Quaker Spring
Friends of various ages and from many YMs have come together & spent time listening to ways the winds
of the Spirit are blowing through their lives. You can get a sense of
what took place by reading the Epistle from Quaker Camp at Stillwater and a Friends Journal article called Quakercamp at Barnesville - Blessed by the Witness of God. We've found it a little hard to explain concretely what a gathering such as this one is actually like. Deborah Haines wrote a new piece recently attempting to describe this called:
Have You Heard about Quaker Spring?
There is much more information about the 2007 gathering including talks by Susan & Jack Smith of Ohio Yearly Meeting, other accounts of the gathering, a typical day's schedule, & a list of the attenders at
Quaker Camp 2007.
Over 70 Friends attended the 2011 gathering held at The Meeting School in Rindge NH. In 2012 Quaker Spring will return to Barnesville, Ohio and will meet from June 24-29. Come for a day or a week!
Quaker Spring 2012
Gathering
costs are deliberately kept very low (around $30/day per adult). Fees are on a
"freewill offering/pay what you feel led" basis, so no one need stay away for reasons of limited funds. There are children's
programs in the morning and childcare available in the evening.
Our planning/discerning group currently includes: Deborah Haines (Baltimore YM), Gordon Thompson (Canadian
YM), Micah Bales (Great Plains YM), Susan Bailey & Susan Smith
(Ohio YM), Ann Armstrong, Noah Baker-Merrill, Peter Blood-Patterson, Angela Hopkins & Susan
Zeichner (New England YM), Janet Hough (New York YM) and Ellen
Deacon (Philadelphia YM).
You can email the Quaker Spring planning group if you have questions or ideas about this summer's gathering. If you prefer, you may also write Deborah Haines, 2794 Fort Scott Dr, Arlington VA 22202 or call her at 703-706-8176.
We welcome contributions to support these gatherings. For more information on how this can be helpful, please go to: Contributions to Quaker Spring