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Ministry and Pastoral Care Committee

The Ministry and Pastoral Care Committee works to deepen the spiritual life of the Yearly Meeting and its local meetings.

Click to see the complete description of the Committee as it appears in the current Manual of Procedure.

In addition to its own work, the Ministry and Pastoral Care Committee has several working groups under its care. These are the:
Spiritual Formation Program Working Group,
Women's Retreat Working Group, and the
Working Group on Racism.

The Manual of Procedure specifies that the committee is responsible for maintaining a list of all Recorded Ministers within the Yearly Meeting. At present, there are two:
Earl Redding Adelphi Friends Meeting
Marshall Sutton Gunpowder Friends Meeting

The Guidelines for Embracing the Ministry of Friends are maintained by the committee, as well as providing support to the individual Committees of Oversight named by local meetings.

Listed below are the current members of the Committee.

  • Jean-Marie Prestwidge-Barch, Clerk

    Valley Friends Meeting

  • Alexandra "Alex" Bean

    Adelphi Friends Meeting

  • Michael Cronin

    Friends Meeting of Washington

  • David Fitz

    York Friends Meeting

  • Donald "Don" Gann

    Baltimore Monthly Meetings, Stony Run

  • Deborah Haines

    Alexandria Friends Meeting

  • Peirce Hammond

    Bethesda Friends Meeting

  • Jean James

    Richmond Friends Meeting

  • Ellen Massey

    Friends Meeting of Washington

  • Martin Melville

    State College Friends Meeting

  • Andrew Mosholder

    Shepherdstown Preparative Meeting

  • Frances Schutz

    Charlottesville Friends Meeting

  • Mary Stratton

    Maury River Friends Meeting

Interchange Reports
Annual Reports

Every spring, each Committee of the Yearly Meeting is requested to prepare a report of their activities over the prior 12 months. These reports are gathered and shared during Annual Session, and then are printed in the Yearbook for that year.

The available reports of the Committee, as they appeared in the Yearbook, from recent years are listed below.

In 2010 and 2011, Baltimore Yearly Meeting undertook a project to consider the vision of the Yearly Meeting community. As a part of that project, each committee was asked to respond to a set of queries that had been promulgated by the ad hoc Visiting Ministers Committee. The Ministry and Pastoral Care Committee's responses are available here.