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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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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…
2019 Gathering Media Gallery
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 & No Practice Band, the…
Come and See How They Love One Another
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 was running late). This talk…
Toward Right Relationship: Land Acknowledgement
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 and stand tonight was the…
Young Adults Retreat, June 7-9
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 spiritual support and enrichment. Program…