SAYF NEWS
- October in Nashville mixed some powerful discussions of
identity with some
autumnal sculpture garden strolling at the Cheekwood estate, along
with the
spiritual highlight of a silent meeting circle inside a unique
"sculpture with light"
called the Blue Pesher -- a domed cylindrical space with a portal
to the sky that
was created by Quaker artist James Turrell. Durham & Chapel
hill were missed
due to the drive distance, but we still had a nicely sized group
for the weekend.
Worship journals have been posted on the
EPISTLES page; Info and forms for
our November retreat have been mailed and are posted here for
convenience.
- Note that we keep our seasonal parent letter and current
guidelines posted
near the bottom of this 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 final calendar for the
2018-19 season
is found below as well, and it is also found on the SCHEDULE
page.
The next regular retreat of the
2018-19 SAYF season will be held
November 09-11 at the Asheville Friends Meeting:
Asheville SAYF Retreat
November 09-11, 2018 @ Asheville
Friends Meetinghouse
- Lead FAN: Jennifer Chapman
- Planners: Durham & Chapel Hill Young Friends
Invitation & forms
packets have been mailed out and are
posted below for download and printing as needed.
Nov. 09-11, 2018 Asheville Retreat Registration
Nov.
09-11, 2018 Asheville Cover Page & Brings
Directions
to Asheville 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 (final 09/26)
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 2018.11.04