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Thread Gathering: Governance & Stewardship / Property Issues
January 27 @ 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
Free
This day of community learning, held onsite at Arch Street Meeting House, will include ideas to support the many joys and challenges of our collective responsibility. Our meetinghouses and burial grounds connect us to our roots. Taking care of them is a gift to Quakers now and in the future. Topics for discussion will include: Safety and security: helping meetings to consider risk-management; Burial ground maintenance: remediating current issues and planning for the futurel and Greening your meeting: steps you can take, from small to large.
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*Childcare is available — see registration form.
- 10:00 Arrivals and Refreshments at Arch Street Meeting House
- 10:30 Program welcome and opening worship
- 10:45 Panel and Q&A: Joys and Challenges with Stewardship
- Jon Burton (West Chester Meeting): Burial ground mapping project
- Paige Menton (Gwynedd Meeting): Journeywork
- Shelly Stackhouse: Partners for Sacred Places
- 12:00 Lunch
- 1:00 Workshops:*
- Greening our Meetings: Paige Menton
- Meetinghouse Upgrades and Revitalization: John Marquette (Lehigh Valley)
- Burial Ground Maintenance: Wendy Kane (Newtown Meeting), Bucks Quarter Coordinator and Dave Morrison (Lancaster Meeting), Lampeter Green Burial Grounds
- 2:30 Gather for Reflections on the Day
- 3:00 Closing worship
- 3:30 Farewell
*Please note workshop change: The topic of meetinghouse safety and security will be addressed in an online workshop at a later date. Our presenter needed to step away for personal reasons.
Questions? Contact Tara Rubinstein, Sessions & Events Coordinator, (215) 241-7228, trubinstein@pym.org
