yearly
meeting committees
ministry
and oversight committee: The Ministry and
Oversight Committee consists of nine experienced and sensitive
Friends who serve overlapping three-year terms. Its role is to
help
foster the spiritual life and good order of the Yearly Meeting,
by
providing assistance and counsel to the Yearly Meeting clerks and
endeavoring to make the annual session a fulfilling experience
for
all participants. During that time, it is responsible for all Meetings
for Worship including Meeting for Memorials, and it oversees
smaller gatherings such as worship-sharing, affinity, and interest
groups. It prepares the program for one plenary session to aid
in
centering the spirit of the Yearly Meeting.
The
committee may invite officers and clerks of the Quarterly and Monthly
Meetings who have particular concerns to meet with
them. The committee selects three persons to serve as the Epistle
Committee <see p. 129>, and brings these names to the first plenary
session of Yearly Meeting.
Throughout
the year the Ministry and Oversight Committee is concerned for the
spiritual life and good order of those Monthly
Meetings, Preparative Meetings and Worship Groups that are not
affiliated with a Quarterly Meeting. Upon request, it may assist
any
committee,Meeting or individual of the Yearly Meeting.
The
committee also considers and reports on any other matters brought
to it by the Yearly Meeting, Representative Committee,
Quarterly or outlying Meeting. It establishes liaisons with other
committees and groups so that it is aware of their needs, and names
two of its members to be available to the Statistical Clerk for
advice
and counsel. The committee administers the Fund for Concerns and
advises the Treasurer regarding other special funds <see
next page>.