2017 Spring Gathering
Sanctuary Everywhere: Love in Action
Mystics and Activists can come together to co-create the Beloved
Community and ensure that ALL people are safe.
Farmington-Scipio Regional Meeting Spring Gathering
May 19-21, 2017
Watson Homestead, 9620 Dry Run Rd., Painted Post, NY
A weekend of workshops, worship, fellowship and activities to
strengthen faith and grow a sense of Community in Friends of all ages.
Plenary Speaker:
● Lucy Duncan, American Friends Service Committee: "Sanctuary Everywhere"
Workshops:
● Christopher Sammond, New York Yearly Meeting: "Welcoming ‘the Other’ in Ourselves, Our Meetings, and the World
● Lucy Duncan, AFSC: “Quaker Social Change Ministry”, “Bystander Interventions”
● Buffy Curtis and Liseli Haines: "Lessons from Standing Rock"
● Angela Hopkins: "Cross-Pollination: The Charge of the Interracial Justice Center”
● Barbara Spring: "Prisoners Age, Too!" (ARCH and prisoners)
Plus:
Rock Wall Tower! Swimming Pool! Quality youth program! (with assistance fromChris deRoller & Mike Clark, Powell House; Melinda Wenner Bradley, NYYM
Children and Youth Field Secretary and Emily Provance, NYYM Young Adult Field Secretary)
Register by April 28 - Friends are welcome to pay as they are able and as they feel led -for registration info and payment guidelines https://goo.gl/J89v4H