2025-2026 Calendar of Key Dates
To submit an event to the Events Calendar, please email admin@bym-rsf.org.
Ministry and Pastoral Care is at the heart of Friends’ life together. How can we cultivate worship in a way that brings for the Spirit for all of us? How does our caring community enliven our responsiveness to each other and our witness in the world? This retreat will include queries about our work and conversations on effective ministry and pastoral care. Please come for a day of renewal on Saturday, March 1, at Langley Hill Friends Meeting from 10 am until 3 pm. Directions: http://www.quaker.org/langleyhill/ This event is planned by Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Ministry and Pastoral Care Committee. Members of Local Meeting committees involved in ministry and worship, pastoral care, care and clearness, or any expression of spiritual life and care are encouraged to come. Please bring a lunch; we will provide snacks on arrival and fruit and drinks to share. The day is being facilitated by BYM’s ad hoc Vision Implementation Committee. It will help us if you will RSVP to Wayne Finegar at the BYM Office. (admin@bym-rsf.org)
Would you like to spend weekends with teens, growing in their Spiritual journey?
Come to a BYM Young Friends or Junior Young Friends conference as a Friendly Adult Presence (FAP)!
In this training, you will learn more about the specifics of the BYM Youth Programs, and role play common scenarios. In order to serve, volunteers must also undergo a criminal background check.
Email Alison Duncan by February 21st to reserve a spot and receive advance materials.
Nottingham Monthly Meeting will host the Third Month 2014 session of Nottingham Quarterly Meeting. For information, contact Doug Eaby, Clerk. (717-786-7810 or jpaby@epix.net)
Junior Young Friends should begin arriving at 10:00 am on Saturday. For information, check the Junior Young Friends website or contact Alison Duncan. (301-774-7663) Please remember that the deadline to register and be guaranteed a slot is one week before the conference (March 1). Any one registering after that date will be placed on a waiting list and may not be able to attend.
Come visit with members of the camp staff and learn more! 1300 Forest Glen Road (corner of Forest Glen Road and Sligo Creek Parkway) in Silver Spring, MD. from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
Homewood Friends Meeting will host the Third Month 2014 session of Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting. For information, contact Ken Stockbridge, Clerk. (410-997-4165 or chesapeakeqm@gmail.com)
The Program will be "Fracking & Cove Point: A Spiritual Concern?"
Get to know Yearly Meeting Committees and Friends from other Meetings! Be a part of important decision making. Join Friends for morning committee meetings and the afternoon’s Interim Business Meeting. Annapolis Friends Meeting is hosting the Third Month Interim Meeting. Friends will begin gathering at 10:00 am. Lunch will be provided, and the afternoon Business Meeting will be held with dinner following the rise of Meeting. Check the Yearly Meeting website for more information.
Come explore the rich blessings of visiting among Friends. Friends of all sorts, in all places, near and far - and see how this ancient practice is evolving and gaining new vitality. You are invited to the Annual Travelers Retreat, sponsored by the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Intervisitation Program. The Retreat will begin at 12:30 pm and conclude at 4:00. All are welcome, including those who have traveled among Friends, inside or outside of the Yearly Meeting, including those who have traveled on behalf of Yearly Meeting committees; those who have simply visited Meetings or those who have traveled with a concern, shared a ministry, or offered workshops; those who think they might like to travel among Friends; members of clearness/support committees for travelers; those who have hosted or would like to host visitors; and other interested Friends. For more information or to register, see http://intervisitation.bym-rsf.net/ or call 626-QUAKERS.
This is the deadline for the Spring 2014 edition of the Interchange, BYM’s newsletter. Submissions received after 5:00 pm may not be able to be included. All submissions may be edited for space considerations. Send submissions to Wayne Finegar at the BYM office. (admin@bym-rsf.org)
