Pacific Yearly Meeting
of the
Religious Society of Friends
To contact the Presiding Clerk of Pacific Yearly Meeting, Joe Franko, use our contact form.


Pacific Yearly Meeting
Yearly Gathering

July 27 - August 1, 2009
Walker Creek Ranch, Marin County, CA
Registration via The Conference Managers is now open


PYM's complete Faith & Practice is now available online!

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Religious Education Committee

2009 PYM Documents and Reports

Ministry and Leadings Subcommittee booklet - Faithfulness In Action (Draft)

Proposal for a Youth Coordinator (July 01, 2009)

Youth Coordinator Proposal Appendices

PYM Representative Committee Minutes for 2009
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2008 PYM Documents and Reports

PYM 2008 Documents

PYM Representative Committee Minutes for 2008

It Takes a Meeting to Raise a Quaker (Word)
©2007 Friends Publishing Corporation. Reprinted with permission. www.friendsjournal.com
Children's Education Committee Newsletters

Issue #6, Winter 2008-2009: Learn By Doing! (PDF)

Issue #5, Summer 2008: Youth Membership (Word) (PDF)


2007 PYM Documents and Reports

PYM 2007 Documents

PYM Representative Committee Minutes for 2007

Children's Education Committee Newsletters

Issue #4, Autumn 2007: Lesson From a Book and Other FGC Resources (Word) (PDF)

Issue #3, January 2007: Stories Take Us Deeper (Word) (PDF)


2006 PYM Documents and Reports

Resources for a Year of Discernment

A Letter From the Presiding Clerk of PYM to Meetings and Members (Word document)

A letter from the Clerk of PYM M&O to Meetings and Members (Word document)

Queries and Resources for a Year of Discernment (Word document)

Contacts from PYM M&O for Meetings (Word document)

Children's Education Committee Newsletters

Issue #2, August 2006: Religious Ed in the Small Meetings (Word) (PDF)

Issue #1, April 2006: On sharing our Questions (Word) (PDF)

Other Documents

PYM 2006 Minutes and Reports

Tony Prete's talk at opening plenary (Word document)

Final Draft of PYM Website Policy - This final draft is provided for review, and will be brought before the 2007 annual session of PYM for approval.

PYM Representative Committee Minutes for 2006 (LARGE PDF - 3.1 MB )


2005 PYM Documents and Reports

Minutes of Plenary Sessions, Attachments, and Epistles
PYM Representative Committee Minutes of March 3, 2005
Queries for Children - from Orange Grove Monthly Meeting


Documents From the 2004 Annual Gathering of Pacific Yearly Meeting

Minutes of Plenary Sessions   Epistles
Religious Education Committee Report


2004 PYM Documents and Reports

PYM Representative Committee Minutes of March 6, 2004


Documents From the 2003 Annual Gathering of Pacific Yearly Meeting

Minutes of Plenary Sessions   Epistles


Other 2003 PYM Documents and Reports
PYM Representative Committee Minutes of March 1, 2003


Documents From the 2002 Annual Gathering of Pacific Yearly Meeting
Minutes of Plenary Sessions Budget and Related Financial Report
PYM Statistical Report Epistles


Minutes for PYM 2001 Plenary Sessions 
Plenary I  Plenary III Plenary V Plenary VII
Plenary VIII Plenary X Plenary XI

Other PYM 2001 Documents and Reports
Action Minutes Approved Statistical  Report Statistical Summary
Faith and Practice Revision Committee Report Order Form for New PYM Faith and Practice  Ministry and Oversight Committee Report
Pacific Yearly Meeting 2001 Epistle to Friends Everywhere Site Committee Information Sheet: University of San Diego Addresses for PYM Monthly Meetings (as of August 2001)

(For a look at a former PYM Annual Gathering, you can see some PYM 2000 photos here.)

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Quarterly Meetings of Pacific Yearly Meeting


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