Quakers share a common faith, based on experience, that every human being can commune with God directly, without the need for any mediating persons or rituals, and that the worshiping community can commune directly with God, as well.
Next Sessions
Save the Date! Summer Sessions 2025, July 25-30
Summer Sessions will be hybrid: online and in person at Oakwood Friends School, Poughkeepsie, NY. Our theme will be "Dare to Hope! Dare to Heal! Dare to Witness!" Please save the date.
News and Announcements
New York Yearly Meeting Call for Peace
The Clerk and the General Secretary of New York Yearly Meeting, with seasoning and guidance from Friends around the yearly meeting, have written a statement calling for nonviolent resolution to the war between Israel and Palestine. Read the full statement at nyym.org/peace-statement-2024.
Love Thy Neighbor - NYYM's Minute in support of transgender and gender non-conforming people
Approved at Spring Sessions 2024
Minutes and Recordings from Spring Sessions 2025
- MINUTES: You can view the Minutes from Spring Sessions 2025 in two ways: online with links to supporting documents, or download a single PDF file with supporting documents attached.
- PLENARIES: Video recordings of Friday's Evening Program, and Saturday's Evening Program are available on the NYYM YouTube channel.
Minutes from Fall Sessions 2024
New York Yearly Meeting Friends met online for Fall Sessions in early December. You can now read the minutes from our business meetings in your choice of format:
- An interactive online version with links to the reports
- A PDF version that can be printed or downloaded to be read offline and includes the reports at the end
Minutes from NYYM Summer Sessions 2024
You can view the Minutes from Spring Sessions 2024 in two ways: online with links to supporting documents, or download a single PDF file with supporting documents attached.
Becoming an Anti-Racist Faith Community
One of the actions faith communities can take in becoming actively anti-racist is to make a public statement of intention. For those connected to NYYM, the impact of such a statement would go beyond the words themselves, inviting each of us to consider deeply what this might mean for ourselves, our meetings, our communities, and our yearly meeting. In hopes that NYYM will be open to making such a statement of intention, a Draft NYYM Statement on Becoming an Anti-Racist Faith Community came to Summer Sessions 2021 for reflection and the initiation of an extended period of discernment. Please visit https://nyym.org/anti-racism-statement for the full text and further resources.