Weekly Announcements for May 30, 2025
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A Testimony of Community:
Emily Provance Explores How Quakers are Called to Live in Community in 2025 Swarthmore Lecture
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Speaking at the annual gathering of Quakers in Britain earlier this week and drawing on her experience as a full-time, travelling minister, Emily Provance offered reflections both personal and collective. A member of Fifteenth Street Meeting in New York City, Provance has spent the last six years living without a permanent home, carrying a backpack and often receiving hospitality from Quakers and others. Along the way, she found that presence, proximity, and shared humanity can foster community in even the most fleeting encounters. In her lecture, “A Testimony of Community", Provance shared insights drawn from years on the road and a major project she undertook in preparation for the lecture. Seeking a global “sense of the meeting" on what it means to live in community, she read all 38 English-language Quaker books of discipline currently in use, as well as 16 historical Quaker texts and the Bible.
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Work Days Continue at BYM Camps: Two Weeks Left!
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Spring Work Days continue this Sat, May 31 at Opequon and next Sat, Jun 7 at Catoctin as we prepare for the arrival of camp staff in just TWO WEEKS! Our beloved David Hunter, Camp Property Manager, has had an emergency in his family and has put Saturday's Work Day in the care of the Camping Property Management Committee. In David's absence, we could use an extra few pairs of hands at Opequon this weekend!
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| Reminder: Chesapeake Quarter Meets June 8
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Chesapeake Quarter will meet on Sunday, June 8th at Annapolis Meeting and online via Zoom. The time together will begin at 9:30am and the afternoon will include Meeting for Sharing on what's going on in our Meetings begins at 9:30am, followed by Meeting for Worship at 11am, lunch, and we an after-lunch visit with Brian Blackmore, the Director of Quaker Engagement of the American Friends Service Committee. Chesapeake Quarter includes Annapolis, Gunpowder, Homewood, Little Falls, Patapsco, Patuxent, Sandy Spring, and Stony Run.
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West Falmouth Preparative Meeting, ME (NEYM) invites Friends to a lecture by Miriam Davidson - journalist, author & editor whose writing focuses on the U.S. - Mexico border - on Sun, Jun 8 at 12:30pm ET. Miriam will talk about the challenges facing the sanctuary movement in today's anti-immigrant climate. She will give a brief history of the movement and look at what is ahead for immigrant rights activists and the people they represent.
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Ministry & Pastoral Care Coffee Hour, July 3
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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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Quaker Indian Boarding School Research Network
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A group of U.S. Quakers who formed the Quakers and 'Indian Boarding Schools' Research Network (QIBS) in late 2022 writes to Friends throughout the U.S. in their recent epistle. The collective purpose of the group is to thoroughly research 19th-century Quaker involvement in assimilationist boarding schools, and to make our findings accessible to Native American families and tribes and to the Religious Society of Friends. The Epistle includes what the group has learned over the last 2 years and a list of resources for Friends.
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| Message from BYM Friend Jim Fussell on Recorded Ministry
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Jim Fussel (Langley Hill), who is currently living in Richmond, Indiana as he completed his studies at the Earlham School of Religion, speaks to Friends in the text of a recent Message about the tradition of recorded ministry among Quakers and its importance to the spiritual depth and vitality of vocal ministry in Meetings today. Let us not be afraid to name what we see the Spirit doing among us, Jim writes to Friends.
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| Friends to Hold in the Light
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- Jerry Coates (Frederick)
- Pet Schenck (Annapolis)
- Karie Firoozmand (Stony Run)
- Alison Barrett (Annapolis)
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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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