A Guide to FGC-Affiliated Yearly Meetings

 

Whether you're new to Friends and want to learn more about your Yearly Meeting, or you're a seasoned Friend that wants to read Faith and Practice from different Quaker communities across North America, we've compiled websites (including Faith and Practice links) and social media accounts for all of FGC's affiliated Yearly Meetings.

 

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Alaska Friends Conference

• 250 members in Alaska
• AFC website
• AFC Faith and Practice

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Baltimore Yearly Meeting

• 4,746 members in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia
• BYM website
• BYM Faith and Practice
• BYM Facebook page

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Canadian Yearly Meeting

• 1,216 members across Canada, with borders touching three oceans— the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific
• CYM website
• CYM Faith and Practice
• CYM Facebook Group

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Illinois Yearly Meeting

• 1,212 members in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin
• ILYM website
• ILYM Faith and Practice
• ILYM Facebook Group

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Intermountain Yearly Meeting

• 1,600 members in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Texas, South Dakota and Idaho
• IMYM website
• IMYM Faith and Practice

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Lake Erie Yearly Meeting

• 712 members in Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania
• LEYM website
• LEYM Policies and Procedures Manual (note: LEYM has not created its own Faith and Practice)
• LEYM Facebook page
• LEYM Twitter

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New England Yearly Meeting

• 5,000+ members in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
• NEYM website
• NEYM Faith and Practice
• NEYM Facebook page
• NEYM Twitter account
• NEYM Instagram account

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New York Yearly Meeting

• 3,512 members in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey
• NYYM website
• NYYM Faith and Practice
• NYYM Facebook page
• NYYM Twitter account
• NYYM Instagram account

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Northern Yearly Meeting

• 1,475 members in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa
• NYM website
• NYM Faith and Practice

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Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting

• 783 members in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio
• OVYM website
• OVYM Faith and Practice
• OVYM Facebook page

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Pacific Yearly Meeting

• More than 1,200 members plus many more attenders of Quaker meetings in California, Hawai’i, and Nevada, as well as meetings in Mexico City and Antigua, Guatemala.
• PacYM website
• PacYM Faith and Practice
• PacYM Facebook group

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

• 11,746 members in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
• PYM website
• PYM Faith and Practice
• PYM Facebook page
• PYM Twitter account

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Piedmont Friends Fellowship & Yearly Meeting

• Membership consists of meetings generally located in Piedmont North Carolina and adjacent areas of Virginia and South Carolina
• PFF & YM website
• PFYM Foundational, Organization, and Procedural Documents

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South Central Yearly Meeting

• 446 members in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas
• SCYM website
• SCYM Procedures Manual (Draft, 2017)
• SCYM Facebook page

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Southeastern Yearly Meeting

• 570 members in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Managua, Nicaragua
• SEYM website
• SEYM Faith and Practice, featured on their Publications page
• SEYM Facebook group

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Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting & Association

• 1,245 members in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia
• SAYMA website
• SAYMA Faith and Practice
• SAYMA Facebook page

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This resource originally appears in the January 2021 issue of the Vital Friends eNewsletter.