Annual
Sessions of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Wednesday, July 30 to Sunday, August 3, 2008 - Summer Sessions at DeSales University, Center Valley, PA
For more information, click the links below:
Our Yearly Meeting Sessions are a time to more deeply link our spiritual paths as individuals, families, and meetings. Coming together at Yearly Meeting Sessions, we intentionally dwell in community and in Spirit. Coming together, we share our journeys. And, as we explore our individual and collective paths, our questions and concerns, our gifts and our leadings – we shine our Light, we share our Love, and we create space for Peace.
Summer Sessions are an opportunity for all of us to do this - together. And in so doing, we celebrate the fullness of a community diverse in age, background, and understanding. Our Sessions Planning Group has worked faithfully to discern a plenary agenda and programs that honor all our needs as members of the Religious Society of Friends: worship and fellowship, discernment and decision, creation and inspiration, witness and repose.
Come join with your Yearly Meeting. Come share the journey - in love, light and peace.
Posted by: Rich Ailes on May 20, 08 | 9:51 pm
One Book, One Yearly Meeting
A project for Meetings to participate in preparation for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Summer Sessions
Actually, two books with one theme, for adults and Friends of all ages to consider in advance of our renewal of community, July 30—August 3 at DeSales University.
For more information, please turn to www.pym.org/education/children/sessions_onebook.htm.
Posted by: Mario Cavallini on May 19, 08 | 10:21 pm
About Annual Sessions
In our Annual Sessions, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting takes its name literally. Any and all PYM Friends have the opportunity to assemble. As Faith and Practice puts it, "In meeting for worship for business and other forums, members come together in annual or special sessions for assessment of the life of the Society, the conduct of business, spiritual refreshment and commitment, and the renewal of the bonds of friendship."
For 2007, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting will hold two sets of Annual Sessions: a Spring weekend and a Summer retreat experience. Previously, we alternated holding our regular (non-called) sessions between Spring at the Arch Street Meeting House and Summer on a university campus. This year, we're doing both: March in Philadelphia, with a focus on fellowship, worship, discernment and learning, and July at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, for an extended opportunity of worship, community, business, and growth.
FROM THE MARCH 2007 SESSIONS
"The thing is this: that if you had (once a year) a Yearly Meeting ... for Friends to see one another, and know how the affairs of truth prosper, and how friends do grow in the truth of God, to the comfort and joy of one another in it ... all things (by the truth and power of God) may be kept in peace and love, all dwelling in the wisdom of God."
George Fox to Friends in Jamaica, 1681, Epistle 373, Works 8:210
Posted by: Rich Ailes on May 10, 07 | 9:46 pm
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PYM NEWS: This video documentary was originally developed for showing at PYM's Annual Sessions in April 2005, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Hicksite and Orthodox Friends finally setting aside their differences after 128 years of disunity.