Young Friends nurtured the local community by going to the Rosewood Community Orchard and helping with various tasks including weeding, planting, and transporting mulch. Friends went on a nature walk and learned about wild plants that make up the community of our native ecosystem. Then Young Friends nurtured their own community by playing games. Friends…

We gathered on Friday night with the last car arriving at 12am. We had a circle for sleeping guidelines and lights out at 1am. Saturday we had breakfast followed by an opening circle with the query what is a form of loss you have experienced big or small and how has it affected you and/or…

This retreat was a great start to the new SAYF year. We began Saturday morning with opening circle followed by the talent show, which was different then when the talent show is usually scheduled, but went off quite well with the teens. We then packed burrito lunches and loaded into cars to drive about 30…

Twenty four SAYFers and five FANs gathered for SAYF at SAYMA this weekend. We worked with RAW Tools South to turn a gun into gardening tools. Later we did workshops and intergenerational games. We went to a Pride event and did fishbowl with SAYMA members of various ages. Some SAYFers explored the Berea college campus…

Theme: Music In Our Lives. Although our group was smaller than usual, with many of our dear friends absent due to end-of-school-year commitments, the SAYF group had a great time in Music City. On Saturday, we took a trip to the National Museum of African American Music where we took a walk across time, seeing…

Nurturers from Atlanta, Celo, Asheville, Berea, Durham and Chapel Hill gathered for a nurturers retreat to plan SAYF retreats. We completed productive business meetings on Saturday, and enjoyed time spent talking, watching movies, playing music, and creating amazing hairstyles during our down time.

Climbing Through Change: We began Saturday morning with a breakfast made by A’s mom in celebration of her 15th birthday (Quincenera). We learned some about what a Quincenera means as a coming of age ceremony in Latinx culture. Following that we made bottle cap pins, using paint, collage material, and markers, then sealing it with…