Junior Yearly Meeting

The Junior Yearly Meeting Program (JYM) staff welcomes all children and parents to Baltimore Yearly Meeting Session. Our theme this year, Living in Harmony, is the same as the Yearly Meeting theme.

JYM is a varied and exciting program of activities for youth ages birth to rising ninth grade that operates while parents are at Business Meeting, workshops, and evening programs. Through the JYM program, children are immersed in Quaker community and preparing to become thriving adult Quakers in the Yearly Meeting. The nursery offers care for ages birth to four years old. In the mornings, preschoolers will have the opportunity to participate in slightly more structured, age-appropriate activities. The Rising Kindergarten to Rising 5th grade age has a series of programs which include morning classes filled with fun-structured activities focusing on our theme, an afternoon program that includes outdoor activities, crafts, and one day of swimming, and a quieter evening program. For youngsters entering the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, we have a full program called Junior Young Friends (JYFs). JYFs will participate in a variety of activities including a labyrinth walk, a service project, discussions of Quaker business process and clerking, and ending with a sleep over and an epistle that they share with other JYFs around the world. Rising 9th graders can choose to stay with JYFs or join the Young Friends. In addition to these activities, JYM also plans the All-Age Celebration.