Submissions for Winter Bulletin due Jan 15

11 December 2021
Categories: Bulletin, News

SUBMISSIONS FOR LEYM WINTER BULLETIN DUE SAT., JAN. 15, 2022 

Please send items for Lake Erie Yearly Meeting’s Winter 2022 Bulletin to the editors, Jeff Cooper and Peggy Daub, by Saturday, January 15, 2022 (send to bulletinleym@gmail.com)   

As always, we welcome reports and announcements reflecting the business of the Yearly Meeting.  Materials for Representative Meeting in April are especially needed for this issue.  Also welcomed are reports on activities in monthly meetings or worship groups.  Items from individuals might include essays or artwork pertaining to one’s spiritual life. 

Jeff Cooper & Peggy Daub, Co-Editors, LEYM Bulletin 

Coffee and Climate Chat upcoming on Dec 11

1 December 2021
Categories: Earthcare, Events and Opportunities, News, Peace and Justice

Coffee and Climate Chat – 2021 Earthcare Actions Among LEYM Friends

Wondering what other Quakers in Lake Erie Yearly Meeting have done to care for the environment in 2021? Hearing about the efforts of others can give you new ideas and encourage you and your meeting to keep doing this important work in 2022. The pandemic did not mean that the urgency of working to mitigate climate change and promote environmental justice was lessened, and we know we have work to do.

Bring a cup of coffee and join an informal chat on Saturday, Dec. 11, at 10 am on Zoom (access link is here). And bring your stories of what Friends in your meeting or worship group have done to care for the Earth in 2021. All are welcome for this time of sharing and listening.

Coffee cups with chat bubbles

November Interest Group Session to Focus on Anti-racist Standards for Healthcare

24 October 2021
Categories: Anti-Racism, Events and Opportunities, Peace and Justice

LEYM’s Peace, Justice and Earthcare Interest Group series continues on Saturday, November 13th from 2:00-3:30pm ET on Zoom.

Healthcare, Healing and Anti-Racist Standards

In this interactive presentation we will have the opportunity to understand how racism impacts the healthcare setting; how anti-racist standards prevent racism in the healthcare setting and beyond; and how we can employ anti-racist standards in our everyday lives to promote advocacy, activism, and healing.

Our Knowledgeable Presenters:

Valencia P. Walker, MD, MPH (She/Hers/Ella)
Associate Chief Diversity & Health Equity Officer
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Associate Division Chief for Health Equity & Inclusion | Division of Neonatology
Vice Chair, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Department of Pediatrics | The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Rev. Carrie Finegan, M.Div., BCC, ACPE Certified Educator
Director of Pastoral Care
Nationwide Children’s Hospital

(UPDATE: Session Recording now available here)

Series information available via https://leym.org/pje-interest-group/

LEYM Event Planning

8 October 2021

Lake Erie Yearly Meeting seeks to promote events that reflect our values and that members will find interesting, useful and/or enriching and inspiring. We host our own online events (see calendar below) and are quite open to co-hosting or helping to promote events organized by Monthly Meetings wishing to share their event beyond their own members.

If you have an event you’d like to have co-hosted or just listed in the LEYM events calendar, please check that your proposed date doesn’t conflict with events already scheduled, and then share your event details using the button below.

Click Here to Schedule an Event

Helpful Planning Tools

Struggling to find the right meeting date for everyone on your committee? Looking for quick feedback on an idea or possible decision your team is contemplating? Consider using LEYM’s free no-registration required Framadate tool which is similar to a Doodle Poll. You can use it to suggest possible dates for a meeting or to gather input on participant preferences prior to making a decision. Quite helpful!

LEYM Event’s Calendar

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Detroit Friends Plan New Meetinghouse

28 August 2021
Categories: Events and Opportunities, Monthly Mtgs

After years of discernment and uncertainty over the path forward, the Detroit Friends Meeting (DFM) is enthusiastic about building a new meetinghouse to provide a permanent spiritual home in Detroit that will serve the community and generations of future Quakers.

Detroit Friends Meeting has had a presence in Detroit since the early 1920s. DFM’s twenty-five current members, along with a faithful group of attenders, have stretched and will continue to stretch, but it is evident that they cannot achieve this new meetinghouse mission without the help and support of others.

LEYM Friends are invited to attend an upcoming Zoom presentation to learn about Detroit Friends Meeting’s journey over the past years in an effort to build a new meetinghouse and how your help is needed. Two similar presentations will be offered on either Sunday, September 12th from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. OR Tuesday, September 14th from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. UPDATE: You can now view a video recording of the full September 12 session HERE and you can view a shorter video (no Q&A) of the September 14 session HERE.

DFM’s mission is to continue to strive for a Quaker presence that is active, significant, and engaged; ensuring that our collective Light continues to shine in the City of Detroit. Through your help and support, LEYM can help make this new meetinghouse a reality!

For more information on the project and ways to contribute visit the Detroit Friends Meeting website at detroitfriendsmeeting.org

Rendering of Proposed New Meetinghouse Design by Architectural Designer Cassandra Kail

Broadmead October Retreat to Feature Christopher Sammond

24 July 2021
Categories: Events and Opportunities, Monthly Mtgs

The annual Broadmead Monthly Meeting Friends Fall Retreat is scheduled for October 1-3 2001 on the theme “Openings to Transformative Worship.” The event, to be held at the St. Francis Spirituality Center in Tiffin, OH, features retreat leader Christopher Sammond.

Christopher Sammond is a member of Poplar Ridge Monthly Meeting, New York YM. He has facilitated workshops and retreats for over thirty years in a wide variety of Friends’ contexts, including Powell House, Woolman Hill, ESR, the FGC Gathering, the FUM Triennial, the FWCC World Gathering, and at scores of monthly meetings. He is trained in spiritual direction and the spiritual formation of whole congregations and has served as a chaplain in hospice, hospital, and drug and alcohol treatment center settings. He is passionate about helping Friends to deepen in our practice of worship, and has traveled extensively in the ministry. He served New York Yearly Meeting as their General Secretary for many years, and currently divides his time between offering retreats on worship, serving as a core teacher in the School of the Spirit program, Participating in God’s Power, and offering spiritual direction. Christopher lives in central New York State with his wife Barbara and cats Harriet and Lil.

A brochure with information on registration and costs is available here. Please register by September 10. More information is available from Kathleen Helbling via kathleenhelbling@yahoo.com

Fall Spiritual Formation Retreat Details

21 July 2021
Categories: Events and Opportunities

LEYM Spiritual Formation Program Opening Workshop
Going Deeper Together
online Sept 10-12, 2021
with Marcelle Martin

The LEYM spiritual formation planning committee invites all of you to participate in this year’s spiritual formation program. The year’s program is kicked off with a weekend fall retreat in September and culminates in a one-day spring retreat in May. In between the two retreats, small spiritual formation groups meet on a regular basis. More information about LEYM’s spiritual formation program can be found here.

The goal of the fall online weekend workshop is to help us enter more deeply the truth in our hearts and connect more profoundly with the divine Presence in ourselves and in all of life. We will explore a number of practices to help us do so, including discernment exercises, supportive listening, evoking questions, focusing on God, collective sensing, and meeting for worship. We’ll be accompanied by the words and stories of early Quakers, along with the gifts of continuing revelation in our time. Exercises in pairs and small groups will provide opportunities for intimate spiritual sharing and help us move beyond internal barriers that have impeded our faithfulness. The gathered community that forms among us will support each participant to collectively access the healing and guiding Presence of God in deeper ways and provide encouragement to boldly follow our leadings as we face the challenges of today. The practices we’ll explore are especially helpful when used in spiritual formation groups, spiritual friendships, clearness committees, and faithfulness groups.

We will also take time to plan our spiritual formation program small groups and reading groups for the year.

The retreat will begin Friday evening. Sessions will be held throughout the day on Saturday and on Sunday morning. A detailed schedule will be sent to those registered for the retreat.

Those who want to do some advance reading may find it helpful to read Marcelle’s Pendle Hill pamphlet, A Culture of Faithfulness, or her recent book, A Guide to Faithfulness Groups. However, NO advance reading is required.

Marcelle Martin, the author of Our Life is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey, and A Guide to Faithfulness Groups, has led workshops at retreat centers and Quaker meetings across the United States. She was the resident Quaker Studies teacher at Pendle Hill for four years and a core teacher for the 9-month program, “Nurturing Faithfulness.” A Culture of Faithfulness is her third Pendle Hill pamphlet. On her blog, A Whole Heart (awholeheart.com), she shares inspiration to help us be all God has created us to be. A member of Swarthmore Friends Meeting, she lives in Chester, PA with her husband, Terry.

Register for the fall retreat here: https://airtable.com/shrt3tA5PddH8eu7Z A suggested payment for the retreat is $30, but people can pay more or less as led. No one should stay away because of cost. Payment should be made by check and sent to:

Sally Weaver Sommer
118 S. Spring St.
Bluffton, OH 45817

Please send questions to sallyweaversommer@gmail.com

2021 Annual Business Sessions

13 July 2021
Categories: Annual Sessions, Committees

Upcoming LEYM Business-related Sessions

Note: Zoom Meeting Access for most business sessions
will be available via https://bit.ly/leym2021business

See Agenda for Business Sessions (docx) or Agenda for Business Sessions (pdf)

  • LEYM Executive Committee Meeting – Wed July 28 3:00 PM
  • Business Session 1 – Thu July 29 11:00 AM
  • Business Session 2 – Fri July 30 11:00 AM
  • Committee Meetings & Free Time – Sat July 31 11:00 AM
    (Zoom Breakout Rooms will be Available via https://bit.ly/leym2021interestgroups)
  • Business Session 3 – Sun Aug 1 2:00 PM
  • Business Session 4 (as needed) – Sat Aug 7 10:00 AM

Documents Provided in Advance
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