Event: Families with Children in our Family of Friends

22 March 2025
Categories: Events and Opportunities, Monthly Mtgs, News

Update: Video Recording of Session Now Available Here

LEYM’s Advancement and Outreach presents an opportunity for inter-meeting conversation on Families with Children in our Family of Friends on Tuesday, April 22, from 7:30-8:30pm.  Join us to hear how panelists from Athens, Ann Arbor, and Broadmead are part of creating communities that work for parents, children, and everyone.  Bring your own questions and perspective and spread the news throughout your branch of our Quaker family! See attached flyer.

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Spring 2025 Bulletin Now Available

19 March 2025
Categories: Annual Sessions, Bulletin, Monthly Mtgs, News

Greetings Friends,
A new issue of the Bulletin has just been released, with paper copies already in the mail. The Spring Issue is chock full of information about our upcoming June 12-15 Annual Meeting, including an overview of the program and our special guests, a rough schedule of events, as well as full descriptions of the workshops on offer this year. The included registration instructions will get you ready to use our online registration form which opens April 1st.

Also in the Issue is some news from the recent Representative Meeting, a couple interesting invitations to get involved from Advancement and Outreach, an FCNL Update, information on two April Peace & Justice Workshops, Monthly Meeting News and a reminder about the Fall Youth Retreat. Lots of great content as usual.

You can find all available issues of the Bulletin at our dedicated page: https://leym.org/leym-bulletins/

2025 Business Sessions

12 March 2025

This is where we will share materials related to the 2025 Annual Sessions being held at Ashland University June 12-15, 2025. For historical reference, here are the Minutes from the 2024 Business Sessions.
Scroll down for the Documents in Advance section.

Meeting for Worship With Attention to Business
Agendas, Yearly Meeting 2025
Subject to Revision and Divine Intervention
DRAFT

Thursday Evening – 6/12/2025 7:30pm – 8:45pm

  • Welcome
  • Announcements – Site Committee, Program Committee, Youth and Children Acknowledgement
  • Roll call, first time attenders, Visitors, absentees
  • Naming Committee
  • Harassment Discernment Committee membership
  • Establishing an Epistle Committee (volunteers & decision)
  • Memorial Minutes – Ann Arbor

Friday AM – 6/13/2025 10:30am – 12:00pm

  • Worship & Epistle
  • Advancement & Outreach (Puzzle Activity)
  • Publications & Archives
  • Ministry & Nurture
  • Peace & Justice
  • Nominating Committee – preliminary report
  • Committee Sharing Session (chance to talk with Committee members)

Friday PM – 6/13/2025 1:15pm – 3:15pm

  • Worship & Epistle
  • Treasurer’s Report
  • Finance Committee- 2025-26 with Draft budget (first reading)
  • Database manager change in records policy (decision)
  • Digital Communications Facilitator report
  • Memorial minutes – Kalamazoo
  • Detroit Friends Meetinghouse Video
  • Monthly Meeting Sharing begins

Saturday 6/14/2025 1:15pm – 3:15pm

  • 1:15-2:00 Extended Worship in Support of Peace Vigil and Anti-Militarism Demonstrations
  • Epistle
  • Worshipful sharing on the spirit of annual meeting
  • Sharing by Representatives to organizations,  sharing about other organizations
  • Memorial Minutes (brief)

Sunday 6/15/2024 8:45am – 10:30am

  • Worship & Epistle
  • LEYM Epistle reading
  • Youth & Children Program
  • Finance Committee – Budget (decision)
  • Naming Committee (decision)
  • Nominating Committee (decision)
  • Brief sharing from Monthly Meetings (continued)
  • Announcements

Documents in Support of Our Business

2025 Annual Meeting

12 March 2025

We invite you to join us in Ashland Ohio for this year’s annual meeting June 12-15, 2025, where we will explore the theme of “Mending Our Nets: The Power of Becoming Whole.” This gathering offers a space to reflect on the brokenness we encounter—within ourselves, our communities, and the world—and to consider how we might repair, restore, and reweave the fabric of our lives with intention and grace.

Peace and Justice Committee 2025 Seminar Series

11 March 2025
Categories: Action, Events and Opportunities, Interest Groups, Peace and Justice

Note: Session Recordings and Slides available below

The rejuvenated Peace and Justice Committee has reached out to LEYM monthly meetings and surveyed the current state of P&J work at the monthly meeting level. Results suggest that it would be a good time to provide support to local meeting efforts to either revive or sustain their P&J work.

Situation: Multiple national crisis is currently unfolding under new government leadership and it has stirred strong feeling among Friends

Background: Quaker Peace Testimony typically responds to this breach of trust with non-violent direct action – but how to make an impact with so many concerns rising all at once?

Assessment: Friends can stimulate and support our Monthly Meeting justice and peace work by:

  • Helping them organize for effective response through a P&J committee
  • Educating folks in practice of non-violent alternatives, and
  • Advocating for Friends participation in alliance with community-based initiatives

Stimulating DO-able Justice and Peace Work in Our Monthly Meetings: a workshop series

Response: LEYM P&J Committee will host two free 2025 workshop sessions helping monthly meetings establish or sustain their P&J committee. We will meet online on the afternoons of April 6th and 27th (two hours each) to discuss firsthand experiences of Monthly Meetings successfully:

FOR MORE INFO: Don Buckingham, Sr donabuckingham@gmail.com

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GPQM Winter Gathering to Feature Michigan AFSC and Young Adult Friends

25 February 2025
Categories: Events and Opportunities, GPQM, News, Young Adult Friends

Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting – Winter Gathering, Sat., 3/15

Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting will have its Winter Gathering on Saturday, March 15, 2025, beginning at 9 am.  This will be a virtual event – see the Zoom link is at the end of this post. 

More information will be forthcoming, but here is a preview of the morning’s activities:

1)  The Michigan AFSC Office’s Criminal Justice Program will highlight their women’s commutation program and their work in support of the Second Look legislation.

2)  The Young Adult Friends group of Ann Arbor Friends Meeting will describe their group and see whether there are young Friends in other Meetings who would be interested in a virtual Young Adult Friends Meeting and possibly in-person gatherings at Friends Lake. Please encourage Young Adult Friends in your Meeting to join us.

Questions to Kevin Miller (kevinfmiller@gmail.com), clerk, or Peggy Daub (peggydaub@hotmail.com), communications coordinator

The GPQM Event link to use is –

https://umich.zoom.us/j/7346151800?omn=99449164990
Meeting ID: 734 615 1800

Michiganders rally in 2024 for Second Look legislation at the State Capitol.

Winter 2025 Bulletin now available

25 January 2025
Categories: Bulletin, News

A new issue of the Bulletin (Volume LXII, Issue 2) has been published. Find it and our back issues collection at the LEYM Bulletins page. There’s lots of interesting content in this issue, including:

  • Clerk’s Message
  • New Advancement and Outreach Series
  • Call for Workshops (Due Feb 15)
  • LEYM-wide Query for 2025
  • Representative Meeting Invitation (Plan to Come to Pittsburgh!)
  • Invitation to 2025 Annual Meeting (Plan to Come to Ashland!)
  • Pamela Haines Annual Meeting Plenary Preview
  • Monthly Meeting News Updates (Birmingham, Cleveland, Kalamazoo and Wooster)
  • Reminder re Available LEYM Funds for different projects
  • Fall Youth Retreat
  • Friends General Conference Update
  • AND News from the FWCC Plenary 2024

Print copies are being mailed to Monthly Meetings who have requested them as per usual.

Call for Workshops for 2025 Annual Meeting

19 December 2024
Categories: Annual Sessions, Events and Opportunities

The Adult and Family Program Committee is excited about our upcoming Annual Meeting scheduled for June 12-15, 2025 at Ashland University. At this time we’d like to invite interested Friends to consider being part of the program by submitting a workshop proposal before February 15th. Our 2025 theme is “Mending Our Nets: The Power of Becoming Whole” and our plenary presenter will be Pamela Haines from Central Philadelphia Meeting. It’s going to be a great year to get involved.

As you prepare, note that on the proposal submission form we are asking for information on the following topics:

  • Workshop Title
  • Preferred Length (90 minutes is the default, shorter is possible)
  • Presenter(s)
  • Workshop Description (for use promoting the workshop)
  • Workshop Design and Format (information for the committee)
  • Participant Engagement Plans
  • Technology Needs
  • Contact Email

Note: Questions can be directed to Adult and Family Program Committee member Greg Mott via mott@findlay.edu

Visit the formal Call for Workshops page to find the embedded submission form. Proposals should be submitted by February 15, 2025 in order to receive full consideration.

LEYM 2025 Call for Workshops Form

16 December 2024
Categories: Annual Sessions, Events and Opportunities

The Adult and Family Program Committee is excited about our upcoming Annual Meeting to be held June 12-15, 2025 at Ashland University and we’d like to invite interested Friends to consider being part of the program by submitting a proposal to offer a workshop. Our 2025 theme is “Mending Our Nets: The Power of Becoming Whole” and our plenary presenter will be Pamela Haines from Central Philadelphia Meeting. It’s going to be a great year to get involved.

A group works together to pull in their nets as the sun shines in the distance.

Here’s the link to the form you’ll need to use to have your proposal put before the Committee for consideration. Proposals should be submitted by February 15, 2025 in order to receive full consideration. As you prepare, note that on the form we are asking for information on the following topics:

  • Workshop Title
  • Preferred Length (90 minutes is the default, shorter is possible)
  • Presenter(s) (includes MM affiliation if relevant)
  • Workshop Description (brief, descriptive, written for use promoting the workshop)
  • Workshop Design and Format (Additional information for the committee)
  • Participant Engagement Plans (Friends appreciate interactivity in sessions)
  • Technology Needs
  • Contact Email

Note: Questions can be directed to Greg Mott via mott@findlay.edu

For your convenience, the form is also embedded below. If you are having trouble navigating it, use the link above to go directly to the form.

Online Event: Hybrid Meetings – How Have They Affected Us?

14 December 2024
Categories: Events and Opportunities, Monthly Mtgs

Note: The video recording of this event is now available here.

LEYM Advancement and Outreach Presents: 
Hybrid Meetings- How Have They Affected Us?

Thursday January 16, 2025  7:30 pm

Join our LEYM panelists from Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, and Oberlin to hear perspectives on everything from technology to identity – followed by time for questions and discussion. 

UPDATE: If you would like to read about some of the concerns we may cover, Emily Provance has written an interesting article which can be accessed at Guidance for Meetings: Emily Provance.

Zoom Link: Click Here
Meeting ID: 850 1650 3621
Passcode: 196682

Questions?  Write Stephanie: Charlot.sf@outlook.com

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