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You are welcome in Southeastern Yearly Meeting! SEYM is a community of  25 unprogrammed Quaker Meetings and Worship Groups in Florida, southeast Georgia, coastal South Carolina, and Managua, Nicaragua.

As Quakers, we support each other in our spiritual journeys and care deeply about peace, social justice, and the earth.

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Queries for the Journey

The SEYM Worship and Ministry Committee is offering “Queries for the Journey,” weekly queries to help Friends center, through quiet, contemplative reflection, in their daily journey.  Click here to explore Queries from past months.

Query for the week of 17 Ninth Month 2023:

How do I live the testimony of integrity when much of what is around me is based on lies, manipulation, and subterfuge?

Special Fundraiser

The Youth Program needs donations to fund Youth and family events and programs throughout the year, and to support the Youth & Young Adult Coordinator position.

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SEYM is a 501c3 non-profit organization. Your contributions are tax-deductible. You may contribute directly to any of our programs.

2023 Youth Epistle

2023 Youth Epistle

Southeastern Yearly Meeting Youth Epistle 2023 Dear friends, We want to share our experiences at the SEYM yearly gathering of 2023. This year, the theme for the youth and young adult program was the Natural World That We Live In. On Thursday, we started out…

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SEYM 2023 Epistle

SEYM 2023 Epistle

Loving Greetings to Friends Everywhere, Southeastern Yearly Meeting gathered for its 59th sessions from Forth Month 5th through 9th Days. The meeting sessions were hybrid, allowing Friends at a distance to join with those in person to conduct Yearly Meeting business. In-person, we met at…

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2023 Gathering Media Gallery

2023 Gathering Media Gallery

88 adults and 20 youth gathered at the Dayspring Camp and Conference Center in Parrish, Florida over Easter week, April 5-9, 2023. We had a rejuvenating 5 days of community: worship, worship sharing, workshops, the All Ages Community Night, the Walton Retreats & Lecture with…

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WIBM & Michener Lecture 2023 Highlights

WIBM & Michener Lecture 2023 Highlights

Over the weekend of January 13 - 15, over 60 Friends gathered at the Orlando Meetinghouse --- with many more joining in on Zoom --- for our first post-pandemic in-person Winter Interim Business Meeting and Michener Lecture. Orlando Friends provided breakfasts and lunches, plus expert…

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Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that the monthly meetings of Southeastern Yearly Meeting are on the unceded lands of many different indigenous peoples.

In what is now Florida, coastal Georgia, and South Carolina, the original inhabitants were indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands.  Early peoples in this area were hunter-gatherers, who shifted over time to growing corn, squash and beans for a large part of their food. Well before European invasion, indigenous peoples of these lands– the Timucua (Tee-MOO-qua), Calusa (ca LOO-sa), Tequesta (tuh-KES-tuh), Ais (ah-EES), Jaega (YaY-ga), and others– had well developed trade networks, refined ceramic and metal working techniques, and other visual arts traditions. In Nicaragua, Managua Worship Group meets on the traditional territories of the Chorotega (chore-oh-TAY-ga). Invading Europeans decimated these pre-contact peoples through disease, violence, enslavement, and forced removal, and claimed their land for European settlement.

We acknowledge the Seminole (SEM-in-ol) and Miccosukee (mick-uh-SOO-kee) Tribes, who continue as peoples, and as protectors of South Florida’s land and water. Their fierce and sustained resistance to European invasion and the physical and cultural processes of colonization and land theft continue to this day.

We acknowledge that Native individuals of many nations and peoples live throughout this region today.

We in Southeastern Yearly Meeting have committed ourselves to an ongoing process of decolonization. We repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery, commit ourselves to a deeper understanding of Quaker involvement in the genocide of indigenous peoples, and seek way forward in deepening commitment and solidarity with Native peoples.