Weekly Announcements for August 29, 2025
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Changes Made to FUM 2026 Triennial
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With heavy hearts, Friends United Meeting has canceled the in-person Triennial, scheduled to be held next summer in Indiana. Friends from around the world have been applying for their U.S. visitor visas well in advance, but those visas have been consistently denied. In the absence of our Friends from around the world, our body is incomplete. FUM and Western Yearly Meeting (the local hosts for the 2026 Triennial) are working and praying to determine what form an online Triennial might take in 2026.
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Fall Spiritual Formation Retreat Registration Closes Sunday
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The Fall Spiritual Formation Retreat will take place Sept 19-21 at Shepherd's Spring Retreat Center & Global Village. New, lower-cost camping and cabin options are now available! Registration closes Sun, 08/31.
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| Community News for Fall Interchange due Sept 2
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BYM is seeking community news from Monthly Meetings and from Yearly Meeting Committees for the upcoming Fall Interchanges. Submissions are due Tuesday, September 2nd. Updates, articles, and photographs can be sent to admin@bym-rsf.org.
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Chesapeake Quarter Meets Sept 28
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Chesapeake Quarter will meet on Sept 28 at Gunpowder Friends Meeting. To learn from one another and build spiritual friendships, Gunpowder Friends will be inviting us to participate in "Connection Conversations" over lunch. Afterward, at 1pm, Ruth Fitz will lead Friends in spirit-filled song. If you don't believe Quakers--or you--can sing, Ruth will change your mind!Chesapeake Quarter includes Friends from Annapolis, Stony Run, Gunpowder, Homewood Friends Meeting; Little Falls, Patapsco, Patuxent, and Sandy Spring Friends Meetings, but all Friends are welcome to attend.
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| Family Camp Registration Closing Soon!
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Family Camp is an opportunity to introduce camp life to those not yet camp age and for all families who want to join with Friends for a peaceful and joyful weekend immersed in nature, community, and Quaker values. This year, our Family Camp will be held at Opequon Quaker Camp at Rolling Ridge Conversancy! Enjoy hiking, art-making, fire circle and songs, work projects and family fun activities; all in a spirit of simplicity, equality, and togetherness. Whether you're reconnecting with camp or discovering it for the first time, this is a chance to slow down, be present, and grow closer with loved ones and new friends.
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Sandy Spring Meeting to Screen No Other Land
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Join Sandy Spring Friends Meeting on Sept 6th at 7:00pm in their Lyceum for a special screening of No Other Land. The film, made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, shows the destruction of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank.
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Valley Friends Meeting Celebrates 25 Years in Meeting House
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Valley Friends Meeting in Dayton, VA recently celebrated 25 years in their beloved and Quaker-unusual Meeting House. The local news covered the anniversary with a lovely story!
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Monthly Meeting Discernment Requested on
Ongoing War in Palestine
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The BYM Palestinian-Israeli Just Peace Working Group (PIPJ) urgently asks that all Quakers and Meetings read, reflect on, and respond to Quakers discern genocide is occurring in Gaza and urge courageous action.
In a time of dangerously increasing famine and hopelessness, this an opportunity to engage our testimonies of truth, equality and peace and discern our commitment to Quaker witness and oue relevance for these times.
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) offers tools for your discernment, including background resources and compelling queries like:
- How might friends "advocate relentlessly" for the end of suffering, centering Palestinian lived experiences?
- What stands in our way from becoming advocates?
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How will Friends show the world that defending the rights, safety, and dignity of Palestinians does not inherently interfere with a commitment among Friends to demonstrate love and compassion for Jewish people?
- What role can Quakers play in ensuring the right to protest and free speech is protected in our communities?
PIPJ encourage Meetings to take the time needed to listen to fears about antisemitism and free speech as well as on the “militarism, racism and greed” Martin Luther King called us to resist. PIPJ meets monthly on second Wednedays at 7 pm to share what our Meetings and communities are learning, doing and needing—and to support each other in these difficult days. For more information: louisaldavis@verizon.net
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