Weekly Announcements for May 3, 2024
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BYM Youth Safety & Friendly Adult Mentor Training |
On Sunday, May 19th from 1pm - 5pm BYM Youth Programs will be offering a training in-person and online via Zoom. We'll cover the BYM Youth Safety Policy and what it's like to be a Friendly Adult Mentor (FAM) - the chaperones who work with BYM high school-aged Young Friends and middle school-aged Junior Young Friends. We'll go over how BYM Youth Programs puts our Yearly Meeting's Youth Safety Policy into action and what it looks like to volunteer for Junior Young Friends and Young Friends events. Whether you're simply curious or ready to volunteer as a FAM ASAP, come join us! Questions? Email SunshineKlein@bym-rsf.org
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BYM Educational Grant Applications Due May 15th
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The BYM Educational Grants Committee awards educational grants up to $2,000 to members and regular attenders - and their children - of BYM Monthly Meetings. Grants may be applied to expenses associated with full or part time undergraduate attendance at accredited postsecondary educational institutions. Grants will be awarded based on multiple criteria, including financial need and the Committee’s assessment of an applicant’s statement of purpose and its consistency with Friends’ testimonies. Applications must be submitted in full by May 15th. For further information, visit the Educational Grants Committee webpage.
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| Dunnings Creek Friends Still Listening Lecture, May 19th
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The Dunnings Creek Friends Meeting (Quakers) will present the Spring 2024 event in their ‘Still Listening’ guest speaker series on local history on May 19. Dr. Garnell Washington will lead an interactive conversation about race relations in our local community titled The Lone Ranger Was Black and Who Was Tonto? Dr. Washington is a scion of the original Black families that have been living in Bedford County continuously for more than 150 years. He is the co-founder of Harris Connections, a think tank developing new approaches to helping organizations and individuals practice strategies for improving communication across cultural difference.
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Spring Way Opens: The BYM Camps Newsletter
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The Spring issue of Way Opens, the newsletter of BYM Camps, is now available online. The new issue includes information about:
- Spring Workdays at each camp (starting this weekend!)
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Camp Community Meet-Ups (and how to host one in your area!)
- High Priority Work Grant & Volunteer Needs of the coming summer
- Back Porch Notes - Brian Massey's regular column on the power and purpose of the BYM ministry of camp
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| Are you called to intervisitation this year?
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Baltimore Yearly Meeting Friends have long been committed to intervisitation - the practice of visiting Friends in other Yearly Meetings to strengthen the ties of Love and Friendship across the branches and diverse theologies of Quakerism. Intervisitation asks us to stretch as we encounter Friends whose faith and practice we may find quite different than our own. At the same time, intervisitation grows our hearts and spiritual lives as notice our similarities, receive hospitality from others, and bear witness to how Spirit is moving in our own lives and in our Yearly Meeting. As we head into the summer, FWCC has compiled a calendar of Annual Sessions of Quaker Yearly Meetings across the country and around the world. Are you called to intervisitation in 2024?
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