Piedmont Friends--Yearly Meeting & Fellowship
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Piedmont Friends gathered at Guilford College on Saturday, June 3, 2023, as part of the 2023 Retreat and Annual Sessions.
-- the Piedmont Friends--Yearly Meeting & Fellowship website.
On June 4, 2022, during annual sessions, Piedmont Friends Fellowship (PFF) and the Piedmont Friends Yearly Meeting (PFYM) became the unifed body of "Piedmont Friends."
Meetings and worship groups, generally located in Piedmont North Carolina and adjacent areas of Virginia and South Carolina, affiliate with Piedmont Friends as either a Yearly Meeting affiliate or as a Fellowship affiliate. All meetings and Friends are welcomed into the work and fellowship of Piedmont Friends.
Information about the 2022 Piedmont Friends Retreat, including advance documents and reports, is available at: 2022 Piedmont Friends Retreat
NOTE: This website is undergoing revisions.
The 2022 annual meetings considered the recommendation from the joint representative bodies of PFF & PFYM:
“Friends are in unity to recommend to PFF and PFYM unification of the two bodies into Piedmont Friends – Yearly Meeting and Fellowship, with core values of inclusivity, fellowship and peace building and with a sense that unification can be strengthening for Piedmont Friends.”
The first gathering of Piedmont Friends as a unified body approved this minute establishing Piedmont Friends--Yearly Meeting & Fellowship:
"Friends (of the Religious Society of Friends) of the Piedmont region of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, gathering at Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, on Saturday, June 4, 2022, affirm the unification of Piedmont Friends Fellowship and Piedmont Friends Yearly Meeting into the unified body of Piedmont Friends—Yearly Meeting and Fellowship.
Friends further acknowledge the more than fifty years of Piedmont Friends coming together in fellowship, in support of peace building, and in welcoming inclusivity. Building upon this foundation of collaboration, Friends affirm the unification as strengthening Piedmont Friends into the future."
Read the 2022 Piedmont Friends Epistle "to Friends Everywhere" here
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Piedmont Friends Fellowship (PFF) is a collective of Friends (Quaker) Meetings and Worship Groups in North Carolina and nearby areas that gathers for worship and fellowship both in the spring and the fall.
Piedmont Friends Yearly Meeting (PFYM) is a Quaker yearly meeting that was established in March, 2015.
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The following is a list of the PFF minutes and other documents for which we have digitized data
(Pre digital minutes, reports, and/ other publications back to 1968 may be found at Guilford College Quaker Archives.)
Minutes of PFF representatives meetings are attached below.
This includes approved minutes from 2016 to 2020
As of March, 2017 the member meetings and worship groups of Piedmont Friends Yearly Meeting are listed below.
Abingdon Friends Meeting (Abingdon, VA)
https://www.fgcquaker.org/cloud/abingdon-friends-meeting
Chapel Hill Friends Meeting (Chapel Hill, NC)
The organizational basis for the Piedmont Friends Yearly Meeting is contained in the following documents which may be down loaded in pdf format.
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