Broadmead Fall Retreat

26 July 2022
Categories: Events and Opportunities, News

Broadmead Monthly Meeting Friends Fall Retreat
Oct. 28th – 30th 2022
Retreat Theme: The Power of Enough
Presenter: 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 Stillwell
Jackie Stillwell is the General Secretary of Right Sharing of World Resources. She is a member of Monadnock Meeting, New Hampshire (New England Yearly Meeting). Jackie is called to spiritual accompaniment, grounded in an awareness of the abundance of God’s Love and a strong sense of connection and kinship with all life. A graduate of Friends World College, Jackie has a B.A. in Education/Psychology, and an M.S. in Organization and Management from Antioch University New England.
Jackie has lived abroad in England, Norway and spent nearly a decade in Guatemala, 3 years of which were serving in the Peace Corps. For 22 years, Jackie served as Head of The Meeting School, an experiment in education and simple living in Quaker community. From 2011-2015, Jackie served as clerk of New England Yearly Meeting. She has traveled widely among Friends with FWCC, FGC and FUM, serving as an elder and workshop facilitator at monthly, quarterly, yearly meetings, and Friends schools.

Opening in Ann Arbor Friends Meeting’s Residential Community

17 June 2022
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 and supportive relationships; open, forthright and honest communication; peace, social justice, and respect for all.” The house and grounds are smoke-free. Sorry, no pets. Residents share cooking and cleaning responsibilities.

Applications will be accepted immediately (contact Elliott Brannon at qhrc.contact@gmail.com), but the application process, which includes a written form and a mutual interview, takes several weeks. The Meeting website provides a description of the QHRC (https://annarborfriends.org/wp/comm-qhrc/). Photos at http://tiny.cc/QHRoom.

GPQM Summer Gathering, Sunday, August 7, 2022

9 June 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 are welcome. Please bring your own chair or blanket, food, beverage, and mask.

June Interest Group Explores Anti-Racist Work

1 June 2022
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 it with prayerful discernment – seeing what we might be led to collectively both in faith and practice. 

Susan Loucks – LEYM Clerk
leymclerk@gmail.com

Sample anti-racism minutes and statements from LEYM Monthly Meetings can be found here:
https://leym.org/peace/

Here’s the Zoom Link to join in.
Zoom Meeting ID: 826 7274 6215
Passcode: leympje

Spring Bulletin Now Available

28 May 2022
Categories: Bulletin, News

The Spring issue of the Lake Erie Yearly Meeting Bulletin is now available in PDF form on the website (leym.org/leym-bulletins/). This issue focuses on the upcoming Annual Meeting (July 27–31, via Zoom). It also includes a clerk’s message on how the Yearly Meeting might commence a Faith and Practice, a summary of actions taken at Representative Meeting, a report on monthly meeting responses to the LEYM query, news from monthly meetings, and more. Paper copies have been mailed to monthly meetings and worship groups. 

2022 Annual Business Sessions

27 May 2022
Categories: Annual Sessions, Committees

We’re meeting online via Zoom for our 2022 Business Sessions. Further down the page you will find a proposed topical agenda prepared by the Clerk. Here’s the basic schedule.

Business Session 1 – 7/28/2022 10:30am
Business Session 2 – 7/29/2022 10:30am
What Can We Say Together – Anti-Racism – 7/30/2022 10:30am
Business Session 3 – 7/31/2022 1:00pm

Documents in Advance

LEYM committees and projects are developing reports that will inform our deliberations. We’re using a Google Doc that is being regularly updated to collect and share this information. Use the button below to view the current submissions.

View Shared Documents

Rough Topical Agenda for Business Sessions

Note: This is the predicted agenda – agendas may shrink or grow based on time needed.
Wednesday
Epistle
Land acknowledgement
Welcomes
Presentation on demographics
absent, deceased members
Introduction: First time attenders, visitors
Interactive Roll call
Epistle cmte

Thursday
Epistle
Process pointers
Clerk’s report
Meeting worker report
Naming
Nominating – Information, Questions
Ad Hoc Site Committee – Information, Questions

Friday
Epistle
Memorial Minute reading
Query for next year
Budget, information and questions
Treasurer’s report
Ad Hoc Site Committee – Decision
Establish ad hoc group for Organization/Structure.

Saturday – this focused session is designed to prepare and give participants a chance for discernment on a single topic, and departs from typical business format.
Background, how this has risen and developed in MM’s and the YM
Explanation of process
Small groups – worship sharing
Whole group – discernment
Possibilities to carry this forward in 2022-3

Sunday
Epistle
If time permits: One breath reports from any committee, representative, etc.
Nominating – Decision
Budget – Decision
Report from Saturday Business session
Our epistle(s) reading, decision

Create a Meeting Story Tree

25 May 2022
Categories: Annual Sessions, Monthly Mtgs

Create a Visual Introduction to Your Group

UPDATE: Our Gallery of LEYM Story Trees is now available for viewing

Lake Erie Yearly Meeting Friends are being invited to do a quick visual introduction of their Monthly Meeting or Worship Group during our 2022 Opening Gathering in the evening of Wednesday, July 27th. The Program Committee has chosen the theme “Many Roots, One Tree” for the 2022 gathering. We are suggesting Friends use an annotated “Story Tree” as a quick way to highlight a few things about your unique Meeting for Worship.

We have created a template that can be used by a group of Friends to share some of the roots of your Meeting (early history, foundational people, etc.); it’s trunk (current gathering location, size, practices, etc.), and some of the unique out-growths (leaves or fruits or even nuts!) nurtured in the Meeting over the years. We imagine that a group of Friends could gather via Zoom or in-person, perhaps after the rise of meeting, and together annotate a Story Tree providing some meeting history and special details. Digital representations of your tree (photos, files, or video) should provided to leymworker@gmail.com by July 10th.

During the Annual Sessions Opening Event, Story Trees from various meetings will be displayed, and Friends in attendance from that Meeting will be invited to comment on or explain some of the tree’s features. We only expect to have 3-4 minutes for each Meeting, so the Story Tree can help focus comments, build familiarity, and pique further curiosity re the various Monthly Meetings & Worship Groups within LEYM.

Get Your Story Tree Toolkit

You can get the PDF Toolkit clicking the button below. You should save it to your local computer and then it can be opened and annotated with Friends.

Get Your Toolkit

The 4-page Toolkit provides a Story Tree template with instructions and fillable form fields, which can be saved and then shared. As an alternative, the image below can be used if you just want to open the image and mark it up (annotate it) in Preview or an image editing app or if you wanted to try sharing it with your group on a Zoom whiteboard.

Story Tree Blank

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