Dear Zac,
This issue of the PYM Pastoral Care Threadletter presents articles focusing on caring for our Young Adult Friends. Young adults (18 – 35 years of age) have unique pastoral care needs and concerns. As Friends providing pastoral care, it is important that we learn to respond to these concerns by engaging with young adult Friends in the life of the Spirit. The articles below offer several perspectives on this process.
Peace be with you,
George Schaefer
Care and Aging Coordinator
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Message from the Field
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Staying Connected to Our Young Adult Friends:
A Pastoral Care Perspective
 As the result of concern among the wider meeting membership regarding the spiritual welfare, and the physical whereabouts of our young adult members, Care and Counsel began a year-long focused effort to connect to every one of our young adult members ages 21- 30.
Our intention was to reach out and maintain contact individually. While our young members were having adventures, in school, traveling the world and starting careers and even families, we wanted about what they were doing and we wanted them know to know the Meeting valued them. Share in our exploration.
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Resource
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Caring for Young Adult Friends
 Monthly meetings all over the United States value attracting Young Adult Friends (YAFs) who fall between the ages of 18 and 35 – and they find many challenges
in keeping them engaged in the life of the meeting. A Friend draws on her experience of attending a variety of meetings as a young adult to share some experiences
and tips that may help meetings foster relationships
with YAFs.
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Pastoral Care Newsletter Archive
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Staying Connected with Young Adult Friends
by Deborah Shaw
Where are the Advices that help a meeting support young adult Friends’ spiritual development? Where are the queries and advices that address the time of life when all that one has been taught as a child comes into question? It might be that young adults are not becoming members because we are not preparing them for that role.
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Calendar
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PYM Lunchtime Webinar: 
Thursday, December 12, 12:15 p.m. – 1 p.m., Online
PYM Lunchtime Webinar:
Planning a Family Directed Funeral
Thursday, January 23, 12:15 p.m. – 1 p.m. Online
Pastoral Care Thread Gathering
Saturday, February 22, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm, Mullica Hill Monthly Meeting
An opportunity for grounding and skills development for those who are active in the ministry of caring for Friends in our meetings.
Clerking, February 7-9, 2014, Pendle Hil
Develop or improve your clerking skills with two Friends with years of experience as teachers and mentors to others with gifts for clerking.
Compassionate Listening: Healing the World from the Inside Out
February 14-16, 2014, Pendle Hill
Learn the heart-based practices of Compassionate Listening for use in the family, meetings and community-based organizations.
Couples in Transition: Nurturing Your Relationship in Middle Age and Beyond, January 31-February 2,2014, Pendle Hill
A course for couples in their 50s and 60s who are finding their lives and their relationship shifting focus as they approach retirement age.
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Bulletin Board
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Funds Available for Addictions Treatment 
The PYM Friends Counseling Service has received funding for the outpatient treatment of Friends suffering
from alcohol or substance abuse. Confidential inquiries can be made to: Ken Brick, LCSW, Coordinator, PYM Friends Counseling Service, at 215-241-7019 or friendscounseling@pym.org
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