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SPRING
1999Steering Committee
SPIRITUAL GROWTH—WORSHIP AND MINISTRY
- Offer spiritual development activities at the Quarter level
Means for accomplishment:
- Provide staff support for:
- Quarterly Meeting Worship and Ministry Committee
- Tri-Quarterly Gathering
- Foster connections with the PYM Meeting for Worship and Ministry (formerly Worship and Ministry Committee)
- Organize trips, on some regular basis, to Pendle Hill lectures
OUTREACH
- Nurture our members (inreach)
- Keep the Quarter informed of events happening in the monthly meetings
- Explore and identify what Friends have to offer in the meetings and to the world
- Search for and explore new ways for outreach
Means for accomplishment:
- Provide staff support for
- Quarterly Meeting Outreach Committee
- Salem Quarterly Meeting Retreat Planning Group
- Revise and/or expand the Quarterly Meeting’s Yellow Pages listings
- Establish a regular column in the newsletter focusing on outreach
- Continue the Quarterly Meeting calendar of events
- Encourage support for Friends School
- Continue the Quarterly Meeting summer picnic
- Initiate new signage for all Quarterly Meeting properties
- Publicize to monthly meetings new signage, and coordinate ordering and purchasing
- Educate members concerning the new PYM structure
- Produce Salem Quarter News
- Develop secondary uses for Salem Quarter News
STEWARDSHIP
- Increase an awareness of stewardship of everything that Quarterly Meeting owns
Means for accomplishment:
- Prepare and publicize an inventory of what the Quarter owns
- Create opportunities for Friends to work with property
- Investigate location of a Salem Quarter information center (at Friends School?) to archive and display Quarterly Meeting historic material
- Improve preservation and use of Quarterly Meeting records and materials
YOUTH
- Encourage and support programs for our young people
Means for accomplishment:
- Provide staff support for
- Quarterly Meeting youth group, of which Young Friends are members
- Suggest to Quarterly Meeting that the Youth Group be a regularly nominated Quarterly Meeting committee, which would then
- Recruit and support volunteers who come forward to work with youth, especially parents with children between the ages of 7 and 10
- Seek more volunteers to help with sleepovers at Quarterly Meeting for children of middle school and high school age
- Encourage adults to serve as Friendly Adult Presences at PYM youth programs
- Encourage youth to participate in PYM youth groups
- Provide opportunities for at least one intergenerational community service project for Quarterly Meeting youth and adults
- Plan a program for Quarterly Meeting Overseers and youth on the subject of draft registration and conscientious objection
- Explore, in all ways practical, the possibilities of a paid staff person to work with youth
- Assist any and all First-day School teachers in intervisitation projects and in the full utilization of PYM Religious Education facilities
- Provide a regular Salem Quarter News column for First-day School teachers to publicize ideas, projects, and classes “that work”
CARE OF MEMBERS
- While this area is considered primarily a monthly meeting responsibility, the Steering Committee will support monthly meetings in their efforts to serve the personal and spiritual needs of their members and attenders.
Means for accomplishment:
- Provide consultation and educational opportunities for monthly meeting Overseers
- Facilitate formation of intermeeting care committees as requested
- Facilitate clearness procedures as requested
- Investigate need for support groups and be sensitive to expressed areas where support might be needed
- Encourage the Coordinator to
- Visit individual monthly meetings regularly
- Make presentations to adult First-day School classes
- Support the Quarterly Meeting in exploring its responsibility toward care of members
TESTIMONIES AND CONCERNS
- Explore ways to incorporate the development, expression, and ongoing exercise of testimonies and concerns into the Quarterly Meeting
Means for accomplishment:
- Clarify and publicize the channels for moving a concern from the monthly meetings, through the Quarter, to Yearly Meeting
- Establish channels for coalescing monthly meetings’ concerns and bringing together the bearers of those concerns
- Explore re-establishing legislative visitation and Congressional seminars
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