From moriah at preferred.com Tue Jun 4 23:46:43 2002 From: moriah at preferred.com (Mary Calhoun) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:46:43 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] IMP^o^ 143 YM report reminders ! Message-ID: <047201c20c45$5d0cec80$0500a8c0@oem> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IMP ^o^ Bulletin 143 Report Reminders! Addresses, Directions & Deadlines ------------------------------------------------------------------------ State of Meeting -- census -- committee -- WQO reps ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (from the Administrative Assistant) <|> The reports below are needed now -- or soon. <|> Please read with heedfulness, and save. Please pass this on to f/Friends who need to know. Thank you! <|> e-mail and postal-mail addresses are at the end <|> ** State of the Meeting (or Worship Group) ** -- advance copy is wanted by SAYMA Clerk (address below) by June 10th please, in order to plan Thurs, June 20th, program -- advance copy to Recording Clerk would be very nice, or bring her copy to Warren Wilson -- >>New!!<< please bring only one (1) ('!') general-use copy to YM at Warren Wilson; Ecological Concerns Network will make copies for individuals as needed (see signup sheet near registration). <|> ** Census response ** -- please send it to the office as soon as possible (address below) -- thanks to those who've already sent them -- if you lack the worksheet please see IMP^o^ bulletin 130 (an e-mail message) or contact the office <|> ** Committees ** -- as at Rep Meetings, SAYMA would like to hear about your work -- please provide 2 copies: Clerk & Recording Clerk (addresses below) -- electronic versions in advance are very helpful <|> ** Reps to Wider Quaker Organizations ** -- SAYMA wants to hear about your activities -- please provide 2 copies: Clerk & Recording Clerk (addresses below) -- electronic versions in advance are very helpful <|> Sharon Annis, SAYMA Clerk -- bsan at usit.net (Word or WordPerfect attachment) -- 869-A West Outer Drive, Oak Ridge TN 37830 <|> Carol Lamm, Recording Clerk -- RecordingClerk at sayma.org (OK attached or in-the-body) -- 902 Slate Lick Rd, Berea KY 40403 -- an electronic version before YM would be great, 3.5" PC or Macintosh diskette at YM would be good, electronic version within 7 days after YM would be ok -- to prepare copied Minutes, electronic versions help; to go on our website, WQO and State of Meeting reports need to be in electronic versions. <|> Mary Calhoun, Administrative Assistant -- AdminAsst at sayma.org -- PO Box 2191, Abingdon VA 24212-2191 -- 275-628-5852 ~~~~~~ end ^o^ ~~~~~~ 1stpost 060402 ~~~~~~ _______________________________________ IMP ^o^ ... 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You can also subscribe on the web at http://kitenet.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sayma. ----------------------------------------------------- From moriah at preferred.com Tue Jun 4 23:58:29 2002 From: moriah at preferred.com (Mary Calhoun) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:58:29 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] IMP^o^ 144 Census 2002 Message-ID: <047301c20c45$5e5b1760$0500a8c0@oem> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IMP ^o^ Bulletin 144 Worksheet for 2002 Census for FWCC .................................................................. please send results by 6/16/02 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (This is an e-mail version of the "tall" white worksheet mailed in March '02.) <|> Reporting options -- return a paper form by mail -- respond by e-mail <|> Please report your census results to the SAYMA office -- AdminAsst at sayma.org -- PO Box 2191, Abingdon VA 24212-2191 -- 276-628-5852 <|> Why we do this -- SAYMA is asked every year by Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) to give them a census count. <|> FWCC is a Quaker consultative organization, established in 1937, with the role of enabling 320,000 Friends and their yearly meetings in 70+ countries to work cooperatively. Its goals include being a channel of communication, and promoting understanding of diversities among Friends. Its activities include being Friends' voice at the UN, with status there as a Non-Governmental Organization. <|> Please note: -- This census is not meant as a basis for assessments or SAF subscriptions. -- Only the counts in question 5 about members and regular attenders will go to FWCC. -- Questions 1-4 and the "other yearly meeting" count are for SAYMA's perspective on itself. <|> If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact the office. Thank you for your help with this project! -- Mary Calhoun, Administrative Assistant ******************************************************************** <|> Name of your MM/PM/WG __________ <|> Person to contact if the office has questions: ________ phone ________ e-mail, if available ________ address ________ ===================================== <|> **Question 1: Reporting period** [ ] (a) Jan '01 - Dec '01 [ ] (b) Jun '01 - May '02 [ ] (c) other (please specify) ___________ <|> **Directions for Questions 2-4** -- These questions are about your Monthly Meeting (MM), Preparative Meeting (PM), or Worship Group (WG). -- Please put Xs in the boxes [ ], or a number or a few words at the blanks, to give your answers. -- If your count for an item is "none," please put 0 (zero). -- If a question doesn't apply to your group, please put "n/a." -- If you don't have the information needed to answer, please put "d/k" (don't know). -- If you don't routinely collect the information asked for, please put "d/c" (don't collect). <|> **Question 2: "Member"** In the Friends' manner of speaking, "member" and "regular attender" commonly have distinctive meanings. In the past, SAYMA has not given particular significance to the distinction between members and attenders. The meaning of "members," whether they're distinguished from "regular attenders," and the Quaker meaning of these words, are matters for the meetings and worship groups to discern. For this question, please state: (a) Do you make a distinction between "members" and "regular attenders?" [ ]yes [ ]no (b) If you make a distinction, does becoming a member consist of going through a procedure described in A Guide to Our Faith & Our Practice? [ ]yes [ ]no (c) If you make a distinction in some other way, please state briefly what distinguishes members and regular attenders in your group. _________ <|> **Question 3: "Regular Attender"** (a) In your MM/PM/WG, does this mean (approximately): "one who comes to meeting often, but hasn't become a member through a procedure described in SAYMA's Guide to Faith & Practice ?" [ ]yes [ ]no (b) If not, please state briefly what you mean by "regular attender." ____________ <|> **Question 4: Count of Events** How many of each of the following EVENTS occurred in your MM/PM/WG in the time period you gave above? (a) Marriage or ceremony of commitment, under your MM's care, of a member or attender at your meeting _____ (b) Marriage or ceremony of commitment, NOT under your meeting's care, of a member or attender at your MM/PM/WG _____ (c) Marriage or ceremony of commitment, under your MM's care, of a couple NOT regularly attending the meeting _____ (d) Birth or adoption of a child to/by parent(s) attending your meeting _____ (e) Death of a member/attender at your MM/PM/WG _____ (f) Friend attending your MM/PM/WG transferred membership TO your meeting or caring meeting _____ (g) Friend formerly attending your MM/PM/WG transferred membership OUT OF your meeting or caring meeting (h) Attender at your MM/PM/WG became a member of your meeting or caring meeting _____ (i) New attender began coming regularly to your MM/PM/WG _____ (j) Regular attender stopped attending your MM/PM/WG _____ <|> **Directions for Question 5** -- This question is about individuals in your MM/PM/ WG. -- For THIS count, a "regular attender" is "one who comes to meeting often, but hasn't become a member of a SAYMA MM through a procedure described by SAYMA's Guide to Faith & Practice, and isn't a member of a meeting in another yearly meeting." -- SAYMA follows the practice of membership being in MMs, but not in PMs and WGs. To avoid counting a person twice within SAYMA: Monthly Meetings ~ Members of SAYMA MMs need to be counted by the MMs of which they are members. ~ Please count members of your MM even if for some reason they don't attend it (see *Notes). This may cause your count to be bigger than what you think of as your "meeting size;" this is normal. ~ Please count separately any members of non-SAYMA MMs. ~ If you don't distinguish between "members" and "regular attenders," please answer question (a) OR (c), but NOT both. Preparative Meetings and Worship Groups ~ Members of SAYMA MMs need to be counted by those meeting. This may cause your count to be smaller than what you think of as your "PM/WG size;" this is normal. ~ Even if you don't distinguish between "members" and "regular attenders," please mark counts ONLY for (c) regular attenders who are not members of any MM anywhere, and (b) members of non-SAYMA MMs. ~ name of caring Meeting, if any _____________ -- Please count each person only once! If you count a person as a "regular attender," please do not also count her/him as a "member." <|> **Question 5: Count of Individuals** (a) (for MMs only) How many members of your MM are: -- adults who come frequently to meeting? ____ -- under 18 and frequently come to meeting? ____ -- (any age) [1] attending a SAYMA PM/WG , [2] attending another SAYMA MM, [3] attending in another YM, or [4] non- or rarely-attending? ____ Add these up to get: total members of your MM ____ (b) How many people coming often to your MM/PM/WG are members of a MM in another YM, are NOT members of a SAYMA MM, and are: -- adults? ____ -- under 18? ____ Add these up to get: total members of MM(s) in other YM(s) ____ (c) how many of the regular attenders at your MM/PM/WG are NOT members of any MM anywhere, and are: -- adults? ____ -- under 18? ____ Add these up to get: total of regular attenders at your MM/PM/WG____ (d) Copy your subtotals from above: members of your MM _____ members of MM in another YM _____ regular attenders _____ Add these to get: Total individuals ______ This number should roughly approximate what you think of as your "MM/PM/WG size." If it's very different, please go back to see if you left someone out, or counted some f/Friends twice! -------------------------------------- *Notes -- situations in which a member of your MM might not be attending it [1] attends SAYMA PM/WG = members of your MM attending a SAYMA PM/WG [2] attends another SAYMA MM = members of your MM attending another SAYMA MM [3] attends in another YM = members of your MM attending a MM/PM/WG in another yearly meeting [4] non-attending, rarely-attending = members of your MM, but rarely attend it, or never attend any meeting ******************************************************************** ~~~~~~ end ^o^ ~~~~~~ 1stpost 060402 ~~~~~~ _______________________________________ IMP ^o^ ... 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You can also subscribe on the web at http://kitenet.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sayma. ------------------------------------------------------ From kcarlyle at juno.com Thu Jun 13 16:12:43 2002 From: kcarlyle at juno.com (Kim Carlyle) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:12:43 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] Government Message-ID: <20020613.162845.-405487.3.kcarlyle@juno.com> Are there any SAYMA Friends with a concern about any aspect of our government? Do Friends have anything to say about it? "What canst thou say, Friend, of our testimony on government?" is the theme of the next issue of the Southern Appalachian Friend. See SAYMA Faith & Practice pp 34-5. Submit your thoughts now and avoid the rush. (Submission due date: 07/10/2002). But don't be limited by the theme. We'll accept all original articles, poems, humor, news items, whatever. (There are still some monthly meetings who have not yet sent a "Getting to Know You" article.) Please send to SAFeditor at sayma.org "The power and dominion of the conscience are the province of God, [who] alone can properly instruct and govern it. No one whatsoever may lawfully force the conscience of others regardless of the authority or office he [or she] bears in the government of this world" --Robert Barclay, Apology (1676) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. From moriah at preferred.com Thu Jun 13 17:22:51 2002 From: moriah at preferred.com (Mary Calhoun) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:22:51 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] aa>> Interim head for Hlekweni Message-ID: <019901c21320$9620ac00$0500a8c0@oem> The SAYMA office has received -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Position Announcement -- Interim Head ---------------------------------------------------------- Hlekweni Friends Rural Service Centre ---------------------------------------------------------- Bulawayo, Zimbabwe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (from a 5-29-02 message from John Schmid, Hon Treasurer, Hlekweni Friends Rural Service Centre) Dear Friends, Interim head for Hlekweni You may be aware of the efforts we made over the last two years to give Hlekweni, the Quaker training centre founded in 1967, a new direction. As always, Hlekweni is training disadvantaged rural folk in technical skills - but now also life skills, for example small business management and conflict resolution. When we were faced with closure in the year 2000 I successfully appealed for emergency funds and we used that money (1) to hold consultations with the rural people whom we are serving, (2) to put together a six-month pilot phase programme for training our trainers in the new topics and doing a practice run in selected villages, and (3) to prepare and submit a three-year plan (Oct 02 to Sep 05) to the donors. We are now waiting for the response from the donor community on which Hlekweni's future depends. (See more details in "The Friend" (London) of 22 Sep 00, 20 Jul 01 and 15 Feb 02.) But at the end of last month the programme co-ordinator, Thembekile Dube, resigned suddenly and unexpectedly for personal reasons, leaving Hlekweni without a head. The board feels that we must take time and the greatest care to recruit a new co-ordinator. This is particularly difficult at present as our emergency funds are fast running out and we cannot offer a competitive salary which will attract the right kind of person until we are sure that donors will support our three-year plan. But even when we have found someone of the right calibre, that person will very likely need to give three months' notice to the present employer. We are therefore, at this critical time, faced with a long period without a substantive head. We have appointed a caretaker team of three staff members to look after the day-to-day running of Hlekweni, but we need someone with vision to lead us forward until a new co-ordinator is in place. This e-mail is addressed to Quakers and Quaker organisations world-wide to find out whether somewhere among Friends there is an individual who would feel challenged to assist Hlekweni in such a capacity. Unfortunately, our funds do not permit us to pay air fares. We can offer accommodation (quite a spacious house at Hlekweni) and an allowance which will keep the wolf from the door. We would have to sort out the paperwork with Zimbabwe Immigration and we are not sure what that involves. It would be better not to investigate until we have the name and CV of an applicant. But we can assure you that it is quite safe to live here. Neither Hlekweni nor I have been in any way affected by the political turmoil in the country (although the turmoil is quite real and distressing to many people, especially in townships and rural areas). Would you - the recipient of this e-mail - please spread the news in your organisation or your Yearly/Monthly/Preparative Meeting as soon as possible? Ideally, our interim head should be familiar with Africa, a lateral thinker, a good organiser, and have an interest in rural development work. Any Friend offering to help should contact me in one of the ways shown at the head of this letter. And yes, Hlekweni is now on e-mail! With loving greetings and many thanks for your help. John ~~~end~~~ ______________________________________________________ To receive aa>> messages forwarding announcements from wider Quaker organizations (WQOs), subscribe to the free list server, sayma at kitenet.net. You can e-mail to sayma-request at kitenet.net, writing only the word subscribe in the body of your e-mail message. You can also subscribe on the web at http://kitenet.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sayma. ----------------------------------------------------------------- mc\aa From pennywright at earthlink.net Tue Jun 25 14:40:18 2002 From: pennywright at earthlink.net (Penelope Wright) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:40:18 -0500 Subject: [saymaListserv] Fw: a chanting workshop Message-ID: <022f01c21c77$c43e5320$393756d1@oemcomputer> Dear SAYMA Friends, I'm passing this wonderful opportunity on to whomever it speaks. Having been a participant in 2, soon to be 3, workshops led by Beverly and part of the CD recording, I can't say enough of what a worshipful experience these workshops are. I fully recognize that there is a conflict with the date in terms of SAYMA's Fall Representative Meeting, but hope that one of you for whom it isn't a conflict might find way open to take part. Blessings, Penelope Wright ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverly Shepard" Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 11:38 PM Subject: a chanting workshop > Dear Friends, > > I thought you might be interested to know that I will be presenting a > weekend-long chant workshop at Pendle Hill, Quaker education and retreat > centre, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in September. Below is the > description from the Pendle Hill brochure for the fall. Even if you're > too far away even to consider attending you might like to see what's > up. And if you're close enough to attend I certainly invite you to > consider it. > > For those of you who aren't Quakers, please be assured that Pendle Hill > is open to all. For everyone, you can find out more about Pendle Hill > at their website: www.pendlehill.org. > > Peace, > Beverly > > Chanting: Voicing the Spirit > A weekend with Beverly Shepard > September 13-15 > > Chanting is an ancient art form that benefits the body and spirit > through rhythm, focus, breathing, harmony and community. Inspired by > the Taize Community for Reconciliation in France, our workshop will > include chants that are easily learned - short, melodic and repetitive - > > and meditative in effect, with no sight-reading required. The chants > will be drawn from a variety of traditions - Christian, Native, Hindu > and more. In addition to singing, we will explore writing our own > chants: expressing our faith or our needs in worshipful music. One year > > after September 11, come experience the blessing of voices joined > together in chants of healing, transformation, praise and peace. > > Beverly Shepard is a Canadian Quaker who has led sessions of chant for > ten years in many settings, including the Friends General Conference > Gathering. She was featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's > show, Tapestry, with a segment "Chanting: A Door to the Divine". In > April she recorded worshipful group chanting at Pendle Hill for her > first CD. > > $235/double; $280/single > > For more information or to register, contact Steve Jackson, at ext. > 142,(610) 566-4507 or (800) 742-3150, or registrar at pendlehill.org, or > check out Pendle Hill's website, www.pendlehill.org > > Cost look too high for you? We will match a grant from your Friends > meeting or other religious community for up to half of the cost. > Contact Shirley Dodson to make arrangements: ext. 127, (610) 566-4507 or > > (800) 742-3150, or shirley at pendlehill.org. > > > -- > It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into what we do, that > really counts. - Mother Teresa > > > From bright_crow at mindspring.com Sun Jun 30 15:55:43 2002 From: bright_crow at mindspring.com (Michael Austin Shell) Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 15:55:43 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] "Against Israeli Apartheid" by Desmond Tutu & Ian Urbina Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020630154911.009fa8a0@pop.mindspring.com> Friends, I believe that this is an extremely important essay. Please consider sharing it with others. Blessed Be, Michael. <><><><><><><><><><><><><> THE NATION COMMENT | July 15, 2002 Against Israeli Apartheid The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century, but we would not have succeeded without the help of international pressurein particular the divestment movement of the 1980s. Over the past six months a similar movement has taken shape, this time aiming at an end to the Israeli occupation. Divestment from apartheid South Africa was fought by ordinary people at the grassroots. Faithbased leaders informed their followers, union members pressured their companies' stockholders and consumers questioned their store owners. Students played an especially important role by compelling universities to change their portfolios. Eventually, institutions pulled the financial plug, and the South African government thought twice about its policies. Similar moral and financial pressures on Israel are being mustered one person at a time. Students on more than forty US campuses are demanding a review of university investments in Israeli companies as well as in firms doing major business in Israel. From Berkeley to Ann Arbor, city councils have debated municipal divestment measures. These tactics are not the only parallels to the struggle against apartheid. Yesterday's South African township dwellers can tell you about today's life in the occupied territories. To travel only blocks in his own homeland, a grandfather waits on the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is needed to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail. The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in Israel's cities, but their luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar. Many South Africans are beginning to recognize the parallels to what we went through. Ronnie Kasrils and Max Ozinsky, two Jewish heroes of the anti-apartheid struggle, recently published a letter titled "Not in My Name." Signed by several hundred other prominent Jewish South Africans, the letter drew an explicit analogy between apartheid and current Israeli policies. Mark Mathabane and Nelson Mandela have also pointed out the relevance of the South African experience. To criticize the occupation is not to overlook Israel's unique strengths, just as protesting the Vietnam War did not imply ignoring the distinct freedoms and humanitarian accomplishments of the United States. In a region where repressive governments and unjust policies are the norm, Israel is certainly more democratic than its neighbors. This does not make dismantling the settlements any less a priority. Divestment from apartheid South Africa was certainly no less justified because there was repression elsewhere on the African continent. Aggression is no more palatable in the hands of a democratic power. Territorial ambition is equally illegal whether it occurs in slow motion, as with the Israeli settlers in the occupied territories, or in blitzkrieg fashion, as with the Iraqi tanks in Kuwait. The United States has a distinct responsibility to intervene in atrocities committed by its client states, and since Israel is the single largest recipient of US arms and foreign aid, an end to the occupation should be a top concern of all Americans. Almost instinctively, the Jewish people have always been on the side of the voiceless. In their history, there is painful memory of massive roundups, house demolitions and collective punishment. In their scripture, there is acute empathy for the disfranchised. The occupation represents a dangerous and selective amnesia of the persecution from which these traditions were born. Not everyone has forgotten, including some within the military. The growing Israeli refusenik movement evokes the small anti-conscription drive that helped turn the tide in apartheid South Africa. Several hundred decorated Israeli officers have refused to perform military service in the occupied territories. Those not already in prison have taken their message on the road to US synagogues and campuses, rightly arguing that Israel needs security, but that it will never have it as an occupying power. More than thirtyfive new settlements have been constructed in the past year. Each one is a step away from the safety deserved by the Israelis, and two steps away from the justice owed to the Palestinians. If apartheid ended, so can the occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined. The current divestment effort is the first, though certainly not the only, necessary move in that direction. DESMOND TUTU & IAN URBINA