SAYF NEWS
- We welcome our SAYFers to the New Year with hopes that your
Solstice
Season breaks & Celebrations were a joyful followup to
Thanksgiving!
Our November retreat in Asheville was all about giving thanks as
well,
considering all that we have to be grateful for and thinking about
how we
might share our good fortune with others. Activities included some
gratitude
for nature with a stroll through the Asheville Botanical Garden,
and some
creative community games showing gratitude for the versatile ways
we can
use bathroom tissue! Several regular FAN's were also grateful for
the support
of both volunteer adults and our responsible teens which gave us
space to
meet off campus and address some concerns in the SAYF FAN
community.
- November's Worship journals have been posted on the
EPISTLES page and
include some wonderful appreciations around the retirement of our
beloved
FAN, Jennifer Chapman. The invitation packets for our January
retreat have
been mailed and, as always, retreat forms are posted here for
convenience.
- Note that we keep our annual 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. Our complete calendar for the 2018-19 season is
found on the
SCHEDULE page with a
printable PDF below as well.
The next regular retreat of the
2018-19 SAYF season will be held
January 18-20, 2019 at the Asheville Friends Meeting:
Atlanta SAYF Retreat
January 18-20, 2019 @ Atlanta
Friends Meetinghouse
- Lead FAN: Aaron Ruscetta
- Planners: Atlanta Young Friends
Invitation & forms
packets have been mailed out and are
posted below for download and printing as needed.
Jan. 18-20, 2019 - Atlanta Retreat Registration
Jan.
18-20, 2019 - Atlanta Cover Page & Brings
Directions to
Atlanta 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,
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LibreOffice
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(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 2019.01.04