YAY

It was at the 2014 Gathering when Hannah Mayer and Eric Peterson realized they might want to be more than “Friends.” (The theme that year was “Let Love be the first motion” . . .) Ten years later, they brought their 3-year-old daughter Charley to the Gathering at Haverford in 2024.

The High School Gathering Co-Clerk shares about the spiritual impact of the Gathering.

High school student, Asma arrived at her first Gathering in 2022 after a 10-hour drive with Friends from her Florida meeting…

Marian Dalke, Gathering Youth Coordinator, presents a reflection on the YAY Gathering of July 2022.

Friends General Conference presents to you photographs from YAY, the Young Adult and Youth Gathering, which occurred in July 2022 at Radford University. We appreciate immensely the volunteer photographers who helped to capture these beautiful moments.

“I want to share with you a moment of continuing revelation I had at my family’s Passover seder in mid-April. It’s about gratitude.”

FGC’s Junior Gathering, High School, and Adult Young Friend Committees are excited to team up for a new adventure this summer.

When the wind blows, the reed shifts and flows, moving with the current and remaining intact. When the turbulence has passed, the reed rises again to find that the more rigid among us—like the mighty oak that will not bend—are broken by the storm. Aesop