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Young Adult Friends Winter Retreat: “Being a Friend in the World”
January 12 @ 6:00 pm - January 14 @ 12:00 pm
Register today: Calling Young Adult Friends, ages 18 through 35, to the Winter Retreat! The theme for this retreat is “Being a Friend in the World,” and we will explore ideas of how to lead our lives as Friends with integrity and purpose.
The Winter Retreat will begin Friday, January 12th at 6:00 p.m. at Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. Young Adult Friends will participate in activities, conduct our Business Meeting, and connect with each other. The retreat will close after worship with Friends at Chestnut Hill Meeting on the morning of Sunday, January 14th.
This is an overnight event. We will be staying at the meetinghouse on Friday and Saturday night, so don’t forget to pack your sleeping bags, pillows, clothes, necessary bathroom items, medications, and anything else you might need.
Register today! Registration closes Thursday, January 11, 2024.
SCHEDULE
- Friday, January 12
- 6:00 p.m.: Arrival (Check in, Settle in, Chore Sign-up)
- 7:00-7:45 p.m.: Dinner
- 7:45-8:00 p.m.: Introductions
- 8:00-9:15 p.m.: Opening Night Activity with Katy Hawkins
- 9:15-9:30 p.m.: Community Guidelines and Weekend Overview
- Saturday, January 13
- 8:30 a.m.: Breakfast
- 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: Workshop with Berenice Tompkins of Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT)
- 1:00 p.m.: Lunch (Informal Visit from Julián Andaya, Program Director of Emerging Leaders for Liberation at American Friends Service Committee)
- 2:00: Time for Discernment/Worship Sharing
- 5:00-6:00 p.m.: Dinner prep
- 6:30 p.m.: Dinner
- 7:30-8:30 p.m.: Business Meeting
- Sunday, January 14
- 8:00 a.m.: Breakfast, Pack up, and Clean up
- 9:00-10:15 a.m.: Adult Education Class with Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting, “Rays of Hope on the Ground in Israel/Palestine”
- 10:30-11:30 a.m.: Worship with Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting
- 12:00 p.m.: Departure
Katy Hawkins is a member of the Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting, and will be leading a workshop on “embodied Quakerism” that will be accessible to all levels. Katy facilitates a wide range of movement-based courses. This work is Katy’s ministry and expresses a commitment to engage with antiracism and a dismantlement of white supremacy. Katy has led a number of workshops, lectures, and trainings that center social justice work that moves toward building emancipatory and liberatory spaces for all. To learn more about Katy’s work, visit katyhawkins.com.
Berenice Tompkins works with Earth Quaker Action Team as a campaign organizer, where her role is to build and support the network of volunteers who make the majority of EQAT’s work happen. Berenice has been involved in climate activism since she was a teenager and loves being part of EQAT for its spiritual foundation, strong community and strategic smarts about how to affect change. Prior to joining EQAT, Berenice worked with coalitions at the intersection of the climate and labor movements and as a youth climate organizer. Many of Berenice’s formative experiences as a climate activist were in faith-based communities, so she particularly enjoys organizing with an interfaith group guided by Quaker values. Learn more about EQAT’s mission and values by visiting its website.
