Who is SCYMF
Check out the People link for a list of congregations at SCYMF website
From the Contact Us page
Join us in building an inclusive coalition that uses Quaker process to discern who we are, to find common ground, to help us identify the continuing steps in our life together as part of Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends.
The Quarterly Gathering
Friends: It’s time to register for our October 23, 2021 Zoom Quarterly Gathering. Registration is required since we will not be publishing the Zoom link to the public. Send your name, email address and church/meeting affiliation to registrar@scymf.org or reply to this email. The schedule for our Quarterly Gathering is:
Saturday, October 23rd
10:00 to 10:45 am – Music and worship led by Ruba Byrd, Eugene Friends
11:00 am to 12:30 pm – Workshops
12:30 to 1:30 pm – Break for lunch
1:30 to 3:45 pm – Business session
4 to 5 pm– Small group sessions
Workshops
1. Singing Your Prayers
Workshop Description:
We will create a safe space to experience different ways to pray through spontaneous singing. We’ll explore prayers of joy, gratitude, grief, and healing for ourselves, others, and the world. You can choose to sing in your own private space, or with a few others (or both). ALL levels of singing ability are welcome. Just be open to listening to the Spirit and letting song-prayers arise.
Workshop Provider:
Ruba Byrd is the pastor of Eugene Friends Church, a faith community where singing together has been sorely missed this past year! She’s learned some nourishing ways to sing together on ZOOM and looks forward to sharing them.
2. Why we cannot be silent about Palestine
Workshop Description:
A brief history of Palestine and then discussion guided by participants' interest on a variety of possible targets including home demolitions, US unrestricted aid to Israel, the arrest and detention of children by Israeli forces, annexation, illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Boycott-Divest-Sanction, Apartheid.
Workshop Provider:
Cynthia Gilliam is an Arab-American advocate for Palestinian human rights. She formerly attended Reedwood and West Hills Friends. She is affiliated with Multnomah Monthly Meeting in Portland, Oregon, which is a member of North Pacific Yearly Meeting.
3. Approaching mission from the bottom up - building friendships and ministry through language learning
Workshop Description:
We will examine non-colonial missions - approaching missions as a learner. We will discuss five roles that follow the model of Jesus as we build cross-cultural relationships.
Workshop Provider:
Dr. Betty Sue Brewster and her late husband Tom are the authors of the LAMP book (Language Acquisition Made Practical) and have taught language-culture learning to cross-cultural workers in over 7o countries around the world.
4. What is People Care All About?
Workshop Description:
This workshop introduces the work of the SCYMF’s People Care Committee, starting with a brief background of the committee’s origins, and an explanation of our work. We will then lead participants in a spiritual care exercise. Then the workshop will explore ways churches/monthly meetings provide care to people in need of healing. We hope to hear participants’ thoughts about how our committee can support that work
Workshop Provider:
Norma Silliman attends Camas Friends and is clerk of People Care.
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