View the report here
Mullica Hill Meeting Finds the Gift of a Story
PYM NEWS: What’s a shy meeting doing with storytelling? It just seemed to fit. It excited our Meeting.
Woodstown Funds Effort to Remove Bombs
PYM NEWS: Frank Lenik of Woodstown Meeting (NJ) saw a display at a 2007 surveyors conference that immediately caught his attention: “Buy a Locator; Save a Life.” Having once been in the Peace Corps, a Quaker who “walks the walk,” he became intrigued with finding a way to buy some of these metal detectors for locating land mines in former war zones.
Radnor Meeting Supports Philadelphia School
 PYM NEWS: James Rhoads Elementary School in West Philadelphia has faced the challenges of inner city schools -- a blacktop playground with no equipment, classrooms filled with as many as thirty students, and limited resources for basic necessities such as books.
PYM Committees Need Parents
PYM NEWS: Let us welcome Quaker parents to become involved in Yearly Meeting committees!
Service-Learning Project
 PYM NEWS: Middle school students from Gwynedd Meeting (PA) and their adult chaperones pulled 12 bags of trash from the Delaware River during a canoe trip last September.
Quaker Scholars at Pendle Hill in May
PYM NEWS: Friends interested in Quaker faith, practice and history are encouraged to check out Pendle Hill's program offerings for May.
Federal Rebates: Corporate Witness for Earth?
PYM NEWS: A Friend in my weekday worship group asked if we had considered how we might use the $600 tax rebates being discussed in Congress. Most Friends would prefer to see our government fund education, healthcare, and those in need, rather than give money to citizens to buy more “stuff.” But what if we used these rebates as a witness for the Earth?
Cycling Across Pennsylvania for the Earth
 PYM NEWS: This June Quakers will bicycle 300 miles across southern Pennsylvania in a corporate witness for stewardship of the Earth. This EarthQuaker Biketrip is a sustainable (and joyful) travel option for those attending Friends General Conference’s 2008 Summer Gathering in Johnstown.
A Life of Conscience: Objecting to War Taxes
PYM NEWS: Sadsbury Meeting, as host of the fall gathering of Caln Quarterly Meeting, invited Robin Harper of Providence Meeting (PA) to speak about his journey of conscience as a war tax resister. Since 1958, Robin has refused to pay his income tax to IRS, instead conscientiously redistributing the entire amount to agencies working in the community and around the world for peace, social justice and the environment.
Financial Stewardship and Monthly Meetings
PYM NEWS: On October 27, 2007, Meeting treasurers gathered to begin a discussion on increasing both the dollars contributed and the percentage of members who contribute. This meeting was the beginning of what several Monthly Meetings hope will be an ongoing discussion among members about the meaning of membership and the strengthening of our Meeting communities.
Grants for the Study of Christian Mysticism
PYM NEWS: The Elizabeth Ann Bogert Memorial Fund for the Study and Practice of Christian Mysticism, administered by Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas, makes annual grants of up to $1,000.
Be a Good Steward of Our Faith Community
PYM NEWS: Stewardship of our precious Religious Society of Friends is the responsibility of every Friend.
Gatherings for Extended Worship Scheduled
PYM NEWS: On Saturday, March 1 and again on Saturday, May 17, Friends will gather for a whole morning of worship, followed by fellowship over bag lunches and worship sharing in the afternoon.
Access to Social Worker Services Extended
PYM NEWS: For the past year, individual Meetings and members of PYM have been turning to the services of a licensed Social Worker for help in solving difficult health, social, and financial problems. The Yearly Meeting program Care and Counsel for Meetings and Members offers these services thanks to funding from Bequests Granting Group that has now been extended through November 1, 2008.
Notes from Burlington Meeting House Threshing Session
Notes from Burlington Meeting House Threshing Session Click here for PDF
Just Among Friends
PYM NEWS: Classified advertising from the March/April 2008 issue.
Love your library: It’s a green thing to do
PYM NEWS: There are a number of ways in which all libraries come naturally green. Instead of spending your green money on buying books, you can borrow them for free. Instead of adding one more book to the pile of ravaged trees in the universe, you have helped to save another tree.
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