Pacific Yearly Meeting
of the
Religious Society of Friends

To contact the Presiding Clerk of PYM, Marilee Eusebio, or other PYM Committee Clerks, use our contact form.


Sixth World Conference of Friends Interest Form - Deadline September 15, 2010 to apply as a delegate from PYM. [.PDF format 49 KB]
Note: Dates of the conference have changed to April 17-25, 2012.


Pacific Yearly Meeting
65th Yearly Meeting

7th Month, 25 to 30, 2011
Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA

Campus Map (PDF format 365 KB)
Click on image to view campus photos taken by David Mackenzie
CMC


Announcing the launch of the
Latin American Concerns Committee website
LACC

http://LatinAmerica.PacificYearlyMeeting.org


PYM's complete Faith & Practice is available to read online!
(or Buy Now from the AFSC Bookstore)


Finance Committee Forms



2010 PYM Documents and Reports

PYM Epistle [.PDF format 94 KB]
Young Friends Epistle [.PDF format 45 KB]
Junior Yearly Meeting Epistle [.PDF format 49 KB]
Registrar's Report [.PDF format 33 KB]
Statistical Report [.PDF format 205 KB]
Finance Committee Report [.PDF format 57 KB]
Site Committee Report [.PDF format 33 KB]
Religious Ed for Children Committee Report [.PDF format 25 KB]
FGC Representative Report to PYM [.PDF format 102 KB]
FWCC Representative Report to PYM [.PDF format 45 KB]
Attenders List [Password Protected .PDF format 340 KB]
This file contains personal contact information that is protected under our website policy. It is password-protected. Please contact the Secretariat Clerk for the password.
Memorial List [.PDF format 25 KB]
List of all Approved Minutes in Session 2010 (.PDF format 66 KB)
PYM Ministry & Oversight - The Future of the Yearly Meeting Subcommittee - Proposal to be considered in Wednesday's Open Committee Session (.PDF format 307 KB)

2009 PYM Documents and Reports

PYM 2009 (Walker Creek Ranch) Documents (Drafts)

Ministry and Leadings Subcommittee booklet - Faithfulness In Action (Draft)

Proposal for a Youth Coordinator (July 31, 2009)

Youth Coordinator Proposal Appendices (July 22, 2009)

PYM Representative Committee Minutes for 2009
This file contains personal contact information that is protected under our website policy. It is password-protected. Please contact the Secretariat Clerk for the password.


2008 PYM Documents and Reports

PYM 2008 Documents

PYM Representative Committee Minutes for 2008

It Takes a Meeting to Raise a Quaker (Word)
©2007 Friends Publishing Corporation. Reprinted with permission. www.friendsjournal.com
Children's Education Committee Newsletters

Issue #6, Winter 2008-2009: Learn By Doing! (PDF)

Issue #5, Summer 2008: Youth Membership (Word) (PDF)


2007 PYM Documents and Reports

PYM 2007 Documents

PYM Representative Committee Minutes for 2007

Children's Education Committee Newsletters

Issue #4, Autumn 2007: Lesson From a Book and Other FGC Resources (Word) (PDF)

Issue #3, January 2007: Stories Take Us Deeper (Word) (PDF)


2006 PYM Documents and Reports

Resources for a Year of Discernment

A Letter From the Presiding Clerk of PYM to Meetings and Members (Word document)

A letter from the Clerk of PYM M&O to Meetings and Members (Word document)

Queries and Resources for a Year of Discernment (Word document)

Contacts from PYM M&O for Meetings (Word document)

Children's Education Committee Newsletters

Issue #2, August 2006: Religious Ed in the Small Meetings (Word) (PDF)

Issue #1, April 2006: On sharing our Questions (Word) (PDF)

Other Documents

PYM 2006 Minutes and Reports

Tony Prete's talk at opening plenary (Word document)

Final Draft of PYM Website Policy - This final draft is provided for review, and will be brought before the 2007 annual session of PYM for approval.

PYM Representative Committee Minutes for 2006 (LARGE PDF - 3.1 MB )


2005 PYM Documents and Reports

Minutes of Plenary Sessions, Attachments, and Epistles
PYM Representative Committee Minutes of March 3, 2005
Queries for Children - from Orange Grove Monthly Meeting


Documents From the 2004 Annual Gathering of Pacific Yearly Meeting

Minutes of Plenary Sessions   Epistles
Religious Education Committee Report


2004 PYM Documents and Reports

PYM Representative Committee Minutes of March 6, 2004


Documents From the 2003 Annual Gathering of Pacific Yearly Meeting

Minutes of Plenary Sessions   Epistles


Other 2003 PYM Documents and Reports
PYM Representative Committee Minutes of March 1, 2003


Documents From the 2002 Annual Gathering of Pacific Yearly Meeting
Minutes of Plenary Sessions Budget and Related Financial Report
PYM Statistical Report Epistles


Minutes for PYM 2001 Plenary Sessions 
Plenary I  Plenary III Plenary V Plenary VII
Plenary VIII Plenary X Plenary XI

Other PYM 2001 Documents and Reports
Action Minutes Approved Statistical  Report Statistical Summary
Faith and Practice Revision Committee Report Order Form for New PYM Faith and Practice  Ministry and Oversight Committee Report
Pacific Yearly Meeting 2001 Epistle to Friends Everywhere Site Committee Information Sheet: University of San Diego Addresses for PYM Monthly Meetings (as of August 2001)

(For a look at a former PYM Annual Gathering, you can see some PYM 2000 photos here.)

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Quarterly Meetings of Pacific Yearly Meeting


Other links of interest

  • American Friends Service Committee - The American Friends Service Committee carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world.
  • Ben Lomond Quaker Center - A retreat & conference center, under the care of the Religious Society of Friends.
  • Fellowship of Friends of African Descent - Fellowship of Friends of African Descent was formed out of a desire that Black Quakers know each other.
  • Friends Association for Higher Education - "The purpose of FAHE is to strengthen the Quaker mission in Higher Education."
  • Western Friend - Western Friend is published by the Friends Bulletin Corporation, established jointly by Pacific, North Pacific and Intermountain Yearly Meetings.
  • Friends Committee on Legislation of California - The Friends Committee on Legislation of California (FCLCA) is a non-profit action group (established by Quakers in 1952) that works to bring more compassion and social justice into government by influencing law-making in the State Capitol.
  • Friends Committee on National Legislation - The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) fields the largest team of registered peace lobbyists in Washington, DC. FCNL staff and volunteers work with a nationwide network of tens of thousands of people from many different races, religions, and cultures to advocate social and economic justice, peace, and good government. FCNL is nonpartisan.
  • Friends Council on Education - The Friends Council on Education promotes the theory and practice of Quaker education, supports Friends schools (PreK-12) in maintaining their values-based learning environments, and provides a professional development network for educational issues, philosophy and practice in Friends schools.
  • Friends House - A Continuing Care Retirement Community in Santa Rosa, CA based on Quaker values and traditions.
  • Friends Journal - Read by subscribers in all 50 states and many foreign countries. Its authors include Friends from all parts of the United States and elsewhere, and from all branches of Friends.
  • Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns - a North American Quaker faith community that affirms that of God in all people. Gathering twice yearly for worship and play, we draw sustenance from each other and from the Spirit for our work and life in the world. We are learning that radical inclusion and radical love bring further light to Quaker testimony and life.
  • Find Friends Meetings - Search for a local Meeting at Quaker dot org.
  • Friends World Committee for Consultation - The purpose of the Friends World Committee for Consultation is to encourage fellowship among all the branches of the Religious Society of Friends.
  • Latin AmericaLatin America - The website of Latin American Concerns Committee of Pacific Yearly Meeting.
  • Pendle Hill - A Quaker center for study and contemplation.
  • Quaker EarthCare Witness - QEW is a spiritually-centered movement of Quakers and like-minded people seeking ways to integrate concern for the environment with Friends' long-standing testimonies for simplicity, integrity, peace, and equality.
  • Sierra Friends Center - Sierra Friends Center is a non-profit organization committed to stewarding diverse learning communities and educational programs which weave together spirituality, peace, sustainability, and social action. Sierra Friends Center hosts the Woolman Semester, a summer camp for children aged 9-14, and visiting groups.
  • Quaker dot org - An extensive online resource list for Quakerism.
  • Accommodations for Friends Traveling in Australia - Overnight accommodation can be booked by Friends, or those with Quaker connections, at Meeting Houses in Brisbane, Queensland; Sydney and Blue Mountains in New South Wales; Melbourne, Victoria; and Perth, Western Australia.
  • Friends Peace Teams - The purpose of Friends Peace Teams is to invite, challenge, and empower individual Friends and Friends churches and meetings to participate in Spirit-led peace team work locally and internationally.
  • African Great Lakes Initiative of Friends Peace Teams - Strengthens, supports, and promotes peace activities at the grassroots level in the Great Lakes region of Africa (Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda).

 

 

 

PYM Web Coordinators
2009 Interim Coordinator Don Bean
2006 to 2009 by Colin Anderson
2003 to 2006 by Michael Eastwood
2000 to 2003 by Peter Milbury

1999 and earlier by Raph Levien