Weekly Announcements for June 26, 2025
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Annual Session Registration Ends July 11
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The weather is heating up... which means it's time to register for BYM Annual Sessions! All the details about Annual Session can be found in the Spring Interchange, including the draft schedule and workshop options. Don't forget - Annual Session week kicks-off with a pre-sessions retreat. This year, our retreat focuses on Addressing Conflict: Strategies & Skills for Rooted Quaker Faith & Practice. Together we'll consider the connections of our faith, diversity, conflict, relationship repair, and the search for right relationships with each other and the world.
Whether you come for one event, one day, or one entire week - we cannot wait to see you at Annual Session. Sign up today!
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Family Camp is BACK!
Sept 26-28 @ Opequon
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BYM Family Camp will take place the weekend of Sept 26-28 at Opequon Quaker Camp at Rolling Ridge near Harper's Ferry, WV. Join us for a joyful weekend of connection, reflection, and family fun in nature. We'll enjoy hiking, art and games, shared work projects, fire circle, and plenty of time to be together in community. Stay in one of the brand new Opequon cabins or glamping tents (thank you donors!) or camp in your own tent. A limited number of Lodge Rooms will be available for Friends with disabilities. Stay tuned for more details!
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| Women's Retreat 2026: Early Registration Now Open
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The full, weekend-long BYM Women's Retreat is coming back in 2026! The retreat will be held Jan 23-26, 2026 at Pearlstone Retreat Center in Reiserstown, MD. Pearlstone offers beautiful, new, hotel-style rooms with private baths and a fully accessible campus for Friends with limited mobility. While the location means the retreat is more expensive than prior years, we hope the advance notice will give Friends plenty of time to save up or request a scholarship from their Monthly Meeting.
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Ministry & Pastoral Care Coffee Hour, July 3 @ 7pm
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BYM's Ministry & Pastoral Care Committee will hold its next Coffee Hour on July 3rd at 7:00pm. Whether you are a Clerk of your Meeting or your Meeting's Ministry, Worship, or Pastoral Care Committee or simply carry a concern for the spiritual Friends, please join us for our July Cofee Hour. The conversation will be focused on the worship-sharing queries: What are some challenges for members and attenders of your meeting? How are you addressing them? What do you need help addressing?
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| Call for Applications: Quaker Connect with FWCC
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Quaker Connect - a program of Friends World Committee for Consultation - brings together cohorts of ten local Friends meetings and churches across the Americas to explore new experiments in faithful community life. Each cohort journeys together for two years—deepening connections, expanding outreach, and more fully living into their unique callings—with technical and spiritual support from FWCC-Americas. Interested in participating? Applications for the 2026–2027 cohort are open through September 1st.
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At the conclusion of their Annual Sessions, Lake Erie Yearly Meeting has sent their Annual Epistle to BYM Friends.
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| Office Closure for July 4th Holiday
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The BYM Office will be closed on Friday, July 4th in observance of the federal holiday. Administrative staff will not be available by phone or email. (Camp staff will be working hard through the holiday!)
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