Join other LEYM members to explore ways to Engage with the bible, led by Maryann Concannon, Red Cedar MM. We will be using the book Engaging Scripture: Reading the Bible with Early Friends by Michael Birkel from Earlham. You will get the most out of the sessions by pre-purchasing the book.
The program will meet once a month on the 3rd Saturday of the month 4-5:30 pm. We will meet five times and then explore interest in continuing. In the course we will use different techniques to study the scripture.
Class begins Feb. 20, 2021 at 4 pm. The following session will be on March 20, April 17, May 15, June 19.
CIVIL RIGHTS TEACH-IN: Unsung Civil Rights Hero(ine)s
The Peace and Social Action Committee at North Columbus Friends Meeting (NCFM) is hosting a “Civil Rights Teach-In” to be presented on Martin Luther King Jr Day (January 18 at 7pm) to recognize and honor unsung civil rights heroes and heroines.
The Teach-In will start with an historical overview and contextualization of racism as an unnatural political construct followed by individual profiles of past civil rights heroes and heroines such as Recy Taylor, Bayard Rustin, Fanny Lou Hamer, and Ella Baker. A spotlight will also be placed on NCFM activity during 1950s and 1960s era (i.e., fair housing attorney Stanley Robinson, Hosting OSU African students).
The presentation will then turn to present day civil rights struggle with specific focus on the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement (Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi) as well as a profile of Cori Bush, the first Black woman to represent Missouri in Congress.
The Teach In will conclude with a “Call to Action” consisting of a letter writing campaign focused on the recent killings of Casey Goodson and Andre Hill by local law enforcement.
Please join us for this event January 18, 2021, 7:00-8:30pm and feel free to invite friends and family.
The 2020 edition of the Lake Erie Yearly Meeting Annual Records has at last been published. Among the features are minutes and reports from both the Representative Meeting in April and the Annual Sessions in July/August, a full slate of committee officers, committee members, and representatives, and useful information on all of our monthly meetings and worship groups, giving details of meeting times, websites, and names of those serving the meetings. Also included is a directory of contact information for those active in Yearly Meeting and officers and committee clerks in monthly meetings.
The closing of our meetinghouses during the coronavirus pandemic has made distribution of paper copies difficult. In response, we have printed many fewer copies of Lake Erie Yearly Meeting’s Annual Records but are making it freely available as a PDF file. At least two paper copies of the Annual Records were sent to each monthly meeting, as well as one to each worship group.
If you would like to receive a PDF copy of the Annual Records, please contact Jeff Cooper, editor, at cooperdaub@hotmail.com, providing your email address so he can mail you the file as an attachment. There are a few additional paper copies for those who want the information in that format. Contact Jeff Cooper to request a paper copy.
SUBMISSIONS FOR LEYM WINTER BULLETIN DUE JAN. 15, 2021
Please send articles, essays, reports, or artwork for Lake Erie Yearly Meeting’s Winter 2021 Bulletin to the editors, Jeff Cooper and Peggy Daub, by Friday, January 15, 2021 (send to bulletinleym@gmail.com)
As always, we welcome items reflecting the business of the Yearly Meeting, such as reports and announcements from committees. Reports on activities in monthly meetings or worship groups are of interest as well.
A new idea: A Friend suggested that they would like to see things other Friends have made during quarantine for the Coronavirus. We agree, and so invite submissions of new creations from the pandemic, including creative writing such as essays, memoirs, or poetry, visual creations such as drawings, paintings, or photography, or photographs of 3D objects such as sewing/quilting/ knitting/crochet projects, woodworking, or any other means you have used to be creative since March 2020.
Jeff Cooper & Peggy Daub, co-editors, LEYM Bulletin
Friends may be interested to learn that Ancestry.com now has a special collection of historical records related specifically to Quakers. A helpful research guide provides information about the types of available records and how to interpret the various terms and abbreviations used. Information sources include meeting minutes, births, marriages, burials, memberships, records related to discipline, memorials, and others. Specific records collections that are included are listed below. According to Ancestry, about half of people in the United States today who had ancestors living in or moving through the Mid-Atlantic region between 1680 and 1780 have at least one Quaker ancestor.
Available Research Collections
QUAKER MEETING RECORDS Meeting records include births, marriages, deaths, members, and other meeting-related details. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681–1935 Scottish Quakers and Early America, 1650–1700 England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578–1837 Indiana, Selected Quaker Meeting Directories, 1836–1921
HINSHAW INDEXES Indexes contain details extracted from Quaker Meeting minutes. You may find names, places, births, marriages, deaths, and membership details. U.S., Hinshaw Index to Selected Quaker Records, 1680–1940 U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607–1943 U.S., Surname Index to Quaker Records
OBITUARIES, MEMORIALS, AND BURIALS You may find birth and death years, cemetery records, or an entire life story. U.S. and UK, Quaker Published Memorials, 1818–1919 U.S., Index to Quaker Obituary Notices, 1822–2012 U.S., Quaker Cemetery Records, 1800–1990
OTHER RECORDS Periodicals, yearbooks, and even published genealogies can tell you more about your Quaker ancestors. U.S. and Canada, Quaker Monthly Meeting Historical Data, 1671–2010 Quaker Records, Dublin, Abstracts of Wills U.S., Quaker Genealogies, 1893–2003 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, African-American Census, 1847
Joe Mills has requested a Special Called Meeting of Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting on behalf of Friends School Detroit Trustees to discuss the following issues:
Amending the bylaws of Friends School in Detroit such that:
The minimum number of Trustees for Friends School be reduced from 9 to 3
Eliminate the provision that a trustee serving for 3 consecutive full terms must be out of office for one year before such trustee can be reappointed to the Board.
Appoint at least three trustees for a three year term.
This special called meeting is scheduled for 4pm, December 20. For Zoom link, contact gpqmcommunications@gmail.com.
English colonists first touched land on New England soil some 400 years ago.
The 400 Years Project, Beacon Hill Friends House, and Justice & Witness Ministries of the S. New England UCC are offering a unique opportunity to hear and reflect on Indigenous voices around Thanksgiving next week. The program will be led by two Wampanoag leaders joined by two allied faith leaders active in decolonization work in the New England region. (Note: Gail Melix is a member of Sandwich Meeting and co-clerk of NEYM Earthcare Ministries Committee and Leslie Manning is a member of Durham Meeting, clerk of NEYM Permanent Board, and one of the authors of NEYM’s draft “Letter of Apology to Native Americans”.)
Event Details Thursday, Nov. 19th 7:00 pm Eastern Time “Looking Deeply at Thanksgiving” – an interactive zoom program and benefit for Native Land Conservancy details and registration at: https://www.bhfh.org/looking-deeply-at-thanksgiving
The LEYM Bulletin for fall 2020 is now available. On the website, go to the tab for “News” and choose “Bulletins,” and check out the newly designed website while you’re there! This issue includes a clerk’s message on “Living in the Next Normal,” highlights of the 2020 Annual Meeting, news from monthly meetings, and more.
Please note that fewer paper copies than usual are being distributed, since monthly meetings are not gathering in person. Each monthly meeting or worship group will receive three paper copies unless they have previously requested fewer. We anticipate they will be mailed early next week.
Jeff Cooper & Peggy Daub, co-editors, LEYM Bulletin
Ministry and Nurture of LEYM will be hosting sessions of a Clerks’ Chat via Zoom. We invite Monthly Meeting Clerks, Assistant Clerks, and Worship Group Conveners to join us for any or all of the 1 ½ hour sessions. These will be a time of fellowship and informal conversations on topics of interest and concern to those attending at each session.
If you have questions or would like to participate, you may contact Shelley Kotz via sh.s3ktz@gmail.com
LEYM Annual Queries
Each year LEYM’s Ministry & Nurture Committee prepares a set of queries for the consideration of meetings. The M&N Committee invites each meeting to consider the queries and to develop a written response that describes the insights arrived at during its consideration. Meetings are requested to send this to Flo Friender flo@dougandflo.com by March 1, 2025. These queries, along with supplemental readings, have been sent to LEYM clerks of monthly meetings and conveners of worship groups.
How do we as a Meeting seek opportunities to understand communities unlike ourselves?
We hope that all of you will remember that the Ministry and Nurture Committee is available all year long. If there is a way that we can be of help to you, please reach out to us.
