Lake Erie Yearly Meeting seeks to promote events that reflect our values and that members will find interesting, useful and/or enriching and inspiring. We host our own online events (see calendar below) and are quite open to co-hosting or helping to promote events organized by Monthly Meetings wishing to share their event beyond their own members.
If you have an event you’d like to have co-hosted or just listed in the LEYM events calendar, please check that your proposed date doesn’t conflict with events already scheduled, and then share your event details using the button below.
Struggling to find the right meeting date for everyone on your committee? Looking for quick feedback on an idea or possible decision your team is contemplating? Consider using LEYM’s free no-registration required Framadate tool which is similar to a Doodle Poll. You can use it to suggest possible dates for a meeting or to gather input on participant preferences prior to making a decision. Quite helpful!
LEYM Event’s Calendar
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Exploring the &#…
Exploring the 'Secret Power' Among Us workshop May 3, 20261:30 pm - 4:00 pm
All members of Lake Erie Yearly Meeting are invited to a workshop sponsored by LEYM's spiritual formation program. The workshop, Exploring the “Secret Power” Among Us, will pick up on what Robert Barclay, 17th century Quaker publicist, named the secret power among us. Friends then, and Friends today, have had many names for this Inward Light and many experience it quite differently, if at all. During this two-and-a-half-hour workshop we will explore this power individually and together. How does it show up in our individual and corporate experiences? What difference does it make in our lives? How might we broaden and deepen our experiences and commitment to this Inward Teacher? The workshop will take place at the Detroit Friends Meeting House (19309 Greenfield Road in Detroit) on May 3 from 1:30 to 4:00. The workshop will be facilitated by Michael Wajda who will be in Detroit for the spiritual formation spring retreat held the day before. Michael Wajda is a member of Goshen Friends Meeting (Philadelphia YM) who is currently sojourning at Bennington, VT Friends Meeting (New England YM). He is an active Friend who has traveled widely among Friends, leading retreats, giving talks, and helping to strengthen the spiritual life of meetings and Friends. Michael delivered the 2006 plenary address at LEYM, Expectant Listening: Finding God’s Thread of Guidance, which has been published as a Pendle Hill Pamphlet. Currently, Michael and another Friend in New England Yearly Meeting are convening full days of extended worship around the yearly meeting. Michael also serves as clerk of the Steering Committee for the Quaker Call to Protect Democracy.
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An Evening of Sp…
An Evening of Spiritual Companioning Practice May 7, 20267:00 pm - 8:30 pm
If you have ever had the basic introduction to Spiritual Companioning and are interested in an opportunity to review the skill, try it again, or possibly get into an ongoing group. PLEASE JOIN US!
The annual "State of the Meeting" reports prepared by Monthly Meetings and Worship Groups is due on this day. Please submit to Dennis Gregg, co-clerk, via dennisgregg@gmail.com More details available here.
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Early-bird Regis…
Early-bird Registration Deadline May 16, 2026
The price for registration to LEYM Annual Meeting goes up after this date. More info at leym.org/annual
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Quaker Memorial for Phil Clampitt May 16, 2026
We will gather to remember Friend Phil Clampitt, a long-time member of Birmingham Friends Meeting at a memorial meeting held in the manner of Friends. While the event is being organized by Birmingham Friends, we will gather at the Detroit Friends Meeting House at 19309 Greenfield Road, Detroit, MI 48235 Zoom access will be available on the day of the event.
The in-person memorial meeting for worship will be followed by a time for coffee and tea and cookies and snacks. There will definitely be chocolate chip cookies which played such an important role in Phil and Hanna’s courtship many years ago.