New York Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

New York Quarterly Meeting will hold its next meeting on Saturday, July 11, 2009, at the Quaker Cemetery in Prospect Park, Brooklyn (in case of rain, at Brooklyn Monthly Meeting, 110 Schermerhorn Street). Please find links here for the advance agenda, park access permit, and directions by subway and car, as well as other reports and documents being distributed here prior to the Meeting. More documents will be added as they are prepared, so please check back prior to 7/15. The advance agenda - Map and directions to Prospect Park -  Prospect Park Car Entry Permit -  Friends Seminary Proposed Essential Practices and Procedures

Download the memo here
Eligibility for housing at Cedars, at this time of start-up, is not limited to seniors 55-years old and over, and is not limited to grandparents or older adults raising kinship children.

Gay Pride Parade – June 28, 2009
For NYC Quakers it is a 40 year tradition - the only religious group who has been there from the night of the Stonewall uprising. Join NYC Quakers on June 28.
This year’s parade commemorates the June 1969 uprising at the Stonewall Inn when over 2,000 individuals expressed their outrage at the New York City Police Department’s attempts to raid the Greenwich Village establishment.
Since the Stonewall Uprising, the LGBT rights community, along with their families and friends, have continued to fight for justice and equality for all. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the uprising.
The 2009 national theme is “What’s Past is Prologue: Honoring Our Past, Forging Our Future.”
For more info email mpagurel@netscape.net and visit Heritage of Pride’s Website at
http://www.hopinc.org/index.html

Download Monthly Meeting Dialogue notice
Monthly Meeting Dialogue
Money
Sunday, June 14, 2009
This first dialogue will explore our relationship to money.
We will share the ways in which we view money.
Is it a tool for survival?
Does it free you to do work that you feel called to do?
How do you make decisions about money?
Brooklyn Meeting
Sunday, June 14, 2009 from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
110 Schermerhorn Street
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11202
From the NYQM Ad Hoc Fundraising Committee
Contact: Carol Summar (212) 777-8866 Electra Cummings (718) 629-0199

Final budget for 2009 approved by NYQM 4/19/2009
Venues for Quarterly Meetings in 2009-10

Distributed at Quarterly Meeting on 4/19/2009, this report is the Friends Seminary School Committee’s Essential Practices and Procedures.

New York Quarterly Meeting for Business 19 of Fourth Month 2009
At 15th Street Monthly Meeting, 15 Rutherford Place
Worship begins at 11, potluck lunch at the rise of Meeting, and Business begins promptly at 1 p.m.  Child care will be provided. Advance agenda -  Revised budget for 2009 - Trustees Annual Report - Ad Hoc Fundraising Committee Report - Proposed Dates and Venues for NYQM in 2010 - Interim FS School Committee Report - NYYM Peace Concerns Coordinator Introduction - FUM Concern Discernment Meeting Minutes 3/22/2009 - Morningside Meeting report 4/2009 - Travel Minute from Flushing MM - Flushing MM Report - Housing Committee Report - Handbook Revision about Nominating - Friends in the City Report - 15th St MM Report - Brooklyn MM Report - Manhattan MM Report

Minutes of the Called Meeting on the Budget held 2/28/2009

New York Quarterly Meeting
Meeting for Discernment in regards to FUM
March 22, 2009
15th Street Meeting House
2PM - 4PM
Query: Given FUM’s policy on hiring only married couples and its policy considering marriage only between a man and a woman, which effectively denies employment to gay or lesbian married couples, how are Friends in New York Quarter called to respond?
Christopher Sammond, New York Yearly Meeting General Secretary will be attending.
Childcare will be provided.

Click for minutes of the special ad-hoc committee preparing for this budget meeting.
New York Quarterly Meeting for Business
Special Called Meeting
Saturday, 28th of Second Month 2009
Brooklyn Monthly Meeting, 110 Schermerhorn Street

2:00 p.m.
Child care will be provided.

There is only one item on the agenda: continued discussion of the 2009 budget. Because we were not able to unite on approval of the budget at Quarterly Meeting on January 18, 2009, the clerks were asked to call a special meeting in February for further discernment. Please refer to minute 2009.01.06 from the minutes posted below