Bulletin 12.06.2019
We acknowledge that Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends youth committee has been overwhelmed. We also recognize that our children and teens are a vital community within SCYMF, yet their individual and group needs have not been well attended to during recent annual and quarterly gatherings. This has occurred for a range of reasons. We would like to focus on solutions.
We are issuing a call for plans, inspiration, and ideas to address the needs of our youth at quarterly and annual gatherings. A program we would love to see would include gatherings such as weekend youth retreats.
Will you respond to our call?
Click here to read the full letter from the Coordinating Committee.
Coordinating Committee
The Coordinating Committee met by Zoom video conference call on November 19. Agenda items included the following:
- Representation for FCNL, FGC, QREC, and AFSC
- Committee reports, questions, and discussion
- Childcare and youth programming at Annual Sessions
Click here to read the meeting minutes.
Young Adult Development Fund
The principal aim of funded projects will be to enable Young Adult Friends to experience deep spiritual fellowship at the international level, across different branches of the Quaker family, or across different variations of the same branch; and to strengthen Quaker identity by offering opportunities to explore Quaker roots, history and heritage.
Click here to find out more about the fund online.
Application deadline: January 15, 2020
Bolivia Quaker Education Fund is sponsoring a two-week tour of Bolivia and its rich culture and astounding natural beauty, July 9-22, 2020. This year there will be an added emphasis on studying climate change and its impact. The tour is inspired by the work of Jennie M. Ratcliffe, an environmental research scientist, activist and Quaker who makes connections between peace, justice, and ecological sustainability in her book, Nothing Lowly in the Universe: An Integral Approach to the Ecological Crisis.
Come and learn about Bolivian history and culture, from pre-Incan traditions to the emergence of modern Bolivia. The itinerary will include La Paz, the stunning flats of solar de Uyuni, Quaker communities in the Altiplano, and pre-Incan ruins of Tiwanaku, and Lake Titicaca, ending in the current capital, La Paz.
For further information, email qst.bolivia@gmail.com
Is your meeting or church working on a sustainability project?
FWCC World Office is collecting stories about what Friends are doing around the world to find out how we can support one another in working toward a sustainable future for all.
If you have stories you'd like to share with the rest of the world, email sustainability@fwcc.world
American Friends Service Committee
A corporation meeting will be held April 16–18, 2020, at Friends Center in Philadelphia, PA, and we are invited to send two observers. Let the clerks know if you are interested in representing Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends there, and helping us discern whether we feel called to join American Friends Service Committee.
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When I come, mistaken
Thinking that you want to take
The place where I am standing
Wondering if your song
Will silence mine
Afraid I need to shout you down
To speak my own truth
I quail and we are both thrust
Into the sudden darkness
In laughter, I remember
My essence is my own
And also it is one with yours
Which is your own in turn
It is a grand absurdity
For the waves to wrestle over
Who can be the sea
For the winds to war about
Which makes up the air
Bethany Lee in The Breath Between
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Announcements
Eclectic Christmas is the Portland area’s best multi-genre Quaker Christmas band. There are three concerts this coming holiday season:
Join the Friends World Committee for Consultation online sustainability conference on February 22. Find out more online at: http://fwcc.world/sustainability/conference2020
Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends Quarterly Gathering this winter will be at Silverton Friends Church – 229 Eureka Ave, Silverton, OR 97381 – on Saturday, February 29. More information to come.
Annual Gathering for Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends will be this June 12–14, 2020, at Canby Grove.
Broken Vessels Quaker Ministries is happy to announce the return of the Deeper Roots program. Deborah Shaw, Deborah Fisch, and Lloyd Lee Wilson will lead a group of committed Friends in a “deep dive” into the history of our Quaker faith, a Quaker perspective on the Bible and how to benefit from it, sampling spiritual practices and disciplines valuable to Friends, and building authentic spiritual community. Four long weekend residencies over 18 months, beginning 9/10-13, 2020, at Ben Lomond Quaker Center in California. Suitable for seasoned Friends as well as those relatively new to Quakerism. For more details or to request an application, visit Broken Vessels Quaker Ministries at bvqministries.org
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