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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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Young Adults Enjoy Retreat in Sarasota
Thirteen young adult Quakers and friends-of-Friends from across the SEYM region met for a weekend of worship, workshops, games, and community-building in Sarasota June 7-9th. While there was no formal theme for the weekend, conversations and workshops converged around questions of how we are called…
Mother’s Day Action to End Child Detention
Thirteen Friends joined the Mother’s Day protest to end child detention at the Homestead Child Detention Center in Homestead, Florida, a privately owned facility that is housing over 2,000 immigrant children. 5 Quakers from Deland, 5 from Miami, 2 from Clearwater, and one from Key…
Tallahassee Friends Form Advocacy Team
Tallahassee Friends are now “Quakers and Friends from Across the Country who use their Power as Constituents to make Change in Washington.” With training and support from Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), they have formed an Advocacy Team to lobby members of Congress, and…
Peacebuilding en las Américas Update
Mónica Maher, Coordinator, for Peacebuilding en las Américas (PLA), sends us this update. PLA is an Initiative of Friends Peace Teams that brings Alternative to Violence Project and trauma healing workshops and other peacemaking support to vulnerable communities in Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and…
2019 Gathering Highlights
This year’s SEYM Gathering was exciting, rejuvenating, and transformative. Held April 17-21 at the Life Enrichment Center in Fruitland Park, the Gathering brought 147 adults and 22 youth together for five days of retreats, workshops, worship sharing, lectures, business sessions, music, fellowship, and more. The…