SAYF NEWS
Our September retreat was held at Atlanta Friends Meeting
with the theme of
SPICES in a Trench Coat: Quaker values show up at retreats! Young
Friends
from Berea, Asheville, Swannanoa Valley, and Nashville arrived
late on Friday
evening to be welcomed by Atlanta SAYFers in a joyful reunion!
On Saturday we enjoyed a simple breakfast of cereal and
then some community
building activities that culminated in a trip to Revolution
Doughnuts! The afternoon
commenced with an introduction to Casa Alterna by Charlotte
Florez, followed by
service work for the community. Half of the group stayed at
the meeting house and
focused on cleaning and organizing the spaces that Casa Alterna
uses. The other
half went over to the new Casa Alterna House on Grant Street in
Grant Park and
filled a dumpster with old and broken items and the detritus from
the bathroom
remodel that is currently underway. Some young Friends also
emptied a storage
closet and set up two additional bedrooms upstairs.
After dinner we traveled to Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature
Preserve and hiked
up Arabia Mountain as the sun set. We spent about an hour enjoying
the moonscape
of the mountain with some silence and watching the sky change
color. We hiked down
in the dark and returned to the Meetinghouse for a late night
birthday celebration
and sleep.
Sunday morning we woke up, cleaned up, and joined Atlanta
Friends for the first
15 minutes of worship, after which we moved to the Meetinghouse
Library where we
wrote and shared epistles from the weekend, said our goodbyes, and
headed home.
The September retreat Worship Journals have been added to
the Epistles Page.
The Lead FAN activities report and Epistles for our October
retreat will be added here
as soon as they are received.
The Next Retreat of our 2022-23
Season will be happening
November 11-13, 2022, in person at Asheville Friends Meeting
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Lead FAN:
Chris DeBeer <DeBeer1@mac.com>
Planners:
Swannanoa Valley Young Friends
November 11-13 Asheville Retreat Cover Page
November 11-13 Asheville Retreat Registration
Directions to Asheville Friends Meeting
REVISED
202203 Covid-19 Guidelines for Retreats **
SAYF
Medical Release Form
SAYF
Community Guidelines (2022)
** HEALTH SAFETY
REMINDERS FOR RETREAT ATTENDERS **
Please read and observe revised Covid guidelines (above)
for
in-person SAYF retreats.
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Additional Connections for our
SAYFers:
-- The April 2021 retreat inspired us to capture the
historic
Young Friends Book Recommendations posted as graffiti in
the AFM High School room. Photos
are Here, and the page
includes links to epic photos from SAYF white water
rafting
adventures, 2010-2014.
-- To help us all stay better connected as we welcome
new
lights to our community, SAYFers are asked to please add
or confirm their contact info and preferences via this
online
SAYFer
Contact Form
-- We continue to invite "anytime" worship journal
writing
as another way to stay in touch with our SAYF spirit and
your inner light. Journal Submissions
will be published to
our EPISTLES
page as they are submitted via email to:
Autumn Woodward <awesomeSAYFers@gmail.com>
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DONATIONS:
Retreat attenders, parents and Friends of SAYF are
invited to
make tax deductible contributions to this
teen program of the
Southern Appalachian Yearly meeting and Association
(SAYMA)
Gifts are especially helpful this year, as explained in
our
2021
Donation Request Letter.
Last updated 2022.10.27