Please join us at any of these upcoming events.

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ESR Pastor's Conference
Sep
26

ESR Pastor's Conference

Ministry always has challenges. Ministering in anxious times provides some unique challenges. Kelly Burk (counselor and pastor) will engage us in preparing ourselves for how to meet the challenges and meet people where they are without losing ourselves. Jim Higginbotham (professor of pastoral care) will provide additional insight and perspective. The ESR Pastors Conference will include interactive elements throughout the day.

Presented by the Quaker Leadership Center @ Earlham School of Religion

This topic is so important and pertinent to our times that ESR’s Quaker Leadership Center is offering this experience as a “Pay-as-Led.” This means you pay what you can. Please note that for onsite participants this event does include lunch. The actual cost to provide this program is $50 per person onsite and $25 per person for online (Zoom) Please keep these factors in mind as you discern what you can pay.

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Midwest Youth & Young Adult Worker Gathering
Aug
8
to Aug 10

Midwest Youth & Young Adult Worker Gathering

Are you working with Quaker youth or young adults—or feeling a strong leading to do so? Mark your calendar for a special regional gathering of youth and young adult workers.

We’ll come together at Quaker Hill Conference Center, 10 Quaker Hill Drive in Richmond, IN, starting with dinner on Friday, August 8, and wrap up after breakfast on Sunday, August 10.

Whether you’re a volunteer, staff member, or simply discerning a call to this ministry, this weekend is for you.

Expect meaningful connection, shared resources, encouragement, and likely the guidance of a consultant with experience in young adult ministry to help us deepen and grow our work.

Please let interested Friends in your meeting or church know. Here is the sign up sheet for anyone interested in attending. Room and board will be covered by a grant for this event!  And if you have any questions, contact: tom.s@westernyearlymeeting.org.

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Apr
22
to Apr 24

Pastors & Spouses Retreat

This retreat is a time for worship, rest, mutual support and nurture, in a beautiful setting in nature. There is both a spacious schedule *and* encouragement to discern what will help you recharge - including skipping sessions to sleep late, take a long walk, watch birds, sit on a bench overlooking the lake, listen to music, etc.

Each room has 2 queen-size beds and the cost is $160/person sharing a double room and $230/person for a single room. 

To register, use: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCfhSjezdken2PaSF4C-zbShTplvOb6uUVeHpfT1G-Z47Uaw/viewform

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Sep
21

Gathering for nurture and fellowship

Gathering for Nurture and Fellowship is like Yearly Meeting sessions, if business were not held (Business will be held on another day). It includes various opportunities for fellowship and shared worship, and celebrates ministers and ministry within our association.

Schedule of Events:

9:00 AM | Fellowship

9:30 AM | morning session // available on zoom

  • Welcome & meeting introductions

  • worship

  • Speaker: Colleen Wessel-McCoy

11:30 AM | Adjourn to LUNCH & festival

2:00 PM | Closing time of reflection

Meet at the henry county Art Center

218 south 15th st. // new castle, in 47362

3:00 PM | Farewell

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Jul
7

Steering Committee

Steering committee meeting — location TBA.

Steering committee is an executive committee comprised of officers, committee clerks, and representation from each member meeting.

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Charism camp at Quaker Knoll
Jun
28
to Jun 30

Charism camp at Quaker Knoll

Charism Camp is a Christ-centered Friends gathering dedicated to supporting youth in their unfolding sense of identity, sponsored by New Association of Friends, Western Yearly Meeting and Wilmington Yearly Meeting.

The Camp will take place at Quaker Knoll outside Wilmington, Ohio, from around noon on June 28 until after lunch on June 30.

Fees are pay-as-led; no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Please follow this link to register online

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Jan
28

Winter Steering Committee

The steering committee will be at West Richmond Friends Meeting. We will discuss filling recently vacated positions, and prepare for the next business session. Please come if you are a representative or committee clerk.

It can be attended in person, or through zoom

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Sep
9

Gathering for Nurture and Fellowship

The New Association of Friends will gather for Fellowship and Nurture on Saturday, September 9, at 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Come be nourished with inter-visitation among our members!

Join us all day at West Richmond Friends (609 West Main St; Richmond, IN 47374), or join virtually via Zoom at https://bit.ly/NAoFGathering23, or call 312-626-6799 with Meeting ID 840 6613 2897 and Passcode 090923.

A flyer with full details is available here.

There will also be a time of fellowship the night before at First Friends Richmond at 2010 Chester Blv. Richmond IN, 7:00 PM.

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Jul
30

Summer Steering Committee

Steering Committee Meeting at West Richmond Friends 3:00. This is an open meeting, but committee clerks and meeting/church reps should attend.

The meeting will be in the meetinghouse library, with an online option through zoom.

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Family Camp
May
27
to May 29

Family Camp

We invite you to join us for Memorial Day weekend this year. This is a time open to all members and attenders at New Association of Friends Meetings (scholarships available); I hope to see you there! Please share!

Sign up at https://bit.ly/QuakerCamp23. by May 12

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May
1
to May 3

Pastor's retreat

Pastor’s retreat for pastors and spouses shared with Western and Wilmington Yearly meeting at Clifty Falls state park

Registration due by mid-march

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