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Nikai Sherlock, Camas (clerk)

Holly Dhynes, West Hills

This committee works closely with yearly meeting clerks to coordinate the efforts of all our committees and working groups. If your meeting is interested in joining Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends, please email the committee: coordinating@scymf.org

Bethany Lee, West Hills
Mark Rediske, Silverton
Norma Silliman, Camas
Avery Welkin, North Seattle

Ex-officio members: Erin Craig (presiding clerk)

An Epistle provides a collective sense of experience and how God has moved among Friends during a gathering. It is approved by that group during a meeting for business.

Janet Grove, Camas

Leigh Tolton, Klamath Falls, clerk

This committee, empowered to act for equity and inclusion, encourages Friends across Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting to prayerfully reflect on the following queries:

1) Are our meetings places of safety and welcome for people of color?

2) How are the structures within our monthly meetings, quarterly meetings, and yearly meeting addressing systemic racism?

3) What are ways your meeting can actively promote racial justice in your local community? Are there other local organizations or activists already doing the work with whom your meeting could partner with and support?

4) Am I living a life that testifies to the evil of white supremacy? Am I willing to learn from past mistakes, omissions, and ways I’ve noticed racism within myself?

If you have questions or suggestions for the Committee or would like resources or support around Equity and Inclusion, email us: equity@scymf.org

Cherice Bock, direct member, North Valley

Joann Boswell, Camas

Andrew Franklin, Camas

Anna Scott-Hinkle, Eugene

Our collective direction to the Faith & Practice Committee is that we would like to be a yearly meeting with a Faith & Practice as a living document, which is descriptive, aspirational, and procedural, leading us toward wholeness and reconciliation.

Paul Parker, Eugene

Dor Deasy, Camas

Joe Tolton, Klamath Falls

This committee commissions regular financial reports from the treasurer, receives budget requests from committees and working groups, and makes recommendations to the larger yearly meeting.

Dave Cundiff, direct member (clerk)

Lynette Cortez, Silverton

Lynn McCamant, West Hills

Willow Merritt, Eugene

David Peyton, West Hills

Tim Rochholz, Eugene

This committee facilitates logistics and planning for our large group gatherings, so that the Coordinating Committee doesn’t have to handle the details. As time permits, each gathering could have several elements: worship, community-building, business, spiritual development / education, creativity, and play. Our early gatherings may have a lot of decisions to deal with, so the business component may be more prominent. Since we are early in the process of learning who we are and want to be as a body, the community-building and envisioning piece is also essential. As we get more organized, there may be more educational content around Quaker process and values, as well as some experiential spiritual development activities, creative exploration, and fun.

Kevin Camp, Camas

Lynette Cortez, Silverton

Mari Kay Evans-Smith, Camas

Rachel Hampton, West Hills

Meg Rice (clerk), West Hills

Vicki Stave, Eugene

This committee will accept nominations to committees, working groups, and for yearly meeting officers – presiding clerk, assistant presiding clerk, recording clerk, and treasurer. We try to have representation from every member church. We present nominees for approval at quarterly and annual sessions. Nominations are for one- to three-year terms.

To nominate yourself or someone else to a Sierra-Cascades committee or position, click here

Contact them at
nominating@scymf.org

Eli Craig, Wayside (direct member of SCYMF)

Rachel Hampton, West Hills

Lisa Smith, Gathering Friends

Kimberley Lauman-Sheragy, Camas