Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM) invites Quaker Friends from all area meetings to come together to share how way is opening for us to confront the challenges of our troubled era at our annual Networking Day. On Saturday, March 14, from 9:30 AM to 3 PM, we will focus on the theme: "How Are We Meeting the Moment? Discernment, Clearness & Faithful Action in Grim Times." In addition to general opening and closing sessions and shared lunch (provided), members of local meetings will facilitate workshops to share about what can be done on some of our most pressing issues: Immigration; Palestine; Nuclear War; and US Democracy. The workshops are described with the schedule below. Register at https://forms.gle/eDLyuhk5zQb2rfEH6
2026 BYM PEACE AND SOCIAL CONCERNS NETWORKING DAY
How Are We Meeting the Moment? Discernment, Clearness & Faithful Action in Grim Times
Location: Friends Meeting School, 3232 Green Valley Road, Ijamsville, MD Workshops
❖ Immigration – Concerns and Friendly Action
❖Just Peace in Palestine: Becoming an Apartheid-Free Community
Afternoon workshops
❖ Militarism: Friends Peace Testimony and the new Nuclear Arms Race
❖ Discerning and Responding to Harms Caused by Actions of our Government
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
Processing Immigration Concerns and Taking Friendly Action – Erinn Mansour (Patapsco)
BECOMING AN APARTHEID-FREE COMMUNITY – Laurie Gagne and Mary Leonard (Adelphi).
FRIENDS’ PEACE TESTIMONY AND THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE – Leslie Sussan (Bethesda), Stan Becker (Homewood), Jim Wagner (Frederick) from BYM Anti-militarism Working group.
DISCERNING AND RESPONDING TO THE HARMS CAUSED BY THE ACTIONS OF OUR CURRENT GOVERNMENT – facilitated by Helen Doerr (Shepherdstown)
