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Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) - Religious Society of Friends
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Map of all monthly meeting locations, with a link to the "live" map that allows you to zoom in for individual meeting locations and to get driving directions.
Minutes of 2009 Annual Sessions PDF XPS
Is it time to lay down Friends Journal? (article...)
William Penn House GAP Program--Are you getting ready to graduate high school, and not sure what to do next? While taking time out between high school and college, you can take time in one of our most unique and vibrant cities – Washington, DC. William Penn House’s Gap Year Program is an opportunity for you to get experience living and working with other interested, curious young people, while exploring and developing your own passions. It combines social service and non-profit work with hands-on experience developing programs and day-to-day operations of running an organization. More info... Application
Two years ago our Executive Secretary, Joe Volk, informed the Executive
Committee that he planned to retire in 2011. In its 66-year history,
FCNL has had only three executive secretaries, E. Raymond Wilson (1943 -
1962), Ed Snyder (1962 - 1990), and Joe Volk since March 1, 1990. With
many months to plan for Joe's successor, we have begun a deliberate and
thorough selection and transition process. (more...)
A New Outside-the-Beltway Climate Bill Deserves Support
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Bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Maria
Cantwell (WA) and Susan Collins (ME) addresses many of the problems
with the cap-and-trade approach that has dominated the climate
change debate in Congress. Find out more about the
Carbon Limits and Energy for America's Renewal (CLEAR) Act
and the
seven ways that this bill gets it right
in addressing the U.S. contribution to global warming. |
New peace walk built in Indianapolis (more...)
Report from FCNL Annual Meeting 2009--including link to photos of and by Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) members, and audio recordings of some presentations
Yahara Friends Meeting has joined Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative)!
News from Iowa Peace Network (here...)
Britain Yearly Meeting statement on climate change, endorsed by Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative)
Earthcare Minute approved 2008
The True Cost of Travel - A Quaker Sustainable Travel Fund
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Calendar |
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Midyear Meeting |
March 27-28, 2010 |
At Bear Creek Friends Meeting near Earlham, Iowa Bill Deutch |
| Annual Sessions | July 27-August 1, 2010 | Scattergood Friends School near West Branch, Iowa |
Peace and Social Concerns Report 2008 to Iowa Yearly Meeting (C)
Postville update
Earthcare:
Earthcare Minute approved 2008
Consumer Reports Green Car Guide
Links to websites dealing with environmental concerns
Penn Valley discussion: Do we really need our cars?
The True Cost of Travel - A Quaker Sustainable Travel Fund
New free service from GOOGLE: Pan a trip using mass transportation
Playbook for green buildings and neighborhoods
Green (environmental) resolutions for 2009
West Branch Meeting First Annual Cooperative Corn Freezing Project. West Branch Meeting member, Ken Fawcett has planted corn for us. When the corn is ready we will go as a group and pick it, then husk it, and prepare it for freezing. (more...)
1. As Friends, we believe in the Divine Light within each person, and we include the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals among us. State by state, the rights of these individuals are being eroded. We cannot bear to remain silent when fellow human beings are being used as scapegoats to divert people’s attention from our country’s ills. We wish to affirm that the life of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) has been enriched and strengthened by the spiritual gifts of all Friends, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. We stand with people of faith across the United States against recent legislation that bans same gender marriages, partnerships and civil unions. Approved
2. IYM(C) strongly supports the proposed Quaker conference focusing on our responsibility as Quakers to address the issue of torture from our spiritual center. We believe it important that all of us lend our voices to break the silence on this issue. Torture is abhorrent. Torture can never be excused or justified. We support John Calvi’s leading to make this conference a reality. We endorse the goal to strengthen laws and policies banning torture. The rehabilitation of both victims and perpetrators must occur to stop the cycle of violence. Approved
Discipline (1974) (thanks to the Discipline Revision Committee)
Queries and Advices with selected responses. A compilation of the selected responses from the past 6 or 7 years is included with each of the queries and advices PDF version Microsoft Word version
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| North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative) |
| Ohio Yearly Meeting |
| ConservativeQuakers Unofficial website |
| AFSC American Friends Service Committee |
| FCNL Friends Committee on National Legislation |
| FWCC Friends World Committee for Consultation |
| Friends Journal 215-563-8629 e-mail: info@friendsjournal.org |
| Friends General Conference |
| Pendle Hill |
| Digital Quaker Collection |
| Friends Council on Education |
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| Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) | Deborah Fisch, clerk |
| 1080 45th Street | Deborah Fink, assistant clerk |
| Des Moines, Iowa 50311 | |
Submissions concerning monthly meeting activities should be made by monthly meeting clerks and announcements for Yearly Meeting committees by Yearly meeting committee clerks to the Publishing Committee convener. All other announcements should be sent to the IYM(C) clerk for forwarding to the Publication convener.
Contact Deborah Fisch (Iowa Yearly Meeting (C) Clerk) or Jeff Kisling (Publication Committee convener) for comments or to add information.
This website was authorized by Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) in session at Scattergood Friends School near West Branch, Iowa, on Seventh Month 27, 2006
02/08/2010