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QM/Ph/YM. Yearly Meeting business and committees

 Record Group Term
Identifier: QM/Ph/YM
YEARLY MEETING: A large autonomous body of Quakers, which meets for several days once a year. In theory, its decisions are binding on the monthly and quarterly meetings within its jurisdiction and on the committees and staff which carry out the work of the yearly meeting. It meets annually to conduct business, formulate the discipline, receive reports and concerns from its constituent meetings, review the state of the Society, and communicate with other yearly meetings and non-Quaker organizations.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) Records: Mission Board (1923-1956)

 Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/836
Identifier: QM-Phy-836
Scope and Contents Records of the Mission Board of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting at Haverford include the minutes, financial accounts and other records from the time of the groups inception in 1923 until 1956, as well as those of its branches at Germantown, Haverford and Moorestown Monthly Meetings and other miscellaneous documents, including the extensive diary collection of missionary Edith F. Sharpless, which begins in 1908 but provides a thorough chronicle of her experience with the Mission Board in...
Dates: 1923-1956

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: International Outreach and Missionary Committees

 Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/850
Identifier: QM-Phy-850
Scope and Contents

Combined records of: Women's Foreign Missionary Association (1882-1898) Friends' Foreign Missionary Association (1899-1923) Mission Board (1923-1950) Japan Committee (1951-1974) International Outreach Committee (1974-2015)

Contains minutes, reports, correspondence, financial documents, and other items (including images, diaries, calendars, bequest records, and miscellaneous papers).

Dates: 1882-1980