In this episode, Linell McCurry, Associate Secretary for Business and Finance at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, spoke about dwindling meetings and the need to plan for the future of your meetinghouse and property while there is still an active membership. Before joining PYM in 2012, Linell had a career in investment as a portfolio manager. She is a member of Lansdowne Meeting in Pennsylvania. The second speaker was Jules Simon, a member of Trenton Monthly Meeting and Trustee of Burlington Quarter. He spoke about the laying down of Mansfield Meeting in 1998 and the sale of its early 19th century property to a Muslim group for use as a community center in 2017. This podcast was recorded at Westfield Friends Meeting during Haddonfield Quarterly meeting on February 25, 2018.
Music credit: “Old Greenwich Friends Meeting House (1771)” from Down Jersey Scenes by Paul Mack Somers — Michiko Otaki, piano.
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