Events

Co-facilitated by Walter Sullivan and Tenaja Henson, this Threshing Session will take place on Sunday, January 26, at Haddonfield Meeting, 10am to 2pm. Friends from across PYM are  encouraged to participate following worship with Haddonfield meeting and a brown bag lunch. Worship is at 10 AM Lunch is at 11 AM Threshing Begins at 12 […]

Friends are invited on Saturday February 1, 2020 at Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting to share stories and inspiration and explore possibilities for increasing diversity & equity in our meetings and in the world. Contact: Zach Dutton 215-241-7171 To register, click here!

Quakers and Slavery in the Seventeenth Century CHS 104 Chase Auditorium 370 Lancaster Ave Haverford, PA 19041 Contact: Susan Penn spenn@haverford.edu   Haverford College’s distinguished visitor Katharine Gerbner, McKnight Land-Grant Professor, University of Minnesota will be giving a talk about her research on Quakers and slavery. Eighteenth-century Quakers were leaders of the abolitionist movement, but […]

Come for Fellowship and Fun! Game Night at Kennett Friends Meeting

Valentine’s Day Party and Open House Featuring:                A Concert by our Friends Home Choir Come enjoy a nostalgic trip through the years as our residents present songs about love: Perfect theme for a Valentine’s Day weekend. Saturday, February 15th 1 – 4 (Concert at 2 p.m. in Friends Home […]

Institutional Assessment on Institutional Racism Presented by Vanessa Juyle, The Institutional Assessment is a direct response to the events at the 2016 Gathering that encapsulates the long history of lived experience of People of Color of systemic racism among Friends. A similar assessment focused on Indigenous Peoples, classism, ageism, and disability is encouraged in the […]

Workshops Arlene Kelly of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (CPMM) will lead a workshop on the important function of Nominating Committees. Steven Davison also of CPMM will lead a workshop on the the sense of the meeting — what it is, what it means, and how we experience it. Kri Burkander of Princeton Meeting and Jim […]

Climate Crisis: Why Friends Care, What We Can Do Liz Robinson, Burt Dallas, Paula Kline and Ruth Darlington, with PYM’s Eco-Justice Collaborative, will address actions at the national, state, local, and person levels to lower carbon emissions and other efforts to address the Climate Crisis. This follows Haddonfield Quarter’s worship, annual business meeting, and lunch. […]

Are there Quakers in South Africa? How and when did they get there? What roles did they play before, during, and after apartheid? How do South African Quakers address issues of race, position, and power both within the Religious Society and the larger culture today? Come hear stories, ask questions, and share thoughts with Nozizwe […]