Weekly Announcements for March 3, 2023
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The 2022 Yearbook is Here!
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The 2022 BYM Yearbook is now available. The Yearbook collects the historical records of our business sessions and shares key resources. In addition, the Yearbook reminds us of the vitality of the Spirit alive among us. From reports on our thriving youth ministries and spiritual epistles from Friends young and old to minutes recording powerful vocal ministry on anti-racism and the names of more than 250 Friends serving as volunteers, the Yearbook captures who BYM Friends are in the world today. To reflect that vitality and to ensure the Yearbook continues to serve BYM Friends, you’ll notice a new book design and organization this year. Staff appreciate the patience of Friends while waiting for the 2022 Yearbook. The new format will increase the speed of production and reduce the printing costs in coming years. Paper and digital copies of the Yearbook, with the Directory, will be circulated to Meetings and Committees in the weeks ahead. Additional paper copies will be available at Interim Meeting.
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Monday: Opequon + Rolling Ridge Lunch & Learn
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On Monday, March 6th at 12:00pm, BYM Staff will hold a webinar about explorations of a partnership with the Rolling Ridge Conservancy for the future location of Opequon Quaker Camp. Several BYM Committees have been exploring this opportunity for over a year and the Yearly Meeting will begin spiritual discernment about the partnership at the March Interim Meeting. This Lunch & Learn will be recorded and circulated in the Weekly Announcements on Fri, March 10th.
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| Nottingham Quarterly Meeting, This Sunday at Oxford Meeting
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Nottingham Quarterly Meeting will be at Oxford Meetinghouse on March 5th beginning at 9:45. Yearly Meeting Clerk, Stepanie Bean and Yearly Meeting General Secretary, Sarah Gilloly hope to join us. Our speaker will be Gail Pietrzyk, she will talk about the sustainability for textiles. Lunch will be a potluck meal. For questions, email Janet Eaby.
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Visit with Burundian Friends Pastor Parfaite
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Parfaite Ntahuba (Pastor Parfaite), Director of the Friends Women's Association Clinic in Burundi, is returning to BYM in advance of Friends Peace Teams annual global conference in PA. She is available to visit with Meetings from April 18-April 29. On April 30, she will be available world wide via a Virtual presentation from Stony Run. To reserve your event, please email Adrian Bishop or call 443-682-4402 to explore possibilities. Many Friends in BYM have contributed to this program. Please consider supporting the work of Burundi women caring for women's and family health, HIV care, and recovery from and prevention of violence
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Testimonies to Mercy: Lament, March 10-11
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Join Friends next week for an experiential, embodied and arts based online retreat with Ujima Friends member Lynette Davis. We will be talking about how lament is experienced in our bodies and in our communities and why it is so important to the tasks of justice that we welcome this experience. The Testimonies to Mercy series is co-sponsored by Powell House and Ben Lomond Quaker Centers. Lament is #6 in a series of seven retreats on important but underexplored topics in Quaker community, from what it means to have the time to be tender, to what it means to tell the truth when the truth is very uncomfortable. De
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June 30-Aug 6, 2023 * Hood College, Frederick, MD
2023 Theme: Building Our Communities with Love & Tenderness
Building community is a labor of love. We draw on Spirit’s love and tenderness for us and share that love and tenderness with each other. Without that, the communities we build fragment and fracture. With it, we come closer to the Blessed Community. In ways we can scarcely imagine, the Blessed Community provides a warm and welcoming spiritual home that has just the right place for us all. It nurtures our healing, our growth, and our capacity to reach out to others to share the blessings we enjoy. It equips us to give witness to the Truth, Justice, and infinite Love of God that can heal and transform the world. Read the full Theme Statement Here.
Many Hands Make Light Work: Lend Yours at Annual Session!
Annual Session is only possible with the time and talents of many Friends. Whether you have a little time or a lot, will be there in-person, virtually, or not at all - Annual Session is enriched by your presence. Can you lend a hand this year?
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Junior Yearly Meeting - There will be an organizational meeting for JYM (nursery-8th grade) at the March Interim Meeting. Zoom will be available for those not able to join in person. If you would like to work at JYM this year, have supported the program in the past and would like to assist again, or have never been involved with JYM, but enjoy sharing your time and experience with our younger members, let us know so we can make sure you get the invite and are included in the JYM committee meetings.
- Audio-Visual
Subcommittee - No AV expertise required! Jobs will include microphone, microphone walkers, helping with recordings, and online Zoom assistance.
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More News & Notes
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