Weekly Announcements for November 7, 2025
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Last Call for Hospitality & Childcare at Interim Meeting |
Interim Meeting is next Saturday, November 15th at Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Stony Run. Our Friends at Stony Run have kindly offered to provide overnight hospitality with Meeting members for BYM Friends coming from a distance and childcare during Interim Meeting for those who may need it.
The deadline for childcare and hospitality requests is today.
If you are planning to come to Interim Meeting in-person, please RSVP as soon as possible so we have an accurate headcount for our simple lunch.
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Request to BYM Committees: Meeting Calendar
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The Yearly Meeting Office is renewing our effort to make sure BYM Committee Meetings are on the BYM Events Calendar. If you are the Clerk of a BYM Committee, please send information (date, time, zoom link, etc) about your upcoming meetings to admin@bym-rsf.org so we can put them on the Events Calendar. Don't assume we already know!
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| BYM Camps Early Registration Opens Nov 15
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All 2025 camper families (or waitlisted families), camp alumni, and members of BYM monthly meetings are welcome to register campers starting Nov 15th at Noon. Registration for new camp families will open December 15th. Mark your calendars! We have made some changes to our session options this year, so please take a look at our website for the session dates and descriptions. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at info@bymcamps.org.
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Transitions & Endings in Quaker Meetings 50%-Off
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The book by New York Friend Emily Provance, is on-sale for 50% through Nov 30th with the code CONFSHIP at checkout. How do Friends' meetings and churches adapt to changing or shrinking communities? A smaller or older meeting is no less valuable to God than a larger one, but the "more is better" messaging of modern culture tells us otherwise. This book weaves together logistical suggestions with eternal spiritual principles to help meetings right-size their institutions. Whether a group is altering its committee structures, restructuring entirely, selling a building, or laying itself down, the steps are essentially the same: recognizing the need for change, discerning the will of God at this time, caring for one another, and stepping forward into a new thing. How do we best make space for what God may do next?
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| BYM Women's Retreat: You Belong!
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The next Women’s Retreat, which is inclusive of trans and non-binary individuals, will be held from Friday, January 23, to Sunday, January 25, 2026 at Pearlstone Retreat Center in Reisterstown, MD.
Are you part of the LGBTQ community
You belong!
Are you part of the Global Majority?
You belong!
Are you neuro-divergent or disabled?
You belong!
Are you a Young Friend? You belong!
If you have life circumstances that prevent you from committing to the retreat in advance (for example, your schedule is unpredictable due to caregiving, health, or work scheduling), please also reach out to us at womensretreatplanningcommittee @bym-rsf.org. We want to include you, too. We will do our best to work with you.
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| Friends to Hold in the Light |
- Ken Stockbridge (Patapsco)
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Larry Kuenning and Charlotte Boynton (Langley Hill)
- Mother of Dyresha Harris (Catoctin Quaker Camp)
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please email Admin@bym-rsf.org.
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