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Call for Workshop Proposals for Annual Meeting

Categories: Annual Sessions, Events and Opportunities, News

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…

New Series: Digital Issues Awareness for Friends

Categories: Events and Opportunities, Interest Groups, News, Peace and Justice

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…

GPQM offers Weathering the Storm one-day retreat on Oct. 29, 2022

Categories: Events and Opportunities, Friends Center, GPQM, News

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…

Celebrate World Quaker Day Oct 2nd

Categories: Events and Opportunities, News

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…

Announcement about Spiritual Formation 2022-2023

Categories: Committees, Events and Opportunities, News

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…

Broadmead Fall Retreat

Categories: Events and Opportunities, News

Broadmead Monthly Meeting Friends Fall RetreatOct. 28th – 30th 2022Retreat Theme: The Power of EnoughPresenter: Jackie Stillwell Friends are invited to join this in-person weekend retreat, to be held at the St. Francis Spirituality Center, 200 St Francis Ave, Tiffin, Ohio. Details and registration information are in the attached event announcement brochure. Biography of Jackie StillwellJackie Stillwell is the…

Opening in Ann Arbor Friends Meeting’s Residential Community

Categories: Events and Opportunities, News

The Quaker House Residential Community attached to the Ann Arbor Friends Meetinghouse has a vacancy. The house, near the University of Michigan’s central campus, has rooms for six residents. Shared kitchen, dining room, living room, laundry facilities, and backyard with vegetable garden. This intentional community strives to embody commitments to “multicultural/racial/ethnic/LGBTQ inclusivity; simple, economical, and environmentally friendly living; mature, stable…

GPQM Summer Gathering, Sunday, August 7, 2022

Categories: Events and Opportunities, GPQM

Friends are invited to the Summer Gathering of Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting (GPQM), on Sunday, August 7, at Quaker Park in Battle Creek, Michigan. 11:00 meeting for worship under the trees, followed by a picnic and fellowship. Every year GPQM remembers the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and celebrates peace in this historic Quaker meeting place. All…

June Interest Group Explores Anti-Racist Work

Categories: Anti-Racism, Events and Opportunities, Peace and Justice

What can we say together? Friends are invited to join us on Saturday, June 11th from 2-3:30pm in consideration of anti-racist work and minutes from across the Yearly Meeting – we’ll read what has been recorded, seek to pull out common threads, and identify patterns. We’ll bring a summary of this work to the annual meeting, where we will further…

Reminder: LEYM Bulletin Submissions Due by May 15th

Categories: Bulletin, Events and Opportunities, News

Our editors ask that contributors please submit items for the LEYM Spring Bulletin by Sunday, May 15. This issue will include lots of information on the upcoming Annual Sessions, which will once again be virtual (July 27-31). Reports and announcements reflecting the business of the Yearly Meeting are the most basic parts of the Bulletin. We also feature reports on…

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