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A Full Schedule and Special Events You’ll Love – LEYM 2020

Categories: Annual Sessions, Events and Opportunities, News

Greetings Friends, Planning for Lake Erie Yearly Meeting’s annual sessions is well under way, with a full schedule of events now viewable in a colorful calendar layout here. We’ll be meeting July 30 – August 2 online. Registration for our special events is filling up fast, with a July 24th deadline. Consider joining us for one…

Annual Sessions Registration Now Open

Categories: Annual Sessions, Events and Opportunities, News

LEYM’s 2020 Annual Sessions will be HELD ONLINE July 30-August 2. REGISTRATION is now open here – https://leym.conflictstudies.org Please register ASAP, deadline is July 24th. Note: People wishing to order T-shirts need to register by July 9. Click on logo to go to registration site…

GPQM Annual Worship and Picnic, August 9 in Battle Creek

Categories: GPQM, News

Every year in early August Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting remembers the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and celebrates peace in the historic Quaker Park in Battle Creek, Michigan. With the park now open, GPQM is able to continue this tradition with in-person worship planned for 11 a.m., Sunday, August 9, outdoors at Quaker Park. Worship…

Sharing Minutes on Anti-Racism

Categories: Anti-Racism, News

LEYM Friends Meetings have been holding their monthly Meetings for Worship with Attention to Business and a number of them have been sharing special Minutes that have been written in response to rising concerns about racism and violence by police. We will be posting these statements on the Resources for Peace and Justice page of the LEYM website. If…

Francisco Burgos Named Executive Director of Pendle Hill

Categories: News

The Pendle Hill Board of Directors have announced that Francisco Burgos will become Executive Director of Pendle Hill, effective September 1. Traci Hjelt Sullivan will continue as Interim Executive Director until that date. Burgos is currently Director of Education at Pendle Hill, a position he took up in 2017. “Francisco has done a splendid job of giving new energy and…

Meetings for Worship Go Online for Many in LEYM

Categories: Events and Opportunities, Monthly Mtgs, News

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, many Monthly Meetings within Lake Erie Yearly Meeting are moving their worship online. Here’s some of the meetings we’ve heard from who will be holding online worship on Sundays: Ann Arbor Friends Meeting – 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Red Cedar Friends Meeting – 10:30 a.m. Sunday & 7:00 pm Wednesday…

Worship with LEYM Online

Categories: Events and Opportunities, News

Worship online with LEYM Update: Now that many local meetings have established their own online Meetings for Worship, LEYM will no longer be hosting our Sunday online worship. You can find other online worship opportunities here. For the health and protection of our LEYM Meeting community and to support the public health of the wider community in the face…

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.

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…

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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