Events

All are welcome to join the Thursday Night Seeker’s Book Club as they begin a new book in January: Listening to the Light: How to Bring Quaker Simplicity and Integrity into Our Lives by Jim Pym.

Join us in person or online at Orlando Friends Meetinghouse on Saturday, January 20th for Winter Interim Business Meeting (WIBM). We will have committee meetings and a Meeting Forum in the morning, and business meeting in the afternoon. All are welcome.

St. Augustine Quakers are co-hosting a public screening of "Dare Not Walk Alone," a film about the months of protests in St. Augustine leading up to the passage of the Civil Rights Act. This is the first event in a series. Please join them in person!

The SEYM Child Safety Training gives Friends the tools to create safe and welcoming spaces for children and youth — in our Monthly Meetings, Worship Groups, and Yearly Meetings. The training lasts about 1.5 hours, and covers best practices in caring for different youth age groups, and how to prevent, recognize, and report child abuse.

Join us online for a workshop with Emily Provance, who will lead us in using stories from the books of Acts as a jumping-off point to discuss listening in tongues, nominations, hospitality and food, welcoming newcomers, spiritual transformation, belonging, prayer, faith, corporate discernment, calls to ministry, pastoral care, and adapting to societal change.

All are welcome to join us for our Yearly Executive Committee Meeting! The Executive Committee (EC) makes sure that business items are ready to be brought to Yearly Business Meeting, and discerns on various issues that arise. The EC is made up primarily of SEYM officers, clerks and committee clerks, but we also welcome the participation of any SEYM Friends.

Live from London, Tim Gee, General Secretary of Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) will be visiting SEYM Friends online to share his spiritual journey in navigating in the world community of Friends.

SEYM Field Secretary for Earthcare Beverly Ward invites Friends to gather online for our second forum aimed at developing suggestions for empowering Meetings, Worship Groups, and other communities to respond to needs that arise from extreme events such as climate change effects, hurricanes, rising temperatures, or economic hardships.