We have a nice variety of workshops on offer Friday and Saturday June 16 and June 17. All events are in the John C Myer Convocation Center on the Ashland University Campus. The annual meeting webpage provides additional details about our gathering.
It’s almost here! On Saturday, May 20, Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting will gather in person at Ann Arbor Friends Meeting house for our Spring Quarterly Meeting. Hospitality will start at 9:30. Business begins at 10:00 a.m., with a presentation by Friend Brad Shaw at noon. BRING A BAGGED LUNCH if you need one. The business meeting and presentation will be…
The Spring LEYM Bulletin, which provides much information and registration materials for the 2023 Annual Meeting, is now available online (see leym.org/leym-bulletins/) and in the mail to meetings and worship groups. Please note that the registration deadline for Annual Meeting is May 10, and the gathering will take place at Ashland University, in Ashland, Ohio, June 15-18. We…
Scholarship Funds for Attending Quaker Colleges and Universities or for Quaker Organizational Internships/Fellowships LEYM is committed to supporting young adult Friends who choose to attend Quaker colleges and universities for their undergraduate education, and for individuals who will be participating in a post-secondary internship or fellowship for a Quaker organization. LEYM has created an annual budget line item that can…
Representative Meeting is about Representation! Join us virtually OR in person in Toledo for a hybrid meeting on Saturday, March 11. In the morning, there will be opportunities for Friends from all LEYM Monthly Meetings to have conversations in groups and as a whole about what is rising in their Meetings – challenges, gifts, leadings that might resonate with others.
Enthusiasm is running high among LEYM Friends for meeting in person once again for our Annual Meeting. We’ll be gathering at Ashland University in Ohio, June 15-18, 2023, an earlier date than we have become used to. Our theme this year is “Navigating Anew.” The Program Committee is hard at work preparing our schedule of activities, and we could use…
As part of our ongoing Interest Group Series, LEYM is offering a new series of workshops focusing on digital and online practices of possible concern for Friends. The three Saturday afternoon (2:00-3:30pm) workshops will be held January 14, February 11, and March 4th. See descriptions below. Presented by LEYM’s Digital Communications Facilitator, the sessions will draw heavily…
Join us on Saturday, October 29, 2022, at the Michigan Friends Center near Chelsea for Weathering the Storm, a one-day, in-person retreat offered by Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting for Friends from throughout Michigan.For more than two years we have had very few opportunities to worship, learn, and connect in-person with Friends beyond our local meetings and worship groups. Weathering the…
World Quaker Day will take place on Sunday October 2, 2022 with the theme Becoming the Quakers the World Needs. World Quaker Day is an annual event where we celebrate the diversity of Quakerism around the world and build connections to make our community stronger. For World Quaker Day 2022 the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) is encouraging…
LEYM’s spiritual formation program will not be holding its fall retreat this year due to a number of stumbling blocks confronting the committee. We encourage current spiritual formation groups to continue to meet throughout the coming year. Many groups meet twice a month, once to share responses to material all group members are reading and once to share about their…
