Editorial

In this issue we have asked a number of people to reflect on their experiences at Yearly Meeting. Our Documents in Retrospect record what business we transacted, but how did the truth prosper amongst us? Did our gathering nurture our spiritual growth? The articles...

A View of Yearly Meeting

Clémence Overall, Camden Friends Meeting, Delaware, USA I come from Camden Friends Meeting, a 200-year-old meeting tucked away in the small state of Delaware – that little peninsula shadowed by Philadelphia and only two hours from the nation’s capital. William Penn...

Summary of 2014 Epistles

Ray Brindle, Victoria Regional Meeting There are more than 90 Yearly Meetings and associations of Friends around the world. We received epistles during 2014 from about one fifth of those; including a couple obtained through FWCC, we have 18 to hand: 10 from US YMs...

A first timer’s reflections on AYM

Lauren Porter NSW Regional Meeting As one of the newest members of the Religious Society of Friends (December 2014) it was with nervous excitement that I attended AYM 2015. I was joined by my English fiancé, Mark Lockwood of Chichester meeting who has attended Britain...

Yearly Meeting 2015 : A spirit-filled week.

Felicity Rose, Tasmania Regional Meeting Another Yearly Meeting. Is it my fifteenth? The familiar posters and arrows lead me to the registration desk and glasses of ice cold water. The hugs and hellos begin. I find my room and am very pleased that it is on the cool...

Reflections on AYM

Gretchen Castle, FWCC General Secretary, World Office in London I am a Quaker. I am part of a world-wide Quaker community, and I inhabit that knowledge daily. It helps me live the way I want to. The knowledge and reality of that community membership informs my life...