2024 Business Meeting Minutes & Reports

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Second Month 4, 2024 Hosted by Horsham
Agenda:
1. Minutes of prior Business Meeting Tenth Month 1, 2023 and Special called Meeting Twelfth Month 3, 2023
2. AQM Coordinator Support Committee Report - Robert Reiff with Laura Lanza
3. Clerks Annual State of the Quarter Report - Kelly Green
4. Annual AQM Worship & Ministry report - Anne Hill
5. AQM Communications Committee Report - Robert Reiff
6. AQM Finance Committee Report - Robert Reiff
7. AQM Fund Report - Dave Miller
8. Shoemaker Grant presentation - Mary Ellen McNish
9. Old Business - PYM Advocacy Update/ FCNL Priority Process - Deb Hejl
10. New Business - AQM Schedule 2024-25
FWCC Quaker Day same as AQM 10/6/2- Consider virtual aspect / Live component?
We are looking for a rising clerk for the Quarter. Contact our clerk Kelly Green, if interested.

Fifth Month 5, 2024 - Hosted by Gwynedd
Agenda:
1. Minutes of prior Business Meeting of Second Month 4, 2024
  2. AQM Trustees Report - 3 Directors up for reappointment -Karen Russell
3. AQM Trustees Treasurer's Report - Robert Reiff
4. AQM Treasurer 2024-25 Budget - Linda White
5. Home and Care Committee - Rebecca Cratin
6. Youth Support Committee Report - Karen Shanoski
7. AQM Coordinator Report - Laura Lanza
8. New Business - Need to find another host meeting for the 8/6/24 AQM Picnic.
        Gwynedd MM Minute concerning the ongoing violence-Vigil to follow Pot Luck Lunch.
9. Old Business - Our October AQM falls on FWCC Quaker Day.

Eight Month 4, 2024 - Hosted by Horsham-Annual Cookout
Agenda:
1. Minutes of prior Business Meeting of Fifth Month 5, 2024
2. Horsham Meeting's Lobbying Minute to be received by the Quarter for circulation and consideration by the Meetings of the Quarter.
3. AQM Coordinator Report
4. AQM Communication Committee
5. Reflections of PYM Sessions- minutes for review.
6. Old Business - Participating in the Life of the Quarter-
            Requesting volunteers for a Naming Committee to find additional members for the Nominating Committee who will be asked to consider the following positions-
          a) AQM Clerk, Co- Clerk or Clerk Team
            b) Finance Committee Member replacing Marguerite Hayes
            c) Communications Committee Members - looking for representation from all Meetings.
7. New business

Tenth Month 6, 2024 - Hosted by Plymouth
Agenda:
1. Minutes of prior Business Meeting of Eighth Month 4, 2024
2.  Incorporated Trustees appointments due from  Meetings
- see AQMT Director Appointment Timeline
3. Incorporated Trustees Annual Report
4.  Incorporated Trustees Treasurer's Report and Draft Audit
    5. AQM Home and Care
6.  AQM Finance Committee Report audit review
    7. AQM Treasurer's Report
8. AQM Communications Coordinator Report
9.  Proposed 2025-2026 Business Meeting calendar
   10. AQM Nominating Committee Report
            AQM Clerk Job Description
11. AQM Youth Support Committee Report
12. Horsham Lobbying Minute (Revised)
   13. Friends Collaborative - video link
14. New Business

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The Meetings of Abington Quarter

There are 9 Monthly Meetings in Abington Quarter. You are welcome to find one near you and visit.

All Monthly Meetings hold "unprogrammed" Meeting for Worship each "First Day" (Sunday), although times vary. An unprogrammed Meeting for Worship begins in silence, attending to the "small, still voice within." Spoken ministry is offered as those gathered for worship feel so led.

Each Monthly Meeting has its own uniqueness. Worship times vary among Meetings. Some have singing before worship. Some are more Christo-centric than others. Many offer "blended" worship, with distant members and attenders joining via Zoom those who are gathered in the Meeting House . There are various additional gatherings for sharing, either after worship or at other times throughout the week. Several Meetings have schools under their care.

Check the links to the websites of the various Meetings for times, programs and other specifics, and to get a sense of which Meeting will best align with you.

Links to Meetings of Abington Quarter and their Locations

Each of these Monthly Meetings has their own distinctive flavor: small or large membership, varying diversity of age groups and ethnic, social, economic backgrounds and theology. Monthly Meetings are the composite of all its members as they jointly express their faith.

Meeting	Street Address	Website & Email
(1) Abington	520 Meetinghouse Rd Jenkintown, PA 19046	AbingtonQuakers.org amm@abingtonfriends.net
(2) Byberry	3001 Byberry Road Philadelphia PA 19154	ByberryQuakers.org office@byberryquakers.org
(3) Gwynedd	1101 DeKalb Pike Gwynedd, PA 19454	GwyneddMeeting.org office@gwyneddmeeting.org
(4) Horsham	500 Easton Rd Horsham, PA 19044	Horshamquakers.org office@horshamquakers.org
(5) Norristown	20 Jacoby St. Norristown, PA 19401	NorristownFriends.org office@norristownfriends.org
(6) Plymouth	2150 Butler Pike Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462	PlymouthMeetingQuakers.org office@plymouthmeetingquakers.org
(7) Richland	206 South Main St Quakertown, PA 18951	RichlandQuakers.org richlandfriends@gmail.com
(8) Unami	Macoby St. and 5th St. Pennsburg, PA 18073	UnamiQuakers.org communications@unamiquakers.org
(9) Upper Dublin	1506 Ft Washington Ave Maple Glen, PA 19002	UpperDublinQuakers.org office@upperdublinquakers.org