Your contributions to our PYM Annual Fund help to support the ministry and fellowship of our faith community. Our goal for this year is $535,000, and you can check our status each day via our new “Fund-O-Meter.” Please keep in mind that checks dated 6/30/09 and received before July 10, 2009 will be credited to the Annual Fund 2009.

Spread the word and watch us rise to the challenge. Together, we can do it!

Please send a gift today to the Development Office, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, or better yet, donate online.

If you have already made a gift, thank you. If you are moved to give again, we are deeply grateful.

(Updated July 1: $115,062 left to reach our goal!)

In an inspiring example of worshipful discernment, PYM’s governing body (Interim Meeting) has decided to support Staff Member Priscilla Adams’ act of War Tax Resistance, refusing to cooperate with IRS demands to garnish her wages. (Read More)

I'd like Friends to know that last week I had the opportunity to visit the White House with a delegation of thirty religious leaders. Our purpose was to urge the president to create a commission of inquiry on U.S. sponsored torture since 9/11.

We began with a spirited rally of about 250 people in front of the White House. From the rally, we went inside to meet with White House staff in the Indian Treaty Room of the Executive Office Building. I was one of two Quakers present, and I was glad to be representing the Society of Friends. (Read More)

PYM’s Education Standing Committee invites you to experience the roots of the Religious Society of Friends by joining the 2010 Quaker Pilgrimage to England on July 18-24, 2010. Registration opens September of 2009.

Draft Minutes from PYM March Sessions are now online. Please suggest changes by July 14, 2009 (Email Wright Horne: wrighth@pym.org)