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

Twelfth Month 22, 2024 - Called meeting via Zoom
  
Agenda:
    1. Abington Quarter Nominating Committee Report
        Recommendation of Mike Mrozinski for Clerk of Abington Quarter.
    2. Other Business 
        a) There is a request for help from the Swannanoa Valley friends Meeting
        b) Need renewal recommendations for expiring Board Member positions for the Trustees
             from Abington Meeting and Richland Meeting
    3. New business    

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The Meetings of Abington Quarter 



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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.
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 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