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…
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…
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…
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,…
Youth (under 18) and their families are invited to join us for fun-filled weekend July 25-28 at Lake Louisa State Park, a beautiful natural setting in Clermont, Florida. Activities will include swimming, canoe/kayaking, group games, nature hikes, all-ages worship, and…
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,…
143 adults and 22 youth gathered at the Life Enrichment Center in Fruitland Park Florida over Easter week, April 17-21, 2019. We had a rejuvenating 5 days of community: worship, worship sharing, workshops, the Friday night dance with the Faith…
This message was first presented by Joel Cook (Palm Beach Meeting), at the FWCC Section of the Americas Plenary Worship in March. He also presented it for the April 17th Wednesday night opening of our SEYM Gathering (when our scheduled retreat leader…
This Land Acknowledgment statement was read at the beginning of our SEYM 2019 Annual Sessions, at the request of the Committee for Ministry on Racism. Let’s begin by acknowledging, with humility, that for many centuries, the land where we sit…
Young adults (18 to about 35) from across the SEYM region (Florida, coastal Georgia and South Carolina) are invited to a weekend retreat June 7-9, 2019, at Sarasota Friends Meetinghouse. Our focus will be on building a community of mutual…