by WebPost | Jun 30, 2023 | Adult Spiritual Education, Current
Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM) Annuals Sessions is fast approaching. Adult Spiritual Education (ASE) has scholarships, up to $500. If receiving this scholarship facilitates your attendance, please apply by send a written request with your name, the name of the conference (BYM) and the dates you will attend. You may send this to ellenandjules@protonmail.com or to any other member of ASE (names and contact in directory.)
BYM Annual Sessions provides a great opportunity to learn more about Quakerism and meet other Friends from our five state regional Yearly. Your children can attend their own programs, which will allow you to attend the adult programing. It will be held from August 1-7, 2023 at Hood College in Frederick, MD.You can attend any portion of that time.
You can register at https://www.bym-rsf.org/anuualsession/. You may notice it has a "pay as led" fee structure. As you make your decision about what you can pay, please remember the scholarship through ASE.
by WebPost | Apr 16, 2023 | Adult Spiritual Education
Please Join Us
Let Your Life Speak:
Process Theology & The Quaker Testimonies
Quakers have long held that our core beliefs are best expressed in the way we live our lives. And yet, we are always searching for helpful ways to talk about the Divine (God, Light, Inner Teacher, Spirit, Ground of all Being, etc.). Let's take some time away together to explore two approaches to faith that may open up new understandings and ideas for your own life and faith. We will look at the basic tenets of the Quaker Testimonies and of Process Theology to see how they inform one another and our own thinking and living. And just as important, there will be time for rest, reflection, spiritual exploration, community building, and friendship throughout the day.
Our facilitator will be Janet Legro. Janet holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University and is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ. She was the director of spiritual life and community service at Tandem Friends School in Charlottesville, VA from 2007 to 2016. She has been a pastor for outreach and faith formation at First Presbyterian in Richmond and minister for youth and families at Grace Episcopalin Red Hill, Va. Additionally Janet has a background in counseling, as well as planning and leading pilgrimage in the U.S. and overseas, and is currently President of the Council for Richmond Hill.
Saturday, May 6 at the Meetinghouse
9:30 Gather for coffee and bagels
10:00 - 12:00 Morning Session
12:00 - 1:00 Bring Your Own Bag Lunch. Drinks and Fruit provided
1::00 - 3:00 Afternoon Session
Note: Attendance at the morning session only is an option.
* Please bring a notebook and pen.
Childcare can be provided. Please contact Monica Shaw to arrange. monicakshaw@gmail.com
RSVP to Beth Morrison. bethbmorrison@gmail.com RSVP helpful but not required. All are welcome. Participants will be provided with the Pendle Hill Pamphlet: "Reclaiming the Transcendent. God in Process" by Thomas Gates for follow-up study.
by WebPost | Aug 16, 2022 | Adult Spiritual Education, Announcement, Ministry and Worship
“First Look- Pathways to Right Relationship with Native People” Barb Adams, moderator
Please join us for what promises to be an important and deeply interesting overview of this significant and timely subject. Our own Barb Adams* will guide us in talks, exercises and discussions, looking at the roots of colonization, the land experience, history, appreciation of daily life and first steps toward commitment to right relationship with the native peoples.
Light morning fare and lunch provided, side dishes or desserts to share are welcomed. Please register with the link below before September 1st. Program will be held outdoors in the pavilion. Bring your own folding chair.
*Barb is BYM rep to Quaker Earthcare Witness, and there serves on the UN Working Group as liaison to indigenous and women's groups addressing climate injustice. She recently completed the Land Acknowledgement: A First Step Towards Right Relationship program offered by Pendle Hill
Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdplRc_EHmla3o75f2V8P6qR8px4aarCKTMGx1pbJyWrfWwEg/viewform
by WebPost | Apr 21, 2022 | Adult Spiritual Education, Announcement
Scholarship funds are available through the committee for attending The Gathering of Friends General Conference and Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM) Annual Session. Families who wish to attend FGC or BYM for the first time have money available through the Mary Hulburt Fund; other money is available through ASE’s scholarship funds. Simply send an email to the clerk, Barbara Hulburt, and request assistance
by WebPost | Mar 21, 2022 | Adult Spiritual Education, Announcement, Friends General Conference
Scholarship funds are available through the committee on Adult Spiritual Education for attendance at Friends General Conference. Families who wish to attend FGC for the first time have money available through the Mary Hulburt Fund; other money is available through ASE’s scholarship funds. Simply send an email to the clerk, Barbara Hulburt, and request assistance.
by WebPost | Feb 23, 2022 | Adult Spiritual Education
ASE is delighted to announce that the Spring Series is taking shape. The series will focus on fundamental aspects of Quakerism and our community’s experience of them. These sessions are intended for all of us to deepen our knowledge and experience of Quakerism, from new attenders to those interested in joining Meeting to more experienced Friends who may be reminded of some of the reasons we’ve chosen to be Quakers.
Saturday, March 12, 9:30-10:45, Zoom. That of God in Everyone: Presented by the ASE Committee as a whole. The historical background of this fundamental concept will be explored briefly, then committee members and participants will share how this phrase speaks to us.
Saturday, March 26, 9:30-10:45, Zoom. Testimony of Integrity. Saturday, April 9, 9:30-10:45, Zoom. Meeting for Worship. Saturday, April 23, 9:30-10:45, Zoom. Prophetic Voices. Saturday, May 7, 9:30-10:45, Zoom. Corporate Quaker Process.
Pendle Hill Pamphlets
ASE has ordered 30 sets of the following Pendle Hill Pamphlets. These will be available at no cost and are designed primarily for new attenders and those who are considering application for membership. They will also be a useful companion to the ASE Spring Series.
The Testimony of Integrity in the Religious Society of Friends (Cooper)
Four Doors to Meeting for Worship (Taber)
Leading and Being Led (Lacey)
Beyond Consensus: Salvaging Sense of the Meeting (Morley)
Members One of Another: The Dynamics of Membership in Quaker Meeting (Gates)
Although they were ordered and shipped several weeks ago, they have not yet been received. When they arrive, there will be information sent through the RFM Newslist about how to get the pamphlets if you are interested
