Yes! Cherice Bock Friend in Residence for NPYM Annual Session July 14-18--and before

RantWoman is so excited that Cherise Bock will be Friend in Residence for the NPYM Annual Session that she almost overlooked the theme: Courage in the face of fear:--Faith Hope Love. 

RantWoman feels very well listened to. RantWoman imagines others might also have suggested that Cherice Bock would be an excellent Friend in Residence, but RantWoman is going to grab every chance she can to feel listened to. More on that in a moment.

North Pacific Yearly Meeting (NPYM) Annual Session is all Virtual this year. All virtual also means not limited to travelling hundreds of miles to spend a few days together. 

Sign up now, by May 1 for 6 weeks of pre-annual session small group worship activities, May 10- June 14

Pre Annual Session Small Group opportunities

Check out the NPYM website for minutes to be seasoned and other updates.

From clerk David Zeiss call

We have been through a year of upheaval and distress throughout our country and our world, bitter divisions in our society, and rampant displays of racism and intolerance. Many people around us are still beset by uncertainty and anxiety. And we realize that in the midst of the urgency of finding wise ways forward through all those difficulties, those difficulties are, in a sense, distractions from the still looming threat of environmental catastrophe.

Nevertheless, we come together again in July to renew and strengthen ourselves and our communities so that we can be the Quakers the world needs!

Our Friend in residence in July will be Cherice Bock. Cherice is a lifelong Quaker and a former co-clerk of Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends. She holds graduate degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary and Antioch University New England. She works as the Creation Justice Advocate at Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon and has taught courses at the University of Portland, Portland Seminary, and the Oregon Extension in Ashland. Her special interest is ecotheology.

For full details.

NPYM Call to Annual Session which shortly will have fuller information about registration including pre gathering worship groups, interest groups and some volunteer roles.