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 2026 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 18-21, 2026 at Ashland University. We’d like to invite Friends to consider being part of the program by submitting a proposal to offer a workshop. Our 2026 theme is “Finding Hope, Joy and Courage in Community.” Our plenary speaker will be Joe Volk, speaking on the theme “Joyful Resistance as a Practice of Hope.” It’s going to be a great year to get involved.

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 22, 2026 in order to receive full consideration. Accepted workshops will be offered on either June 19 or 20. 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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Fitting Space to Spirit – A&O webinar set for Nov 6th

19 October 2024
Categories: Committees, Events and Opportunities, Monthly Mtgs, News

Recording of this event now available here.

LEYM’s Advancement and Outreach Committee organized an online event focused on the challenges of Fitting Space to Spirit. The event was held online via Zoom Wednesday November 6, 6:30-8pm.

Rent? Own? Something else?
Join our LEYM panelists from North Columbus, Pittsburgh, and Detroit to hear perspectives on all the ways Friends are trying to right-size the community and the physical plant, followed by time for questions and discussion. Email susanloucks@gmail.com of the LEYM Advancement and Outreach Committee for questions.

Access the session via this Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 898 6708 4094
Passcode: 948148

Friends Peace Teams to Host Online Global Gathering Nov 13-16

17 October 2024
Categories: Events and Opportunities, Peace and Justice

Friends Peace Teams is hosting a global gathering November 13-16 online to share and celebrate what has been happening among their network of peacemakers in the last year. You can see all the details and register here. The theme this year is Justice and peace are possible! What sustains your faith in justice and peace in the face of violence and war?

Friends Peace Teams is a Spirit-led, non-hierarchical network of Regional Teams that share justice and peace work in their regions, supported by Yearly Meeting Representatives and Local and Global Support Teams collaborating on a Global Coordinating Team.

Friends are being invited to participate in a variety of ways, the easiest being by attending one or several of the online Zoom sessions where you can hear reports from team members working in the various global regions. Each session is offered twice to accommodate different time zones. Languages offered: English, Kiswahili, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, Indonesian, and Korean. You can register here for the various sessions offered below.

  • Session 1 – Regional Teams Update: African Great Lakes / Europe and Middle East
    Wednesday, November 13 8:00am-10:00am EST or 12:00pm-2:00pm EST
  • Session 2 – Regional Teams Update: Peacebuilding en las Américas/ North America
    Wednesday, November 13 7:00pm-9:00pm EST or Thursday, November 14 12:00pm-2:00pm EST
  • Session 3 – Regional Team Update: Asia West Pacific
    Thursday, November 14 7:00-8:15 pm EST or 2:00am-3:15am EST
  • Session 4 – FPT Global Celebration! Support Teams and Quaker Yearly Meetings Sharing
    Friday, November 15 7:00pm-9:00pm EST or Saturday November 16 9:00am-11:00am EST

Other ways to get involved include hosting a discussion of the latest issue of PeaceWays with your Meeting or community group to help prepare for the annual sessions. Also, Friends are being invited to share their response to the theme.

Respond to the Theme: Justice and peace are possible! What sustains your faith in justice and peace in the face of violence and war? What brings you hope, joy, and resilience? You can send a 2-3-minute video or 240-word statement with your name, age, country, and sessions you plan to attend to: peaceministries@friendspeaceteams.org Subject: FPT Theme Response

Within LEYM, our Friends Peace Team Representative is Don Buckingham. He has offered to collate and share our theme reflections at the gathering during Session 4. He would like short one or two sentence responses to the theme sent to him via donabuckingham@gmail.com

World Quaker Day October 6th

1 October 2024
Categories: Events and Opportunities, News

October is here, and with it comes World Quaker Day. This is a wonderful opportunity to deepen our understanding of what it means to be a Friend and to connect with others in the Quaker community.

Here are a few ways to celebrate:

Share Your Quaker Journey: Talk about what being a Friend means to you with others in your Meeting or folks in your life.

Visit Another Meeting: Experience Quaker Worship in a different setting. You could visit a Quaker Meeting or Church near you or explore a Meeting in another State or Country online (see FWCC listings here). Use the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) directory to find Meetings and Churches around the globe. Learning more about Friends Worship practices is a great way to strengthen spirit.

Attend a Weekday Meeting: Some Friends hold Midweek Worship. This is a great way to connect with Friends on a different day. FGC offers the Quaker Finder directory as another tool for finding Friends.

Let’s celebrate World Quaker Day by connecting with each other and deepening our understanding of our beautiful traditions.

Digital Version of Annual Records posted

25 September 2024
Categories: Annual Sessions, News

Dear Friends,
At Annual Sessions last summer, we agreed to try posting a version of the LEYM Annual Records online with no contact information (other than for those Friends who have agreed to be the contact person for their Monthly Meeting or Worship Group). Thus, the version posted in the LEYM website has no Directory section.

We on Publications & Archives Committee hope you find this useful. The online version is posted for viewing (and download if you wish) at the new LEYM Annual Records page: https://leym.org/annual-records/

The paper version won’t go to the copy shop for another nine days or so. If you notice errors in the online version, please contact Jeff Cooper (cooperdaub@hotmail.com) asap, and perhaps there will be time to correct these in the print version. Paper copies are distributed in multiple copies to Monthly Meetings, where interested Friends can pick up a copy. If you need to have a paper copy mailed directly to you, please contact Jeff at cooperdaub@hotmail.com

Happy reading!

Jeff Cooper
Publications and Archives

Annual Records

25 September 2024
Categories: Annual Sessions

Beginning in 2024, LEYM will be offering a digital version of our LEYM Annual Records document, sans contact information other than for those Friends who have agreed to be the contact person for their Monthly Meeting or Worship Group. In some browsers, the web-based PDF reader has search enabled (see magnifying glass icon in upper left corner of document frame) so you can quickly jump to items of interest.

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