BYM Ministry and Pastoral Care Committee works to deepen the spiritual life of the Yearly Meeting and the Local Meetings. The Committee requests and produces the annual Spiritual State of the Meeting Report.
In addition to its own work, the Ministry and Pastoral Care Committee has several working groups under its care: Spiritual Formation Program Working Group, the Women's Retreat Working Group, and the Working Group on Racism.
The Committee is also responsible for maintaining a list of all Recorded Ministers within the Yearly Meeting. At present, there in one Recorded Minister, Marshall Sutton of Gunpowder Friends Meeting. The Guidelines for Embracing the Ministry of Friends are maintained by the Committee. Email: MandPC@bym-rsf.org
Committee Roster
Co-Clerks : Barbara Thomas and Peirce Hammond
Barbara Thomas (Annapolis FM) Peirce Hammond (Bethesda FM) Otis Kenny (Roanoke FM)
Karen Lockett (Frederick FM) Kevin Olive (Homewood FM) Paul Isayi (Stony Run FM)
Kristin Zimet ( Hopewell FM) Stacey LaRoy ( Herndon FM)
Spiritual State of the Meetings Reports
Ministry and Pastoral Care Committee Annual Reports
Ministry and Pastoral Care Committee Interchange Reports
Visioning Project Report
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.
