Registration is now open for the 2010 Young Adult Friends Gathering to be held May 28-31 in Wichita, Kansas!

On Friday, May 28 - Monday, May 31, 2010, Young Adult Friends (aged 18-35) from across North America will come together in Wichita, Kansas, for a gathering entitled: "Bearing Witness to the Word Among Us - Witness, Testimony and Transformation." Our scriptural focus will be 1 John 1:1-3: "We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life - this life was revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it, and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us - we declare to you what we have seen and heard so that you may also have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ."

It is our prayer that this gathering will be a time for Young Adult Friends from a wide variety of Yearly Meetings to gather to worship God, share in fellowship, and grow together in our faith as Friends.

Following the weekend gathering, those who are able to stay longer will have an opportunity for a shared service project, Tuesday, June 1 - Thursday, June 3. Young Adult Friends will work together to let our faith shine, demonstrating our love for the people of Wichita.

Finally, Thursday, June 3 - Sunday, June 6, Great Plains Yearly Meeting invites Friends to join them for their annual sessions, also held in Wichita. Great Plains Yearly Meeting is a unique Friends body, that spans much of the diversity of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States. GPYM is affiliated with Friends United Meeting, and is composed of both pastoral and unprogrammed Meetings. Some of these Meetings are individually affiliated with Evangelical Friends Church or Friends General Conference. Great Plains Yearly Meeting is at a critical point in its history and is seeking God's guidance for how it might move forward despite great challenges. Young Adult Friends are heartily welcomed and encouraged to attend GPYM's 2010 sessions, and to participate in the life and business of the Yearly Meeting.

Please consider joining us for any of these dates, whether for the weekend gathering (May 28-31), the service days (June 1-3), Great Plains Yearly Meeting (June 4-6), or some combination of the three. We hope that you will be with us as we gather to worship God, share in fellowship, and are challenged to serve others as Christ calls us to. Please save these dates, and let other young adults know about this opportunity to deepen our faith together as we are gathered and led by the Holy Spirit.

For more information, contact yaf2010@gmail.com

High school teens are cordially invited to the Lake Erie Yearly Meeting Spring Teen Retreat
Friday, March 26 – Monday, March 29
Olney Friends School, Barnesville, OH

Theme: Discovering Our Quaker Past
Through discussions, worship sharing, watching a Quaker history skit and going to the Quaker museum on
Olney’s campus, we’ll briefly explore some of the significant Quaker milestones in history.
Presenter/Discussion Leader: DR Stanley. He is a graduate of Olney Friends School, Wilmington College (BA) and Ohio University (MA) who teaches art and Quakerism at Olney Friends School.

Cost: $40/person Includes weekend program and all meals. Additional contributions welcome. Cash or check, please. Make checks payable to Lake Erie Yearly Meeting. We do not want costs to be a barrier preventing you from attending. Monthly Meetings are encouraged to help youth attend. LEYM also has a limited amount of financial assistance available. Ask your meeting for their help and contact Cari if you still need help.

RSVP: Please contact Cari Burke, LEYM High School Youth Program Coordinator (cell: 231-383-1296, e-mail: cariupnorth@gmail.com), or RSVP on Facebook. Please RSVP by Monday, 22 March 2010 if you plan on coming, as we need to buy food. If you are vegan, vegetarian, or have specific dietary needs, please indicate so on the registration form and contact Cari beforehand so that we may plan accordingly. If you want to carpool from Kalamazoo, MI or from places along the way please contact Cari. Please be sure to forward a signed version of the attached registration/medical release form to Cari even if you RSVP via email or Facebook.

Weekend activities:

- Hanging-out
- Olney GymEx Performance
- Meeting for Business
- Wink!
- Music, singing and dancing
- Meeting for Worship
- Games
- Worship Sharing
- Olney Quaker Museum
- Film of Quaker History Skit
- Discussion with DR Stanley
- Planning for future retreats

Things to bring:

- Payment (cash or check)
- Clothing for wink (i.e. t-shirt & sweats - yoga or gym-type clothing)
- Sleeping bag, pad, & pillow
- Towel & toiletries
- Medicines
- Acoustic musical instruments
- Dance party music!
- Games
- Snacks to share
- Your calendar (for planning)

If you are interested in serving as a FAP (Friendly Adult Presence) for the weekend, please contact Cari.

For driving directions to Olney Friends School, visit: http://www.olneyfriends.org/admissions/directions.htm
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Friend Dick Hogan from Athens MM sends along the following event announcement for a symposium entitled Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream happening Saturday, January 30, 2010 in Athens, Ohio.

Hi all,
For those who may not have received this earlier or did not get a personal invite from the team, you are cordially invited to this very special opportunity to be together to co-evolve and co-create a better future for all. Hope to see you on Saturday.  Awakening the Dreamer (ATD) number two, coming soon to the Athens as soon as early spring. Do let us know if you are interested for the next symposium. More notice next time!

Blessings for the Earth Family and Community At Home,

Dick Hogan
greenfirefarm.org
740-664-4028

See all the event details on the attached event flyer.

Following a concern raised by the LEYM Earthcare Committee with regard to the recent Supreme Court ruling removing limits on corporate spending for campaign ads, provided here are some resources related to Democracy and Corporations. They come courtesy of Greg Coleridge, Director, Economic Justice & Empowerment Program; Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee.

Supremely Reducing Democracy
The Citizens United vs FEC decision granting business corporations free speech "rights" Is the latest in a 124-year long history of legal absurdities by the US Supreme Court. The unelected, appointed-for-life robed ones have expanded entrenched Constitutional protections to entities that exist solely through legal charters imposed by the government of We The People. What's next? Declaring that computers are human beings with Constitutional rights?...continued at http://createrealdemocracy.blogspot.com

Action Steps
1. See resources listing at end. Invite us to speak, hold a workshop, take part in a Town Hall Meeting, or other action in your community.
2. 10 Ways to Stop Corporate Dominance of Politics, Yes magazine
http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/10-ways-to-stop-corporate-dominance-of-politics/
3. Move to Amend Take Action suggestions http://www.movetoamend.org/take-action


Since Thursday, the internet, newspapers and people around kitchen tables across the country have been ablaze with outrage over the Supreme Court's action to open the floodgates to corporate money in our elections. Over 40,000 of you have joined with us in launching a long-term campaign to amend the Constitution, and others have begun to follow your lead.

We think you'll agree that it's time to raise a ruckus! Over the weekend we prepared some ideas for things you can do and materials to get you started. Please check out our new Take Action section right now at:

Here's some of what you'll find there:
1) Spread the word! Tell your friends about the Motion to Amend. Use our form to forward a message to your contacts. Join our new Facebook page to connect with others.
2) Donate to the cause! Move to Amend is the beginning of a multi-year movement to amend the Constitution. We're gearing up big and we need your financial support.
3) Educate Others! Write a letter to the editor to explain what Citizens United ruling does and let others know how they can take action. Make sure to mention the MovetoAmend.org website. Our website has useful tips and sample letters to help get you started.
In the words of Margaret Mead, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

We agree, which is why we've also included ideas for group action like:
1) Hold a Funeral for Democracy! Organize a mock funeral outside your closest federal building, with mourners, music, speakers, and eulogies for democracy. Let everyone know that the U.S. judiciary has made democracy illegal by granting away our rights to corporations. Take video to post on YouTube, invite the media, and make sure your political officials are invited to speak in memory of democracy.
2) Organize a Study Group or Kitchen Table Discussion! Most folks do not have a deep understanding of what corporate personhood means to democracy and elections. Bring your friends, family, co-workers, fellow students, or neighbors together for a discussion about why this happened, what it means and what needs to be done. We provide materials to help get you started and readings to discuss.
3) Pass a Democracy Resolution! We include a model resolution to start from. Your political party, rotary club, city, township or even state can pass this declaration calling for a Constitutional Amendment to Legalize Democracy and Abolish Corporate Personhood. We also provide some materials to get you started if you'd like to take action at the municipal level.

ALL THAT AND MORE IS HERE:
http://www.movetoamend.org/take-action

Large corporations have used our legal system for decades to make enOrmous profits at the expense of our health, our communities, the environment and our democracy. Let's seize the moment and make the Citizens United v. FEC decision the last straw that breaks corporate rule once and for all!

Do you have other ideas for action? Let us know! http://www.movetoamend.org/node/63
If you make templates or example documents, costumes, flyers, props or other materials, we'll post them. See you in the streets!

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AFSC/RELATED RESOURCES ON DEMOCRACY AND CORPORATIONS

Creating Democracy workshop
An introductory, participatory workshop on how to change laws and assert citizen authority and power.
http://www.afsc.net/PDFFiles/CDWorkshopFlyer.pdf

A Call to Democratize Money, Part I
By What Authority, published by the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy [POCLAD]
August, 2009
http://www.poclad.org/bwa/August09.htm This is What Democracy [in Ohio] Looks Like: Ohio's Democratic/Self-Determination 'Infrastructure'
[updated, July, 2009] 16 pages http://www.afsc.net/PDFFiles/DemocraticInfrastructureJuly09.pdf
Keeping Public Assets Public

By What Authority, published by the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy [POCLAD]
March, 2009 http://www.poclad.org/bwa/Mar09.htm

Controlling Blackwater and Other Corporations (September 21, 2007 letter to editor)
http://www.afsc.net/PDFFiles/092107PDLTEIraqContractorsGC.pdf

Honor Democracy in Iraq (September 13, 2007 letter to editor)
http://www.afsc.net/PDFFiles/091307ABJLTEIraqGC.pdf

A U.S. Constitution with DEMOCRACY IN MIND
Second of two articles on the U.S. Constitution
By What Authority, published by the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy [POCLAD]
Spring, 2007
http://www.poclad.org/bwa/Spring07.htm

The U.S. Constitution: Pull the Curtain
First of two articles on the U.S. Constitution
Winter 2007
By What Authority, published by the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD)
http://www.poclad.org/bwa/Winter07.htm

Nature not the only source of closings (February 2007 article)
http://www.afsc.net/PDFFiles/022007ClosingsGColeridge.pdf

Employee Free Choice Act (February 2007 talk)
http://www.afsc.net/PDFFiles/EmployeeFreeChoiceCole.pdf

Will changed faces result in changed policies? (November 2006 article)
http://www.afsc.net/PDFFiles/110806PostElectionEditorial.pdf

Globalization is a choice (November, 2006)
http://www.afsc.net/PDFFiles/112006ABJLTEGlobalization.pdf

Closing the Circle: The Corporatization of Elections (Article)
from By What Authority, a publication of the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy [POCLAD], Summer, 2006
http://www.poclad.org/bwa/Summer06.htm

CorpOrNation - The Story of Citizens and Corporations in Ohio. DVD
http://www.afsc.net/Products/CorpOrNation.html

Citizens Over Corporations, A Brief History of Democracy in Ohio and Challenges to Freedom in the Future. Booklet
http://www.afsc.net/Products/COCBooklet.html

Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy: A Book of History and Strategy
http://cipa-apex.org/books/poclad/

Resources for Educators
http://www.afsc.net/educatorresources.html

Other resources on Corporations and Democracy:
http://www.afsc.net/neoresources.html

AFSC webpage on Corporations and Democracy:
http://www.afsc.net/ejcorpdem.html

Saturday, February 27, in Detroit
Including a Work Day at Friends School Birmingham and Detroit Monthly Meetings will jointly host the mid-winter gathering of Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting on Saturday, February 27. The day will begin with meeting for worship at Detroit Friends Meetinghouse (6227 West Fort Street, Detroit, MI 48209), probably starting at 9:30. There will then be a brief tour through Detroit, ending at Friends School in Detroit (1100 St. Aubin Street, Detroit, MI 48207 – corner of St. Aubin and Lafayette) for a day of cleaning and repairs, with “a bit of frivolity in the mix.” Watch for a flier announcing this event and providing more details.

The Winter 2010 LEYM Bulletin is now available for download via the LEYM website. This issue includes information on the upcoming Representative Meeting. The advance registration deadline for that event is February 16th.

LEYM is in the process of reinvigorating our high school retreat program. As part of this process, LEYM's new High School Youth Program Coordinator Cari Burke is organizing a group of Lake Erie Yearly Meeting teens to attend the Quake that Rocked the Midwest, which is hosted by Northern Yearly Meeting (NYM) and will be happening at the Evanston Meetinghouse in Evanston, IL the weekend of January 15-18. By coordinating travel, we will hopefully be able to minimize both the individual cost and the environmental footprint of travel to the retreat. The retreat will start at about 6pm on Friday evening and go until lunch on Monday (meals will be provided Saturday breakfast through Monday lunch). The cost is $40 to cover meals for the weekend, however, NYM has made it clear that cost should not be a factor in preventing teens from attending. Please note the Monday following this weekend is Martin Luther King day and many teens will not have school, which is why the retreat lasts until Monday. The presenter for the weekend will be Jon Watts, a Quaker rapper and spoken word poet who tours the country with his guitar and bicycle. The registration deadline is December 31, so if you are interested in attending or know someone who might be please contact Cari right away. Cari can be contacted at: or 231-383-1296.

If you are a teen or a family with teens, please let Cari Burke know your contact information so that you will be included on the list for future communications about teen retreats. Please also feel free to share any thoughts you have on retreat dates, themes, presenters or locations. The spring retreat will likely be at Olney Friends School at the end of March, although the date has not yet been finalized. Teens are cordially invited to participate in the planning of the retreats! Contact Cari Burke (info above) to get involved.

The Pendle Hill retreat center is hiring a Kitchen Manager/Chef. You can find all the details on their website - link to Job Opportunity. Review of applications will begin on November 10, 2009, and continue until the position is filled.

Friends Peace Teams and the African Great Lakes Initiative www.aglionline.org would like to let you know about the upcoming workcamps scheduled for June 19-July 24 2010.

Friends Peace Teams (friendspeaceteams.org) is the parent organization of the African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI). Workcamps are one part of the efforts of AGLI (pronounced AG’-lee), which supports reconciliation, community building and trauma-healing at the grass roots level in Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and, Tanzania through Alternatives to Violence Project workshops, Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities workshops, mediation training, women’s support groups, etc.
What happens at a workcamp? Under the direction of local Africans, workcampers build schools, clinics and community structures such as peace centers.
Who can apply for a workcamp? Anyone with a leading to do peace work. Workcampers of all ages are welcome, though most are between 18 and 35. To date, the youngest workcamper was 8 and the oldest 84. While many Quakers apply, persons of any spiritual calling are welcome. Typically, on any given workcamp team, there are both non-African (e.g., US, Canadian, British) and African participants. It is expected that each workcamper will work cooperatively and be respectful of and open to other cultures. Each workcamp site is under the direction of a local AGLI partner.
2010 Workcamp Locations: Burundi, Kenya Rwanda and Uganda
Dates: Saturday, June 19 to Saturday, July 24, 2010

Get more information here:
Workcamp Descriptions

Workcamp Application

Frequently Asked Questions

Each year the LEYM Ministry and Nurture Committee prepares a set of queries and advices for the consideration of the monthly meetings.  We invite each meeting to consider the queries in a worship sharing format during the Fall, and to develop a minute that describes the insights arrived at during its consideration. The queries for 2009 focus on spirituality and encouraging spiritual journeys.  These are posted on the website (in two different file formats, so hopefully you can open at least one). Response to Ministry and Nurture Committee Clerk Ellen Barnes is requested by January 15, 2010.
Here are direct links to the files:
Annual Queries 2009 - MS Word version

Annual Queries 2009 - PDF version

Join us on Friday October 2, 2009 (after dinner) at Templed Hills,
5734 Durbin Road, Bellville, Ohio 44813!

We plan to fellowship and lodge together.  On Saturday, we plan to eat together, participate in a cooperative camp activity together, play fun games together, go on a night hike together and part company Sunday after meeting, photo, lunch and clean-up!

Parents need to provide a note giving permission for medical care if parents are not attending. Please RSVP, by September 27th, to Jessica Fox (740-447-2299, 13830 Dutch Creek, Athens, Ohio 45701, highlandmeadowfarm45701@yahoo.com) if you plan to attend.  Please spread the word and bring someone new! 

Typically, the $45.00 cost is per person.  If financial aid is needed, please make your needs known to your meeting or Jessica.  The cost of food is included in the cost of admission.

The 2009 FALL Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting (GPQM) will be held Saturday Sept. 19 at Friends School in Detroit,  1100 St. Aubin St. near Lafayette.  Registration 9:30, Worship 10 am, business from 10:30 - 4 pm.  Lunch provided, $5 donation. Children's Program available.

Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting is sponsoring two opportunities to be of service to Friends School in Detroit 1100 St. Aubin St., Detroit, MI 48207-2896. Friends will visit the school August 6th and again on August 19th from 9:00-3:00 to help get the school Library in shape for the coming year. More information is available from Margaret Walden 313-341-9404 or Linda Mills 269-375-4414.

Dear Friends, Here’s an early heads up for two events to sustain your green spirits and a camping opportunity.  These are being offered at the beautiful Michigan Friends Center near Chelsea, Michigan. More info about the Center and a map and directions is on line at  http://michiganfriendscenter.org/ (look under “about us” ).
 
Living Lightly: Touching Nature, Feeding Spirit
 
Saturday August 22 / 8:30am-5:30pm  Living Lightly: Touching Nature, Feeding Spirit, deepening our connections to the natural world with fun and exploration.  Pre-registration by August 15 desired. If registered by August 7th: $35 per person or $85 per family, or as able, high school students free. After August 7th: $50 per person or $100 per family, high school students free
 
Naturalist Faye Stoner, Ecotherapist Jeanne Mackey, Artist Marijo Grogan, and Young Naturalists Teddy, Harold, and Artemis Newman Eyster will lead this day of fun and discovery in the out-of-doors. Whether you are a long time20nature lover or more at home on a sidewalk than a path, this day will offer a chance to deepen your relationship with nature through awareness walks, personal exploration time, the medicine wheel, stories, games, ceremony, and images. Join with others who are enhancing their connections to the natural world's ecosystems, trees, birds, animals, plants, rocks, water, flowers, clouds . . .
 
Open to families and people of any age capable of interest, attention, and mobility (recommended ages 7 - 97). Children will spend some time with their families and some time in groups of their own. Dress for the weather, whatever it may be that day, and come ready for adventure. A lunch and snacks will be provided.
 
As an adjunct to this program, people will be able to camp at Friends Lake Cooperative Community (on whose grounds Michigan Friends Center is located) the night before and/or the night after this program. Camping fees are $8 per adult per night. You must provide your own camping equipment for rustic camping, and meals, and you need to reserve your campsite with the FLCC coordinator (734-475-7976). We will show a video about Water on Friday night. On Sunday morning there will be worship in the manner of Friends with special accommodation for children. Otherwise the time spent camping will be unstructured, and a chance for families and individuals to enjoy each other and nature in whatever ways they like consistent with the FLCC guidelines. & nbsp; Understanding nature is essential to a sustainable future for human civilization.   We are grateful to the James A. and Faith Knight Foundation for their generous contribution to this program.
 
Food Preservation Workshop with Kristen Uthus
August 29th 2 - 5 pm
$20 or as able; pre-registration by August 22 required. Limit of 12. A hands-on canning workshop, with discussion of other methods of food preservation and which methods are best for which produce.    
 
REGISTER  REGISTER  REGISTER
Michigan Friends Center, P.O. Box 218 , Chelsea, Michigan 48118
REGISTER BY CALLING Tel: (734) 475-1892
OR BY E-MAILING  manager@michiganfriendscenter.org

Friends -
Lake Erie Yearly Meeting has an annual spiritual formation program, helping people grow in their spiritual lives by providing retreats to learn and share spiritual journies. This year the retreat leader will be Michael Birkel of Earlham. Attached is a flier and registration form designed to be printed back to back. Can you please pass this information on to members and attenders of your meetings?

September 25th-27th 2009
Weber Retreat Center
Adrian, MI
May 1st 2010: Location TBD
Get flier and registration form here.


Thank you,
Ellen Barnes

This year the Lower Great Lakes and the Midwest regions of the Friends World Committee for Consultation will be meeting jointly in Ann Arbor, MI, on Friday, Oct. 30, and Saturday, Oct. 31 2009. Patricia Thomas, a lifelong Friend who grew up in Ann Arbor, attended the Earlham School of Religion, and now serves as pastor of a Friends Church in Wilmington Yearly Meeting, will speak on "Living Our Quaker Faith Today." Patricia also served for a time as Associate Secretary of FWCC, working in the World Office in London.

There will be a panel discussion following Patricia's talk and other opportunities to get to know people from different Yearly Meetings and different branches of the Religious Society of Friends. The Lower Great Lakes Region includes Central Canadian, Lake Erie, Ohio (Conservative), and Wilmington Yearly Meetings, along with the Evangelical Friends Church Eastern Region, while the Midwest Region includes Indiana, Illinois, Ohio Valley, and Western Yearly Meetings, along with Central YM.

Child care will be provided, and details will follow. For the time being, please mark your calendars and plan to attend. It's an opportunity for fellowship not to be missed!

From Mike Hinshaw, Clerk of Lower Great Lakes Region, and Vaughn Peebles, Clerk of Midwest Region

Our next Executive Committee Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, October 10, 2009. I expect that we will meet in Perrysburg, outside of Toledo. Please hold that date, from 10 am to 5 pm, and arrange car pooling with each other as possible. I will send out more details regarding place and hospitality as they are confirmed. Also, I have made a request to the clerk of Athens Meeting to host Representative Meeting. That will be confirmed at a later date. Please plan on the possibility of two overnights in Athens: Friday March 5 and Saturday, March 6. We will meet in Executive Committee beginning at 7 pm on Friday, meet in worship and committees on Saturday morning, and meet for business on Saturday afternoon and into the evening. Those who can stay are encouraged to join the sponsoring meeting for worship on Sunday.
 
We expect to have three Executive Meetings per year: a full day meeting in October, a meeting on Friday evening prior to Representative Meeting, and a meeting on Thursday afternoon prior to Yearly Meeting. Our meetings prior to Reps and YM have been a matter of two to three hours.

Many blessings and much love! - Merry Stanford, LEYM Clerk

A Called Meeting of GPQM Friends
June 7, 2:00 p.m. at the Ann Arbor Friends Meeting House
To explore the possible plans for the present and future of the Friends School in Detroit. Dwight Wilson, Geoff Brieger, and other board members will present.

Friends are invited to a West Virginia Friends Gathering on 'Life of the Meeting' on September 12-13
Location: Camp Happy Valley, 15 miles west of Charleston
Date: September 12-13, 2009
Cost: $30/person - includes one night's lodging in a cabin with bunk beds and two meals.

See attached flyer for details and registration.

GPQM  Clerk's Message to Monthly Meetings;
On Saturday May 16, 2009  our Spring Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting will meet at Michigan Friends Center neat Chelsea, MI

AGENDA
9:00 AM   Registration
9:30   Worship
10:00   Program with Michael Birkel

Michael Birkel will be the morning speaker at the Spring Quarterly Meeting. He is Professor of Religion at Earlham College and well known among Friends as a gifted  speaker and author.  His books and pamphlets include: Silence and Witness ( an introduction to Quaker practice and spiritual life), A Near Sympathy ( on John Woolman), Engaging Scripture (a study of early Quaker writings), The Messenger That Goes Before (Margaret Fell on personal spiritual journeys), and Mysticism and Activism (an address to Southeastern Yearly Meeting on insights from John Woolman)

"TOWARD A DEEPER DIALOGUE ACROSS RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES" will be the subject of Michael's talk at 10 AM.  He intends to explore with Michigan Friends some aspects of the inner dimension of dialogue and ten to offer some comments on the practice of dialogue across boundaries of religious difference.   The  2008-9 Lake Erie Yearly Meeting Query raised this subject for our consideration this current year.  We look forward to Michael's message to taking us to another level.

NOON    LUNCH PROVIDED

1:00  PM   thru     4:00 PM       BUSINESS

This proposed agenda I have prepared from the requests arising from our fall session:
REPORTS:
Naming Committee
Nominating Committee
Treasurer and Finance Committees
Ann Arbor AFSC Program
Michigan Friends Center/relationship with GPQM
Institute for Global Education purpose and work
Other business and announcements

4:00 PM     Closing Worship

Hopefully there will a program for children especially enjoying the Friends Lake lands.

PLEASE ENCOURAGE FRIENDS FROM YOUR MEETING TO JOIN US IN THIS TIME FOR THOUGHTFUL SHARING, FELLOWSHIP,  AND PRAYERFUL CONSIDERATION OF THE QUARTER'S BUSINESS.

BLESSINGS,
Shirley Bechill ,  GPQM Clerk

The Committee Reports from the March 2009 Representative Meeting are now available on the LEYM website.
LEYM March 2009 Representative Meeting Committee Reports (combined)

A&O Representative Mtg Report (March 2009)

Earthcare Committee Representative Mtg Report (March 2009)

Finance Committee Representative Mtg Report (March 2009)

High School Youth Program Committee Representative Mtg Report (March 2009)

Peace Committee Representative Mtg Report (March 2009)

Program Committee Representative Mtg Report (March 2009)

Publications and Archives Representative Mtg Report (March 2009)

The Spring 2009 Bulletin, lovingly prepared by Jeff Cooper, is now available online (see the LEYM Bulletins section of the website, under LEYM News). Also available at the same location is the registration form for the 2009 Annual Meeting to be held June 11-14 in Bluffton, OH.

What: LEYM Gathering of Monthly Meeting Clerks
When: Friday evening, November 20, 2009 to Sunday afternoon, November 22, 2009
Where: Adrian, Michigan
Purpose: To provide Monthly Meeting Clerks an opportunity for sharing, support, and spiritual nurture
Cost: $80 covers the cost of a shared room and food for the weekend
Who Should Come: Presiding Clerk of your Monthly Meeting
 
This event will be facilitated by Merry Stanford, LEYM Clerk, and Shirley Bechill, Past Clerk. Please mark your calendars.
More information will be available in the spring!