Coordinating Committee Weekend - Winter 2022

Friday, January 28, 2022 - 7:00pm

 

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Coordinating Committee Weekend is open to everyone! It is a time set aside for the three yearly meeting coordinating committees — General Services, Ministry, and Witness — to meet. These coordinating committees help yearly meeting committees with related missions collaborate and get support.

  • The General Services Coordinating Committee functions as an enabling body of the General Services Section, which comprises those committees that provide the primary administrative, financial, and reporting services of the yearly meeting, including the operation of the yearly meeting office.
  • The Ministry Coordinating Committee is the coordinating body for committees that are concerned with the spiritual life and pastoral care of the yearly meeting.
  • The Witness section comprises those committees and representatives to Quaker bodies that try to make visible the traditional testimonies and newer concerns of Friends in ways that extend beyond the Society of Friends. Its work attempts to express beliefs in action. The Witness Coordinating Committee functions as an enabling body of the section.

 

Each coordinating committee will meet at a different time, so you can attend more than one. The schedule is below. There will also be worship sharing on Friday evening, a social lunch on Saturday, and a time to reflect together after the committee meetings. Join people from around the yearly meeting to hear about what’s going on and how the work gets done. Be part of considering how the yearly meeting might use everyone’s gifts and leadings and how each of us, all of us, can reimagine how we build this community every day. Register now! Note that you must register in order to get the Zoom links for the weekend.

 

SCHEDULE:

Friday, Jan. 28

7 to 9:00 p.m.: Facilitated worship-sharing in small groups on the queries accompanying the draft Statement on Becoming an Anti-Racist Faith Community

Saturday, Jan. 29

The Coordinating Committees are meeting at different times so that people can attend their own committees and others as well. We will meet together at the end of the day plenary.

 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.: Ministry Coordinating Committee
11:00 to 1:00 p.m.: General Services Coordinating Committee
 1:00 to 1:45 p.m.: Social lunch
 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.: Witness Coordinating Committee
 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.: Plenary - What have we heard this weekend?

 

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