Category Archives: Young Friends

Yearly Meeting 2023

The upcoming YM 2023 of the Southern Africa Yearly Meeting will be taking place from 3-8 January 2023 at Good Shepherd Retreat Centre in Hartbeespoort. Please check the Events page for details and to download registration forms.

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SAYM 2018 delegates’ pack available for download

The Pack that will be distributed to Yearly Meeting attendees has gone to the printer. For those Friends who wish to read the contents in advance, please download the PDF file from the link below. SAYM Pack 2018 — PDF file … Continue reading

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On Quaker outreach

Words by Friends: Emily Provance | Friends General Conference On her blog Turning, Turning, Emily Provance of Fifteenth Street Meeting (and Interim Young Adult Field Secretary for New York Yearly Meeting until early November) explores an outreach model for Quaker meetings that is geared towards the experience … Continue reading

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“Living Our Beliefs” — young British Quakers’ ideas on “Quaker Faith & Practice”

More than three hundred young Quakers living in Britain have contributed to a book summing up how they see Quakerism. Called Living our beliefs, it is available from the Quaker Centre Bookshop and as an ebook at www.yqspace.org.uk/living-our-beliefs. Playlists, video … Continue reading

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Important issues that came out of FWCC

Email from the FWCC office in London Dear Friends, We hope you are all well and send our loving greetings from the World Office in London. Many of you will be sharing your experience with others, some will be offering presentations … Continue reading

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News from the World Plenary Meeting in Peru

CSAYM Co-Clerk Justine Limpitlaw and Young Friends Co-Clerk Khosi Sekoere are attending the World Plenary Meeting in Peru as representatives of C&SAYM. Though they are out of email contact, Friends from the British Yearly Meeting were kind enough to share … Continue reading

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Young Friends Work Camp in Lesotho postponed

The Young Friends Work Camp in Lesotho which was tentatively scheduled for December has been postponed to a date that we’ll determine at YM. YM will be taking place between 27 April – 3 May next year.

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