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	OYM BOOK OF DISCIPLINE
		This meeting appoints a committee to meet with the applicant.
		The simplicity of a meeting for worship is desired in the conduct of funerals.
		Meetings should make due examinations as to the titles of all meeting houses, burial grounds, and other estates which have been vested in Trustees, and held by them for the use and benefit of the Society at large or any of the Meetings.
	www.ohioyearlymeeting.org /discipline.htm (14880 words)

	Faith and Practice of Pacific Yearly Meeting 2000
		The Meeting strives to be present for all its members throughout different stages of their lives and their specific needs -as single people, coupled, or in broader communities -recognizing the Divine in each.
		Early Meetings were both a religious body and an economic unit, coming to the aid of persecuted members who risked imprisonment and loss of jobs and property for acting on their beliefs.
		Meetings that have united on a course of action, such as providing sanctuary to families fleeing oppression, have often found their faith deepened and their community life enhanced.
	members.aol.com /psam1234/quaker/pacym/pym31.htm (1842 words)

	Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Meetings are urged to recognize the diversity of family patters and be sensitive to the concerns of all involved.
		The meeting has an obligation to those recorded as members at a young age to ensure that as they reach adulthood they are aware that they should thoughtfully consider their own commitment to membership.
		When a monthly meeting receives such an application for transfer, the overseers should, unless there is a strong reason to doubt their member’s willingness to contribute to the life of another Meeting, prepare in duplicate a letter of transfer, recommending the Friend to the care of the Meeting to which transfer is requested.
	www.swarthmore.edu /Library/friends/rsg/recordsinfandp.html (4456 words)

	Yearly Meeting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yearly Meetings derive their name from annual gatherings of members and attenders of the Religious Society of Friends — from constituent Quarterly and Monthly Meetings in order to transact the business of the Yearly Meeting.
		Yearly Meetings are times for Friends from a wide geographical area to come together to worship, to discuss their concerns, and to seek God's guidance on issues facing Friends in that region.
		Illinois Yearly Meeting), or a large city that serves as a hub (e.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yearly_meeting (911 words)

	Paris 2006 Half-Yearly Meeting
		The June 2006 Half-Yearly Meeting of the General Council of the University of Edinburgh was held in Paris on Saturday 17 June 2006.
		The Meeting of the General Council was most ably chaired by the Chancellor’s Assessor, The Rt Hon.
		Following the Meeting, over 80 members and their guests attended a Reception in the Maison’s splendid Salon Honnorat, followed by an excellent lunch of salmon, duck and chocolate mousse.
	www.general-council.ed.ac.uk /paris_hy_meeting.htm (494 words)

	the Amicus Brief of New York Yearly Meeting
		New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends ("NYYM") is the umbrella organization for the Quaker Meetings in New York, part of Connecticut and northern New Jersey.
		Purchase Monthly Meeting regularly records the amount of interest and penalties seized from Rosa Packard, which is the subject of this action, as a minute of suffering for religious conscience.
		New York Yearly Meeting believes that the Court may appreciate and benefit from a discussion of the lengthy history of governmental accommodation to Quaker testimonies and witness, which began in the pre-Revolutionary era.
	cpti.ws /court_docs/tax/second/brief.html (5391 words)

	- YearlyMeetings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Yearly Meeting (A) began to meet only at Philadelphia after 1745; (B) in 1790 transferred Fairfax and Warrington Quarterly Meetings to Baltimore Yearly Meeting and accepted the transfer of BYM's Eastern Shore Quarterly Meeting as its new Southern Quarterly Meeting, and (C) transferred Nottingham Quarterly Meeting to Baltimore Yearly Meeting in 1819.
		Because several quarterly meetings transferred intact to the new yearly meeting, Rocky Mountain meetings hold the records of many local meetings that were discontinued under Nebraska Yearly Meeting prior to 1957.
		WATERLOO Yearly Meeting of Congregational Friends opened 1849/06/04 under the 1848/10/06 Basis of religious Association, composed of the former Junius Monthly Meeting and other Friends separating from the Scipio Quarterly Meeting of Genesee Yearly Meeting, became the Annual Meeting of the Friends of Human Progress in 1854, and continued until approximately 1884.
	www.quakermeetings.com /YearlyMeetings (7286 words)

	Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends
		Junior Yearly Meeting — Junior Yearly Meeting is meant for children ages 6-13, those entering first grade to those entering eighth grade in the fall.
		Participants are asked to donate toward Yearly Meeting expenses as they are able.
		Contributions toward Yearly Meeting expenses may be made at registration or at meal times.
	www.quakernet.org /IYMSessions/iowa_yearly_meeting_of__friends.htm (704 words)

	Baltimore Yearly Meeting of The Religious Society Of Friends
		Riley is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington, and has served as its Administrative Secretary for fourteen years, attending to the needs of a Meeting with 460 members, hundreds of attenders and visitors, and two "vintage" buildings.
		Friends Meeting of Washington has adopted the Alvar Branch Library in the Bywater district of New Orleans and is raising funds to help reopen the library early this summer.
		A Survey of Meeting activities concerning criminal justice and related issues: Criminal and Restorative Justice Committee has found it valuable for the Yearly Meeting to know what work is being done in our monthly meetings in criminal justice and related issues.
	www.bym-rsf.org /quakers/index2006summer.shtml (843 words)

	Sandy Spring Friends Meeting
		Sandy Spring Friends Meeting is a member of Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting and Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
		Through Baltimore Yearly Meeting we are members of Friends General Conference, Friends United Meeting, and Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas.
		Contributions toward the financial support of the Meeting properties and activities may be mailed to the Treasurer, Sandy Spring Friends Meeting, 17715 Meetinghouse Road, Sandy Spring, MD 20860, or placed in the wooden box on the back shelf of the Meetinghouse.
	www.sandyspring.org (311 words)

	New England Yearly Meeting Archives Introduction to the Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		After retiring from teaching, Thyra Jane worked with the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings as well as the Yearly meeting and Quaker Schools, to establish a centralized place for Friends records, one that would be accessible to the public for research.
		Members of the New England Yearly Meeting and the general public are all welcome to use the resources of the RIHS Library and the NEYM Archives during regular library hours at no charge.
		Some of the original records of the New England Yearly Meeting are in other repositories such as the Maine Historical Society and the Nantucket Historical Society.
	people.bu.edu /jchris/neymarch.html (776 words)

	New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
		They seek to be obedient not only in the quiet gathering for worship together, or in their meeting for settling practical affairs, but also as they are led as a group to be concerned for those about them, particularly those suffering injustices or inequities.
		Friends in New England try in their meetings for worship to capture the same spirit, a sense of God's presence in the midst, and to be open to new revelation.
		In the meetings with pastoral leadership, the pastor may prepare a message and an order of service during the week, but the pastor is only a worshipper among worshippers, and the life of the pastoral worship depends on the response of the group.
	www.neym.org (1151 words)

	OHS - Places - Quaker Meeting House
		This three-story brick building was erected in Mount Pleasant in 1814 and was the first yearly Quaker meeting house west of the Alleghenies.
		The Mount Pleasant meeting house was used regularly until 1909.
		Quaker Meeting House is on the southwest edge of Mount Pleasant, in Jefferson County, a few blocks north of the intersection of State Route 150 and State Route 647.
	www.ohiohistory.org /places/quaker (201 words)

	Britain Yearly Meeting York 2005 - Britain Yearly Meeting in York 2005
		This is where you can download the latest information from Yearly Meeting.
		The epistle from Britain Yearly Meeting 2005 or is in text below.
		Britain Yearly Meeting, old and young, has gathered across the campus of the University of York, from 30 July to 6 August 2005.
	www.britainyearlymeeting.org.uk /york2005 (794 words)

	Haverford College Libraries - Special Collections - Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Records, ca. 1745-1983 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Previous to this, Philadelphia area Friends formed the "Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures." The "Friendly Association" grew out of the violence of the French-Indian War of the mid-1700s and was active as a formal organization from ca.
		The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Indian Committee is a standing committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (PYM).
		The Association arose out of the isolation that PYM found itself in at that time and was a way for Philadelphia Friends to co-operate with the other Yearly Meetings in Indian work.
	www.haverford.edu /library/special/aids/pymic (1517 words)

	Bellingham Friends Meeting
		The North Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), standing in the 350 year tradition of Friends’ opposition to war, calls for the immediate, orderly termination of the military occupation of Iraq by the United States.
		(2) We encourage Friends of the North Pacific Yearly Meeting—in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington—to consider the adoption of similar minutes in their meetings, and we urge them to convey these statements to our fellow citizens through the news media, and to our Senators and Representatives in the Congress.
		Approved by Friends of North Pacific Yearly Meeting on this 17th day of the 7th month, 2005, in annual session gathered, at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.
	www.geocities.com /bellinghamfriendsmeeting (551 words)

	Yearly Meeting Epistles - 2002 - QuakerInfo.com
		For centuries, Friends (Quaker) yearly meetings have been sending epistles to one another, usually annually.
		Today, most yearly meetings issue a "To Friends Everywhere" general epistle.
		Some yearly meetings don't issue an epistle but do have a brief message coming from the yearly meeting sessions, a summary of the chief concerns during the sessions, or something else similar in content to an epistle.
	www.quakerinfo.com /epistles2002.shtml (351 words)

	Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Library
		These materials are used for spiritual inspiration, research, and in Quaker studies programs, by monthly meeting groups, teachers and students, and by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting staff and individual borrowers.
		The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Library is seeking aspiring young videographers who want to record their perspectives on Quaker faith.
		Monthly meetings may request assistance in organizing their own libraries, and support for cataloging their collections.
	www.pym.org /pm/lib.php (719 words)

	Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of The Religious Society Of Friends (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		On Saturday, October 28, at Arch Street Meeting House, treasurers and finance committee members are invited to a workshop on financial reporting.
		The guide to the records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting deposited at Swarthmore and Haverford Colleges is now available on the Internet.
		It was a busy spring and summer for the Transition Project Group, a group appointed by Interim Meeting to review and revise the job description for the PYM General Secretary prior to the hiring of a new General Secretary.
	www.pym.org.cob-web.org:8888 (1206 words)

	North Carolina Yearly Meeting (FUM)
		North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends seeks through the power of the Holy Spirit to equip and energize our meetings in their witness to the love, message and power of the living Christ encouraging Friends to translate our faith into practice
		North Carolina Yearly Meeting (FUM) is an organization of churches and meetings of the Religious Society of Friends in North Carolina and southeastern Virginia affiliated with
		The Yearly Meeting office is located in Greensboro, NC on Hilltop Road.
	www.ncym-fum.org /about.htm (88 words)

	EFI: North America - Alaska Yearly Meeting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Alaska Yearly Meeting of Friends Churches is made up of 13 churches.
		The Yearly Meeting office is located in Kotzebue, some 30 miles above the Arctic Circle.
		They became their own Yearly Meeting in 1970.
	www.evangelical-friends.org /north-america/regions/alaska (205 words)

	FGConnections: Yearly Meeting Supports and is Supported by Ministry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This ministry grew out of the expressed needs of monthly meetings in IYM and the leading to travel in the ministry of a Friend from Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting.
		In 1995, Barry Zalph, a member of Louisville Monthly Meeting, Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting, began to explore a leading to travel in the ministry.
		Simultaneously, Allen Oliver, a member of Barry's monthly meeting and FGC Nurture Coordinator, became aware that Illinois Yearly Meeting was searching for a Field Secretary to work with meetings.
	www.fgcquaker.org /connect/spring97/ymeeting.html (340 words)

	"An Ideal Yearly Meeting" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Some of our yearly meetings are genuine vacation opportunities (New England and New York are two of the best for sheer family fun).
		A few years ago, my yearly meetingâs agenda included the planting of a meeting in Fort Wayne and the exploration of a relationship with a Spanish-speaking meeting in Toronto.
		I hope that, this year, routine business in all our yearly meetings will get the one morning it deserves (more or less!), and that the rest of the time is devoted to telling Jesusâ”and each otherâ”in very personal terms what we have taught and whom we have healed.
	maurers.home.mindspring.com /commitments0497.htm (626 words)

	Announcements from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
		Monthly Meeting is at the core of your Quaker community-building, but attending wider gatherings of Friends -- such as Quarterly Meeting, Yearly Meeting, and FGC Gathering -- is a unique opportunity to connect with Quakers from other Meetings.
		I urge you to attend Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Annual Sessions, March 31 to April 3, 2005, themed "We are One in the Spirit." A spiritually
		They are: (1) fundraising, (2) laws that affect Meetings, especially from the Treasurer's perspective, and (3) reporting, financial records and the responsibilities of the Treasurer.
	mysite.verizon.net /vzeecngw/newsletter1.05/id12.html (1590 words)

	Northern Yearly Meeting
		Welcome to the website for Northern Yearly Meeting (NYM), an organization of Friends (Quaker) meetings and worship groups mainly in Minnesota and Wisconsin, with some groups in North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa.
		We are meeting in the homes of attenders in Burnett County WI every other Seventh Day/Saturday at 11 am.
		The usual meeting place is the home of Angelika and Jon Shafer, 6020 Peterson Rd, Webster WI 54893.
	www.northernyearlymeeting.org (400 words)

	Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Supplementary to History of Nashville Friends Meeting I would like to give a thumbnail sketch of the Yearly Meeting of which we are a part.
		The geographical region which eventually became the location of The Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association of Friends included parts of seven states, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, north Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
		One-day regional meetings in 1957 and 1958 were held at the two Evans homes in Crossville.
	www.nashvillefriendsmeeting.org /ymchron.htm (473 words)

	Lake Erie Yearly Meeting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Lake Erie Yearly Meeting is an organization of Quaker meetings and worship groups in Ohio, Michigan, and parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
		yearly meeting activities, electronic versions of the yearly meeting's newsletter,
		The Bulletin, and various other documents produced by the yearly meeting such as the
	www.quaker.org /leym (251 words)

	QuakerNet
		We wish to affirm that the life of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) has been enriched and strengthened by the spiritual gifts of all Friends, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
		Submissions concerning monthly meeting activities should be made by monthly meeting clerks and announcements for Yearly Meeting committees by Yearly meeting committee clerks to the Publishing Committee convener.
		Contact Deborah Fisch (Iowa Yearly Meeting (C) Clerk) or Jeff Kisling (Publication Committee convener) for comments or to add information.
	www.quakernet.org (528 words)

	York Friends Meeting \| Quakers \| York, Pennsylvania
		At our Quaker Meeting for Worship we meet to be present to the Inner Light or Christ within, in a kind of collective, contemplative silence.
		All Baltimore Yearly Meeting Friends are warmly invited to attend the memorial service.
		auri Perman, Presiding Clerk of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, has been asked to deliver a short (5-7 minute) eulogy about Tom's life, and invites us all to send stories and memories of Tom to her at lauriperman@hotmail.com.
	yorkfriendsmeeting.org (339 words)

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