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April Representative Meeting will be held online

Categories: Events and Opportunities, News

Lake Erie Yearly Meeting’s executive committee has discerned that we will hold our Representative Meeting that had been scheduled 4/3 & 4/4 in Pittsburgh via Zoom, the online meeting platform, to reduce #COVID19 exposure. We will now meet on Zoom Saturday morning (April 4) with the Executive Committee convening at 9:00 AM, followed by the full body at 10:00 AM.

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Advance Registration for Representative Meeting (due March 13)

Categories: Committees, Events and Opportunities, News

UPDATE: Lake Erie Yearly Meeting’s executive committee has discerned that we will hold our Rep. Meeting that had been scheduled 4/3 & 4/4 in #Pittsburgh via @zoom_us to reduce #COVID19 exposure. More details to follow in coming days. The 2020 LEYM Representative Meeting will be held on Saturday, April 4 at Pittsburgh Friends Meeting, 4836 Ellsworth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA…

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Upcoming Contemplative Retreat

Categories: Events and Opportunities

LEYM Friends are invited to join in April 16-19, 2020, for All Shall Be Well: Contemplation in an Age of Crisis, a contemplative retreat in the manner of Friends at the Siena Retreat Center in Racine, Wisconsin. During the retreat, participants will experience the distinctly Quaker manner of knowing soli­tude in community. There will be individual silent time…

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Spiritual Resources for Connecting with and Restoring the Earth – talk by Gretel Van Wieren

Categories: Earthcare, GPQM

The theme of the Feb 1, 2020 Winter Gathering of the Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting was “Finding Our Spiritual Foundation for Environmental Work.” The featured speaker was Associate Professor Gretel Van Wieren from the Religious Studies program at Michigan State University. Dr. Van Wieren teaches courses on religion, ethics, and the environment and is the author of Listening at Lookout…

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LEYM Winter Bulletin now available

Categories: Bulletin, News

The Winter 2020 LEYM Bulletin can be downloaded here. This issue includes: A Clerk’s Message asking how Executive Committee can help our monthly meetings and worship groups Information on Representative Meeting (at Pittsburgh Meeting on April 4) A preview of the Annual Meeting theme and plenary speaker News from the Executive Committee Descriptions of LEYM scholarships and…

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LEYM Harassment Discernment Committee Contact Information

Categories: Anti-Racism, Committees, News

LEYM now has a Harassment Discernment Committee. If a Friend ever feels she/he/they has been poorly or unfairly treated because of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, or any other factor, he/she/they can reach out to this committee. Friends who witness harassment are also encouraged to reach out. Of course, if it is safe to do so, Friends are…

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Registration for Midwinter Gathering of GPQM Now Open

Categories: Events and Opportunities, GPQM

Midwinter Gathering of Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting will be at Red Cedar Meeting in Lansing, Michigan on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020 from 9:30 am – 3:00 pm.  The theme is “Finding Our Spiritual Foundation for Environmental Work” and the featured speaker is Prof. Gretel Van Wieren, who teaches courses on religion, ethics, and the environment.  More information, a…

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Policies and Procedures Manual Updated

Categories: Committees, News

An updated version of the LEYM Policies and Procedures reflecting current practice is now available as a pdf file. With the exception of a few minor changes in wording, all of the changes in text were approved by the Executive Committee at its November meeting. Please let Jeff Cooper know of any errors you may discover, especially in the…

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World Quaker Day is October 6, 2019!

Categories: Events and Opportunities, News

World Quaker Day, supported by Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), is happening this Sunday, October 6 across the globe. You can find out more at the worldquakerday.org website. Here’s a message from FWCC regarding the day: This year’s theme is Sustainability: Planting Seeds of Renewal for the World We Love FWCC invites you to join Quakers…

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