SAYF NEWS
- Our September retreat in Atlanta recognized intentions raised
at our August
Nurturing & Steering meetings to better promote service and
spirituality in SAYF,
and to be even more welcoming to newcomers. On the service side,
we helped
Concrete Jungle in their creative efforts to provide healthy food
to those in need
with a morning of service work at their Doghead urban farm doing
weeding,
planting prep and kudzu whacking. Then the Nature of our
Spirituality was
explored with a beautiful sunset hike up the batholith known as
Arabia Mountain,
topped off by a silent worship circle on the peak. Reading the
retreat's Worship
Journals posted on our EPISTLES
page, it seems all of our first time SAFYers
and a new attending parent FAD from Memphis felt very welcomed
indeed!
- Info for our October retreat is below and registration forms
will be posted soon.
Note that we keep our seasonal parent letter and current
guidelines posted near
the bottom of this home page for easy access and review, and we've
added a
copy of our newly updated Quaker Queries for Young Friends as an
invitation
for reflection. A printable PDF of our completed calendar for the
2018-19 season
is found below as well, and it is also available from the SCHEDULE
page.
The next regular retreat of the
2018-19 SAYF season will be held
October 12-14 at Nashville Friends Meeting:
Nashville SAYF Retreat
October 12-14, 2018 @ Nashville
Friends Meetinghouse
- Lead FAN: Mary Linda McKinney
- Planners: Nashville Young Friends
Activities planning is in
progress; forms will be been mailed out
and posted here soon.
Oct.
12-14, 2018 Nashville Retreat Registration (pending)
Oct.
12-14, 2018 Nashville Cover Page (pending)
Directions
to Nashville Friends Meetinghouse
SAYF
Medical Release Form (with diet preferences)
About our Retreats:
Each retreat is planned by the Young Friends of the meeting that
is sponsoring or hosting the gathering. They choose a theme and
decide on worship, workshops, activities and food. They
experience Quaker process in this planning and produce a
schedule for the weekend.
Each retreat begins on Friday evening with a guideline review
after all teens have arrived, then a worship sharing circle
follows as the first activity on Saturday morning. The retreat
ends on Sunday around noon, after gathering in silence to write
and share our worship journals about the weekend.
The young Friends have their own Nurturing Committee comprised
of experienced attenders who uphold the guidelines during the
retreats and attend an additional two retreats each year to
conduct business and address any issues for the SAYF community.
They also nurture individuals during the retreats.
Additional details of our SAYF program are found on the
Guidelines page and in our annual fall parent letters:
SAYF
2018-2019 Schedule (as of 09/01)
Parent
Information Letter for 2018-2019 (w/ Steering Cmte. Info)
Current
SAYF Guidelines (rev 2014.08)
Queries
for Young Friends (2018 update)
* Forms and documents are made available in (publicly
distributable) PDF format.
Many free applications, both proprietary and Liberated Open
Source, are available
to view and print PDF files. Mac OS X systems include the
"Preview" viewer for this,
and Adobe's Acrobat reader for Mac, Linux & other systems
can be downloaded for
free by clicking
here. The Free, Freely Distributable, Open Source
LibreOffice
suite
(for Mac, Linux & others) supports the reading, saving and
editing of almost all
common document formats, both open and proprietary, including
support for PDF
view, edit and conversion. Gmail & Googledocs also
support PDF for attachment
viewing and printing.
** Any and all puns in the retreat reports are intentional,
even when accidental. :-)
Last updated 2018.09.20