CYM Gathering 2024

July 24 – July 31, 2024

Attend in-person or online

Registration for the CYM Gathering July 24 to July 31, 2024 is open! Whether you are attending in person or online, reserve your place now.

This July, for the first time ever, we meet at Camp NeeKauNis for CYM’s Annual Gathering. 

Join us under star-gazing skies on the shores of Ontario’s Georgian Bay. This has been a dream of many Friends for many years, to welcome the Yearly Meeting home to our own Camp for the Annual Gathering.

This is our year to embrace simplicity. The schedule is intentionally more spacious to allow us—whether attending in-person at Camp or online by Zoom—time to come together, to listen and learn and to preserve quiet time to restore. 

If you come in-person to Camp NeeKauNis, expect to share simple quarters with three to five others per cabin. Expect simple meals. Expect to help. Expect to laugh and share. Camp NeeKauNis is physically accessible, though if you have concerns about how Camp’s facilities will meet your particular abilities, you can reach out to Rachel McQuail, Clerk of Camp NeeKauNis Committee at .

Let’s play and worship and listen and learn and rest.

Come in the way that is right for you—by Zoom or in-person. We all belong here.

As we’re able, let’s make it possible for our young people to come to the CYM Gathering. This year, again, we have a crackerjack Children and Youth Program team lining up and this venue is the best-ever for children and youth. 

There is joy here, and grief too. Lake and sky and trees tell us to wonder, again, at the brutality of our nation-building, particularly against the peoples who indigenously belong to the land. Let’s find courage to commit again to honest reckoning with all we have broken and the humility to attend to older wisdom. 

 Friends and seekers, your Meeting calls. Come for your love of Spirit, your love of the world, our love for one another.

This summer, come to CYM’s Gathering. 

There are many details on this website to help you with your planning. Here you’ll find information about the schedule for the week, the speakers, what to expect from accommodations and meals, costs, travel grants, travel advice, important deadlines and requirements for registration. 

Please read carefully each of the pages for all the information you need. 

Stay tuned for updates on the blog posts below as well!

Gathering Blog