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Quakers remember Maryland's part in American founding 350 years ago Galesville event commemorates the religion's arrival in the New World, By Jamie Stiehm, Sun reporter, September 18, 2006

Quilt Squares by our Meetings Thanks to Jenifer Morris, our official photographer at Annual Sessions, we have photos of the quilt squares which appear on the skirt of the clerk's table.

Baltimore Yearly Meeting welcomes a new General Secretary Baltimore Yearly Meeting welcomes its new General Secretary, Robert H. (Riley) Robinson. Riley is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington, and has served as its Administrative Secretary for fourteen years, attending to the needs of a Meeting with 460 members, hundreds of attenders and visitors, and two "vintage" buildings. (more...)

BYM Job Opportunity: Caretaker Baltimore Yearly Meeting is seeking applicants to fill the position of Caretaker at Catoctin Quaker Camp.(more...)

Fall Silent Retreat Is your spirit in need of nourishment and refreshment? Come to the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Silent Retreat at Dayspring... (more...)

Join Operation House Call Operation House Call is a daily vigil of military families in Washington DC. Each day from June 22 - August 4th that Congress is in session, members of Military Families Speak Out will stand across from the Capitol  (more...)

FMW Job Opportunity The Friends Meeting of Washington, D.C. of the Religious Society of Friends is seeking to employ an Administrative Secretary  (more...)

South Mountain Friends Fellowship Friends, please welcome our newest Worship Group to Baltimore Yearly Meeting. The South Mountain Friends Fellowship at the Maryland Correctional Institute - Hagerstown has been meeting for over a year.

Monthly Meeting Facilities Booklet [PDF] is now available on the web! See this document for facilities available for retreats, meetings, and overnights in the BYM region.

Opting Out Of Military Recruitment The Pentagon has been compiling sensitive data on 30 million youth ages 16-to-25 using a private marketing firm, without the knowledge or consent of individuals or their families. You can opt-out of this database by following instructions at www.LeaveMyChildAlone.org.

Living in Harmony

For 335 years, Baltimore Yearly Meeting Friends have had the opportunity to live in community, to live in harmony, once a year at our Annual Session. Alternatives to Violence Programs speak of Transforming Power. Yearly Meeting for me has always been filled with Transforming Power, the power of Divine Love, and so has become in my life a Transforming Experience. (more...)

Our next meeting, June 11, 2006, will be hosted by Little Falls Friends Meeting, held at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, 6501 North Charles Street, at the Conference Center (more...)

The founding of the Religious Society of Friends in 1652 was celebrated with much excitement in the UK in 2002; and the first meetings in Ireland in 1564 were widely celebrated there in 2004. (more...)

Friends Meeting of Washington has adopted the Alvar Branch Library in the Bywater district of New Orleans and is raising funds to help reopen the library early this summer. (more...)

It is a custom of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to have someone annually visit each Monthly and Preparatory Meeting in love and friendship. (more...)

Good news! The Quaker Conference on Torture is rapidly taking shape. It is set for June 2-4, 2006 at Guilford College, Greensboro NC. (more...)

A dedicated, grassroots group of nearly 30 volunteers came together on Valentine’s Day to conduct an experiment in nonviolence at the U.S. Senate. (more...)

The Youth Programs Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting is offering a powerful two-week service opportunity for young people from the United States who are interested in exploring the world through service. (more...)

On March 21, 2002 the Clerk of Ramallah Monthly Meeting, Jean Zaru, gave a plenary address entitled “A Testimony of Suffering and Hope” at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s annual session. (more...)

A Survey of Meeting activities concerning criminal justice and related issues: Criminal and Restorative Justice Committee has found it valuable for the Yearly Meeting to know what work is being done in our monthly meetings in criminal justice and related issues. (more...)

The Religious Education (RE) Committee has arranged for Friend John Calvi of Putney, Vermont Friends Meeting to be with us as our RE Consultant for Yearly Meeting session this summer. John has long experience dealing with trauma and its aftermath. (more...)

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