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 58 Collections and/or Records:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Joint Committee on Cooperation between Arch Street and Race Street (1930-1955)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/364
Identifier: QM-Phy-364
Overview
In 5mo 1930, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) appointed a committee "for the development of closer cooperation between Arch Street and Race Street Yearly Meetings, and to consider also whether the time of our Yearly Meeting might be changes so that the sessions of the two Meetings would at least in part overlap." Includes records of this Committee, 1930-1935. Of particular interest are surveys of cooperation between the two Philadelphia Quaker bodies to that point, as well as histories...
Dates:
1930-1935
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Joint Committee on Indian Affairs and its predecessors (1795-1892)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/780
Identifier: QM-Phy-780
Overview
Records of the Joint Committee on Indian Affairs, and its predecessor, the Indian Committee (1837-1850) of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite). Also includes the letter books of John Saunders of Philadelphia, Secretary of the Joint Committee, and correspondence of Barclay White, Jesse W. Griest, Thomas Lightfoot, Samuel M. Janney, Levi K. Brown, Samuel Jeanes, and Albert Lamborn Green. Reports include information about the Senecas, the Otos and the Otoe Agency, the Santees and the Santee...
Dates:
1838-1901
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Joint Committee on the Religious Life of Our Society (1944-1950)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/507
Identifier: QM-Phy-507
Overview
In 3mo 1944, Rufus Jones published an article, "Are We Ready," in Friends Intelligencer. In response to his concern for deepening the spiritual life of the Religious Society of Friends, members of both the Race Street and Arch Street Philadelphia Yearly Meetings gathered six months later in the meeting house at 15th and Race Streets. Records include minutes, correspondence, and publications.
Dates:
1944-1950
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Library Services Group
Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/558
Identifier: QM-Phy-558
Scope and Contents
The records of PYM's Library Services Group at Haverford include the body's extensive collection of Minutes, as well as the records of its Bookmobile Program, its International Book Project, its Soviet Project, and those of the related Book Service Committee and Lending Sub-committee. At the time of this recording, some materials remain outside of the two boxes in Lockwood Annex, bound among 9 folders. Their locations below will read "1250/Lockwood/Library Services Group/Un-Boxed...
Dates:
1971-2002
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Meeting for Social Concerns (1969-1974)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/758
Identifier: QM-Phy-758
Overview
The Meeting for Social Concerns began as the Committee for Social Concerns with a deliberately loose structure and open membership. It assumed direction of numerous social action committees within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. After the Meeting for Social Concerns was laid down in 1974, these committees were placed under Coordinating Committee for Testimonies and Concerns (CCII).
Dates:
1958-1980
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Meeting for Sufferings (1756-1910), Representative Committee (1828-1995), Interim Meeting (1996-2014), and Continuing Sessions (2015- )
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Phy-040
Scope and Contents
Records of Meeting for Sufferings, the Representative Committee, Representative Meeting and Interim Committee include minutes of proceedings, a large collection of supporting reports, and financial information for each session. Its annual reports may be found in the records of the Yearly Meeting as well as in the printed proceedings of each session. Records of smaller committees reporting to these bodies are also described in this finding aid. Larger subcommittees like the Meeting House...
Dates:
1719 - 2022
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Ministry & Care and its predecessors
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Phy-400
Overview
The Meeting on Worship and Ministry is a gathering of Friends in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting concerned with the spiritual life of the Society, which nurtures and assists Monthly Meetings and individuals with their spiritual and worship concerns.
Dates:
1827-1998
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Miscellaneous Records
Collection — Othertype HV/Phy/120
Identifier: QM-Phy-120
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Delaware County, PA), 1662-1968, including the records of a great number of its subcommittees.
Dates:
1662-1968
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Mississippi Project (1964-1966)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/826
Identifier: QM-Phy-826
Overview
In response to the 1964 bombing of 44 black churches in Mississippi, Philadelphia and New York Yearly Meetings coordinated a joint effort to rebuild the destroyed churches and to attempt to foster racial reconciliation in the area. The project sent Lawrence and Viola Scott to Jackson, Mississippi as Quaker representatives. By 1966, the group had rebuilt 33 of the 44 churches, and built a community center in rural Canton, Mississippi. This collection is primarily composed of financial...
Dates:
1949-1967
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Nonviolence and Children Committee (1970-2015)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/771
Identifier: QM-Phy-771
Overview
Since its inception in 1973, the Non-Violence and Children Committee (NVC) has explored the values, skills, and supports which enable children to develop powerful, nonviolent responses to violence. They work with Monthly Meetings, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Friends' and non-Quaker schools, the wider community and within their own committee, to support nonviolent approaches to conflict and differences, and to nurture children in the ways of peacemaking. The committee organizes and often...
Dates:
1970-1997
