Welcome to Pacific Yearly Meeting!

We’re a community of a wide variety of “unprogrammed” Friends (Quaker) Meetings in parts of Mexico and the western USA.  We do things year-round but our main gathering, called “Annual Session,” occurs once a year in the summer.   Our book of Faith and Practice describes the beliefs of Friends, PacYM’s structures and processes, and the spiritual foundation of these processes and of our way of worship.  Western Friend is the official publication of Quakers in Pacific, North Pacific, and Intermountain Yearly Meetings.

After decades of being an independent Yearly Meeting we became affiliated in 2019 with Friends General Conference.  We’re used to calling ourselves PYM, but in FGC there is “another PYM,” Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, so we’re starting to say PacYM instead.  You’ll see both acronyms on this website as we gradually switch over.

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Announcements and Quick Links (updated 11/15/2022)

BREAKING NEWS

  • RepCom 2023: The next meeting of Representative Committee (RepCom) will be held online via Zoom February 25 and March 4, 2023 (two Saturdays).

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Online Worship: every Wednesday evening, 7:00-7:30 pm sponsored by the Eldering Subcommittee of PacYM Ministry Committee.
  • RepCom 2023: The next meeting of Representative Committee (RepCom) will be held online via Zoom February 25 and March 4, 2023 (two Saturdays).
  • Annual Session 2023 will be a hybrid event (in-person gathering with opportunities for remote or online participation) held at Mount Madonna Center July 21-26, 2023.
  • Many other opportunities for online Quaker worship are listed at westernfriend.org.
  • See the PYM CALENDAR PAGE for additional PYM-related EVENTS, including youth and intergenerational events.

COMMITTEE NEWS

GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS