Yonge Street Half-Yearly Meeting will take place on Saturday, October 5 from 9 am to 5 pm. Please join us at Friends House, 60 Lowther Avenue, Toronto.
At 2 pm, Maggie Knight will lead an exciting session on the topic “How Young Friends are promoting their spiritual growth in a secular society in 2019.” Maggie is a dynamic Young Friend from Vancouver Island Monthly Meeting who has been inspiring Friends for some years.
In 2016, Maggie presented the Sunderland P. Gardner Lecture at Canadian Yearly Meeting Session, which you can watch here:
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Friends were invited to respond, over the weekend, to some queries posted in the dining room. Here are the responses:
1. How would you describe your Quaker Community?
International
Nurturing
A safe place to practice being who I want to be
Inspiring
Challenging
Rejuvenating
Stimulating
Sometimes frustrating
Wide-spread
Beloved
Deeply connected
Small
Rewarding
My spiritual home
2. How do you experience the responsibilities of Membership?
Affirming, exciting, satisfying to be of service, to build together
Learning to withhold judgement and comment
Feeling that I am contributing
An active community
20 hour work weeks
3. What does it mean to you to belong?
Being fully human
Hard work
Joyous
Engenders gratitude
Having meaningful relationships with others in the group
not being alone
4. What’s it like to be part of this combined Half Yearly Meeting?
Delightful
Thrilling
Exciting
Fun
Renews connections
Happy to see so many F/friends I love
Loud, but wonderful
I love seeing all ya and heck PHY can sing!!!
Absolutely topping! Let’s do it again! And again!…
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Friends were invited to respond, over the weekend, to some queries posted in the dining room. Here are the responses:
1. How would you describe your Quaker Community?
International
Nurturing
A safe place to practice being who I want to be
Inspiring
Challenging
Rejuvenating
Stimulating
Sometimes frustrating
Wide-spread
Beloved
Deeply connected
Small
Rewarding
My spiritual home
2. How do you experience the responsibilities of Membership?
Affirming, exciting, satisfying to be of service, to build together
Learning to withhold judgement and comment
Feeling that I am contributing
An active community
20 hour work weeks
3. What does it mean to you to belong?
Being fully human
Hard work
Joyous
Engenders gratitude
Having meaningful relationships with others in the group
not being alone
4. What’s it like to be part of this combined Half Yearly Meeting?
Delightful
Thrilling
Exciting
Fun
Renews connections
Happy to see so many F/friends I love
Loud, but wonderful
I love seeing all ya and heck PHY can sing!!!
Absolutely topping! Let’s do it again! And again!…
https://quaker.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Quaker-dot-ca-updated.png00Sue Starrhttps://quaker.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Quaker-dot-ca-updated.pngSue Starr2012-06-07 17:13:402013-08-09 12:55:33Pelham and Yonge St. Half Yearly Meeting – Spring 2012 – Neekaunis – Some Queries
About 100 Friends met at Camp Neekaunis from Friday evening, June 1 to Sunday Afternoon, June 3. This was the first time Pelham Half Yearly and Yonge Street Half Yearly had held a joint meeting, and there was in the air, joyful anticipation…and a little trepidation about numbers. In the end, we counted 12 Young Adult Friends and 12 Young Friends…and there were definitely a few 70+, a mix of ages over 3 generations. The ambiance was beautifully green, wet, and a little cool. This view is from the Meeting Room looking out over the lake.
Friends were grateful to gather in Nelson Hall (Dining Hall), and the Meeting Room with its huge stone fireplace.
Gathering in the Dining Hall
Meeting Room
The registrars were active from 3:00 Friday on, and Friends found time to re-connect while making sure the toilets/outhouses were equipped, unpacking, and wiping down the tables in preparation for dinner.
Who’s on the list?
Is there a resemblance here?
Reconnecting
Self-Care and Shared Responsibilities – qualities of camp life
Unpacking
Table Prep
After supper, we gathered in the Meeting Room for a listening session on Membership. We began with a semi-rousing game of ‘A Big Wind Blows’ (too many people to stand in a circle, so Katrina McQuail, Youth Secretary improvised and moderated). Then we invited Friends to self-organize into groups where they would imagine themselves in a particular role and we encouraged them to find a group with a role where they might be less comfortable. We asked the groups to consider the following queries about Young Friends holding transitional membership in a Half Yearly Meeting or at Camp Neekaunis. We encouraged them to IMAGINE, to think of this not as discernment, nor even as threshing, but as scattering wildflower seeds and seeing what might come of it.
QUERIES:
What might be the gifts of such a relationship?
What might be the responsibilities of the Half Yearly Meeting or Camp to the Member?
What might be the responsibilities of the member to the Half Yearly Meeting or to Camp?
If you click on each of the roles below, you will be able to view the responses of each group
The Groups shared what was most important to them from their conversations, and we closed with worship.
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