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2019 Minutes of Annual Sessions (Draft)

Please note that these minutes are still in draft form. The complete minutes will be provided in the coming weeks.

2019 Bible Half-Hours and Plenary Recordings

Aug 12, 2019 • (Recordings), (Sessions)
This page contains files you can download of the Bible Half-Hours by Colin Sexton and the Plenary sessions led by Lisa Graustein. Jean Zaru...

News from Annual Sessions 2019

Aug 10, 2019 • (Sessions)
Please share the experience of NEYM Sessions 2019 with Friends at home. Consider printing and posting this summary and making a report to...

June 2019: Toward Invitation

Jun 17, 2019 •
In this issue: upcoming gatherings, news from the Legacy Gift and Racial, Social and Economic Justice committees, Quakers in the news and...

Legacy Grant Awards Spring 2019

May 30, 2019 • (Legacy Gift)
The Legacy Gift Committee of New England Yearly Meeting announces the spring 2019 grants for the NEYM Future Fund and the NEYM Witness and...

Join the "Virtual Plenary"

Jan 4, 2019 • Lisa Graustein, Beacon Hill (MA) Friends Meeting, (Recordings)
At Annual Sessions in August 2019, Lisa Graustein (Beacon Hill, MA, Friends Meeting) will facilitate a plenary (whole group) session...

Nurturing Faithfulness Program Returns in 2019

Sep 20, 2018 •
Nurturing Faithfulness is a program for individuals who have a spiritual nudge to orient one's heart towards the Divine, be more faithful...

The Latest from Committees & Programs

2019 Epistle of New England Yearly Meeting

Sep 13, 2019 • (Sessions)
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in...

The Poor People's Campaign responds to the El Paso Shootings

Sep 10, 2019 •
Note: New England Yearly Meeting is a member of the Poor People's Campaign and has endorsed this letter. If you really change your ways and...

2019 Annual Report of the Racial, Social and Economic Justice Committee

Sep 10, 2019 • (RSEJ)
Both continuity and change describe RSEJ’s vitality. The committee continues to emphasize its spiritual approach in serving NEYM; at the...

2019 Annual Report of the Puente de Amigos Committee

Sep 10, 2019 • (Puente de Amigos)
Puente de Amigos is pleased to report on an active year of reaching across boundaries to share love and connection with our Cuban Friends...

April 2019 Visit to Puerto Padre

Sep 10, 2019 • Marybeth Toomey, Wellesley (MA) Friends Meeting, (Puente de Amigos)
Felice Lopez and Chris Miller (Framingham, MA, Friends Meeting) and Carolyn Stone, Luci Arico-Muendel, and Marybeth Toomey (Wellesley, MA,...

Freedom & Justice Crier 2019

Sep 6, 2019 •
Racism, microaggressions, seeing Palestine, the Lamb's War, and more.

Sessions 2019 Discernment on the FUM Withholding Policy

Sep 5, 2019 • Bruce Neumann (Fresh Pond, MA, Friends Meeting), presiding clerk
Friends, I am writing today as your new presiding clerk of the Yearly Meeting. While I know many of you already, I look forward to visiting...

Noticing

Sep 4, 2019 • Melissa Foster, Framingham (MA) Friends Meeting, , , (Sessions), (Ministry & Counsel)
The Elders for Noticing Patterns of Oppression and Faithfulness were an outgrowth of the work of the Working Group for Noticing Patterns of...

Friends Women Gather at Trois Rivières, Quebec

Jul 19, 2019 • Marian Baker, Weare (NH) Friends Meeting, (USFW)
More than thirty women—six from the U.S., one from Kenya, and the rest from the area—gathered in Trois Rivières, Quebec, for a regional...

5-year Experiment Continues for Northwest Quarter

Jun 3, 2019 • Constance Kincaid-Brown, Hanover (NH) Friends Meeting
My goal is to share with you some of the joy, laughter,and love that those of us serving on the Interim Committee of Northwest Quarter...

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