Weekly Announcements for November 6, 2026

Interim Meeting will be held November 14th at Opequon Quaker Camp at the Rolling Ridge Conservancy in Harper's Ferry, WV. Agenda items include:

• Annual reports from our camp staff
• Proposal from the General Secretary and Past Presiding Clerk to form a yearly meeting structure study group
• Continued corporate discernment on joining the AFSC apartheid-free communities pledge
• Quarterly financial reports
• Request from BYM Trustees for questions or feedback on a proposal to rent-out the BYM office building
• Update from the Faith & Practice Committee on their work

Overnight hospitality in the Opequon Lodge is available on a first-come, first-served basis. A nature walk will be offered at 10am, luncheon and hospitality will begin at 11am, and business meeting will begin (in person and via Zoom) at 12:30pm. 

Karie Firoozmand (Stony Run) died in hospice on the afternoon of October 31st after an extended walk with a rare cancer. As was her wish, she was buried by her loved ones at the Stony Run cemetery. Karie was active throughout our yearly meeting and known for her service and encouragement to Friends, deep spiritual center, and poetry. We hold Karie's entire family and community in the Light. A Memorial Meeting will take place this Sunday, Nov 8th at 3:00pm at Stony Run. 

Sabrina McCarthy (FMW) extends a special invitation to Friends to join a study of Exodus in February and March. Kriat Hakodesh – Reading the Sacred - is a Jewish practice similar to the the Christian practice of lectio divina, a silent, prayerful way of repeatedly listening and praying on a biblical text to derive its spiritual meaning. Rabbi Leila offered a similar course on Genesis in 2024, with a special outreach to Quakers, that had many BYM participants. 

Homewood Friends Meeting and Interfaith Power & Light invite you to a session (held in-person and online via Zoom) about taking advantage of renewable energy. Open to all, this session will include practical information about using renewable energy sources in private home and religious congregations.

Deer Creek Friends Meeting recently adopted a Minute welcoming trans and non-binary Friends. Minutes like these are a powerful message of love, solidarity, and welcome at a when time politicians are dehumanizing trans people and aggressively stripping them of their rights. The BYM Working Group on Trans & Non-Binary Welcome is available to accompany monthly meetings considering similar Minutes. 

BYM Friend Marcy Seitel (Adelphi) is in South Carolina right now supporting Baltimore-based Rev. Robert Turner on his continued walk for reparations, now in its 9th state. Columbia Friends Meeting (SC) has provided hospitality for the walkers. Join BYM in holding our Friend Marcy in the Light as she travels in the ministry. Former BYM Friend Melanie Gifford organized the Maine walk last month, which was covered on the front page of the Portland newspaper.  

The BYM Indigenous Affairs Committee invites Friends to attend 106 Strong: The Rally for History, Culture, and Sovereignty on Mon, Nov 9th on the capital law. Join Tribal leaders, civil rights advocates, preservationists, historians, architects, community leaders, and Americans from across the country for a national rally to defend tribal history, culture, sovereignty, and the right to be heard. 

New York Yearly Meeting and 15th Street Monthly Meeting invite BYM Friends to join them online for a special event on Sun, Nov 22 @ 1:30pm. This summer a group of Friends from the New York Yearly Meeting visited the West Bank and Jerusalem. Join us for a presentation on their experience, with food provided and a Zoom option for those who cannot attend in person. All are welcome. 

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