At the end of each year, the yearly meeting published a brief Year in Review that highlighted the major activities and achievements of NYYM meetings, committees, and staff. We no longer create these.
The remainder of this pamphlet is concerned with assisting in the process of determining when and how the "recording" of ministers (i.e. recording a special gift in ministry) by the Yearly Meeting on Ministry and Counsel should take place.
Ministry takes many forms. Not to be overlooked or undervalued are those gifts that are not expressed vocally in meeting for worship. Ministry is teaching First Day school, writing and mailing a meeting newsletter, silently holding others in the Light, praying, attending to the care of the meeting house, washing the dishes. Other, more traditionally recognized, forms of ministry include the following:
