Quakercamp 2008

A time for worship, reflection, and healing divisions among Friends
June 23-28, 2008, at Olney Friends School & Stillwater Meetinghouse

All Friends hungry for spiritual community are invited to a time for worship, reflection, conversation, and play. There will be opportunities for bible study, healing work, to test and receive support around leadings, and to wrestle together with what God is saying to us as a faith community. We hope to bring together Friends from all branches of Quakerism, to share what Spirit-led Quakerism is about at its core - and to experience it together.

For a description of the activities that occurred at this past June's Quakercamp, click on: Quakercamp Daily Schedule

Housing & meals will be at the Olney Friends School. The cost is on a sliding scale of $20-40 per day per adult for dorm living. Some guest house rooms are available at higher rates, and less expensive camping and RV options are also available. For details, click on:
Costs & Registration Information

Planning / visioning committee for Quakercamp includes:
Deborah Haines, Ann Armstrong, Peter Blood-Patterson, Pamela Haines, Fran Taber and Susan Zeichner.

For more information or questions, contact the planning group at Quakercamp Email.

Quaker Camp at Stillwater
Barnesville, Ohio
June 23-28, 2008

P.S. To read the epistle from the 2007 Quakercamp, read the text of evening sessions with Conservative Friends, and more, go to http://www.quakersong.org/quakercamp

YFNA Reunion and "Quaker Camp," June 2007

A YFNA Reunion is set for June 22-24, 2007 at Olney Friends School, Barnesville, Ohio. Immediately following, from June 24-29 all Friends hungry for spiritual community are invited to attend "Quaker Camp at Stillwater."

Here is more detailed information:

COME TO QUAKER CAMP!
A time for worship, reflection, and healing divisions among Friends

June 22-24: “Young Friends of North America” Reunion and Welcoming

For decades, YFNA brought together Friends from all branches of Quakerism in a rich spiritual community. If you were part of YFNA, or have heard stories about it, or wish there were something like that today, come for a weekend of memories and visions for the future.

June 24-29: “Quaker Camp at Stillwater”

Following the reunion, we invite all Friends hungry for spiritual community to join us for a time for worship, reflection, conversation, and play. We hope to bring together Friends from all branches of Quakerism, to share what Spirit-led Quakerism is about at its core--and to experience it together.

Housing & meals will be at the Olney Friends School. Sessions will be held at Olney and Stillwater Meetinghouse. The cost is on a sliding scale of $20-40 per day per adult for dorm living. Some guest house rooms are available at higher rates, and less expensive camping and RV options are also available. More detailed information will follow.

If you think you might want to come, please contact us at: quakercamp@gmail.com
We will add you to our mailing list.

Initial planning committee: Deborah Haines, Peter Blood-Patterson,
Becka Haines Rosenberg, Pamela Haines, Ann Armstrong, Lisa Lister, Emily Stewart, Andrew Esser-Haines, Fran Taber.


Quaker Camp at Stillwater
Barnesville, Ohio
June 22-29, 2007

Save the date! And, spread the word…
The “Quaker Camp at Stillwater”, June 24-29, will be a Quaker conference with a difference. Instead of lining up workshop leaders and speakers in advance, we are inviting Friends to come share their gifts, leadings, and longings. The winds of the Spirit are blowing, and we do not know exactly where they are taking us. If we gather in expectant waiting and joyful fellowship, we trust that the messages we need will arise from among us.

Here is the tentative plan for each day:

8:30: Preparation for worship. Bible study, movement, singing, nature walks, worship sharing – Choose a group doing something that speaks to you (and let us know if there is something you would like to facilitate). There will be group activities for the children during this time, and young adult Friends may want to have their own group.

10:00: Extended Worship (with cooperative childcare as needed)

12:00: Lunch

1:00-6:00: Open time, for conversation, recreation, sightseeing, worship, meditation, quiet time, family time.

Friends with particular concerns, questions, or ministries to share may sign up a room and offer an interest group or sharing session for anyone interested. (Young adult Friends may want to plan their own program.)

6:00: Dinner

7:00: Presentation by Friends from Ohio YM Conservative

8:00: Evening Plenary, a time for corporate discernment around concerns rising from the group. (Cooperative childcare as needed.)

For more information: quakercamp@gmail.com.

Past Conferences

• 1955: Quaker Haven, Indiana. "Christian Love." (>150)
• 1957: Paris, Ontario. "The Christian and the Community." (200)
• 1959: Junction City, Kansas. "Prayer and Worship." (>170)
• 1961: Lake Koronis, Minnesota. "Thy Will be Done: Spiritual Basis for Our Christian Service." (>190)
• 1963: Staonton, Virginia. "And Who Do You Say That I Am?: The Nature and Meaning of Christ." (>170)
• 1965: Syracuse, Indiana. "What Doth the Lord Require of Thee?" (100)
• 1967: Poughkeepsie, New York. "Crisis in the Search for Community." (142)
• 1969: Junction City, Kansas. "In the Midst of Revolution: Worship in Action."
• 1970: Plainfield, Indiana. "Stewardship."
• 1971: Devil's Lake, Wisconsin. "Relationship of Spiritual to Professional and Vocational Lives."
• 1972: Gowen, Michigan. (No theme, no planned schedule) (90)
• 1973: Colfax, Iowa. "Personal Basis of Faith: How God has acted in Our Lives." (150)
• 1974: Divide Colorado. "Friends and Human Justice." (93)
• 1975: Pottstown, Pennsylvania. "The Earth is the Lord's and the Fullness Thereof." (102)
• August 9-16, 1981: Camp NeeKauNis, Waubaushene, Ontaio, Canada (with Canadian Young Friends Yearly Meeting). "Seeking That Which is Eternal."
• July 25-31, 1982: Scattergood School, WestBranch, Iowa. "Life Work: Following the Leadings of the Spirit."
• Seventh month 10-16, 1983: Camp Adams, Molalla, Oregon. "Transformation Through Prayer."
• Sixth month 24-30, 1984: Camp Galilee, Terra Alta, West Virginia. "Moving into God's Love: Alternative Futures."

Thanks to Caroline McCoy for sharing her research, and providing the bulk of this material. Please send additions and corrections. Note that we are missing 1976-1980, and conferences prior to 1955.

How to Contribute to the Project

The Project is collecting personal narratives and special remembrances, including, but certainly not limited to:

• How YFNA influenced your life
• Reflections on worship and meetings for business
• Major issues, concerns, controversies
• Meaningful activities (singing, hiking, food, etc.)
• What influence YFNA has had on the greater Society of Friends

Send me an email, and I will make sure your narrative gets posted to this blog, or send me a letter via post.

If you have photos, and can send them electronically, I will post them to this blog. If you do not have the technological means to do this, just send me the originals, and I will return them in a timely manner. If possible, identify people, place, date and activity.

What will be the end result of this collecting? Perhaps something published, perhaps not. Maybe this blog, itself. I think the YFNA story is an important one, so this is a beginning.

Lisa Lister, 7859 Tompkins Road, Falcon, CO 80831. llister@coloradocollege.edu