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Mid-Year Gathering Announced: The Young Adult Friends Climate Change Working Group and Sessions Committee are collaborating to hold a mid-year gathering March 31– April 1at Wellesley (MA) Friends Meeting, to help Friends further explore how we are led to respond to the rapidly accelerating pace of global change and to live in intergrity with the earth. More info soon!
Lead Stories
NEYM 2011 Sessions Epistle: To All Friends Everywhere
Our session at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, August 6–11, 2011, brought us closer both to our past and our future. As a prelude, we met at the Great Meetinghouse in Newport, Rhode Island where Yearly Meeting convened 1699–1905. We celebrated the end of our 350th anniversary at the same time as we focused on the impact human society has on the future of the earth.
A Message from Our New Presiding Clerk
Jacqueline Stillwell,
NEYM Presiding Clerk | What I love about our Yearly Meeting is our willingness to seek truth faithfully together, knowing that we can and will hear God though we struggle with different languages and perspectives, and to put our faith into practice both individually and collectively as we act in the world.
Why I GiveMonthly
I support the Yearly Meeting with a monthly pledge because it allows me to give back to the community that has given me so much. It is one of the ways I can align my spiritual values with my resources, and my resources with my spiritual values. Worship, work and witness hold us together in the Spirit, and all of them require our attention and support.
—Leslie Manning,
Durham MM
Contact the Yearly Meeting Office (neym@neym.org) to request a copy of the GiveMonthly brochure and application to make regular donations from your bank account.
More News
Next Steps for Quakers in the Transition Movement
Steven Chase, Putney (VT) Monthly Meeting | NEYM's Earthcare Ministries Committee has now launched Quakers In Transition, an online project directed by Ruah Swennerfelt and myself to help Friends begin to transition away from fossil fuel dependency by promoting creative community projects that increase local resilience and well-being while also lowering local energy use.
Faith and Practice Wants Your Meeting's Input & Experience!
Janet Hoffman,
Faith and Practice Revision Committee Clerk | The Faith and Practice Revision Committee has distributed working papers for the appendices covering many aspects of the life of our meetings. We know many of you have valuable experience to offer, so please do it through feedback!
Racial, Social, & Economic Justice Committee Update
Rachel Carey-Harper, RSEJ Clerk | Poverty and prejudice have not gone away. Indeed, both are again on the rise. NEYM's Prejudice and Poverty Fund gives financial support to those working to alleviate suffering caused by discrimination in whatever damaging form it takes
Salt and Light Abounds
Dorothy Grannell, FWCC Committee Clerk,
& Minga Claggett-Borne, Cambridge (MA) MM | About 20New England Friends will be at the Sixth World Conference of Friends in Kenya this April, sponsored by the Friends World Committee for Consultation. The theme is Being Salt and Light: Friends living the Kingdom of God in a Broken World.
Visit your Friends… We Can Help!
Brian Drayton, Traveling Ministries & Intervisitation
Subcommittee Clerk |
Sharing worship with Friends from other meetings nurtures our knowledge and understanding of each other and helps build the Society of Friends. The Subcommittee on Intervisitation and Travel in the Ministry has undertaken a five-year plan to encourage such work.
News in Brief
Monthly Meeting News
News from Friends Meetings across NEYM, compiled by Jonathan Vogel-Borne, Yearly Meeting Secretary.
New England Friends Launch Spanish Quaker Literature Website • Quaker Lobbying Organization Seeks Lead Fundraiser • Environmental Leadership Workcamp in Mexico • Westerly MM Friend
Authors Quaker Anthology
updated December 7, 2011