New England Yearly Meeting

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January 2019: Always Coming Home

Dec 28, 2018 •
Read about Quaker witness, find opportunities for gathering with Friends, start preparing for Annual Sessions, and much more in this month'...

Speakers Announced for Yearly Meeting Annual Sessions 2019

Jan 3, 2019 • Fritz Weiss (Hanover, NH, Friends Meeting), presiding clerk, (Sessions)
I am very pleased to share with you that the Bible Half-Hour speaker at Annual Sessions this summer will be Colin Saxton, and the plenary...

Public Statement: The Love That Overcomes

Nov 3, 2018 •
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height,...

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

Maine Quakers Speak Out Against Skowhegan Mascot 

Jan 11, 2019 •
Diane Oltarzewski (Belfast, ME, Area Friends Meeting), Mark Raines (Farmington, ME, Friends Meeting), and Shirley Hager (Winthrop Center,...

Invitation to the 2019 Annual Sessions Plenary

Jan 4, 2019 • Lisa Graustein, Beacon Hill (MA) Friends Meeting, (Recordings)

What Canst Thou Tweet?

Jan 3, 2019 • Kathleen Wooten, Fresh Pond (MA) Monthly Meeting
For the past year, I’ve traveled among Friends to talk about using the internet to help our meetings communicate with newcomers, with...

Legacy Gift Grant Awards for Fall 2018

Jan 2, 2019 • (Legacy Gift)
The Legacy Gift Committee of New England Yearly Meeting is pleased to announce the NEYM Future Fund grants for fall 2018. Christine Green,...

Portland Friends Help Shelter the Homeless

Dec 28, 2018 • Ann Dodd-Collins, Portland (ME) Friends Meeting
At Portland Friends Meeting's May 2017 meeting for business, the clerk of Peace and Social Concerns recommended that our meeting become a...

Love Knows No Borders

Dec 28, 2018 • Diane Dicranian, Winthrop Center (ME) Friends Meeting
Why was I drawn to the wall? Back in September I started to feel a leading. We’d been hearing about the border wall for a while but this...

Epistle of At the Well Gathering, December 2018

Dec 28, 2018 •
We are a people that follow after those things that make for peace, love and unity.” ~Margaret Fell, 1660 We, twenty-four Quaker women and...

On Blazes

Dec 28, 2018 • Rebecca Leuchak, clerk of Providence, RI, Friends Meeting
Someone once told me that organized religions run the risk of losing membership for one of two reasons: on the one hand, the danger of...

NEYM 2018 Minute on Calculator Project

Dec 13, 2018 • (Earthcare Ministry)
2018-36 Earthcare Ministry Report Mary Bennett (Worcester) and Rebecca MacKenzie (Quaker City Unity) gave the report for the Earthcare...

NEYM Calculator Project Awaits You...

Dec 13, 2018 • (Earthcare Ministry)
December 10, 2018 Dear Friends, At NEYM Sessions this year, Earthcare Ministry Committee (EMC) challenged individuals and their meetings to...

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