Upcoming Events
Annual Sessions
Sierra-Cascades 2024 annual sessions will be held at Canby Grove Retreat Center from June 7 to 9, 2024. Darren Kenworthy will be our speaker.
Our annual gatherings are joyous community-building times, built on worshipping, singing, learning, laughing, eating and hanging out together, sharing how we see The Divine showing up in our lives, and spending time discerning how we are called to bring love, healing, peace, and justice into our world.
Winter Quarterly Gathering
We’ll meet in person and on zoom.
Here are directions to Camas Friends Church, 1004 NE Fourth Ave, Camas, WA .
Here’s the Zoom Meeting ID: 859 4678 1632 or click on: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85946781632
Here are advance documents to read to be prepared for meeting for business.
For the schedule, agenda, and other info, click on “view event” below.
Fall Quarterly Gathering
Join us on Zoom or in person at Eugene Friends Church on October 28 for worship, music, lunch, workshop and meeting for business.
Advance Documents
Click here to read what you’ll need to know to participate in meeting for business.
Location
Eugene Friends Church is at 3495 W 18th Ave, Eugene, OR 97402. To attend Quarterly, do not go to Eugene Friends Meeting. That's another place entirely.
Zoom link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82008568593 meeting ID: 820 0856 8593
Schedule:
8:30–9:00 am | Registration and Reconnecting with Friends
9:00–9:45 am | Meeting for Worship, led by Jan Robbins, a member of Eugene Friends Church
9:45–12:00 pm | Meeting for Worship for the conduct of Business (with a break in the middle)
12:00–1:30 pm | Lunch
1:10–1:30 pm | Cherice Bock will sign her book, A Quaker Ecology
1:30–3:30 pm | Meeting for Worship for the conduct of business
3:30–5:00 pm | Workshops
Agenda for Meeting for Business
Things to know:
Childcare will be available for children up to age 11 or 12.
The youth are planning an overnight at the church on the Friday before Quarterly. They will have a “Meeting for Worship with Attention to Dungeons and Dragons” on Friday evening. More info here.
Lunch will have choices for vegans, vegetarians, and people with gluten sensitivities. If you have other dietary needs, please email registrar@scymf.org.
Annual Sessions
Theme: ‘Hard-Earned Hope: Finding Our Way Together’
Join us on Zoom or in person for our 6th annual sessions.
In addition to three thought-provoking plenaries, we will celebrate the pastors who served our member meetings for many years: Mike Huber, Faith Marsalli, Clyde Parker, Lorraine Watson, and of course Bernie Bosnjak. Business sessions will include joyful recommendations for recording the gifts of Friends in public ministry.
We will also offer times for special interest/affinity groups to meet. Currently, the list includes a group for LGBTQ Friends and another for 12-step recovery Friends. If you'd like to attend another type of special interest/affinity group, email gathering@scymf.org.
We'll have workshops, and most importantly, we will worship together. Online registration will open soon.
Click here for more information on the plenary session topics
Friday Evening Plenary:
From Memory to Hope
Leann Williams on the Healing Community
Saturday Evening Plenary:
History, Truth, and the Power of Listening:
Friends and Alaska Native Peoples
Jim LaBelle (Inupiaq), president of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. His birth mother was an Inupiaq Quaker.
Susan LaBelle (Sugpiaq), retired professor from the University of AK School of Social Work.
Jamiann S’eiltin Hasselquist (Lingit), vice-president of Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 2.
Sunday Morning Message:
Running On Empty in an In-between Space:
The Liminality of the Tomb and Hope for Resurrection - Mark Pratt-Russum
Winter Quarterly Gathering
Winter Quarterly Gathering
Join us on zoom for worship, workshops and discerning the Spirit’s way forward in decisions and reports in meeting for business.
Because of the snow, we will not be meeting in person. Here is the zoom link.
Please note that the schedule has changed; we will begin at 9:15 a.m.