This course combines a weekend residency, on-line study and reflection, and small group field work for people committed to the on-going practice of corporate spiritual accountability. Participants will learn and practice a corporate process to ground a leading or ministry, enliven the meeting community, and hold all involved accountable. We will gather together to share fellowship, to learn from each other, and to explore best practices, most significant challenges, and growing edges of our care for ministries. Focal areas include sharing the depth of ministry, prayer, full-body listening, asking questions, increased risk taking when faithfulness asks, and weaving spiritual accountability into the fabric of our meetings.
First Day School teachers from twenty-six meetings attended the PYM Library's annual FDS Curriculum Fair this year. At the evening event on August 26, PYM Library presented our first public webinar featuring speakers: Greta Rech for the PYM Religious Education program, Rita Varley for PYM Library, and three members of FDS's (Debi Richter from Trenton, Wendy Kane from Newtown, and Melinda Bradley from West Chester) sharing success stories. Tim Siftar organized and recorded the webinar. If you missed it, you can view the webinar here.
Sharing food with another person is one of the most basic blessings we can take part in. Not all food is created equal and you'd often be surprised where the food you eat comes from. Most importantly, the food we eat builds relationships not only with the people we eat it with, but the people who make it. At this gathering Middle School Friends spent time on a historic Quaker farm, riding solar powered tractors, learning about how our food gets to our table, offering a bit of service in the gardens, cooking and eating food together, and taking a look at the role that food plays in Quakerism, Christianity, and other faiths.
We Can Do It Days are a PYM tradition back by popular demand. They offer support to monthly meetings through workshops, information, a children's program and fellowship.
Registration Deadline Extended to September 20th Registrations received after the 20th will be accommodated as best as possible but the availability of lunch and workshops assignments can't be guaranteed.
Quaker Quest's focus for this We Can Do It Day is on Spiritual Hospitality.
Seekers who visit our Meetings are looking for a variety of things in their spiritual home including a warm welcome, deep worship, and religious education for kids and adults.
Life is filled with miracles! In fact, life itself IS a miracle! Thus, the theme of this year's Tri-Quarter Gathering of Friends: "Miracle Weekend! Miracle Life! The Astonishing Miracle of Being!"
This year's workshops will explore: "The Miracles of..." (1) the Brain?s Pathways to Happiness; (2) Inspired Aging; (3) Creativity through Art; (4) Precious Moments for Teens, Tweens and Kids; and (5) the Evolution of Everything.
Scheduled for the weekend of October 1st, 2nd and 3rd and held at Camp Ockanickon in Medford, NJ, the Tri-Quarter Gathering is open not only to the Salem, Burlington and Haddonfield (NJ) Quarters, but to Friends and attenders throughout Philadelphia Yearly Meeting ...and beyond.
Make a date to bring your whole FDS Committee to PYM Library, where you can design your FDS classes for the whole year. We'll have collections set up and ready for you: organized by age and subject, along with videos, CD's, DVD's (which you can preview on the spot) and games to complement lesson plans. We'll also show you how to use our online library services, place orders by email and help you select resources for your First Day School.
Learn and gain confidence to spread to word and inspire others to raise voices and take action to end gun violence!
There's still time to sign up to participate in one of these great workshops designed to encourage and prepare you for individual one-on-one conversations about gun violence prevention with members of your own, and nearby/related, faith communities. We'll prepare you with background information, interpersonal skills and tools for effective personal outreach and relationship-building.
On Thursday evening, April 29, 2010, approximately 35-40 Friends gathered to celebrate the Artists’ Preview Reception held in the PYM offices at Friends Center. Featuring the work of twenty Quaker artists, this first ArtsOnCherry Exhibit and Sale will continue through September, 2010.
Jan Hatchard, Director of Development for PYM, was inspired to organize Arts on Cherry, after the very successful "Arts on Arch" event she organized recently at Arch Street Meeting House. Jan became aware of the fact that many Friends express their spirituality through art. As she explains it, “It’s a visual representation of spirituality that we can all share in”.
From August 9th to August 27th, 2010, children attending the Peace Camp at Gwynedd Friends Meeting will explore their own understandings of peace and imaginatively delve into the world of conflict transformation.
Through a wide variety of artistic, intellectual and fun-filled recreational activities, campers will have an opportunity to build upon their own ideas collaboratively and to discover worlds of possibilities, both vibrant and diverse.
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From August 9th to August 27th, 2010, children attending the Peace Camp at Gwynedd Friends Meeting will explore their own understandings of peace and imaginatively delve into the world of conflict transformation. 
