Weekly Announcements for July 25, 2024
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From Home & From Hood: Blended Worship, Plenary, and Workshop Options for Annual Session |
Annual Session kicks-off on Tuesday. While in-person registration to participate at Hood College in Frederick, MD is now closed, Friends have many opportunities to participate from home. In addition to the list of blended/hybrid options below, a detailed daily agenda and more information about Annual Session are now available in the program booklet. Links to online sessions will be sent to Friends on Monday. On behalf of our Presiding Clerk, Steph Bean, we hope you'll join Annual Session from wherever you may be next week!
Plenaries
- Tue, 7pm - Opening Plenary: Daquanna Harrison, Ted Heck, & Zekee McGil
- Wed, 7:30pm - Denis J. Coker, Principal Chief, Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware
- Sat, 7pm - Carey Memorial Lecture: Francisco Burgos
Meetings for Worship
- Tue, 2pm - Opening Meeting for Worship
- Sat, Aug 3, 11am - Memorial Meeting for Friends We Remember in 2024
- Sun, Aug 4, 9am - All Together First Day Meeting for Worship
We especially invite Friends from across the Yearly Meeting to worship all together from wherever you may be - home, Meeting House, camp, dorm room, or auditorium at Hood College!
Meetings for Worship for the Conduct of Business
- Tue, 3pm
- Wed, 9:30am & 2pm
- Thu-Sat, 9:30am
- Sun, 10:30am
Workshops
Workshop descriptions can be found in the Spring Interchange.
- Thur, 2pm - Renewing the Quaker Testimony of Justice in the 21st Century
- Fri, 2pm - Friends Testimony of Equality and Retrospective Justice
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Sat (Aug 3), 2pm - Lowering Racial Barriers
- Sat (Aug 3), 2pm - Sacrifice Zones and Environmental Justice: What can Quakers do?
- Sat (Aug 3), 2pm - Reproductive Justice: Abortion and Quaker values
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Spiritual Formation Fall Retreat Registration Now Open
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Registration for the Spiritual Formation Fall Retreat is now open! Friends will gather at the Claggett Center in Adamstown, MD the weekend of September 20-20. To Live in Hope — Exploring Pathways to Spiritual Resilience will be our theme as we gather for times of reflection and renewal, for quiet and sharing in spiritual friendships, for being reminded that we are never truly alone. Registration is now open through Friday, August 30.
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| Visiting Friend Seeks Transport from BWI to Annual Session
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Nathan Kleban, the new General Secretary of Right Sharing of World Resources, will be traveling from his home in Iowa City to join BYM Annual Sessions. Nathan is seeking a ride from BWI airport to Hood College in Frederick on Tuesday, July 30th from a flight due to arrive into BWI at 12:45pm. Might you be able to give this Friend a ride? If so, please email admin@bym-rsf.org, and BYM staff will put you in touch with Nathan.
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BYM, the Pawnee People, and Racial Justice
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On Thursday of next week, Reparations to Pawnee people will be considered at Annual Session. The proposed redress of $20,000 flows from the period after Quakers requested President Grant to appoint them as Indian agents. BYM was responsible for the Pawnee agency including its education programs. Our Quaker ancestors insisted on English-only speaking and reading. Since 2016, Friends in the U.S. have considered ways to take accountability and responsibility for Quaker run Indian boarding school and the issue has been seasoned by the BYM Indigenous Affairs Committee for years. For BYM, this is part of its BIPOC and anti-racism concerns.
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A Tender Time Available at Annual Session: A great time to pickup a discount, bulk order for your Meeting!
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A Tender Time, the new BYM Publication from Patti Nesbit and Kristin Zimet under the care of the End of Life Working Group, will be available at the Bookstore at Annual Session. In addition to the free copies mailed to each Monthly Meeting, BYM is offering a 30% discount off the cover price of $18/book on orders of 12 or more copies. If your Meeting plans to purchase a bulk order, consider placing your order so a member of your Meeting can pick up the copies at Annual Session! To order 12 or more copies, email admin@bym-rsf.org. Individual copies will also be available for purchase in the Bookstore.
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| BYM Friends to Hold in the Light
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Margaret & Will (Annapolis)
Jean Pfefferkorn (Patapsco)
Stephanie, Jeremy, and Asha Warner, after the death of Maura Warner (Adelphi/FCS)
Steph Bean, as they prepare to Clerk our Yearly Meeting Annual Sessions
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To add Friends from your Meeting to our new weekly list of Friends to Hold in the Light, please email LucyAzenga@bym-rsf.org.
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To submit your items for the BYM Weekly Announcements,
please email Admin@bym-rsf.org.
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