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	SAYF NEWS (Our website is in transition, so thanks for your patience. Current forms and information can still be found below.) Our next retreat of the 2023-2024 season is scheduled for Asheville Friends Meeting, November 10th-12th === Contact FAN: Jennifer Dickie <jenniferdickie01@gmail.com> Planners: Asheville Young Friends November 10-12 Retreat Cover Sheet November 10-12 Retreat Registration form SAYF Medical Release form (2023) Covid-19 and Community Guidelines with 2023-24 packet Directions to Asheville Friends Meeting Please be sure to read and observe revised Covid guidelines for in-person SAYF retreats. ======================== 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> ======================== 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. ============================ PLEASE SEE THE LINKS BELOW for the most current guidelines and additional program information. Parents can reference the annual Parent Letter and Schedule of Retreats for a view of our plans for this year and ways adults can participate. Relevant information for the 2022-23 season, includes contact details for our Steering and Nurturing committees. Bios of current Steering and Support committee volunteers will be updated soon: Parent Letter & Info Packet 2023-24 Including: > New SAYFers Background Letter (p. 3) > Contacts for SAYF Steering and Nurturing Committee (p. 4) > SAYF Calendar 2023-24 [as of 2023/09] (p. 5) > SAYF Community Values & Sleeping Arrangements [2022/08] (p. 6) > SAYF Community Guidelines [2023/08] (p. 7-9) > SAYF Covid-19 Guidelines [vers4 update 2023/08] (p. 10) Additional Items: Steering Committee Bios (2021.09.10) Support Committee Bios (2021.09.10) Kevin (the suggestion box) Guidelines (2019.02) Queries for Young Friends (2018 update) 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 journal epistles 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 that arise for their SAYF community. They also nurture individuals during the retreats. Attenders of our retreats and their Parents are encouraged to help us improve the program via our Feedback Form. ======================== About Our Website & links: * Forms and documents are made available in (publicly distributable) PDF format. Most web browsers and 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 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 services also support PDF creation, viewing and printing. ** Any and all puns found on this site are intentional, even when accidental. :-)

Last updated 2023.08.27

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