The Yearly Meeting establishes committees for the carrying out of its purposes.
All committees should report annually. Each committee reports both on its activities
and on matters which are seen as needing attention, with some analysis of
the health of the committee. If a committee sees no way in which it can carry
out the concerns placed upon it, its members should request the Interim Meeting
to re-examine the function and structure of the committee and make appropriate
recommendations to the Yearly Meeting. Failure of a committee to report is also
an indication that a review process should be initiated.
It is the duty of the functional committees from time to time, as the occasion
demands, to prepare position papers on matters of current interest and concern
within their fields of interest and to present these position papers before the
Yearly Meeting or the Interim Meeting for approval. Such position papers should
have the approval of the interested functional committee at a called meeting of
the committee and, if possible, are distributed to members of the Yearly Meeting
along with Yearly Meeting committee reports prior to Yearly Meeting sessions at
which they will be considered. These papers, as adopted by the Yearly Meeting,
will then form the main part of the background of policy on the basis of which the
functional committee may act on behalf of the Yearly Meeting.
"As I see our mission, across the years behind us and in front of us, it is to demonstrate and exhibit a type of religion which reveals the life of God in the lives of men." The Vital Cell, Rufus M. Jones
An Introduction to Quakers
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