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To Friends Throughout the United States:  

Greetings in the Spirit of Love.  

We write to share with you an “Urgent Call to the Religious Society of Friends” concerning the current extensive threats to our U.S. democracy. We are led to speak out against the lies, extremist movements, and anti-democratic actions that are the opposite of our Quaker understandings of integrity and Truth.   This Call was prepared by a group of nineteen Friends.

We encourage your prayerful discernment of this “Urgent Call” and ask you as individuals, monthly meetings, yearly meetings, and Friends organizations to consider how you might be called to act with integrity in response to these concerns. 

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Loving in the Light: Quaker Response in Times of Crisis, Part II
March 28 to April 4, 2021<

THE SESSIONS CONCLUDED YESTERDAY WITH SOCIAL TIME. MANY DID NOT WANT TO PART. BELOW IS THE UPDATED EPISTLE, NOMINATING ROSTER AND OTHER REPORTS. PLEASE JOIN SCYM FRIENDS ALL YEAR FOR FELLOWSHIP AT "SCYM CONNECTIONS".

2021 SCYM EPISTLE
2021 SCYM ROSTER OF FRIENDS UNDER APPOINTMENT (Nominating Committee Roster)
SCYM YOU TUBE CHANNEL PAGE with 2020 and 2021 VIDEOS

Please click "read more" to access reports and other items posted at SCYM Sessions 2021


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Our 2021 Keynote Speaker is Eileen Flanagan, a Quaker author, speaker, and online teacher, whose lessons on spiritually-grounded non-violent activism have reached thousands.


Minutes of Fall 2020 Sessions with Attachments

Here is the link to the minutes with attachments from our recent Fall Yearly Meeting Sessions.

Minutes of Fall Sessions

Please review, optimally before we gather for 2020 Representative Meeting.

The website content manager regrets not getting these to you sooner. There are many good reports and action minutes contained in these business meeting minutes.


2020 SCYM Epistle to Friends Everywhere


Reports for Fall Sessions 2020

Fall Postponed SCYM Yearly Meeting Sessions Go Online and more...

Fall Postponed Yearly Meeting Sessions Go Online: SCYM Friends involved with yearly meeting planning, and clerks and others from the various monthly meetings and worship groups, met online for worship with attention to business on June 9, 2020. After a lengthy discussion they approved the following minute:

Minute 06.09.2020.1 Friends decided that we would not meet at Greene Family Camp in September. The YM planning committee is asked to begin planning for a Fall 2020 yearly meeting session to include online and possibly in person aspects. They will include others in the planning as needed.
We will ask the treasurer to arrange with Greene Family Camp to meet at Easter in 2021. The minute was approved.

Your help and suggestions are welcome in planning 2020 Yearly Meeting Sessions for September 24-27, 2020. Please email the clerk of Yearly Meeting Planning Committee, Tom Ivash, at ymplanning@scym.org if you can help.

Here are links to the Keynote video and text. Thanks to Minga Claggett-Borne for her sharing her experience to assist SCYM Friends in discerning how live in the Light in these times challenging times.

Living in the Light Video
Living in The Light Keynote Text

The worship sharing after the talk was deep and Spirit filled. Minga asked us to address the querie, "What part of her sharing spoke to you?" Many spoke of the new reality around us as bring both sadness and joy. Some suggested we were learning a new way of being with some challenges but some positive changes in themselves, their communities and the world. There was a spoken