Events Calendar

Young Friends should begin arriving at 7:00 pm on Friday. For information, check the 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 28). Any one registering after that date will be placed on a waiting list and may not be able to attend.

Come sing with Friends! Join Barbarie Hill, Frances Schutz, and Hank Schutz as they lead a musical and Quakerly potpourri of singing. Beginning at 10:00 am and ending at 4:00 pm, there will be a potluck lunch at 12:30. Overnight hospitality may be available for Friends travelling at a distance may be available if requested in advance. Contact Frances Schutz (schutz67@embarqmail.com or 434-979-5413) or Barbarie Hill (barbariehill@gmail.com or 434-295-1795) for more information.

The ad hoc Vision Implementation Committee invites all members of Peace and Social Concerns Committees, all those working on issues of social justice and faith, all those employed in Quaker service organizations, and everyone interested in the way BYM expresses our faith beyond BYM to attend of day of sharing, reflection, renewal, and rededication. Please join us! Mary Lord will be our keynote speaker. Everyone is invited to share about the work you are doing. How can Friends work together to bring more love and peace into the world? How can we speak our truth and build bonds between people? How can we discern what work is ours to do, and then how to do this work? How do we can follow the guidance of the Spirit and be nourished by the Spirit in everything we do? From BYM’s Vision Statement: We seek to serve others in love, to share our gifts and resources, to reach out to those in need, both friends and strangers, and to witness in the world to our shared experience of the infinite love of God. The day will begin with refreshments at 9:30 am and conclude at 4:00 pm. A shuttle will leave from Huntington Metro Station at 9:30. Email Alison Duncan to indicate interest. (youthprograms@bym-rsf.org)

How do we live a contemplative life? When and how do we take time in the busy-ness of the world to come back to center? What forms does our prayer take? How does prayer sustain us? Friends from Warrington Quarterly Meeting are invited to a weekend of renewal and retreat at Camp Catoctin in the Catoctin Mountains of north central Maryland. Join us for fellowship, the beauty of the natural world, as we share time and space, and stories of our journeys. Enjoy workshops, worship sharing, fellowship As we gather for joyful contemplation this weekend, we hope to find renewal for the faith work that we attend to in our daily lives. For more information contact Helen Tasker (hforsythetasker@gmail.com or 301-416-7592) or Karen Lockett. (karenlockett2002@yahoo.com or 301-845-2487)

Find out more about the money your Meeting sends to Baltimore Yearly Meeting! Please come, listen, give feedback, and make sure your Meeting sends a representative. Hear about how other Meetings are handling their finances and about Yearly Meeting’s progress. The Stewardship and Finance Committee hosts this annual meeting to consider issues of apportionment – that is, financial support of the Yearly Meeting. It is a time for sharing and consideration of important issues. Special presentation this year: What is the Vision Implementation Committee finding out about BYM? You’ll learn something to share your Meeting! Refreshments at 9:30 AM, session starts at 10. Questions or for more information, contact Clerk Claudia Hernandez (claudia19682@verizon.net) or the BYM office. (301-774-7663)