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SEYM is a community of 25 unprogrammed Quaker Meetings and Worship Groups in Florida, southeast Georgia, coastal South Carolina, and Managua, Nicaragua.
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Newly Established Florida Chapter of Elders Climate Action
Elders Climate Action (ECA), has launched a Florida chapter! Elders Climate Action is a virtual community raising the voices of the elders and youth in community organizations and legislative bodies. The conveners are Sue Blythe and Maxine Lobel. (Friends may be familiar with Sue Blythe from…
Youth Program at Fall Interim Business Meeting
Join us in Tampa the weekend of October 4-6 for our next youth and families event! Families with kids up to 18 years old are invited to pitch tents Friday and Saturday nights in a “family camping neighborhood” on the grounds of Tampa meetinghouse.* Friday…
Nourishment & New Ideas at Quaker Religious Education Conference
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend a conference of the Quaker Religious Education Collaborative. An annual event for the past five years, the conference was held this year at Powell House, a Quaker conference center in the traditional territory of the Mohican…
Youth & Family Retreat Photo Gallery
A double rainbow welcomed SEYM families to Lake Louisa State Park last weekend for the end-of-summer Youth and Families Retreat. Staying in cabins overlooking a lake, 26 attenders from 8 families shared meals, games, activities, worship, free time, and lots of laughter. Kids who had…
The 2019 Fight Toxic Prisons (FTP) Convergence
At this year’s SEYM Gathering, Peter Ackerman and Panagioti Tsolkas led the workshop “Fighting Toxic Prisons: Organizing the Fighting Toxic Prisons Campaign from the Strategic Intersection Where Environmental Justice Crosses Prison Abolition”. The FTP Convergence, held June 14-17 in Gainesville, offered participants opportunities for a…