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This page will be "under construction" for a while, so please bear with us. If links don't work, please let us know.
To create an Adult RE program or find speakers for your Meeting, see the
Traveling Teachers Speakers and Retreat Leaders List
see page 22 for contact information

Standing Committee on Worship & Care
Adult Religious Education Working Group
Announcments and current course material will be posted on the ARE news board (contact staff to post)

"Joy of Teaching,
Joy of Learning"

Report of Conference held October 29th, 2005 at Arch Street with links to handouts, and pictures.

 
Worship Sharing Guidelines
Melanie's tips on
Devotional Reading
Peter Blood-Patterson's
web page
George Crispin's
Essay on Quakerism
Martin Kelley's Quaker Ranter Homepage

Tony Prete's article based on his plenary address at the 2003 FGC Gathering

Thomas Swain has a minute from his Monthly Meeting in support of his teaching ministry.
click here to see pictures of six teachers giving workshops at the '04 Annual Sessions. 

Introduction

Welcome to the PYM Adult Religious Education Concerns Group web page. We offer courses on basic Quaker studies, Faith and Witness, the Bible and Prayer, and are available to serve your meeting to develop programs and suggest speakers. We also want to hear what's working in your Meeting!

Traveling Teachers Speakers and Retreat Leader List


Resources

Book Lists (suggestions for discussion groups)
from FGC's Bookstore: Lucy Duncan's Musings

Resources for Meetings considering the testimonies

In my experience teaching testimonies I have often been asked to help bring together the "Marys and the Marthas" of the Meeting, the contemplatives and the activists. Below are some resources I hope may begin to relate the inward and the outward. Contact Joan Broadfield at 215-241-7240 for more suggestions. -gene hillman

Peter Blood-Patterson's Quakerism 201 syllabus used at Haverford Meeting, fall 2003

 
Bruce Birchard's talk to IMYM on June 12, 2003 "Speaking Truth with Power"
Joan Broadfield mentions three resources in her blog at
http://www.pym.org/peace-and-concerns/comments.php?id=2588_0_152_0_C
Recommended by Tom Hoopes: The 2005 Woolman Lecture by Dan Seeger  
"Commerce, Community, and the Regulations of Universal Love: The Contemporary Relevance of John Woolman’s Essay 'A Plea for the Poor'." Version for high-speed Internet connections: http://www.pym.org/education/Pages/Dan_Seeger.pdf This is an Adobe Acrobat 6.0 pdf file that includes the text as well as 17 photographs and illustrations. On a dial up connection to the internet this is a five minutes or more download. For dial-up Internet connections try Adobe Acrobat 6.0 pdf file without the illustrations: http://www.pym.org/education/Pages/Dan_Seeger2.pdf

Bible Study Resources
Susan Jeffers' "Read the Bible" Resources
Bible Quest ecumenical curriculum
Fruit of the Vine Bible study from Barclay Press (see sample)
Three Curricula from the NCCC/USA web site
Ending Poverty in the Delaware Valley link to First UMC of Germantown

Our Mission

The Adult Religious Education Working Group is called to nurture and strengthen the corporate teaching learning and experience of Friends in Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Meeting.The following are our primary tasks:

Approved ARE Working Group November 2004

Contact Information

To contact the Adult Religious Education Concerns Group please send an e-mail message to the clerk (to be named). To schedule courses, ask for more information, provide information (e.g. about an activity), make suggestions, or request and/or schedule a visit, please contact the coordinator.

Adult Religious Education
Working Group

Kate deRiel - Haverford
Christine Greenland (Horsham MM) convenor, clerk pro tem
Don Kelley (Haverford MM)

Christine Smith - West Chester
William Smith - Moorestown

Karen Shaudys (Makefield MM) liason with Worship and Care Standing Committee

Staff

Evan Draper
Monthly Meeting Specialist

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
1515 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102-1479
Telephone: 215-241-7182


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