Weekly Announcements for April 11, 2025
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An Abundant BYM Weekend:
Budgets & Justice & Workday & Religious Education
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Budget & Apportionment Meeting, Sat, April 12 @ 10am
Come learn more about the financial support that your Meeting contributes to BYM! Together we will worshipfully consider how our budget supports our values and hear from BYM Committees about their plans for 2026. Register for the Zoom link here.
Peace & Social Concerns Networking Day, Sat, April 12, 10am - 3pm
Join in person at Friend Meeting School in Ijamsville, MD or by Zoom to learn from each other, to support each other and to find new ways to support our democracy and peace in other parts of the world. Details & register here.
Camp Property Workday @ Opequon, Sat, April 12, 10am - 4pm
Join our fabulous Opequon Quaker Camp leadership team for an extra special workday. Simple lunch is provided. Email DavidHunter@bym-rsf.org for more details!
Religious Education Meet-Up on Celebrating Neurodiversity, Sun, April 13 @ 2pm
The BYM RE Committee is hosting Friendly RE Meet-Ups. Share ideas and information, create connections, and develop resources! This month, the RE Meet-Up will askk: How do we as Quakers welcome and support families and children living with neurodiversity? Join at this Zoom link (use passcode "Friends").
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Last Call for Spiritual Formation Registration
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Registration for the BYM Spiritual Formation Retreat at Shepherd Spring Retreat Center closes on Monday! The retreat will take place May 2-4. Just as fear can be contagious, so too can courage. We will encourage one another as we gather in the Spirit and discern together how we are called to live in these challenging times. "Let us try what love can do." (William Penn) The Spring Retreat features a new, low-cost camping option!
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Women's Retreat Registration Closing Soon!
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Join women from across the Yearly Meeting on Easter Monday, April 21st for the Annual Women's Retreat! Hosted by York Friends Meeting, the day-long retreat will reflect on the theme Nurturing Our Faith During Tumultuous Times and feature keynote from Carla Christopher: writer, performance poet, former Poet Laureate of York, ELCA Lutheran Pastor, and community advocate. Come join in fellowship and friendship with women from across our Yearly Meeting. The BYM Women's Retreat is inclusive of all women - trans and cisgender. Join us!
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Ministry & Pastoral Care Coffee Hour, April 24
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The BYM Ministry & Pastoral Care Committee will be hosting their next Coffee Hour on April 24th at 7pm on Zoom under the queries: How is your Meeting holding space for compassionate and connected conversation in the midst of unsettling times? How are we called to exercise moral courage at this time? The BYM Ministry & Pastoral Care Coffee Hours of a mixture of worship sharing and discussion - and all are welcome!
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| Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse
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Join Baltimore-area Quakers and the Centarl Maryland Eccumental Counsel invite you to a special event at Homewood Friends Meeting on April 23rd at 7:15pm. In Fierce Vulnerability, activist and author Kazu Haga offers a new way to create healing by combining the time-honored lineage of nonviolent action with the sciences of trauma healing and the promises of spiritual practice. Fierce Vulnerability realizes we can’t “shut down” injustice any more than we can “shut down” trauma; if healing is our goal, we need social movements that center relationship.
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BYM Seeks Paid Summer Driver
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BYM seeks a Temporary STRIDE Assistant to transport campers to/from BYM Camps in a timely, responsible, and safe manner. The Temporary STRIDE Assistant plays a pivotal role in making BYM Camps accessible to all campers and families. The Assistant should be an individual who is interested and available to drive young people in a BYM-provided rental vehicle from their homes to camp with safety, professionalism, care, and clear communication. This work will occur primarily on weekends and evenings on defined dates, as detailed in the job posting.
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| Constructive Use of Conflict in Quaker Communities, May 3
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Would you like to be able to handle conflicts, disagreements, tensions while staying grounded in our Quaker Faith and Practices? Friends Supporting Friends, a working group under BYM Ministry & Pastoral Care, invites you to attend a workshop on Saturday, May 3rd, 10am-2pm, at Sandy Spring Meeting. The workshop covers concepts of dealing with issues/challenges/conflicts with others and links the process to our Quaker processes and beliefs that you can bring back to your monthly meeting. Open to anyone in BYM. If you are interested in attending, please email Joan Liversidge at: joanlive44@gmail.com. Space is limited, so please email as soon as you can if you are interested.
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Holding Pendle Hill in the Light
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On April 4th, a devastating storm swept through the Pendle Hill campus in Pennsylvania. 52 trees were either fallen or sustained damage to the point that removal is required. Upmeads, Waysmeet, Harding House, Chace, Firbank, and the Maintenance Shop all suffered broken windows, torn siding, crushed gutters, and/or critically damaged roofs. Thankfully, and miraculously, none of the historic buildings sustained irreparable structural damage and no persons were injured. Our Friends at Pendle Hill ask for your continued prayers and are accepting donations to help with the recovery.
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| Memorial Meeting for Hank Schutz, April 19
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A Memorial Meeting will be held in celebration of Hank Schutz' life on Sat, April 19th at 2pm at Tandem Friends School. Following the service, the Schutz family hopes you will be able to join them for a reception at the Charlottesville Friends Meetinghouse. The Schutz are creating a scrapbook of memories friends might want to share. They invite you to give them either via email (kthoneybee@gmail.com) or in person. There will be tables at the reception with pens and paper to write a message. Hank had a long and storied life, and the family welcomes your memories. To join the Memorial Meeting by Zoom, use the link below and the passcode: Hank.
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| Friends to Hold in the Light
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- Kim Keck & Family (Patuxent)
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BYM Staff Lucy Azenga (Baltimore Friends Church) and Sarah Gillooly (Adelphi) as they both complete Masters Degree programs this month.
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To add Friends from your Meeting to our weekly list of Friends to Hold in the Light, please email LucyAzenga@bym-rsf.org.
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please email Admin@bym-rsf.org.
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