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WINTER
1999 Gloria Horvay
Clerk, Salem Quarterly MeetingSalem Quarter has had a spirit-filled, active year. In September, Kenneth Sutton spoke to us at Greenwich Monthly Meeting on the topic of leadings and discernment. Salem Monthly Meeting hosted us in December when Kathryn Damiano spoke on “Radical Ordinariness: Finding God in Everyday Life.” At our March Quarterly Meeting Tom Hoopes spoke at Woodstown about Yearly Meeting and Friends’ education. Finally, in June, Mickleton Meeting welcomed the Quarter to hear Cookie Caldwell speak about youth activities.
Our Quarter Steering Committee has met monthly to work with our coordinator, Phil Anthony. His assistance has been invaluable to our seven monthly meetings, and we are willing to work with any Quarter that would like to know more about having a regional staff person. Phil has facilitated a quarterly newsletter which contains the records of the Quarter, namely minutes, budgets, calendars, committee lists, and also includes poetry, art and inspirational articles. Much of our communication is electronic as Phil keeps Quarter members who have e-mail addresses informed of happenings in Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly Meeting. Our newsletter is posted to the Salem Quarterly Meeting area of the PYM Website. The Steering Committee listens attentively to the leadings of the monthly meetings and distills them into the goals for the Quarter each year. It also does the business of the Quarter between Quarterly Meetings.
Committees which have met on a quarterly basis are Worship and Ministry, Youth, and Outreach. Finance, Education Fund, and Trustees met at least once during the year, and more often as needed. For the most part, Testimonies and Concerns have been addressed by individuals and monthly meetings acting on particular issues. When the Kosovo “ethnic cleansing” and bombing arose, however, the initiative of one monthly meeting led to formation of an ad-hoc committee of the Quarter that continues to investigate responses to social concerns.
Worship and Ministry and Outreach jointly sponsored the annual retreat at the Burlington Meeting House in August. Outreach obtained two grants from PYM, one for programming at the retreat, and one for brochures listing the Monthly Meetings in the Quarter. The Quarter maintains very good relations with our local Friends School in Mullica Hill. We are very grateful for the spirit-filled activities our members have facilitated in the Quarter this year, and look forward to freely letting our friends, neighbors, and communities know who we are as Quakers.
The Clerk’s report on the status of the Quarter is prepared and sent to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting each year. Gloria Horvay presented her report for 1998-99 to the Quarter during our September business meeting. It was minuted that the report deserved wider distribution, and that it should appear in the Salem Quarter News issue for Winter 1999. — Ed.
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