Weekly Announcements for September 20, 2024
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BYM Awards $18,000 in Scholarships |
BYM has awarded $18,000 in scholarships to 9 students affiliated with BYM Monthly Meetings for the 2024-2025 academic year. The Educational Grants Committee is charged with awarding annual scholarships from the BYM Educational Endowment. This year, the Committee was able to increase total scholarships by $10,000 due to the strong performance of the Endowment over the last few years. Members or regular attenders of Monthly Meetings associated with BYM (or their children) pursuing an undergraduate degree or a technical/trade education are eligible to apply. Scholarship applications will re-open for the 2025-2026 academic year in early spring of 2025. Congratulations to our 9 awardees!
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Chesapeake Quarter Meeting, Sept 29 @ Patapsco
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Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting (CQM) will meet again on Sun, Sept 29 from 9am - 2pm at Patapsco Friends Meeting both in person and online (hybrid). Please note in your calendars that future CQM gatherings will follow this standard schedule:
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Last Sunday of Sep- 9/29/24 @ Patapsco
- Second Sunday of Feb- 2/9/25 @ Homewood
- Second Sunday of Jun- 6/9/24 @ TBD
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| Staff Transition for BYM Youth Programs
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Beloved BYM Youth Programs Manager, Lex "Sunshine" Klein will be leaving her role to travel and to discern the next steps in her growing career. We are so grateful for all Sunshine has done to creatively lead Youth Programs through the pandemic years, and we will miss her effervescent presence. Gladly, Sunshine will continue to serve as the Deputy Director of Shiloh Quaker Camp. Friends young and old are invited to a Goodbye SnackCon at the BYM office on Thur, Oct 10th from 3:30pm - 5:30pm, and a Minute of Appreciation will be read at the November Interim Meeting. We love you, Sunshine & Abe!
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Walk in the Woods Workshop at Rolling Ridge Conservancy
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Join F/friends on Sat, 09/28 to observe the impacts and potential of a selective timber harvest recently carried out on a section of the Rolling Ridge Conservancy near Opequon Quaker Camp property. Come walk with us through the cut and see what has popped up and what might be in store for this area. We will be joined by forestry professionals who will help point out benefits, challenges and general themes pertinent to care of our eastern woodlands.
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| Powell House Seeks Executive Director
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The Powell House Committee seeks an Executive Director(s) to help guide and realize our vision for the future with creative, expanded programming and extended outreach in New York Yearly Meeting and beyond. Ideally, the candidate will be spiritually grounded with leadership skills and have a skill set that includes program planning and management, communications and marketing, financial administration, fundraising, people management, and facilities management.
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Perspective of Palestinian Quakers Recording Now Available
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Quakers for Peace in Palestine and Israel encourages Friends to watch and share their recording, "Building a Just and Lasting Peace: Perspectives and Experiences from Palestinian Quakers." Palestinian Quakers, Joyce Ajlouny and Walid Mosarsaa, share their experiences with systematic oppression, their perspectives on nonviolent resistance, and a vision for a just and peaceful future in Palestine & Israel. The Ad Hoc group offers the following queries with the recording:
What surprised or moved you the most about what you learned from Ajlouny and Mosarsaa?
Mosarsaa and Ajlouny spoke about Quakerism in terms of speaking truth to power, working for justice, and seeking that of God in everyone. How have you experienced these aspects of Quakerism?
Rufus Jones said, "The pacifist is literally a peace-maker. He is not a passive or negative person who proposes to lie back and do nothing in the face of injustice, unrighteousness and rampant evil. He stands for 'the fiery positive.' Pacifism is not a theory; it is a way of life. It is something you are and do." What then does the Light require of us?
Quakers for Peace in Palestine and Israel is an ad hoc group of Quakers working to bring about a just and lasting peace in Palestine and Israel. Our goal is for Palestinians and Israelis to live in peace with equality and freedom; starting with an immediate ceasefire and full access to humanitarian aid. For more info, contact diane_mchale@yahoo.com
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BYM Friends to Hold in the Light |
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| - Jean Christianson (Annapolis)
- Jo Wessel-McCoy (Opequon Quaker Camp)
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