Welcome to Baltimore Yearly Meeting!
Baltimore Yearly Meeting nurtures a vibrant Quaker community across the Mid-Atlantic. BYM unites Friends from 50 Quaker meetings and worship groups throughout Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
Together at BYM Friends we
Strengthen Local Meetings
The monthly meeting is the beating heart of everything we do. At its core, the yearly meeting is an association of Quaker monthly meetings and other local worshipping communities coming together to support one another. We share a common Faith & Practice - and we share our skills, gifts, spiritual leadings, and resources across local worshipping communities.
Grow in Spirit & Community
Quakers believe that there is “that of God” in every person—an Inner Light that is loving and honest and can lead us to truth and justice. As BYM Friends we gather for Meetings for Worship four times each year to discern the Leadings of the Spirit and to conduct our community business and three more times throughout the year for spiritual formation retreats.
Nurture Youth
BYM has a special commitment to the spiritual, social, and emotional thriving of all young people. Our camps and youth retreats are vibrant, diverse, youth-centered communities. BYM scholarships and grants provide material support to children, families, and child-serving organizations, and the Religious Education Committee connects meetings to resources for nurturing youth.
Connect & Serve as Friends
Working together is an extension of our worship into the practical life of Quakerism. Working together benefits both the wider community and those Friends who participate. We serve together on Committtes, gather for service projects and social witness, and are part of the worldwide body of Quakers - connected to 14 organizations and hundreds of thousands of Friends around the world.
Poetry by the Fire
Come join Friends Wilderness Poet Ron Weber plus other area poets and poetry lovers for a winter day of reading and discussing poetry around the wood stove at the Niles Cabin on March 17th. The general theme will be nature poetry and the human spirit new signs of life, changing seasons, or any other topic! Bring your own or other poetry to read, if you like. We will gather by 10:00 am in the Niles Cabin at the Friends Wilderness Center. Poetry listeners are valued as much as poetry readers and writers! Call Sheila Bach to RSVP and get directions. Come early for a self-guided hike in the woods, and bring a bag lunch, if you wish. Also we suggest a $10 donation to help us with the upkeep of our buildings and preservation of the 1400 acres on which we are located.
