Quaker Summer Sleep-Away Opportunities for Kids

Most Friends Camps are affordable and provide a range of activities. Many have subsidies for low-income and members of Friends meetings.

Baltimore Yearly Meeting Camps

For families who seek over-night Friends summer camp for 6, 7, and 8 year-olds.  Five Friends’ camps (on the US East Coast) fill the need.  Registration for some begin in early December and camps can fill up in hours.

Those camps include

Farm and Wilderness has 6 overnight camps, Vermont

Two Camps devoted to the Performing Arts

More camps that are non-profits, or connected to Yearly Meetings

Friends Camps with a Christian emphasis and some with connections to Yearly Meetings

Camps owned by individual Friends that are grounded in Quaker testimonies of radical equality and practices of listening, sharing, connection, and service.

Other Opportunities for kids of ALL ages:

  • Friend General Conference. Provides an annual 6 night gathering for more than 1000 Friends off all age groups around the 1st week of July. http://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/gathering
  • Many residential Yearly Meeting Gatherings are fabulous places for kids to attend.
  • Some Yearly Meetings have quarterly High School and Middle School conferences.
  • Many Friends Schools host summer day camps.
  • Three Camps have a farm focus: Celo, Journey‚Äôs End Farm, and Tamarack Farm.
  • Many Friends camps also have family camps, and work camps.

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Playing in the Light Training

April 20 to 22, 2018 – Playing in the Light – Powell House in Old Chatham, NY 
Inviting Friends in NYYM and NEYM and beyond! Hosted by New York Yearly Meeting and Faith & Play.
A rich weekend of storytelling where we’ll explore Bible and Quaker Stories and practice learning and telling stories to the group. The weekend serves as both a training and a time of spiritual retreat and nourishment for teachers.
LINK to FLYER and REGISTRATION: 
http://www.powellhouse.org/index.php/site-map/articles/adult-family-programs/playing-in-the-light-godly-play-faith-play-training-for-quakers 

 

Infusing Racial Justice into Our Quaker Spiritual Formation and Religious Education

Facilitated by Lisa Graustein 

Now an online videoconference using Zoom! Saturday, April 28, 2018 11:00am-12:00pm ED

Join us at the cutting edge of Quaker Religious Education ‚ô¶ Use this flyer to SPREAD THE WORD about this opportunity for learning! 

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