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Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting c/o Community Friends 3960 Winding Way Cincinnati, Ohio 45229 |
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Activities
Our Annual Sessions are the main event each year, held for 5 days at the end of July at either Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, or Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio. This is the time when Yearly Meeting members of all ages gather to make business decisions, such as revisions to our Faith and Practice document, financial decisions, and reviews of the annual budget and work of the various ministries and committees. There are also age-specific opportunities for spiritual renewal and growth, fellowship, community service, worship, arts and crafts, and recreation activities including canoe and bicycle trips.
Each year, the Teens get together for a service project. In years past, they have worked in depressed areas of Appalachia, Alaska, and Philadelphia and have done work including painting houses, rebuilding dilapidated porches, and renovating gardens. The 2012 trip was to Washington DC for the William Penn House Workcamp Program, working with Washington’s homeless, home and garden repairs, and meeting with an area advocacy group.
Each quarter, our two Quarterly Meetings—Miami and Whitewater—meet for food, fellowship, fun, an interesting program, and to transact the business of the Quarterly Meeting. One of these is a Joint Quarterly at which both Quarterly Meetings are together for what amounts to a mini-annual session. Each of the Monthly Meetings that are part of the Quarterly send representatives. Youth from around the Quarterly Meeting also gather, for a program and community service, and often this involves two days with an overnight stay at the facilities of the hosting Monthly Meeting.
At various times during the year, several Monthly Meetings assemble for a joint program, such as the worship and picnic at Fort Ancient in July or a work day to maintain one of our historic meetinghouses. |
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