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QuakerNetIowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) - Religious Society of Friends
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.
Position Open Santa Fe Friends’ Meeting is seeking Resident Friend(s) to live in garden cottage in historic Canyon Road district and join in Meeting fellowship. Free rooms and utilities in exchange for about 15 hours per week scheduling use of guest apartment and care of Meetinghouse. Starting date to be determined, but no later than September 1, 2008. One-year term with option to renew by mutual agreement after six months. Letters of interest and resumes to: sfresident@desertgate.com. For current information about the possible opening, the Meeting, and Resident’s duties: http://santa-fe.quaker.org. Peace
and Social Concerns:
Reports
and other background
information about the crisis in Kenya
Immigration
introduction and approved minute.
Iraq war introduction and
approved minute.
Bob
Yeats' list of clothing that does not
unfairly exploit the person who made the clothes
Earthcare: The Earthcare subcommittee of the Peace and Social Concerns Committee was recently formed. Links to websites dealing with environmental concerns Penn Valley discussion: Do we really need our cars?
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...)
The Low Impact Living website (http://www.lowimpac
The following minutes
were approved at Iowa Yearly Meeting Conservative in session on
7/30/2005
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 Coffee The Peace and Social Concerns committee reported concerns about the deregulation of the coffee market. (more..)ConservativeQuakers.com is an unofficial website related to Conservative Quakers, which includes a forum that allows you to read and respond to a variety of topics.
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 07/22/2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||