Resource Directory

The following material is sent forth by the OVYM Advancement and Nurture Committee as a communication resource. Members of Advancement and Nurture Committee have compiled the initial resource list from visits to meetings and from reading the State of Society reports. It is our hope that this listing will encourage support of each other as we continue God's work as a Yearly Meeting. We envision this directory as a vehicle by which one monthly meeting might locate another meeting within the Yearly Meeting who would share with them their experience. A brief list cannot tell the whole story; we prepare this in order to encourage sharing and discussion amongst Friends.

Whitewater Quarter

Lafayette

  • First Day School for children in a small meeting
  • Sharing their Meetinghouse with another congregation
  • Provide a 36-page booklet for new attenders entitled "The Influence of a Minority Group: A Brief Introduction to the Quakers"
  • Provide for a "live-in" caretaker in the meetinghouse
  • Help with a community food pantry and feeding program
  • Would like to host Quarterly Meeting

    North Meadow

    • Ministry in the city; outreach in the neighborhood
    • Process of arriving at a Minute on Marriage and same-gender relationships
    • Peace and justice issues
    • Care of members

    White Rose

    • Program on Friends in Cuba
    • Participating in wider Friends activities -- FGC, OVYM, Quarterly Meeting
    • Maintaining community in a small meeting

    Clear Creek

    • Process on eldering
    • Spiritual nurture
    • Simple burial booklet
    • Hearing the spiritual journeys of members and attenders
    • Minute on same-gender relationships and marriage
    • Recorded ministry, its care and nurture
    • Organizing an annual meeting retreat

    Hopewell

    • Care of members, especially when they come from a wide geographical area
    • Silent retreats; a location for OVYM Teen retreats
    • Work with county jail prisoners and their families
    • Christmas presents for prisoners' children

    Whitewater

    • Lauramoore Home
    • Hosting work camps

    Fort Wayne Worship Group

    • Friends of color
    • Starting a new meeting in the city
    • Quakerism study group
    • Peace and justice issues

    Bloomington

    • Considering the issues related to dual affiliation

    Maple Grove

    • Caring for each other in a small meeting
    • Sharing a space with a pastoral Friends meeting
    • Indiana Friends Committee on Legislation

    Fall Creek

    • Work with a Mennonite group to sponsor a mediation workshop
    • Community outreach
    • Maintaining an historic Meetinghouse
    • Providing hospitality for retreats, OVYM committees, etc.



    Miami Quarter

    Louisville

    • Friends school
    • Planning for the future
    • Beginning projects that are set off and carried on by others
    • Teen group as an outreach
    • Stewardship of a bequest to the meeting
    • Increasing attendance at Meeting for Business

    East Hill Worship Group

    • Beginning a new meeting
    • Nurturing each other in the small meeting setting

    Lexington

    • Buying a Meetinghouse
    • Adult First Day School
    • Outreach leading to increasing membership
    • Annual Meeting retreat
    • Outreach at University of Kentucky
    • Annual peace camp held in cooperation with the Unitarians
    • Have developed a "Newcomers Packet" for new attenders
    • Have developed a "Clearness Pamphlet" to encourage members to use the clearness process

    Community

    • First Day School for children
    • Same-sex marriage clearness process
    • Increasing attendance at business meetings
    • Spiritual nurture of members
    • Stewardship of the earth as a spiritual discipline

    Oxford

    • Peace and justice issues; concern for support of people in the former Yugoslavia
    • Outreach in a college community
    • Seekers group

    Eastern Hills

    • Long range planning committee
    • Discussion of the best use of the Meetinghouse
    • Dealing with issues of diversity in the meeting
    • Using the Queries to deepen the life of the Spirit

    Yellow Springs

    • Publishing a creative monthly newsletter
    • Interacting with a college community
    • Peace and justice issues -- members active in mediation services
    • Using drama as a method of children sharing with adults in First Day School
    • Memorial committee assists with arrangements for cremation at the time of death of members (committee has been in existence for forty years)
    • Relationship with Gidimo Friends School in Kenya
    • Relationship with sister village, Jicaro, Nicaragua

    Dayton

    • Discussion of sexuality
    • Process of locating a new worship site
    • Weddings
    • Religious education
    • Peace essay contests
    • Retreats

    Campus

    • Dual Yearly Meeting affiliation
    • Providing "An Introduction to Friends" to new members and attenders
    • First Day School in a small meeting

    Miami

    • Quaker Heights Nursing Home (First Day School students hold meeting for worship six times a year there)
    • Conflict resolution in the public schools
    • Stewardship of a bequest to the Meeting
    • Providing a site for Quarterly Meeting and space for retreats for meetings needing a larger facility
    • Care of non-resident members
    • Prison reform -- literacy programs
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    Last updated: July 30, 2001
    Send comments to: Barbarie Hill