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.