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Spring Continuing Sessions March 8th
Annual Sessions: July 23-24th (Online) and July 25th – 27th (Hybrid) Location announcement coming soon!
What is Sessions?
Annual Sessions is one of the oldest Quaker traditions! Today, all over the world, yearly meetings gather once a year to bring together members and attenders from their local meetings. We call them “Sessions” because meeting for worship with attention to the business of the Yearly Meeting is central to these times together. Continuing Sessions are our one-day events on the second Saturday of November and March, where we attend to the continuing business of the Yearly Meeting and enjoy fellowship across generations. During all these times we ask: What is God’s big idea for PYM Friends?
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Meeting for Business Agenda Saturday
Annual Sessions is one of the oldest Quaker traditions! Today, all over the world, yearly meetings gather once a year to bring together members and attenders from their local meetings. We call them “Sessions” because meeting for worship with attention to the business of the Yearly Meeting is central to these times together. Continuing Sessions are our one-day events on the second Saturday of November and March, where we attend to the continuing business of the Yearly Meeting and enjoy fellowship across generations. During all these times we ask: What is God’s big idea for PYM Friends?
Fall Continuing Sessions, Nov. 8-10 2024
Our Fall Continuing Sessions at Arch Street Meeting House, and online, gathered us into a shared journey of worship, fellowship, and reflection as we closed our theme of “Called to Healing”.
Read more about what happened at Sessions in the Mott Memo.
View the keynote speakers from Friday and Saturday night below.
Tom Gates: Healing Across Cultures: Two Stories
Nov. 8, 2024
Tom Gates is a member of Lancaster Friends Meeting, where he serves on Worship and Ministry. He is a retired family physician, and he and his family lived and worked at Friends Lugulu Mission Hospital in Kenya, from 1991-94. He is called to a ministry of the written word, is the author of several Pendle Hill Pamphlets, and is the 2024 Kenneth Carroll Biblical and Quaker Studies Scholar at Pendle Hill.
Katy Hawkins: The Somatics of Centering: Quaking and Stillness
Nov. 8, 2024
Katy Hawkins, PhD (pronouns: she/her) is a lifelong Quaker and a member of Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting, where she serves on the Worship and Ministry Committee. Ten years ago she opened Shiné: Mind/Body/Spirit at the meetinghouse, a practice space for integrating the whole self in the work of centering. She has offered courses, workshops and weekend retreats at FGC, Pendle Hill, and area colleges. Her book, Thinking Feelingly: Somatic Approaches to Poetry, experiments with how poetic language can bypass the rational mind to touch deeper layers of our being. She is currently taking part in School of the Spirit’s “Participating in God’s Power” program on deepening Quaker ministry. More information on her work can be found on movingpoetics.com
